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SPED 6113 - Culturally-Responsive Practices in Special Education
Students will learn evidence-based evaluation and intervention practices with culturally diverse populations (including but not limited to ethnic, geopgraphic, religious, and socio-economic diversity). This course will cover research investigating educational programs and instructional strategies that support improved long term academic outcomes for students from culturally diverse backgrounds and how this body of research can inform practices in Special Education.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6150 - Transition-Focused Education and Services for Individuals with Disabilities
This course examines issues regarding effective transition education and services for youths with disabilities. The focal point of course content is on designing and implementing research-based practices that meet federal and state mandates regarding transition services. Instruction emphasizes active learning strategies that facilitate the application of course content to each student’s professional context. Course topics include applying a transition perspective of education, student-focused planning, student development, interagency collaboration, and family involvement.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6200 - Advanced Assessment in Schools
This course examines assessment in education, emphasizing assessment and evaluation of at-risk and special needs children and adolescents. The course prepares educators to engage in reflective decision making and research-based professional practice that results in effective instructional and intervention programs for diverse groups of learners. The course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary 1) to be educated consumers of assessment data shared in schools, and 2) to collect and to use a wide variety of assessment data in general and special education at the individual student, classroom, and building levels.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6210 - Curriculum Development for Learners with Disabilities
This course is designed to provide experienced special education personnel with knowledge and skill in the conceptualization, construction, adaptation, and evaluation of instructional programs for learners with disabilities, including accommodating to state and national curricular trends and issues.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6290 - Secondary ED Inclusive Practices
The course prepares educators to provide for the individual special learning needs of students with learning and behavioral differences who are integrated into the general education program. Students will be provided with an overview of Special Education with an emphasis on emerging perspectives. Topics to be examined will include: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), effective teaching practices within a Multi-tiered framework including accommodations and modifications, co-teaching in inclusive settings, and observing, recording, and monitoring students’ progress.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master of Arts in Teaching students.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6300 - Clinical Practice in Special Education
This course serves as a field or practical experience to meet special education credentialing requirements. Students will apply their knowledge and skills in a school setting with children and youths with varying disabilities and exceptionalities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course is offered on a credit/no credit basis. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6356 - Evidence Based Instruction II: 6-12 LA, Ma, Sc, SS
This course will focus evidence-based instruction in the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies for students in grades 6-12. This course will emphasize application of differentiated instruction using universal design for learning (UDL) principles, evidence-based assessment and instructional strategies, assistive technology, and development of self-determination skills in a context that ensures access to the general education curriculum for students with high incidence disabilities and those academically at risk leading to successful transition beyond high school.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to master’s in Special Education.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6360 - Topical Seminar in Special Education
This course provides a survey or in-depth coverage of topics directly related to the education of learners with disabilities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only. The course may be repeated for credit.
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SPED 6370 - Applications of Research in Special Education
This course is designed to provide students with fundamental knowledge and skills in research and evaluation in special education. The course will survey research methods typically used in school-based research, and will emphasize the use of single-subject research methodology.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6380 - Applications of Behavior Analysis in Special Education
Introduces the foundations of behavior analysis. Specific applications of behavior analysis in general and special education settings are emphasized.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6381 - School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
The course will provide a detailed examination of service delivery within a multi-tiered system of support, specifically focusing on universal (Tier 1), strategic (Tier 2) and intensive individualized (Tier 3) approaches to positive behavior support processes in elementary and secondary educational settings. In particular, the course content will cover the foundations necessary for schools to implement school-wide positive behavior support including commitment to the process, the development of a team, knowledge of applied behavior analysis and data-based decision making, and the supports and strategies necessary at each of the three levels.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 6380
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6382 - Intensive Interventions for Challenging Behaviors
This course builds from the foundational skills taught to students in Applications of Behavior Analysis in Special Education. Instruction centers on interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders across four primary areas: (a) school-wide systems of positive behavior supports, (b) evidenced based Tier-2 Interventions, (c) functional behavioral assessment (FBA), and (d) the design and implementation of individualized behavior interventions plans (BIP). This course aims to support the continued development of students’ knowledge base in applied behavior analysis and positive behavior supports. Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to identify the function of a student’s problem behavior and develop and appropriate intervention plan to support the child’s educational growth.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 6380
