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THTR 489 - Design/Technology/Management Studio
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Open to all students desiring instruction in a variety of technical theater areas not presently covered in other courses. Topics to include stage management, set props, media makeup, technical drawing/mixed media, costume technology, and scene painting.
Repeated: May be repeated with each different topic area.
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THTR 493 - Internship
Class Hours: var
Credits: 3-12
Restriction: Instructor permission
Description: Opportunities for students to gain experience with professional performance organizations in areas related to theater and dance.
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THTR 495 - Senior Thesis
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: THTR 480
Description: Develops and presents a culminating capstone experience through Individualized Instruction. Synthesizes prior learning and experiences into a project proposal that is uniquely suited to their post-graduation plan. Applies professional practices and methods to document research, preparation and production/performance. Project culminates in a form of public presentation.
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Undergraduate Studies and Student Success |
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UGSS 110 - Introduction to Critical Reading and Thinking
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Description: Note: Students enrolled in DVST 070 who score 250 and below on the ACCUPLACER post-test (administered at the end of DVST 070 ) are required to enroll in UGSS110 the following semester. Open for enrollment for any student.
Focuses on the development and mastery of skills related to the processes of understanding, analyzing, and assessing college-level texts and other academic readings. Synthesizes written information from a variety of sources and content areas. Note: For sections paired with specific content-area course sections, students are required to register for both courses.
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UGSS 150 - Introduction to Higher Education
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Introduces the system of higher education and skills that promote effective educational planning and academic success. Orients students to the systems, resources, policies, and procedures of IUP and to the Liberal Studies curriculum. Emphasizes goal setting, decision making, self-monitoring, and time-management skills.
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UGSS 160 - Learning Strategies
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Encourages students to develop and use effective and efficient study strategies on a consistent basis. Students examine academic goals and implement study strategies to help achieve those goals. Includes the topics of goal setting and self-monitoring, learning styles, test preparation and test taking, lecture and textbook note taking, time management and concentration, and general strategies for learning. Students are required to give evidence of application of the study strategies to other courses in which they are currently enrolled. Active participation in class meetings is expected.
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UGSS 170 - Career Exploration
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Introduces the theoretical and practical framework with which to explore careers compatible with overall academic skills, aptitudes, and life goals. Students examine the world of work, assess their interests and abilities, and make realistic decisions on academic majors and careers.
Cross-Listed: (Cross-listed as ADVT 170 . These courses may be substituted for each other and be used interchangeably for D/F repeats but may not be counted for duplicate credit.) Note: Was previously coded as DVST 170
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UGSS 200 - Academic Transition Seminar
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Acclimates the student to the curricular and cocurricular experience of the main campus of IUP. Emphasizes campus systems and resources, the application of theories of change as related to transition, and major and career planning as lifelong learners. Recommended for transfer students, particularly targeting students moving from a satellite campus to the Indiana campus.
Recommendation: For students from regional campuses
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UGSS 250 - Role of the Peer Educator: Theory, Practice, and Assessment
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Restriction: Instructor permission required
Description: Prepares selected students for the role of a peer educator within the higher education setting. Topics include student learning and problem solving, facilitative helping and interpersonal communication, peer leadership, and assisting peers with how to effectively and efficiently succeed at the college level. (Roles include supplemental instruction leader, tutor, peer advisor, workshop leader.)
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UGSS 281 - Special Topic
Class Hours: var
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1-3
Description: Special Topic
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University-wide Courses |
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UVWD 480 - T.H.I.S. Seminar
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: An academic seminar taken at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education University Center in Harrisburg in conjunction with the T.H.I.S. internship. Consists of public policy information, decision making, and budgeting and addresses question-and-answer sessions with leading state government policymakers. See description under Academic Affairs area. Restricted to the T.H.I.S. internship participant. See UVWD 493 .
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UVWD 493 - T.H.I.S. Internship
Class Hours: var
Credits: 12
Description: A practical experience at the policymaking level of the state government that also requires a research project. Must have a 3.0 GPA and submit a sample of writing skills with the application to the Academic Affairs office. Open to any IUP major. See description under Academic Affairs area. Concurrent seminar course required. See UVWD 480 .
