2021-2022 Catalog 
    
    May 11, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Course Descriptions

The following is a listing of courses and abridged descriptions of all Alliant International University courses available at the time of publication. Please note that the academic programs are under continuous review and evaluation. Therefore, courses may vary somewhat from those described on the following pages.

Note: Classes not found in the program description may not be taught on the campus where the student is attending. Check online course schedules for a list of classes available at each site in a given semester/term.

 
  
  • FOR63180 - Threat Management in Context: School, Higher Ed., and Workplace Violence

    (3 units)
    This course examines intended violence in schools, institutions of higher education, and workplaces from a threat assessment and management perspective. The course includes violence prevention, investigation, and mitigation strategies within these contexts, as well as relevant legal issues and strategies to overcome potential barriers.
  
  • FOR63210 - Threats & Intimacy: Stalking, Family & Intimate Partner Violence

    (3 units)
    This course explores stalking and its relationship to violence from a threat assessment perspective. The course examines the factors that respectively increase and decrease the risk of violence and potential lethality in these contexts and focuses on methods of identifying violent intent and mitigating violence potential.
  
  • FOR64000 - Forensic Risk Assessment

    (3 units)
    This course examines theories and evidence-based approaches to identifying and ameliorating risk for deviant or criminal behavior in various contexts including societal, interpersonal, school and workplace. Explores factors associated with problem behavior, including both contributing (risk) and protective factors, and the controversies associated with risk prediction. Provides an overview of risk assessment tools and methods and of risk management techniques and issues.
  
  • FOR64020 - Interviewing and Evidence

    (3 units)
    This course provides a comprehensive overview of the rules of evidence, including physical evidence, testimony and scientific evidence. Explores concepts such as presumptions, exclusionary rules, admissions and confessions. Provides an overview of the history and the legal precedent associated with investigative interviewing. Examines current evidence-based practices in educing information from witnesses, victims and suspects as well as in providing scientifically sound, easy-to-understand expert testimony. Interpretation of verbal and physical behavior, memory, false confessions, deception detection, interviewing special populations, and ethical considerations are discussed. Emphasis is on criminal law applications; however, investigative interviewing in the workplace will be addressed.
  
  • FOR64030 - Arson Dynamics and Prevention

    (3 units)
    This course explores the crime of arson - its prevalence rates, common characteristics, and the general profile of arsonists - as well as the standard programs adopted by municipalities and businesses to promote fire safety and prevention, and to reduce recidivism.
  
  • FOR64120 - Contemporary Threat Management

    (3 units)
    This course provides a foundation for assessing and managing human threats to safety in a variety of contexts and types of locations including businesses and organizations, schools and universities, hospitals and other medical facilities, centers of worship and other public and private establishments.
  
  • FOR64140 - Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

    (3 units)
    This course incorporates theory and contemporary evidence-based models and best practices to analyzing conflict and achieving positive outcomes in a variety of contexts. Explores barriers to effective resolution and peacebuilding and methods for overcoming those barriers, as well as differences among approaches. Includes an emphasis on analyzing ethical responsibilities and dilemmas in third-party intervention and employs case studies to examine and formulate ethical approaches to conflict resolution and peacebuilding. 
  
  • FOR64160 - Psychology of Media, Violence & Extremism

    (3 units)
    This course examines violent crime, domestic extremism and radicalization and the various roles of entertainment, news and social media. The course explores the psychological, physiological, cognitive and social mechanisms of media influence on behavior-as well as aspects of visual news media, advertising, entertainment media and social media-that facilitate and strengthen that influence. The course addresses topics such as violent media and aggression, portrayal of crime in media, ‘copycat crime’, radicalization and violent extremism in the US.
  
  • FOR64180 - Linguistics and Online Media

    (3 units)
    This course examines the ways language is used in various media-particularly the internet and social media-to advance nefarious, subversive, or criminal objectives. The course focuses on the application of forensic linguistics to identifying and interrupting potentially violent behavior and addresses issues related to exploitation of the vulnerable for criminal purposes, the language of online bullying, and hate, radicalization and the pathway from ideology to violent action. The courses addresses these concepts against a backdrop of free speech and privacy.
  
  • FOR64190 - Victimology in Context: Mass Casualty and Disaster Contexts

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR64210 - Forensic Assessment Instruments II: Civil Contexts

    (3 units)
    This course will review assessment instruments used to answer common referral questions in the civil sector, including child custody, civil commitment, civil competencies, torts for emotional distress, and employment discrimination/sexual harassment.
  