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6390 - Evidence-Based Instructional Practices: Autism
This course provides students with the foundational knowledge and skills required in the application of evidence-based instructional interventions to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities in educational settings. Topics covered include instructional control, motivation, classroom management, naturalistic intervention, self-management, antecedent-based interventions, stimulus control, generalization, and maintenance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 6380
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6391 - Instructional Practices in School Settings for Students with Autism
This course provides students with an opportunity to discuss and analyze some additional topics related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Among the topics covered are etiology, prevalence, diagnosis versus education eligibility, fads, pharmacology, teaching adaptive behavior and social skills, transition to postsecondary environments, inclusion, and collaboration.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to master’s in Special Education: Clinical Teacher and Special Education: Master Teacher.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6400 - Organization and Administration of Services for Learners with Disabilities
This course examines the principles and practices of organization and administration of special education programs at the state, intermediate, and local levels.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6410 - Supervision of Special Education Programs and Services
This course is designed to provide the experienced special educator with specific knowledge and skills necessary for supervising personnel who are providing both direct and indirect services to learners with disabilities. Emphasis is placed on procedures utilized in selecting personnel, identifying resources for program development and support, facilitating change in teacher behavior, and evaluating the effectiveness of program operations and personnel.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6430 - Legal Issues in Special Education
Pending special education legislation, existing laws, and regulations at the national, state, and local levels will be examined. Legal issues in the context of the development and implementation of special education programs will be considered.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6500 - Seminar on Special Education in Higher Education
This course examines the structure of higher education and the roles a faculty member plays within a department, a college, and a university (e.g., teaching competence, professional recognition, and service). In addition, current issues in higher education and teacher education will be examined.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6560 - Seminar: Current Issues in Special Education
This course is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of current issues in the field of special education and in the various specific areas of exceptionality. Issues relating to the interface of general and special education will also be explored. Utilizing skills acquired in SPED 6010, students will be expected to review, evaluate and present information on the various topics considered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6610 - Collaboration and Consultation in Special Education
Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed for effective collaboration, teaming and problem-solving in school and agency settings. Emphasis is placed on components of effective communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and the various direct and indirect service delivery models that can be used to facilitate the success of all learners.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6655 - Coaching Classroom Management
The purpose of this course is to provide strategies and tools that enable an instructional coach or behavior intervention specialist to have a positive influence and impact on the behavior management skills and practices of classroom teachers in general and special education settings. The focus of this course will be how coaches can assist classroom teachers, in a non-evaluative context, to implement evidence-based proactive and positive instructional strategies.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6710 - Field Experience in Emotional Impairments K-5
This field experience provides students with an opportunity to work in K-5th grade classroom with learners with emotional impairments. It is intended to build upon knowledge gained in SPED 5750 and allows students to more fully participate in classroom teaching activities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 5750
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to master’s in Special Education.
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6711 - Field Experience in Emotional Impairments 6-12
This field experience provides students with an opportunity to work in middle school and high school classrooms with learners identified with or at risk for emotional impairments or severe behavior problems. It is intended to build upon knowledge gained in SPED 5700 and allows students increased opportunities in school settings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 5700
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to master’s in Special Education.
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6740 - Intern Teaching in Special Education
This final field experience is open only for special education graduate students who have completed all of their special education endorsement requirements. It will consist of full-time intern teaching in an appropriate educational setting serving students with disabilities. Students will participate in all phases of the school program to which they are assigned.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 6 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only. This course is graded on a credit/no credit basis.
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SPED 6750 - Internship in College Teaching
This course is designed specifically for students officially admitted to the doctoral program in special education. The student will be expected to evidence ability to plan and execute instructional tasks, develop and apply appropriate evaluative techniques, and interpret students’ performances.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 6815 - Field Experience in Strategic Interventions with High Incidence Learners-LD (Grades 6-12)
This field experience emphasizes the use of data-based decision making and functional assessment to design, implement, and evaluation interventions that address academic or social behaviors of learners in grades 6-12. Students will observe and apply information and skills gained in prerequisite courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPED 6356
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to master’s in Special Education.
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department and Graduate College approval required.