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Vocational Education |
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VOED 100 - Preparation of the Vocational Professional I
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-15
Description: Personalized, self-paced vocational teacher preparation. Develops, demonstrates, and documents competence in selected pedagogical competencies. Individualized instruction is supplemented with monthly seminars. Self-evaluation is encouraged in the program, utilizing videotaping and the feedback from a team of professional teacher educators.
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VOED 101 - Introduction to Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Recommendation by Western Region Career and Technical School director
Description: Emphasizes basic elements of teaching in the diverse secondary career and technical classroom. A field-based course focusing on skill areas defined by the Pennsylvania Department of Education—Bureau of Career and Technical Education, such as classroom safety, accommodations for students with special needs, and classroom management.
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VOED 102 - Instructional Planning in the Career and Technical Classroom
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: VOED 101
Description: Instructional planning for the CTE classroom and laboratory delivered through field-based instruction. Major emphasis is on planning for instruction, safety procedures, and CTE performance objectives. Instructional plans will include consideration of individual learning styles and accommodations for students with special needs.
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VOED 103 - Strategies for Teaching Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: VOED 101 , VOED 102
Description: Introduces instructional strategies and evaluation methods appropriate in career and technical education. Emphasis is on the planning and delivery of lessons that apply these strategies in the secondary career and technical classroom. Special attention is given to adapting and individualizing instruction for the diverse student population enrolled in the career and technical class. A field-based course with classroom visitations by a university faculty member.
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VOED 201 - Making Accommodations for Students with Special Needs in the Career and Technical Classroom
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: VOED 101 , VOED 102 , VOED 103
Description: A companion course to EDEX 301 . Students apply instructional methods effective for educating students with disabilities and learning style differences in their career and technical classroom. A field-based course with classroom visitations by a university faculty member.
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VOED 202 - Industry Linkages for Career and Technical Programs
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: VOED 201
Description: Addresses the requirements for industry input and validation for all secondary career and technical programs and focuses on developing and maintaining an effective occupational advisory committee. Emphasis is on the teacher’s responsibility for providing appropriate information to the committee and taking action to follow up on the committee’s recommendations.
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VOED 203 - Incorporating Reading and Communications Strategies in the Career and Technical Classroom
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: VOED 102 , VOED 103
Description: Addresses methods and materials for assisting students as they read, study, and learn in the career and technical classroom. Emphasis is on approaches that facilitate learning of both content and process. Current research is explored, and classroom applications are emphasized for integrating academic standards. A field-based course with classroom visitations by a university faculty member.
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VOED 301 - Integrating Math and Science in Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of course work for Vocational I certificate
Description: Focuses on the integration of math- and science-related content in the career and technical classroom. Current Pennsylvania Department of Education mandates and strategies for meaningful integration and assessment are addressed. Facilitating the academic skill development of secondary career and technical students is emphasized. A field-based course with classroom visitations by a university faculty member.
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VOED 302 - Career Education in the Career and Technical Classroom
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of course work for Vocational I certificate
Description: Emphasizes current labor market statistics and resources for identifying labor market trends. The influence of interests, aptitudes, and work style preferences in making informed career decisions are explored. The role of career and technical student organizations, articulation agreements, and work-based learning to enhance career education in the career and technical classroom are discussed. The emphasis is on integrating career information relevant for the career and technical program in the classroom and a review of the mandates for this integration.
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VOED 395 - Vocational Education Writing Experience
Class Hours: 0
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 0
Description: Writing assignments such as abstracts, logs of activities, philosophy papers, training plans, presentation plans, lesson plans, etc., are completed in conjunction with selected instructional modules from VOED 100 and VOED 400 .
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VOED 400 - Preparation of the Vocational Professional II
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-15
Prerequisite: Successful completion of VOED 100
Description: Personalized, self-paced vocational teacher preparation. Develops, demonstrates, and documents competence in selected teaching skills in the areas of program planning, program development, program evaluation, and managing and evaluating instruction in a vocational school setting. Self-evaluation is encouraged in the program, utilizing videotaping and the feedback from a team of professional teacher educators.