  • FOR64220 - Scientific Inquiry in Trial Consulting

    (3 units)
    This course focuses on the body of scientific research that is designed to inform the jury process and on the behind-the-scenes, research-based activities involved in courtroom consulting. Topics include community attitude and change of venue surveys; mock trials, shadow juries and focus groups; supplemental juror questionnaires; and data collection & management.
  
  • FOR64260 - Evidence-Based Practices in Corrections

    (3 units)
    This course reviews the particular impact of common and co-morbid physical, psychological, and environmental conditions on clinical intervention in correctional settings. The impact of institutional resources and priorities on treatment planning is explored. Common treatment interventions utilized in the correctional environment, including motivational interviewing and various cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational interventions, are reviewed and practiced. The course will also review basic psychopharmacology commonly used in correctional settings. Additional best practices specific to correctional settings, strategies for working with resistant patients; counter-transference issues that arise when working within correctional settings; screening for and treating suicidality and homicidality are also explored.
  
  • FOR64280 - Evaluating Authorship

    (3 units)
    This course teaches students how to evaluate linguistic patterns and variations that support author profiling and author attribution. Professional, ethical, and legal issues specific to evaluating authorship are addressed.
  
  • FOR64290 - Forensic Victimology: Investigation and Intervention

    (3 units)
    This course provides an in-depth review of the evidence-based techniques and best practices used to engage in investigations common in victimology. Specific focus areas include Title IX, sexual harassment workplace violence/crime investigations, and school violence investigations. Students will be trained to the nuances specific to these contexts, as well as the general best practices related to interviewing subjects, working with difficult and complex witnesses, and safety planning. The last week of the course is spent in consolidating learning, and practicing self-care.
  
  • FOR64320 - Interventions to Support Returning Military Personnel

    (3 units)
    This course focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric conditions including combat-related PTSD, substance use disorder, traumatic brain injury, and depression. Research establishing empirical links between combat exposure and elevated risks for specific psychiatric conditions will be explored. Contemporary interventions, including telehealth and veteran’s courts will be examined. The effects of military service on interpersonal relationships, particularly relationships with spouses and children, will also be examined. An overview of the impact of the deployment cycle on attachment based upon a myriad of variables - length of marriage, number of children, age of children, prior exposure to military culture - will be explored. Evidence-informed intervention models to enhance military and veteran family functioning will reviewed.
  
  • FOR64340 - Specialized Operational Support in Police Psychology

    (3 units)
    This course provides an overview of the support and consultation that police psychologists provide to a variety of specialized operations in many law enforcement agencies. The first half of the course focuses on the involvement of police psychologists in enforcement actions such as threat assessments, stalking, workplace violence, and criminal profiling. It includes the role of mental health providers in assisting police officers who respond to psychiatric emergency calls through initiatives such as the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) as well as training officers in the most effective ways to interact with substance abusers, individuals experiencing homelessness, and those who are experiencing behavioral health challenges. The second half of the course focuses on police psychologists’ role in improving relations between the police and members of the community through strategies such as community-oriented policing and procedural justice. Police psychologists have a unique skillset to serve as a bridge and to facilitate healing in our communities.
  
  • FOR64360 - Best Practices in the Delivery of Telemental Health Care

    (3 units)
    This course explores best practices for providing effective, high quality care in the telemental health environment. Includes best practices for scheduling appointments and office set-up as well as theory and practice related to assessment and intervention in the telemental health environment. Also explores best practices for managing complex patient/client issues in the telemental health environment, including clinical emergencies.
  
  • FOR65020 - Assessment in Correctional Settings

    (3 units)
    This course reviews and provides opportunity to simulate administration of the forensic assessment tools commonly utilized in correctional settings.
  
  • FOR65040 - Psychological Assessment in Law Enforcement

    (3 units)
    This course provides students with knowledge and skills related to assessment of police and public safety personnel in areas including: pre-employment, post-offer psychological evaluations of job candidates; psychological fitness-for-duty evaluations of incumbents; evaluations for FMLA eligibility; Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) requirements for PEPE and FFDE; direct threat and workplace violence assessments; psychological autopsies (for purposes other than case resolution); promotional assessments, assessment centers and inbasket approaches to assessment; and evaluations for high risk, high stress positions.
  
