Title: Tree Biology (Interim New)

Description: Introduction to the foundational biological principles in forest trees. Biological factors responsible for tree growth form and function.

Title: Comics Memoir

Description: Conceptual and cultural importance of personal narrative through the lens of comics. Critical examination of graphic novel memoirs. Exploration of narrative ideation and illustration styles.

Title: Interdisciplinary Inquiry for the Humanities (Interim New)

Description: Introduces interdisciplinary humanities inquiry with an emphasis on humanistic and interdisciplinary methodologies, the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinarity, and the importance of interdisciplinary thinking for engaging with large, complex problems.

Title: Religion and the Arts

Description: Exploration of the ancient but ongoing interaction of art and religion across time and religious traditions, with particular attention to artworks that have played a role in social movements for equality and freedom.

Title: Technology and Content Area Supports for Students with Disabilities

Description: Assistive technology for advancing educational outcomes in PK-12 students with disabilities, applications of technology to compensate for disabilities and improve competences. Content area supports and strategies for students with disabilities. .

Title: Clinical Experience in English Education I

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary English classroom and learning space. Forming respectful relationships with students in English language arts classrooms and learning spaces. Using assessment techniques to understand learner needs. Adapting curriculum and instruction to diverse learners. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Clinical Experiences in Mathematics Education I

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a freshman-level (prior to Calculus) university mathematics classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students in mathematics classrooms. Using formative assessment techniques to understand learner needs. Adapting curriculum and instruction to diverse learners. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Clinical Experience in Science Education I

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary science classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students in science classrooms. Using assessment techniques to understand learner needs. Adapting curriculum and instruction to diverse learners. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Foundational Earth Systems for Secondary Science Education

Description: Exploration of natural, physical, and chemical processes in the Universe, the planets and the Earth, while developing skills necessary to instruct others on these processes.

Title: Clinical Experience in Social Studies Education I

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary social studies classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students in social studies classrooms. Using assessment techniques to understand learner needs. Adapting curriculum and instruction to diverse learners. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Clinical Experiences in World Language Education I

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary world language classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students in world language classrooms. Using assessment techniques to understand learner needs. Adapting curriculum and instruction to diverse learners. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Human Dimensions of Fisheries and Wildlife Management

Description: Principles and application of social science in fisheries and wildlife conservation and management.

Title: Behavior Management in Special Education

Description: Management practices for behavior problems and disorders. Applied behavior analysis, social skills acquisition through cooperative learning and cooperative discipline. Focus on problem-solving and peer collaboration.

Title: Applied Nutrition Assessment Lab (Interim New)

Description: Nutrition assessment development for dietetics practitioners including: community needs assessments, communication skills, anthropometric assessment, dietary assessment, and clinical assessment.

Title: Professional Skills in Special Education

Description: Special education teaching skills, including first aid, high-leverage practices, requirements for special education professional development.

Title: Transition and Collaboration in Special Education

Description: Transition models, laws, and practices for secondary students with disabilities. Models and methods of collaboration with teachers, parents, and others to support students with disabilities. Advocacy for students with disabilities in school and community settings.

Title: Research Methods in Dietetics (Interim New)

Description: Fundamental approaches to research in dietetics.

Title: Advanced Investments (Interim New)

Description: Financial market turbulence and evolving societal trends create both challenges and opportunities for investors. This course aims to equip students with crucial investment concepts, core theories and leading investment techniques. The goal is to develop the ability to integrate a wide range of skills and interdisciplinary knowledge for investment excellence.

Title: Media Literacy (Interim New)

Description: Media literacy seminar covering issues related to data literacy, privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes, clickbait, sensationalism, propaganda, and hyper-partisanship. Examination of current digital media landscape and the complex processes behind newsmaking and consumption.

Title: Distillation Science and Technology I (Interim New)

Description: Raw material selection including fruits and types of cereal grains for distilled spirit production, malting of cereal grains, milling science, water chemistry and mashing theory.

Title: Distillation Science and Technology II (Interim New)

Description: Distillation methods, equipment design and technology, stabilizing, filtration and bottling of distilled spirits, barrel aging, laboratory control, regulatory aspects, and safety. This class also includes a final project in which students design their own distilled spirit.

Title: Local Government Policy Lab

Description: An opportunity to engage in local government practice, learn nontraditional legal analysis and writing skills, and interact with lawyers and policymakers about issues affecting residents and local administrators across Michigan.

Title: Advanced Research and Professional Development Seminar

Description: Historical research techniques, methodologies, and professional development.

Title: Basic Elements of Strategic Sourcing

Description: Introduction of strategic sourcing and supply chain management enterprise implications. Integration and coordination of sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and logistics for global competitiveness.