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VOED 402 - Special Topics in Vocational Pedagogical Preparation
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-15
Prerequisite: Center permission
Description: Opportunities to develop additional teaching skills under professional supervision. Topics are determined through identification of priority areas in vocational education using national and state surveys and students’ individual needs.
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VOED 404 - Research in Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of course work for Vocational I certificate
Description: Introduces research in the career and technical classroom. An emphasis is placed on using a variety of research methods to solve problems in the educational environment. Research findings are implemented into the classroom environment and results are shared with peer career and technical teachers.
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VOED 405 - Professional Seminar in Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Completion of course work for Vocational I certificate
Description: A history of career and technical education; the impact of the educational reform on career and technical education and workforce development and career and technical education’s importance within our society. Topics include leaders in vocational education; societal influences on vocational curriculum design; and professional responsibilities, legislative initiatives, social issues, and organizations involved in and affecting career and technical and workforce development education. A capstone course focusing on the professional growth of the career and technical teacher intern.
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VOED 406 - Planning, Development, and Evaluation of a Cooperative Education Program Class
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Explores the fundamental principles of establishing and operating a Cooperative Education program in secondary schools in accordance with the PDE Bureau of Career and Technical Education Approved Program Evaluation Checklist. Emphasizes criteria and guidelines required to establish program policies and coordinating activities between the school and workplace site.
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VOED 407 - Legal Considerations for Cooperative Education Programs
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Description: Provides an immersive exploration of state and federal labor laws, administration, and program operations. Adheres to program regulatory compliance as the basis for research, reflection, and inquiry.
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VOED 408 - Planning School-Based Instruction for Cooperative Education
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Description: Explores the role of the Cooperative Education Coordinator as teacher, career advisor, and education professional. Emphasizes classroom instruction that focuses on the development of 21st century skills including critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication. Explores the role of on-going professional development for both the student and teacher.
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VOED 409 - Practicum/Field Experience
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: VOED 406 , VOED 407 , and VOED 408
Description: Provides opportunities to apply the fundamentals and concepts learned in the prerequisite courses. Requires 25 hours of practicum/field experience at a school, working closely with an approved, certified cooperative education coordinator and attend all scheduled seminar meetings.
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VOED 410 - Foundations of Career and Technical Education
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Emphasizes key historical background, current trends, and pathways to Career and Technical certification for the candidate with a non-Career and Technical Instructional certificate. Taken in the first semester of enrollment, required for Instructional I or II certificate holders only who are seeking to add the Cooperative Education certification to their current certificate.
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VOED 450 - Technical Preparation of the Vocational Professional
Credits: 24
Description: Competency assessment of occupational experience through national standardized written and performance examinations.
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Women’s and Gender Studies |
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WGS 200 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural survey of the ways in which gender interacts with race, age, class, ethnicity, nationality, and other dimensions of identities to shape human consciousness and determine the social, political, and cultural organizations of human institutions and societies.
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WGS 301 - Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women’s Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces more than 100 years of the unique, diverse, and dynamic literary tradition of the 20th and 21st century Asian American and Asian diasporic women’s literature in a wide range of Asian cultural, historical, national, global, and American multiethnic contexts. Intersects and is enriched by gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, language, immigration, global migrant labor, citizenship, decolonization, as well as Asian indigenous and ethnic women’s histories.
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WGS 400 - Feminist Theories
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces the vigorous, interdisciplinary, complex, and diverse intellectual history of feminist theories, methodologies, and politics. Includes classical feminist advocacy from early centuries to feminist theories in early 21st century, from Euro-American feminist philosophical traditions to the more global, multicultural, intersectional, and continuously multidisciplinary feminist criticisms, with rich dialogues crossing periods and borders. Intersects and is enriched by multiple critical categories of gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, nation, culture, knowledge, and power. Stimulates, engages with, and empowers students. Encourages students to actively apply feminist knowledge to their own cross-disciplinary learning, personal growth, empowerment, and activist social transformation.
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WGS 482 - Independent Study
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Restriction: Prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Office of the Provost
Description: An opportunity to engage in an in-depth analysis of some topic through consultation with a faculty member. A semester project ordinarily expected. Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
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