Credits: 6 hours
Notes: Credit/No Credit only. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
Notes: Credit/No Credit only. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 7115 - Capstone in Special Education
This three-hour course is the last in the Master of Arts in Special Education. It is a culminating experience built upon the learning outcomes of a student’s specific concentration area and the special education core. The course is designed as an opportunity for reflection and evaluation of professional practice, providing students with an opportunity to integrate isolated skills and knowledge through completion of a capstone project.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental Approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 12 hours
Notes: Credit/No Credit only. Open to graduate students only.
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SPED 7300 - Doctoral Dissertation
The Doctoral Dissertation is required in all doctoral programs and is completed under the supervision of a dissertation committee. Prior to the first registration in 7300, Doctoral Dissertation, a Permission to Elect form (available at http://wmich.edu/grad/forms) must be completed and approved by the Dissertation Specialist in the Graduate College so that the student is informed about the regulations pertaining to the preparation and publication of the manuscript and to the requirements for research involving regulated subjects and hazardous materials, and to ensure the student is in good standing. Doctoral dissertations involving research with protected or regulated subjects must include documentation indicating compliance with federal, state, and University requirements for the protection of human/animal subjects or appropriate use of genetic or radioactive materials and chemical hazards. Written approval from the board/committee/official must be included as an appendix to the dissertation. The use of Guidelines for the Preparation of Theses, Projects, and Dissertations is required. This publication is available for downloading at wmich.edu/grad/current-students/. A doctoral dissertation varies in credit from a minimum of 12 credit hours to a maximum of 24 credit hours. The hours required in a program of study are determined by the student’s department; a department may require all students within the program to register for a specific, common total of hours between 12 and 24, or a program may require different students within the program to register for a variety of total hours between 12 and 24. The course 7300, Doctoral Dissertation, may be registered for in increments of one or more hours. Following a student’s first enrollment in 7300, the student must have continuous enrollment in 7300 until all dissertation requirements are completed satisfactorily and approved by the appropriate bodies. A student unable to complete the dissertation within the program-stipulated hours will be required to continue to enroll in 7300; however, only the program-stipulated hours for 7300 will count toward meeting the program requirements for the doctoral degree. For students not enrolled in Summer I and Summer II sessions, pre-enrollment in the subsequent Fall semester is necessary for access to library resources during Summer I and Summer II. Continuous enrollment is defined as enrollment in all Fall and Spring semesters from the initial enrollment to the semester in which the student graduates. If the student will graduate in Summer I or Summer II, the student must be enrolled in that session. The dissertation is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department and Graduate College approval required.
Credits: 15 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 5010 - Principles of Speech Science
Overview of the anatomy, physics, biology, physiology, and psychology of human speech production and speech perception. This course is intended to focus not only on well-established concepts in speech science, but also on the many research areas in which our understanding is incomplete.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to majors in Speech Pathology and Audiology, majors in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, masters in Speech Pathology and Audiology, or masters in Speech-Language Pathology.
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5530 - Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders
Theories and therapies applicable to the understanding and clinical management of stuttering are studied in depth.
Credits: 2 hours
Restrictions Restricted to majors in Speech Pathology and Audiology, majors in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, masters in Speech Pathology and Audiology, or masters in Speech-Language Pathology.
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5800 - Psychoacoustics
A study of the principles, theories, and methods which provide the bases for hearing measurement in clinical and experimental settings. Topics include quantification, measurement and analysis of acoustic signals and subjective responses to those signals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5801 - Pediatric Audiology
This course deals with the identification, measurement, and management of hearing impairment in infants and young children.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPPA or SLHS 2060 and SPPA or SLHS 3580, or department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5950 - Language Development and Disorders for Educators
This course provides the student preparing to be a classroom or special education teacher with information about the nature of spoken and written language, its development, conditions associated with language disorders, and the principles and methods of assessment and treatment for children, from infancy through adolescence, with specific language needs. Not applicable toward the master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5970 - Topics in Speech Pathology and Audiology
Selected topics in speech pathology and audiology are systematically explored through lectures, laboratory experiences, and student projects. Possible areas of study are instrumentation in audiology, manual communication, electrophysiologic audiometry, computer applications to speech communication, and contemporary professional issues. a. Autism 3 hrs. b. American Sign Language I 3 hrs. c. American Sign Language II 3 hrs.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 5980 - Research Experience in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
An elective course, arranged on an individual basis, to provide students the opportunity to pursue research experiences and interests within areas of speech, language and hearing sciences.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to upper level and graduate students.