  • FOR65310 - Security, Safety & Protection

    (3 units)
    This course provides students with foundational knowledge in security concepts, theory, and application in organizational and individual contexts. The course focuses on knowledge critical to the security professional including industry standards and best-practices in various forms of asset protection; vulnerability, threat, and impact assessment; technology, multi-agency partnerships, legal issues and ethical practice.
  
  • FOR65320 - Security and Protection Policies & Programs

    (3 units)
    This course provides students an understanding of evidence-based planning, implementation, management, assessment and improvement of security programs, projects, procedures, and policies in various contexts including executive protection and corporate, education and travel security.
  
  • FOR65330 - Organizational Security & Response

    (3 units)
    This course provides students with knowledge in principles and practices associated with organizational and personnel protection and security. Specific topics include risk management strategies (e.g., avoid, assume/accept, transfer, spread), risk mitigation techniques (e.g., technology, personnel, process, facility design), background investigations and personnel onboarding, organizational security awareness and training methodologies and resources, and critical incident response. 
  
  • FOR65340 - Threat Investigation, Case Management & Communication

    (3 units)
    This course provides students with knowledge and skills critical to conducting security investigations and managing and presenting cases. Topics include investigative terminology; surveillance, interviewing and other methods of information gathering; evidence gathering and chain of custody; principles of forensic evidence analysis; case classification, analysis and flow; case presentation, testimony and report-writing; and legal and ethical issues.
  
  • FOR65500 - Program Evaluation in Forensic Contexts

    (3 units)
    This course provides an overview of the concepts, techniques and processes of creating, implementing and evaluating programs designed to address forensic concerns, to reduce or prevent crime or victimization, to educate the public, to improve practices, and/or to assist victims.
  
  • FOR80010 - Introduction to Forensic Psychology

    (3 units)
    This course provides a foundational understanding of the dynamic, multidimensional, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between psychology and the legal system, as well as of the evolving application of psychology to issues of justice, safety, and security. The course focuses on both criminal and civil areas of practice, and on topics such as forensic evaluation; mental illness and adjudication; competency in legal proceedings; risk assessment; child custody; perception, cognition, and witnesses; expert testimony; trial consulting; and legal decision-making. The course also highlights psychologically informed laws and legal principles such as “psychiatric holds,” civil commitment, sexual predator statutes, juvenile waivers to adult court, and more.
  
  • FOR80020 - Psychopathology and Abnormal Behavior

    (3 units)
    A working knowledge of mental health disorders is vital to understanding criminal behavior, the underpinnings of some policy development, risk management, and navigating interactions with others who have been formally diagnosed with a disorder. This course provides a general understanding of mental health disorders as they are described and differentiated in the newly released DSM-V in addition to providing opportunities for students to think critically about how knowledge of adult psychopathology is essential in a variety of fields and potential policy implications.
  
  • FOR80030 - Psychology and Law in Public Policy

    (3 units)
    This course examines the current and potential impact of psychology on law and public policy. Through case studies, the course explores how the application – or lack thereof – of science regarding human behavior, cognition, affect, and pathology influences legal, legislative, and administrative decision-making. The course includes a particular focus on the intersections between security and liberty and between social benefit and autonomy.
  
  • FOR80040 - Legal Research

    (2 units)
    The course introduces foundational principles and provides practical skills associated with legal research and writing for non-law practitioners in the forensic arena. The course provides students with the ability to locate, read and interpret relevant legislation, regulations, case law and statutes; confirm that legal information is current and applicable; and cite and communicate legal information accurately. Instruction will also include legal terminology, case briefing, and other foundational components of the legal research and application process.
  
  • FOR80050 - Media Psychology, Law, and Policy

    (2 units)
    This course examines the relationship between media, psychology, crime, and law. The course focuses largely on the psychological aspects of media influence, the manifestations of media influence, the media-violence symbiosis, and legal and ethical considerations in news and social media. The course addresses topics such as media influence on individuals and on the legal system, social media celebrity, the First Amendment as it relates to news and social media, the evolution of news media, and media’s roles and responsibilities in public safety and social equity.
  
  • FOR80060 - Statistics I

    (3 units)
    This is a practical course in research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation. It is the first course in a series of courses to support development of research competencies in psycho-legal research including students’ dissertation research and develops fundamental knowledge and skills. Design and statistical procedures are presented in lectures, reading materials and other learning activities, and each student will analyze data using various statistical procedures, explain the results of the analysis, and discuss the implications of results on the evaluated program or research project. Statistical analyses will include t-tests, correlation, ANOVA, MANOVA, multiple linear and logistic regression, factor analysis, ARIMA time series analysis, survival analysis, power analysis, and non-parametric analyses.
  