Title: Basic Elements of Logistics and Warehousing

Description: Introduction to logistics and transportation services including order fulfillment, distribution operations, warehousing considerations, operation of transportation services, and third-party logistics providers.

Title: Basic Elements of Operations Management

Description: Overview of the planning and control functions required to match supply and demand in a manufacturing firm. Importance of coordination of plans across an organization and the information systems utilized for these functions.

Title: Statistics for Plant Breeders (Interim New)

Description: Statistical concepts used in plant breeding. Trait distribution and inheritance patterns. Interpreting data from case studies.

Title: Communications in Marketing Research (Interim New)

Description: Introduction to data visualization and the art and science behind creating visually impactful presentations. Includes a strong focus on visual design principals to simplify complex data sets into easily consumable information.

Title: Marketing Research Online Communities (Interim New)

Description: Introduction to Marketing Research Online Research Communities and their most impactful use cases in the research and insights space. Using live hands-on projects, this focuses on the evolution from merely a faster, cheaper sample solution to a strategic platform for managing continuous conversations with hard to reach audiences.

Title: Social Listening & Text Analytics (Interim New)

Description: Outlines how companies apply the disciplines of marketing research to information collected via social media. Focuses on how social listening fits into an organizational structure, and how to properly respond to social media discussions. Also focuses on developing a hands-on familiarity with a range of approaches for analyzing textual data. Includes selecting appropriate methods for a variety of research questions, and using both automated systems and analytic systems tools to analyze textual data.

Title: Consulting in Marketing Research (Interim New)

Description: Introduces students to the art of consulting and relationship development as it applies to marketing research engagements. Focus is to prepare to become trusted consultants, whether participating on a team or in a leadership role.

Title: Story Telling in Marketing Research (Interim New)

Description: Demonstrates the importance of storytelling within organizations and provides direction on presentation structure and design including understanding the audience, creating credibility using background information and industry insight, creating the storyline, and creatively crafting the presentation.

Title: Dynamical Systems in Computational Biology

Description: Introduction to nonlinear dynamics with examples of applications in cell biology. Bifurcations, phase plane analysis for two-dimensional systems, oscillations, and limit cycles. Application of these concepts in systems biology.

Title: Introduction to German Applied Linguistics

Description: Overview of applied linguistic topics in German. Issues of contemporary language use, the connection between culture and language. Overview of second language acquisition principles. Introduction to effective pedagogical techniques for language and culture learning.

Title: Music Teaching and Learning Across the Lifespan

Description: Theories of learning, including how children, adolescents, and adults learn music. Critical examination of research on pedagogy and andragogy from across social and cultural contexts and music learning settings. Applications for research and practice in music teacher education.

Title: English as a Second Language Perspectives in Context (Interim New)

Description: Students will learn about features of language and how they impact language learning and teaching. They will also examine the nature and role of culture in language development and academic achievement that support student learning.

Title: Gastrointestinal System

Description: Systems biology approach to the entire digestive track, including accessory organs of digestion. Normal structure and function and pathologies. Integration of basic science and clinical information.

Title: R Modules for Plant Breeders (Interim New)

Description: Use of R software for obtaining, managing, summarizing, and visualizing plant breeding data. Ethical issues in data science and communication with data.

Title: Breeding for Quantitative Traits (Interim New)

Description: Plant breeding theories and approaches for quantitative traits.

Title: Foundations for Equity-Minded Leaders in Postsecondary Education

Description: Leadership in postsecondary education; theories of change in postsecondary education; basic diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts; program orientation.

Title: Foundations in Community and Sustainability

Description: Investigations and analysis of the environmental and social impacts of sustainability both locally and globally.

Title: Foundations of Biological Science for Teacher Education

Description: Using science practices to explore core ideas in biological and chemical systems by focusing on crosscutting concepts.

Title: Foundations of Physical Science for Teacher Education

Description: Using science practices to explore core ideas in physical systems by focusing on crosscutting concepts.

Title: Math Interventions for Students with Disabilities

Description: Evidence-based and research-based mathematics interventions and supports, and response to intervention in mathematics for students with disabilities and students at risk.

Title: Assessment for Students with Disabilities

Description: Informal and formal assessment methods for planning and evaluating instruction and for classifying and placing students with mild disabilities.

Title: Teaching of Science to Diverse Learners PK-3

Description: Engaging diverse learners in grades PK-3 to make sense of the natural world. Lesson planning. Designing and using formative assessment and discourse strategies to learn about children’s ideas and resources for learning science. Supporting children’s sense-making about phenomena through engagement in scientific practices and using disciplinary ideas.