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SLHS 6030 - Anatomy and Physiology of Audition and Balance
A study of the anatomy and function of structures important to audition and balance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6140 - Linguistic Analysis and Technology in Communication Disorders
This course is designed to supplement, reinforce, and provide practical application of information related to language acquisition, phonology, and diagnosis and appraisal. Students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills through the infusion of technology for analyzing grammatical, semantic, phonological, and pragmatic features of language, techniques and strategies for speech-language assessment/evaluation, tools for literature searches, and information related to assistive technology (including Alternative & Augmentative Communication - AAC). The student is expected to gain both theoretical knowledge of linguistic features and practical skills in computer-aided analysis.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6150 - Research Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
This course deals with methods and procedures for gathering, reducing and analyzing data to reach conclusions concerning hypotheses regarding communication disorders and processes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6160 - Instrumentation in Audiology
This course introduces the basic principles and applications of electronics and electronic instruments as they pertain to audiology. The first section of the course introduces the basic principles of DC and AC electronics, with a particular focus on the concept of electrical impedance. The second section of the course consists of a survey of the principles of operation and use of a variety of instruments that are used to generate, record, reproduce, control, calibrate, and measure electrical signals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6200 - Auditory Disorders
This course deals with pathologies and disorders of the outer ear, middle ear, inner ear, the auditory nerve, and the central auditory pathways, including causes, treatments, and impact on hearing. Coverage of tinnitus and hyperacusis is also included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6210 - Diagnostic Audiology I
This course, which is one of two courses devoted to diagnostic audiology, deals with routine and special audiometric techniques for assessing hearing disorders to determine the need for medical or rehabilitative intervention.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6220 - Hearing Aids
Components, characteristics, evaluation, selection, use and maintenance of hearing aids are studied in detail.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6250 - Industrial and Public Health Audiology
A study of hearing conservation programs in industry, including noise measurement, damage-risk criteria, hearing measurement, and medico-legal problems; noise as a public health hazard; and hearing screening and deafness prevention programs.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6310 - Diagnostic Audiology II
A course dealing with electrophysiological and other advanced audiological techniques for assessing peripheral and central auditory disorders to determine the need for medical or rehabilitative intervention.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPPA or SLHS 6210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6320 - Vestibular Assessment
This course focuses on electro/videonystagmography and other contemporary diagnostic techniques used for the assessment of vestibular disorders.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: SPPA or SLHS 6210.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6340 - Management of Audiologic Practice
A study of principles important to establishing and managing an audiologic practice. Topics include professional credentials, ethics, quality of service, legal issues, and business management.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6350 - Otoacoustic Emmissions
This course focuses on otoacoustic emissions, their measurement, interpretation, and integration in neurodiagnostic assessment.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6360 - Geriatric and Rehabilitative Audiology
This seminar builds on knowledge already gained by the students through prior academic preparation as well as through clinical experience. Topics covered include general aspects (biological, sociological, and psychological) of aging, myths and attitudes regarding aging, the aging auditory system, and contemporary rehabilitative and counseling considerations unique to older persons who are hearing impaired.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6361 - Cochlear Implants
This course builds on knowledge already gained by students through prior academic preparation as well as through clinical experience. The overall focus is on pre- and post-operative evaluation, treatment, and management of those considering and receiving cochlear implants.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6362 - Habilitative and Educational Audiology
This course deals with issues related to early intervention services and educational management of infants and children with hearing loss. The overall focus is on counseling children with hearing loss and their families, exploring communication options and special education laws, and investigating methods of fitting and verifying hearing assistive technology for infants and children with hearing loss.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6363 - Hearing Aids II
This course focuses on outcome measures, the selection of advanced hearing aid options, and the application of evidence-based practice (EBP) techniques to hearing aid fittings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6370 - Speech Sound Disorders
This course provides comprehensive coverage of the area of speech sound disorders, including theoretical background, etiologies and characteristics, clinical assessment, and intervention. Issues such as differential diagnosis and evaluation of evidence-driven interventions will be explored.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6390 - Seminar in Audiology
Selected topics in audiology are systematically explored through critical analyses of literature and through individual study projects. Pediatric audiology, geriatric audiology, hearing aids, residual hearing, and aural rehabilitation are among the possible areas of study. Topics vary from semester to semester and are announced in advance. a. Rehabilitative Audiology b. Geriatric Audiology c. Hearing Aids d. Cochlear Implants
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only. May be repeated.