  • FOR80070 - Statistics II

    (3 units)
    This is a practical course in research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation, and it is the second course in a series of courses to support development of research competencies in psycho-legal research including students’ dissertation research. It is an advanced course in statistics and builds on knowledge and skills developed in Statistics I. Design and statistical procedures are presented in lectures, reading materials and other learning activities, and each student will analyze data using various statistical procedures, explain the results of the analysis, and discuss the implications of results on the evaluated program or research project.
    Prerequisites: FOR80060
  
  • FOR80080 - Civil Law and Justice

    (2 units)
    The United States has made significant progress in addressing de jure discrimination, but persistent de facto discrimination and inequality remain. This course will consider several reform initiatives that have tried to tackle crucial civil justice system problems and will focus on the role of law in making progress on these problems. This course will examine all of these subjects through the lens of policy advocacy: identifying the problems, the individuals, and communities most affected, and the legal solutions that can, and are, making a difference.
  
  • FOR80090 - Criminal Law and the Justice System

    (3 units)
    This course will focus primarily on the legal standards used by mental health professionals in the criminal justice system including 1) competence to stand trial evaluations, 2) mental state at the time of the offense (mens rea and the insanity defense), and 3) the assessment of risk/prediction of future dangerousness. This course will draw on research in clinical psychology to examine evidence law (e.g., eyewitness testimony, polygraphy, expert testimony), procedure (e.g., line-ups, trial conduct, jury selection, settlement negotiations), and other various topics in criminal law. The content of the course will be about evenly divided between understanding the legal issues involved in criminal and the practical application of psychological principals and knowledge. 
  
  • FOR80100 - Victimology

    (2 units)
    This survey course introduces students to the scientific study of crime victims and to approaches to addressing victimization. In addition to emphasizing laws and legal issues associated with crime victimization, the course provides a foundation for understanding and evaluating current issues in the field of victimology, such as victim-offender overlap, the measurement of victimization, the impact of victimization, evidence-based prevention, contemporary theories of victimization, and systems responses to victims. Topics will also include forensic victimology and other victim-centered applications and practices.
  
  • FOR80110 - Neurocriminology

    (2 units)
    This course introduces students to the scientific study of neurocriminology, the application of neuroscience to understanding criminality. The course provides a foundation for understanding and evaluating current issues in the fields of neurocriminology and neuroscience and law. Topics also include the legal and ethical controversies associated with neurocriminology, as well as applications in legal contexts and public policy implications.
  
  • FOR80120 - Forensics in a Global Context

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80130 - Forensic Consulting

    (2 units)
    The area of forensic psychological consultation is a distinct area practice with goals and functions based on development of specific domains of knowledge and competencies rooted in both multiculturalism and ethical practices. The approaches, knowledge and skills that are needed to meaningfully contribute to different settings where in consultation may be pursued will be explored in this course. The word “Forensic” in title captures the focus on both the risk management and recovery strategies related to liability. Undesirable workplace events create opportunities for multi-disciplinary outside consultation. Organizations are often better served when outside investigators or subject matter experts intervene about concerns as a standard of practice. Some of the domains for forensic consulting include military settings, law enforcement agencies, schools, medical and pediatric settings, and finally, the civil and criminal justice system. Evidence based models of forensic consultation will be emphasized.
  
  • FOR80140 - Forensic Program Evaluation

    (2 units)
    This is an advanced course in applied forensic program evaluation that both reinforces and applies the foundational research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation principles from the Statistics I-II series of courses to further develop research competencies in psycho-legal research. In addition to covering the design principles and procedures for program evaluation more deeply, the content is directly applied during the course to critically appraise forensically-oriented program evaluations across multiple disciplines such as: the impact of mental health courts on recidivism; formative and impact evaluations of community and school prevention programs for reducing children’s exposures to violence at home or in school; the impact of crisis intervention teams on various aspects of community policing; the efficacy of behavioral management units in correctional settings; and the impact of school-based intervention programs on of youth gang violence.
  
