Student-recommended electives
Remember, no more than one-third of the
credits for the M.Ed. (10 out of 30) may be taken pass – fail (S-N).
Your seminars and field experience account for 8 S-N credits. You only
have 2 S-N credits left for electives. Electives have been organized
into the following topical categories. Select a link to skip ahead to
your area of interest.
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with classes directly related to youth development)
ALERT: The YDL program is now
located in the Department of Curriculum
and Instruction. It can be found under the family, youth, and
community field of study. All YDL core
courses have new CI course designators. These replace the former
WCFE designators.
Community development
and education
- WHRE 5990—Special Topics in Work and Human Resource
Education (1-4 cr). Jerry Stein taught an Education in
Community course which was very good.
- Community development certificate program coming soon to the
Department of Curriculum and
Instruction.
Conflict resolution
- EPSY 5135—Human Relations Workshop (4 cr, pass/fail
only).
Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice
and discrimination in terms of history, power, and social
perception. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in
cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics,
social influence, effective leadership, judgment and
decision-making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution.
- EPSY 5152—Psychology of Conflict Resolution (3 cr).
Overview of the field of conflict resolution. Major theories,
research, major figures in the field, factors influencing
quality of conflict resolution are covered. The nature of
conflict, the history of field, and interpersonal,
interpersonal, intergroup conflict, negotiation, mediation are
discussed.
- PA 5132—Mediation Training (3 cr).
Creating an
arena for mediation. Skills/expectations needed to mediate
disputes between individuals, among groups: balanced (peer or
colleague), imbalanced (power differentials). Role playing,
group debriefing, critique. Cases.
- SW 5519—Mediation and Conflict Resolution (3 cr).
Develop mediator skills for making informed decisions regarding
the appropriateness of mediation for conflicts that frequently
confront social worker practitioners such as divorce,
neighborhood disputes, conflicts between parents and
adolescents, conflicts between spouses, and conflicts between
crime victims and
offenders.
Counseling
- EPSY 5400—Special Topics in Counseling Psychology (1-4
cr).
Theory, research, and practice in counseling and student
personnel psychology. Topics vary.
- EPSY 5401—Counseling Procedures (3 cr).
This course
is designed as an introduction to the theory and practice of
counseling. It is intended for students who have little or no
training in counseling or psychology but who may need to use
counseling skills in a professional capacity. Emphasis on the
counseling relationship, principles of interviewing, case
studies, role-playing, and demonstration.
- See more:
counseling and student personnel psychology courses
Direct practice with
youth
- EPSY 5135—Human Relations Workshop (4 cr, pass/fail
only).
Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice
and discrimination in terms of history, power, and social
perception. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in
cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics,
social influence, effective leadership, judgment and
decision-making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution.
- YOST 5240—Special Topics in Youth Studies (2-8 cr).
Drs. James and Pamela Toole teach section 2 of this course for 2
credits called Peer Helping: The Theory and Practice of Youth
Helping Youth, spring semester.
- YOST 5240—Special Topics in Youth Studies (2-8 cr).
Janice Mandell has in the past done a 2 cr. course on Theatre
Activities in Youthwork and Education.
- YOST 5301—Communicating with Adolescents about Sexuality
(2 cr).
Sexual development and experiences emphasizing how
adults can be comfortable in communicating more effectively with
young people. Sexual patterns, variations, roles, power,
exploration, and sex
education.
- YOST 5323—Work with Youth – Groups (2 cr).
Taught
by experienced community youth worker Jerry Hromatka, this is a
seminar-style course with a practical blending of theory and
experiential activity. It’s biggest downfall is an
over-abundance of undergraduate students, who reduce the level
of content and discussion.
Diversity issues and multicultural education
- CI 5635—Culture and Diversity in Second Language Classrooms
(3 cr).
- CI 5137—Multicultural Gender-Fair Curriculum (3 cr).
Issues related to diversity in learning settings and the exploration
of culture in educational contexts. Explores rationale for and
process of considering a multicultural and gender-fair curriculum;
cultural issues inherent in curricular change; language, culture,
sexual preference, special needs students, and the conflicts between
culture and curriculum.
- CI 5138—Multicultural and Moral Perspectives on Classroom
Instruction (3 cr).
Factors leading to effective
communication in ethnically diverse classroom, preschool to adult.
Communication techniques and classroom structures that have cultural
and moral implications.
- CI 5145—Critical Pedagogy (3 cr. Pass/fail).
Examination of critical pedagogy; critique of power relations
regarding race, culture, class, gender, and age in various
educational settings; consideration of improved practice in
education for children, youth, and adults.
- CI 5644—Working with Linguistically and Culturally Diverse
Students in the Mainstream Classroom (1 cr).
- EPSY 5135—Human Relations Workshop (4 cr, pass/fail
only).
Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice and
discrimination in terms of history, power, and social perception.
Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in cooperative learning,
multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, effective
leadership, judgment and decision-making, prejudice reduction,
conflict resolution.