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SLHS 6400 - Voice Disorders
Organic, neurologic, and functional disorders of the larynx are studied in depth.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6405 - Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Disorders
This course provides a broad examination of the speech, language, voice and resonance disorders that may co-occur with cleft palate and several common craniofacial conditions. The oral-facial structures are examined with particular attention given to the role of the velopharynx in speech production. Congenital and acquired structural disorders are discussed, including those associated with treatment of cancer of the head and neck.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6430 - Aphasia in Adults
This course deals comprehensively with the identification and treatment of communication problems in the adult aphasic individual.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6440 - Motor Speech Disorders
This course examines dysarthrias and verbal apraxis as manifested in children and adults.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6450 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This course deals with alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) for individuals with severe communicative disorders. Strategies and technologies for establishing or restoring functional communication are investigated. Communication disorders of various etiologies are surveyed in relation to intervention needs. Assessment, intervention, and advocacy are discussed in detail. Practical and simulated experiences with low- and high-technological AAC are included. Overall communication needs are highlighted in reference to educational, vocational, and social interaction purposes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6460 - Language Acquisition and Communication across the Lifespan
This course addresses human spoken and written language and communication processes at the discourse, sentence and sound/word levels. Issues related to cultural-linguistic variation, including English Language Learning are infused throughout the course. Students learn about typical development of communication, language, and literacy from infancy through adolescence, along with adult discourse, reading and writing, communicative processes, and changes with healthy aging. Neurological, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural bases are addressed with relevance to clinical application.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6470 - Cognitive Communication Disorders
This course studies neurogenic-based disorders of cognition and communication in persons of all ages. Emphasis is upon children and adults surviving traumatic brain injury and living with dementia. The course presents content relevant to etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adults with cognitive-communication disorders. Special attention will be placed upon community-based and contextually-relevant treatment practices and community integration principles. Theories of and methods for measuring quality of life will be discussed. Client-centered, WHO-ICF, interdisciplinary health care team practice will be used as the model for intervention. Roles for clinicians to influence health and social policy will be considered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: SPPA or SLHS 6430 and SPPA or SLHS 6460.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6480 - Culturally Responsive Practices in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
This graduate seminar is designed to support and present the most current research literature on the development of culturally responsive practices for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, facilitating the ability to provide effective services in an increasingly globalized world. Seminar participants will apply critical analysis to theoretical foundations and established practices in the field, explain the implications of macro-level contexts (history, economics, politics, and culture) for reciprocal and collaborative family/patient centered services, and redesign current “best practices” to be more culturally competent and globally responsible.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6530 - Diagnosis and Appraisal
The student is instructed in methods and procedures for evaluation of speech and language disorders.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6560 - Dysphagia
This course concerns swallowing disorders in infants, young children, and adults. It aims to establish a solid academic knowledge base in dysphagia, following the guidelines published by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The course emphasizes understanding of the processes involved in swallowing in the normal population, the etiologies/symptomatology of swallowing disorders, evaluation and differential diagnosis of dysphagia, and management of dysphagia. Issues related to risk management, interdisciplinary team intervention, and family/caregiver education are also discussed.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6570 - Disordered Language Development
Procedures and techniques for the identification, diagnosis, and clinical management of developmental disorders of language are explored intensively in this course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 6690 - Ethics, Counseling and Professionalism
Professional and philosophical questions are analyzed as they apply to the contemporary practice of speech-language pathology and audiology. Approaches to counseling clients and their families are addressed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
When Offered: Summer
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SLHS 6700 - Clinical Practicum
Supervised clinical experience in the evaluation and/or management of speech, language and/or hearing disorders.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only. Credit/No Credit only.