  • FOR80150 - Communication and Conflict Resolution

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80160 - Conflict and Crisis Negotiation

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80170 - Fundamentals of Mediation

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80180 - Religion, Politics and International Conflict

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80190 - Trauma and Peace Building

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80200 - Capstone Project

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80210 - Fundamentals of Forensic Victimology

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80220 - Prevention and Safety Planning

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80230 - Investigation

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80240 - Mass Casualty and Disaster Contexts

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80250 - Research in Disaster Planning and Management

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80260 - Mass, Serial and Pattern Criminals

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80270 - Sex Crimes & Offenders

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80280 - Investigative Psychology and Criminal Profiling

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80290 - Targeted Violence & Threat Assessment

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80300 - Cyberpsychology

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80310 - Introduction to Behavior Analysis

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80320 - Decision-Making in Complex Situations

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80330 - Biopsychosocial Elements of Stress Responses

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80340 - The Fundamentals of Threat Assessment

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR80350 - Contemporary Threat Management

    (3 units)
  
  • FOR82480 - Forensic Mediation and Dispute Resolution

    (2 units)
    The theory and practice of problem identification, conflict resolution and dispute resolution counseling as it applies in forensic mediation settings. While the focus is on mediation as used in family law, issues involving other civil mediation settings will be covered as well.
  
  • FOR99010 - Dissertation I

    (1 unit)
    One of the goals of the PhD in Psychology, Public Policy and Law program is to develop and enhance students’ research skills to become informed consumers of research, to design and execute research projects to inform policy and decision making, to design effective programs and to conduct program evaluation. To this end, this program includes a sequence of coursework including research design, statistical analysis, program evaluation, and their application through completion of a doctoral dissertation in an area of each student’s interest or expertise. This is the first in a sequence of seven dissertation courses to guide and support students’ dissertation research. In this course, students will identify a dissertation topic and research question, provide a compelling rationale for their research project, and develop a rough plan for its execution. The draft to be submitted to the instructor at conclusion of this course will include a problem statement, an introduction to the topic based on a first review of the literature with a minimum of 10 references, one or more research questions, and a rough outline of the methodology required to answer the research question(s). Students will engage weekly with their peers to brainstorm ideas, and to provide and receive feedback and recommendations on the developing draft. In addition, students will schedule at least two individual meetings with the instructor during this term to further support their efforts.
  
  • FOR99020 - Dissertation II

    (1 unit)
    In this course, students will focus on the literature review, building on the preliminary rough plan developed during Dissertation I to further support hypotheses related to the research question and to fine-tune methodology. Students will engage regularly with their peers to brainstorm ideas, and to provide and receive feedback and recommendations. In addition, students will identify and meet with a committee member to provide further expertise for their research project and schedule at least two individual meetings with the instructor during this term to further support their efforts.
  
  • FOR99030 - Dissertation III

    (1 unit)
    In this course, students will focus on preparation for their preliminary oral defense. Building on the work completed in Dissertation I and Dissertation II, students will work increasingly independently with regular meetings with their dissertation chair and committee member to produce a final draft of the dissertation proposal including introduction, literature review, methodology and measures, and references in APA format.
  
  • FOR99040 - Dissertation IV

    (1 unit)
    In this course, students will continue with the process of approval of their preliminary oral defense, making any required modifications to their proposal, and submit the final proposal to the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Following that approval, students will conduct their data collection. Given variations in students’ study designs, the precise nature of some weekly assignments may vary according to arrangement with the instructor to support each student’s mastery of learning outcomes. Also, required edits from proposal defense and IRB review will vary, as will lengths of time from submitting drafts and requests for review and approval by dissertation committee and IRB.
  
  • FOR99050 - Dissertation V

    (1 unit)
  
  • FOR99060 - Dissertation VI

    (1 unit)
  
  • FOR99070 - Dissertation VII

    (1 unit)
  
  • FOR99400 - Dissertation/Doctoral Project Supervision

    (1 unit)
    Summer dissertation supervision.
  
  • FOR99950A - Dissertation Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • FOR99950B - Dissertation Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • FOR99950C - Dissertation Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • FOR99950D - Dissertation Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • FOR99950E - Dissertation Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GLS30000 - Managing Critical Global Issues

    (3 units)
    This course is a survey course that examines social, economic, political and environmental changes in the global context; the emergence of a global economy, new systems of world order, transnational movements and migration, human rights movements and global cultural shifts. The course will critically analyze the current debate over globalization and its impact.
  
  • GMP15000 - Intercultural Communication

    (3 units)
    The purpose of this course is to understand how culture and communication intersect in the context of globalization. Communication across cultural groups is a complex and challenging process and can lead to misunderstanding and conflict. The course focuses on developing cultural competencies for effective intercultural communication and conflict resolution between diverse individuals, groups and nation-states.
  
