Courses

Strategies for effective communication in the written language; active production of a variety of narrative, expository, analytical, persuasive and epistolary texts with special attention to language appropriate to various social, professional and cultural contexts both in French and in the Francophone world; conducted in French.

Development of writing skills with an emphasis on vocabulary- building, grammatical accuracy, and the mastery of a variety of styles.

Principles of working with families of students with exceptionalities from diverse backgrounds. Emphasis given to evidence-based and best practices of working with families to help students be successful learners.

This class will examinethe contributing factors of wrongful convictions as outlined in the Innocence Projct and the National Registry of Exonerations, including eyewitness identification; false confessions, jailhouse informants, police and prosecutorial misconduct and junk science.

Exploration of sources of error throughout the process of wrongful convictions: police investigation, pre-trial process, adjudicatory process, and post-conviction process. Emphasis placed on the conceptions, motivations, and cognitive limitations of individual actors (witnesses, detectives, jurors, etc.), particularly on the organizational and institutional functions they serve.

This course examines factors contributing to wrongful convictions and the criminal justice system’s response from an interdisciplinary perspective using research from the disciplines of law, criminology, and cognitive and social psychology as a foundation for examining how wrongful convictions occur and might be prevented in the future.

Intensive writing applications with an emphasis on the writing process, action research, and the reading and discussion of reading and writing pedagogy and research.

Students will learn to do server-side programming for web pages through hands-on assignments. Topics include the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), UNIX scripts in PERL, Javascript, image manipulation, and text scanning. May not be used as an elective for the computer science major.

Workshop-style course in which students study the concept of hypertext; learn structuring principles and navigation tools common in online information; create web pages using XHTML and CSS; get an introduction to web-page development tools such as Dreamweaver; and overview documentation trends such as structured authoring, single-sourcing, and XML.

Introduces XML, DITA, and related technologies focusing on their application in business, government, and technical communications. In addition to an overview of the raw materials needed to create and transform XML (DTDs, schemas, XSL and CSS stylesheets), the course introduces students to industry- standard solutions such as DocBook, DITA and the related tools, both commercial and open source.