Title: Teaching of Science to Diverse Learners 3-6

Description: Engaging diverse learners in grades 3-6 to make sense of the natural world. Lesson planning. Designing and using formative assessment and discourse strategies to learn about children’s ideas and resources for learning science. Supporting children’s sense-making about phenomena through engagement in scientific practices and using disciplinary ideas.

Title: Teaching of Social Studies to Diverse Learners PK-3 (W)

Description: Teaching social studies to diverse learners at the elementary level (PK-3). Inquiry into and construction of subject-specific meaning. Social studies subject matter adapted to learner diversity. Teachers’ roles, including professional, intellectual, and sociopolitical responsibilities.

Title: Teaching of Social Studies to Diverse Learners 3-6 (W)

Description: Teaching social studies to diverse learners at the elementary level (3-6). Inquiry into and construction of subject-specific meaning. Social studies subject matter adapted to learner diversity. Teachers’ roles, including professional, intellectual, and sociopolitical responsibilities.

Title: Internship in Teaching Special Education

Description: Internship in heterogeneous classrooms. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Teaching students with learning disabilities in classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Teaching Literacy to Diverse Learners II (3-6)

Description: Equitable literacy instruction in grades 3-6. Lesson planning, assessment, teaching, and learning in 3-6 literacy.

Title: Teaching Mathematics to Diverse Learners II (3-6)

Description: Equitable mathematics instruction in grades 3-6. Lesson planning, assessment, teaching, and learning in grades 3-6 mathematics.

Title: Clinical Experience in English Education II

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary English classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students. Refinement of diverse instructional strategies. Co-teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Seminar in English Education I

Description: Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to create understanding, meaning, and purpose by engagement with the English language arts curriculum at the secondary level (7-12). Review of English language arts curriculum. Methods for lesson and unit planning. Adapting the English curriculum to learner diversity.

Title: Clinical Experience in Mathematics Education II

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary mathematics classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students. Refinement of diverse instructional strategies. Co-teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Seminar in Mathematics Education I

Description: Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to create understanding, meaning, and purpose by engagement with the mathematics curriculum at the secondary level (7-12). Review of mathematics curriculum. Methods for lesson and unit planning. Adapting the mathematics curriculum to learner diversity.

Title: Clinical Experience in Science Education II

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary science classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students. Refinement of diverse instructional strategies. Co-teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Seminar in Science Education I

Description: Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to create understanding, meaning, and purpose by engagement with the science curriculum at the secondary level (7-12). Review of science curriculum. Methods for lesson and unit planning. Adapting the science curriculum to learner diversity.

Title: Clinical Experience in Social Studies Education II

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary social studies classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students. Refinement of diverse instructional strategies. Co-teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Seminar in Social Studies Education I

Description: Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to create understanding, meaning, and purpose by engagement with the social studies curriculum at the secondary level (7-12). Review of social studies curriculum. Methods for lesson and unit planning. Adapting the social studies curriculum to learner diversity.

Title: Clinical Experience in World Language Education II

Description: Directed and evaluated placement in a secondary world language classroom. Forming respectful relationships with students. Refinement of diverse instructional strategies. Co-teaching worthwhile content to students with varied learning needs. Exploration of common teaching dilemmas.

Title: Seminar in World Language Education I

Description: Examining teaching as enabling diverse learners to create understanding, meaning, and purpose by engagement with the world languages curriculum at the secondary level (7-12). Review of world languages curriculum. Methods for lesson and unit planning. Understanding the interrelatedness of language and culture. Adapting the world languages curriculum to learner diversity.

Title: Sexuality, Gender, and Religion

Description: Seminar-style course that examines how different religious traditions and people understand sexuality and gender and analyzes the scholarship about religion, sexuality, and gender.

Title: Cardiovascular System

Description: Systems biology approach to the cardiovascular system, including the heart and vasculature throughout the body. Normal structure and function and pathologies. Integration of basic science and clinical information.

Title: Current Topics in Work and Organizational Psychology

Description: Introduction to Industrial-Organizational psychology.

Title: Global Plant Breeding Regulations (Interim New)

Description: Regulatory approvals in plant breeding, including use of marker-assisted plant breeding, gene editing, and genetic engineering tools. Requirements for approval of development and deployment of biotechnology crops in various countries.

Title: Design Thinking and Leadership for Plant Breeders (Interim New)

Description: Leadership skills in plant breeding. Design thinking in development of new varieties.

Title: Practicum I: Making the Business Case

Description: Creating a persuasive business case to address an organizational problem.