- FSOS 4152—Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual People in Families (3
cr).
This is an undergraduate class, but you may be able to
contact the professor about making it graduate level for you.
- HRD/WHRE 5821—Diversity Issues and Practices in Work
and Human Resource Education Settings (3 cr).
Examination of the
nature of diverse populations and their unique learning and training
needs, exemplary programs, and collaborative efforts among persons
representing work, community, and family settings.
- SW 5052—Ecologies of Child Development within Communities of
Color (3 cr).
Examine social, affective, and cognitive
development of children of color via a life course, ecological
systems framework. Family, school, peers, and community are studied
as ecological contexts that influence developmental trajectories for
these children and youth. Attention is given to poverty, racism, and
oppression.
- POL 5525—Federal Indian Policy (3 cr).
Formulation,
implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from
pre-colonial times to self-governance of new millennium. Theoretical
approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal Indian policies.
Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of indigenous nations to
policies. Effect of bodies of literature on politics.
- GWSS 5107—Gender, Culture, and Science (3 cr).
Critical study of some of the major papers concerning the relations
of gender and scientific inquiry produced in the past 20 years.
- GWSS 5201—Global Processes and the Politics of Sexuality
(3 cr). Comparative examination of the social construction of
sexuality. Formal/informal norms/regulations, categories of
deviance, representation of sex in the media/arts, role of sexuality
in relation to agency/subjectivity.
- GWSS 5300—Communication and Gender (3 cr).
How gender
affects verbal communication. Development of analytical skills
through readings, exercises, research that raise awareness of the
power of language and the influence of gender prescriptions.
- GWSS 5405—Chicanas: Women and Work (3 cr).
Chicanas,
their various relationships to family/community. Local, national,
and global work forces. Questions/issues related to growing
integration of world’s systems of production.
- GWSS 5505—Women and Indigenous Land Struggles (3 cr).
Need to have taken 8 cr of GWSS or have instructor consent.
Representative land struggles by indigenous women from a critical
race and gender perspective.
- GWSS 8102—Advanced Studies in Sexuality (3 cr).
Contemporary theoretical scholarship and research on selected issues
related to sexuality, gender, and the body.
Non-profit management and human resource
development
- PA 5101—Management and Governance of Nonprofit
Organizations (1.5 cr).
Draws on theories, concepts, and real world examples to
explore critical managerial challenges. Governance systems,
strategic management practices, effect of different funding
environments, management of multiple constituencies. Different
types of nonprofits using economic/behavioral approaches.
- PA 5102—Organization Design and Change (1.5 cr).
Basic concepts related to organizational design decisions.
Managerial challenges associated with organizational change in
context of public sector agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Major forces for change, kinds of change, management of change.
Case-based analysis/discussion.
- REC 5288—Grant Writing in Human Services (3 cr).
Identify, develop, and procure financial assistance for programs
in human services, including education, recreation, and social
programs. Skills and strategies for preparing and evaluating
competitive proposals for grant support though federal agencies
and private foundations or corporations.
- See human resource development in the
Department of Work and Human
Resource Education
Program evaluation
- EDPA 5061—Ethnographic Research Methods (3 cr).
Ethnography is a qualitative research method used to capture the
lived experiences of people within a cultural context. During
the course of the class, you will design and conduct a
mini-ethnography.
- EDPA 5501/EPSY 5243—Principles and Methods of Evaluation
(3 cr).
Introduction to program evaluation. Planning an
evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information,
reporting results; evaluation strategies; overview of the field
of program evaluation.
- EPSY 5261—Introductory Statistical Methods (3 cr).
Basic statistics beginning with mean, median, and mode and
continuing through z-scores, t-scores, and introductory linear
regression. Assignments utilize SPSS.
Recreation and
outdoor/environmental/experiential/adventure learning
- KIN 5103—Developmental/Adapted Physical Education (3
cr).
Introduction to physical education for students with
disabilities, emphasizing conceptual, organizational, and
administrative issues. Topics include historical and legal
foundations, service components, individualized education plans,
professional roles, and assessment of movement skills.
- KIN 5375—Competitive Sport for Children and Youth (3
cr).
Cognitive, behavioral, and biological factors having important
implications for competitive sport participants from early
childhood through high school age. Emphasis on translating sport
science research into practical implications for youth sport
coaches, teachers, and administrators.
- KIN 5727—Physical Education—an Adventure Experience (1
cr).
Group and individual initiatives in an experientially based
program emphasizing participation in leadership, group
cooperation, problem solving, low ropes, climbing walls,
sensible risk taking, and trust-oriented activities.
- REC 5111—Sports Facilities (3cr; need instructor
consent).
Steps in planning and building facilities for
athletics, physical education, and sport for college,
professional, and public use.
- REC 5301—Wilderness and Adventure Education (4 cr).
Rationale for, methods in applying wilderness/adventure
education programs in education, recreation, corporate, human
service settings. Emphasizes adventure/wilderness program
management.