  • GMP20010 - Globalization and Social Justice

    (3 units)
    This course applies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and social justice in the world to identify the competencies necessary for global citizenship in the 21st century. It explores socially constructed systems of exploitation and exclusion-racism, sexism, classism, ageism and more -, examines how privilege, disadvantage and discrimination are perpetuated, and develops alternative attitudes and actions to challenge and dismantle these systems of exclusion and oppression. The course draws critical connections between local and global issues as well as the past and the present.
  
  • GSE80300 - Research Design

    (3 units)
    Comprehensive examination of major categories of educational research. Group and single subject designs and applications, instrument selection and development, methods of data collection and analysis. Development of guidelines for preparation and presentation of research projects and critical analysis of reported research.
  
  • GSE80300A - Research Design

    (2 units)
    Comprehensive examination of major categories of educational research. Group and single subject designs and applications, instrument selection and development, methods of data collection and analysis. Development of guidelines for preparation and presentation of research projects and critical analysis of reported research.
  
  • GSE80300B - Research Design

    (2 units)
    Comprehensive examination of major categories of educational research. Group and single subject designs and applications, instrument selection and development, methods of data collection and analysis. Development of guidelines for preparation and presentation of research projects and critical analysis of reported research.
  
  • GSE80330 - Quantitative Research Methods

    (3 units)
    Overview of quantitative theories and methodologies in preparation for designing and conducting meaningful quantitative studies.
  
  • GSE80330A - Quantitative Research Methods

    (2 units)
    Overview of quantitative theories and methodologies in preparation for designing and conducting meaningful quantitative studies.
  
  • GSE80330B - Quantitative Research Methods

    (2 units)
    Overview of quantitative theories and methodologies in preparation for designing and conducting meaningful quantitative studies.
  
  • GSE80360 - Qualitative Research Methods

    (3 units)
    Overview of qualitative theories and methodologies with emphasis on ethnographic techniques which can be employed in studying educational settings and processes. Preparation for designing and conducting meaningful qualitative studies.
  
  • GSE80360A - Qualitative Research Methods

    (2 units)
    Overview of qualitative theories and methodologies with emphasis on ethnographic techniques which can be employed in studying educational settings and processes. Preparation for designing and conducting meaningful qualitative studies.
  
  • GSE80360B - Qualitative Research Methods

    (2 units)
    Overview of qualitative theories and methodologies with emphasis on ethnographic techniques which can be employed in studying educational settings and processes. Preparation for designing and conducting meaningful qualitative studies.
  
  • GSE99010 - Dissertation Plan

    (3 units)
    Identification of a research problem in education and completion of a dissertation plan summarizing all components of Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 of the dissertation and an outline of the review of literature. Requires obtaining a dissertation committee chairperson and selection of committee members as evidenced by the department acceptance of the Approval of Dissertation Committee form.
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of all coursework and Comprehensive Examination
    May be repeated twice
  
  • GSE99010a - Dissertation Plan

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99010b - Dissertation Plan

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99020 - Dissertation Proposal

    (3 units)
    Supervised research and writing of dissertation. Successful chapters 1, 2, and 3 of dissertation. Completion of Proposal Defense and approval from IRB to conduct research/study.
  
  • GSE99020a - Dissertation Proposal

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99020b - Dissertation Proposal

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99200 - Dissertation Preparation

    (3 units)
    Supervised research and writing of dissertation. Successful completion of dissertation, oral examination and placement of dissertation in the library.
    Prerequisites: GSE99020
  
  • GSE99200a - Dissertation Preparation

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99200b - Dissertation Preparation

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99400 - Dissertation/Doctoral Project Supervision

    (1 unit)
    Summer dissertation supervision.
  
  • GSE99500 - Dissertation / Project Extension

    (3 units)
    Extension of dissertation / project research and writing beyond GSE 9920. May be repeated for credit. Registration is required each semester for any student who has successfully completed all coursework and the comprehensive examination, but who has yet to finish the dissertation / project. Does not count towards total required units necessary to complete a degree.
    May be repeated with Dissertation / Project Chair’s Approval
  
  • GSE99500A - Dissertation/Project Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99500B - Dissertation/Project Extension

    (1.5 units)
  
  • GSE99500C - Dissertation/Project Extension

    (1.5 units)
 

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