Title: Research Preparation 1

Description: Processing of research questions, research design, and group dynamics in a cohort setting under faculty guidance.

Title: Literacy Interventions for Students with Disabilities

Description: Methods for teaching literacy to students with mild disabilities. Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to the teaching and programming of literacy instruction.

Title: Seminar in English Education II

Description: Reflection on classroom teaching practice. Formation of professional learning communities devoted to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on English language arts teaching and learning. Dilemmas surrounding English language arts teaching practice.

Title: Student Teaching Internship in English Education

Description: Directed and evaluated internship in a secondary English language arts classroom. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Seminar in Mathematics Education II

Description: Reflection on classroom teaching practice. Formation of professional learning communities devoted to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on mathematics teaching and learning. Dilemmas surrounding mathematics teaching practice.

Title: Student Teaching Internship in Mathematics Education

Description: Directed and evaluated internship in a secondary mathematics classroom. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Seminar in Science Education II

Description: Reflection on classroom teaching practice. Formation of professional learning communities devoted to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on science teaching and learning. Dilemmas surrounding science teaching practice.

Title: Student Teaching Internship in Science Education

Description: Directed and evaluated internship in a secondary science classroom. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Seminar in Social Studies Education II

Description: Reflection on classroom teaching practice. Formation of professional learning communities devoted to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on social studies teaching and learning. Dilemmas surrounding social studies teaching practice.

Title: Student Teaching Internship in Social Studies Education

Description: Directed and evaluated internship in a secondary social studies classroom. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Seminar in World Language Education II

Description: Reflection on classroom teaching practice. Formation of professional learning communities devoted to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on language teaching and learning. Dilemmas surrounding world language teaching practice.

Title: Student Teaching Internship in World Language Education

Description: Directed and evaluated internship in a secondary world language classroom. Increased emphasis on independent teaching. Maintaining classroom communities that ensure equitable access to important knowledge and skills. Assessing academic and social outcomes.

Title: Hospital Care Capstone

Description: Application of medical knowledge to patient care in hospital setting.

Title: Health Systems Science Capstone

Description: Foundations of healthcare systems, including medical economics, informatics, patient safety, and healthcare policy.

Title: Quantitative Analysis I

Description: Foundational issues for statistical analysis and regression analysis.

Title: Quantitative Analysis II

Description: Advanced issues in the application of multiple regression approaches.

Title: Testing and Measurement Development

Description: Psychological testing theory and measurement development.

Title: Staffing Organizations

Description: Recruitment and selection practices and procedures for the workplace.

Title: Employee Attitudes and Engagement

Description: Employee attitudes, engagement, and their outcomes.

Title: Research Preparation 2

Description: Processing of research questions, research design, and group dynamics in a cohort setting under faculty guidance.

Title: Practicum II: Applied Skills in Data Analysis and Interpretation

Description: Advanced issues in the application of multiple regression approaches to analyzing data.

Title: Equity-Oriented Inquiry for Leaders 1

Description: Leadership inquiry as analytical framework for policy and practice: action and participatory research; theories of research and inquiry paradigms; development of skills in conducting literature reviews and identifying research problems; exploration of research praxis.

Title: Performance Management

Description: Performance management approaches for motivation and employee development.

Title: Workplace Learning and Development

Description: Research and practice to facilitate individual, team, and organizational learning and development.

Title: Practicum III: Developing a Training and Onboarding Program

Description: Assessment of training needs, development of a training plan, and the determination of training effectiveness.

Title: Research Preparation 3

Description: Processing of research questions, research design, and group dynamics in a cohort setting under faculty guidance.

Title: Special Topics

Description: Special topic areas relevant in work and organizational psychology.

Title: Practicum IV: Attitude Survey Development and Analysis

Description: Assessment of organizational issue, development attitude survey, implement survey, and analyze survey data and generate feedback report.

Title: Budget and Finance for Equity in Postsecondary Education

Description: Exploration of various budgeting and funding processes and concerns in postsecondary education. An equity-focused lens is employed to analyze inequalities and promote systemic change.

Title: Research Preparation 4

Description: Processing of research questions, research design, and group dynamics in a cohort setting under faculty guidance.

Title: Equity-Oriented Inquiry for Leaders 2

Description: Leadership inquiry as an analytical framework for policy and practice: action and participatory research; theories of research and inquiry paradigms; basic techniques in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; exploration of research praxis. Proposal writing.

Title: Dissertation in Practice 1

Description: Group dissertation research: design, execution, and analysis of group dissertation in practice research projects.

Title: Dissertation in Practice 2

Description: Group dissertation research: design, execution, and analysis of group dissertation in practice research projects.