- REC 5311—Programming Outdoor and Environmental Education
(3 cr).
Methods, materials, and settings for developing and
conducting environmental and outdoor education programs.
- KIN 5371—Sociology of Sport (3 cr). A study of sport,
sporting processes, social influences, within, and among
societies, nations, and cultures. Exploration of contemporary
issues concerning social differentiation and social concerns
such as violence and honesty.
- KIN 5461—Foundations of Sport Management (3 cr).
Principles of sport management including theories and techniques
in administration and management of sport enterprises.
Organizational theory and policy with practical examples of
sport management skills and strategies.
- REC 5900—Special Topics: Contemporary Issues in Leisure
Services
(1-12 cr).
- REC 5900—Special Topics: Contemporary Issues in Leisure
Services
(1-12 cr).
Dan McCole teaches a section of this course for 2
credits called Facilitating Challenge Courses, fall session.
- YOST 5241—Experiential Learning (2 cr).
Taught by
Terrance Kwame Ross. Cover rationale for and purposes of
experiential learning in schools and youth-serving agencies,
development and implementation of experiential programs for
adolescents, and evaluation of experiential-learning programs.
Each student will develop a plan for an experiential program for
teenagers.
Social change/Public policy
- PA 5401—Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy (3 cr).
Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States,
causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies.
Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other
developed/developing countries.
- PA 5411—Child Welfare Policy (3 cr).
Intersection
of conceptual orientations of developmental psychology with
policies that affect children/families. Demographic, historical,
social trends that underlie assumptions driving policies
directed at women/children. Projections of future policies.
- PA 5421—Racial Inequality and Public Policy (3 cr).
Historical roots of racial inequality in American society.
Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to
racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical
of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic
inequality.
- PA 5601—Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the
United States (3 cr).
Gendered nature of public policy.
Historical analysis of welfare, single motherhood, and
protective legislation. How laws structure public policy. How
courts are arenas for policy making. Emphasizes employment
discrimination and reproductive rights. Differences among women.
Intersection of oppression based on class/race/sexual
orientation.
- PHIL 4325—Education and Social Change with John Wallace
(This is a 4000-level class but as a graduate student you take
it with an 8000-level philosophy seminar to make it graduate
level work. WHRE has a policy on 4000-level classes).
Connections between education and social change. Theories of
democratic/popular education, their application through in-depth
practicum in community education setting.
- POL 5309—Justice in America (3 cr).
Need instructor
consent. American judiciary, selection of judges, how/why these
individuals/institutions behave the way they do. What influences
judicial decisions. What impact decisions have. Why people
comply with them.
- POL 5525—Federal Indian Policy (3 cr).
Formulation,
implementation, evolution, comparison of Indian policy from
pre-colonial times to self-governance of new millennium.
Theoretical approaches to federal Indian policy. Major federal
Indian policies. Views/attitudes of policy-makers, reactions of
indigenous nations to policies. Effect of bodies of literature
on politics.
- SW 5107—Child Development and Social Policy (3 cr).
Examine the intersection of conceptual orientations of
developmental psychology with policies that affect children and
families. Demographic, historic, and social trends underlying
the assumptions that drive policies directed at women and
children; projections of future policies.
- GWSS 5201—Global Processes and the Politics of Sexuality
(3 cr).
Comparative examination of the social
construction of sexuality. Formal/informal norms/regulations,
categories of deviance, representation of sex in the media/arts,
role of sexuality in relation to agency/subjectivity.
- YOST 5402—Youth Policy: Enhancing Healthy Development in
Everyday Life (3 cr.) Create youth policy directed at
enhancing healthy development through community building,
program development, and other strategies.
Recommended instructors with
department and area of expertise
Lisa Albrecht: School of Social Work; women’s studies,
critical pedagogy, multicultural education, social justice.
Gerald Fry:
Educational Policy and Administration; research and evaluation.
Gerry is particularly interested in qualitative methodologies; he
has many years of experience working in Laos, Thailand, and The
People’s Republic of China.
Lisa Kimball: Youth Studies and Work, Community, and Family
Education. Lisa’s professional expertise is largely rooted in faith
communities with emphases on youth development, faith formation, and
congregational development. She teaches YOST 5401: Young People’s
Spirituality and Youth work: an Introduction each Spring.
Jean King:
Educational Policy and Administration; Distinguished Teaching Award
recipient. Jean is the person to know if you’re headed into program
evaluation. A former Jr. High teacher with a big social justice
bent, her classes are experiential, fun, challenging, and demanding.
John Wallace: Philosophy; social change through education,
community work; connected with the Jane Addams School for Democracy,
which is at Neighborhood house. He's a big fan of Ghandi, Jane
Addams, Quakerism, Myles Horton, social justice, etc. He also runs
the Hopework Folk School.
Check out the following departments for courses on various topics
related to youth development:
Updated November 2004
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