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3.00 Credits
This course presents legal issues from the perspective of preventive law, policy development and implementation. Content includes the structure of the U.S. legal system, contitutional law, statute and case law. Topics include: affirmative action, employment law, intellectual property, due process, academic freedom, human-subjects research and collective negotiations.
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3.00 Credits
This course consists of supervised experience in the functions and duties of leaders in higher education settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares the student to effectively meet the needs of the non-traditional students in higher education settings. Historical evolution and psychosocial factors impacting adult learners, development of student services, curriculum design issues and methods of building a sense of community among adult learners.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the contemporary Latino experience in the US educational system. It follows the growing numbers of Latinos with low high school completion rates and low levels of participation/completion in higher education. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of the experience by national origin, region of settlement, and gender as well as the histories of Latino immigration to the US compared to the receptions of other immigrants in history. Predominant theories of international immigration, relationships between the historical and contemporary context, immigration policy, and the adaptation of Latino immigrants in the United States are considered.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the critical policy issues in Latino higher education as the US faces a growing increase in Latino college-enrollment (the largest minority), yet with low retention and a scarce presence in higher education discourse. Due to this increase, an exploration of ways to prepare postsecondary institutions for this and the role of more Latinos in the academy is explored. Including: the role of community colleges and four-year institutions in meeting this demand, understanding the historical processes and cultural differences of Latinos in the US, understanding various modes of thought, concerns and methodologies regarding Latino higher education.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the cross-cultural, cross-national study of educational institutions and their relationship to society. This cross-national comparison of educational practices occurs in light of cultural, social organization, economic, political, and historical differences with a key goal being further development of understanding how perspectives on education in the United States have been shaped.
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3.00 Credits
Hands-on research, using Chicago's rich diversity of languages in contact as a laboratory, will enable you to understand the mechanisms, dynamics and manipulations of language and language use. Studens will explore the following questions: What is language? What makes it universal? What makes it unique? How can it be used as a tool? How does it unite or divide? What is language contact and how does it affect you? What is the relationship between language and identity? What is language diversity and what brings it about? How does an awareness of language make you a stronger, more confident communicator?
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of words, with particular attention to English from an historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic principles of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Subjects covered may include dialect variation, language and the brain, child language acquisition, language and gender, conversational analysis, non-verbal behavioral, pidgins and creoles, and sign language. The course is designed for students having no background in lingustics.
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Nature and structure of languages and American English in particular. An overview of the description of language sustems in terms of phonology (sound systems), morphology (word formation) and syntac (sentence organization). May also include an introduction to the areas of semantics (word meanin), pragmatics (the rules of the use of language in social contexts and conversation), and dialectology (cultural and geographical varieties of language use), and a look at the history of English and its relationship to other languages.
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