Guides students through research on diversity and retention issues in graduate education. Participants use Tinto's work on academic and social integration as a conceptual framework. Further, students investigate how specific institutions support diversity goals in their graduate programs. Prereq., admission to McNair Program (minimum 2.50 GPA, three recommendation letters, personal statement, strong interest in graduate school).
Multidisciplinary course guiding critical thinking asstudents design a formal investigation. Includes presenting and writing a prospectus. Students revise the prospectus, creating a proposal for funding the research as well as HRC proposals. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., admission to McNair Program (junior standing, minimum GPA of 2.50, and a strong interest in graduate school).
Focuses on knowledge and skills in accessing, evaluating, and integrating technology-assisted, mediated material in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Also focuses on hands-on design and production of instructional software for foreign languages. Recommended prereq., a language-teaching methodology course. Same as ARSC 5000.
Within the range of scholarly modes, student researchers examine discipline-specific rationales for evidence and analysis. Lecturers distinguish popular concepts of investigation from scholarly research. Students learn to take great care describing and discussing methods, findings, interpretations, assertions, and conclusions. May be repeated up to 10 total credit hours. Prereq., admission to McNair Program (junior standing, meeting TRIO guidelines, strong interest in graduate school).
In this course, students will gain deep exposure to the historical, cultural, and socio-economic traditions and pressures that drive domestic and international policy making in Washington D.C. Students will read widely, prepare papers, and lead discussions on fundamental aspects of Washington's professional life. Course takes place in the nation's capital and is taken in conjunction with a professional internship.
Teaches the core principles of pedagogy at the university level and provides students guidance and feedback on constructing a teaching session in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Using the instructional practices of their discipline, students discuss issues university faculty encounter in their quest toward teaching excellence. The expertise of the Graduate Teacher Program, the Preparing Future Faculty Network and the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program will be drawn upon for supplemental resources, seminars and workshops. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Prereq., ARSC 4700. Restricted to McNair Program Students.
The first part of a two-semester sequence designed to introduce graduate students in the social sciences to interdisciplinary theory, concepts, and methods as applied to important social problems. Prereq., completion of first year of graduate work in a social science department.
The second part of a two-semester sequence designed to introduce graduate students in the social sciences to interdisciplinary theory, concepts, and methods as applied to important social problems. Prereq., ARSC 5050.