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SLHS 6710 - School Internship in Speech-Language Pathology
This is a 10 week intensive speech-language pathology practicum in the school setting for students seeking endorsement as Teachers of Speech-Language Impaired in the state of Michigan or teacher certification in other states requiring school speech-language therapy internships.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 6 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application, approval from department and Graduate College.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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SLHS 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 12 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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STAT 5610 - Applied Multivariate Statistical Methods
An applied treatment of multivariate procedures is presented. Classical procedures such as Hotelling’s T-squared methods are discussed for the one and two sample problems and MANOVA for standard designs. Topics that will be accentuated are principal components, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, and factor analysis. Emphasis will be on graphical methods and applications.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640 and a course in linear algebra.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5630 - Sample Survey Methods
This course consists of a broad overview of the techniques of survey data collection and analysis and contains a minimum of theory. Topics may include: simple random, stratified, systematic, single-stage cluster, and two-stage cluster sampling; ratio and regression estimation; subpopulation analyses; problems of nonresponse; surveys of sensitive issues; minimization of survey costs; sample size determination. Real surveys are discussed and actual survey data are analyzed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640 and instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5660 - Nonparametric Statistical Methods
This course presents a broad overview of statistical methods commonly referred to as nonparametric or distribution-free methods. Topics include: inferences for proportions, contingency tables, goodness of fit problems, estimation and hypothesis testing based on ranking methods, measures of rank correlation, efficiency. Emphasis will be on the application of nonparametric statistical methods to data from many different applied fields.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5670 - Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments
A course in experimental design and the analysis of variance with particular emphasis on industrial experiments. Topics include: completely randomized, randomized complete block, Latin square, and split-plot designs; orthogonal contrasts and polynomials; multiple comparisons; factorial arrangement of treatments; confounding; fractional replication. This course is molded around the complete analysis of good applied problems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5680 - Regression Analysis
An applied course in regression analysis: simple and multiple linear regression; resolution of fit of a model, including residual analysis, precision of estimation, and tests of general hypotheses; model building; step-wise regression; use of indicator variables; non-linear regression.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5820 - Time Series Analysis
The development and practical use of seasonal and non-seasonal ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) Box-Jenkins time series models is presented. Identification of correct time series models, estimation of model parameters, and diagnostic checks of identified models will be covered. The uses of these models for forecasting future trends and assessing interventions will be examined. Extensive data analysis using SAS, MINITAB, and Splus/R statistical packages are included. Topics include: regression time series models, autocorrelation, partial autocorrelation, Yule-Walker equations, differencing, stationarity, autocorrelation models, moving average models, seasonality, invertibility, and Box-Pierce tests.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 3640 and STAT 5680.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5850 - Applied Data Mining
Data mining can be described as the process of building models. For the development of models, the applied data mining course aims to go far beyond the classical statistical methods, such as linear regression. This course provides an applied overview to such modern non-linear methods as generalized additive models, decision trees, boosting, bagging and support vector machines as well as more classical linear approaches such as logistic regression, linear discriminant analysis, K-means clustering and nearest neighbors. Extensive data analyses are done using statistical programming R.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 5680 or STAT 6620 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5860 - Computer Based Data Analysis
Computer intensive statistical methods are discussed for a variety of statistical problems, including location problems, linear and nonlinear models, mixed models, and generalized linear models (glms). These analyses include bootstrapping and other resampling techniques, computational maximum likelihood procedures, and robust procedures. The course uses simulation procedures for various probability models. The software language R is used.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: (STAT 2600 or STAT 3640) and STAT 5680, with a grade of “B” or better in any prerequisite, or instructor’s approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5870 - Big Data Analysis Using Python
This course has three main goals: (i) students learn basic statistical programming in Python; (ii) students learn to use Python as a tool to effectively store, manipulate, and gain insight from data; (iii) students learn parallel and distributed computing with Python. The usefulness of Python for data science stems mainly from the large and active ecosystem of third-party packages. Therefore, students will also learn how to use popular packages: NumPy, Pandas, Scipy, Matplotlib, and Scikit-Learn.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 5850 or CS 5821, with a grade of “B” or better or instructor approval and a suitable laptop.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 5990 - Independent Study in Statistics
Advanced students with good scholastic records may elect to pursue independently the study of some topic having special interest for them. Topics are chosen and arrangements are made to suit the needs of each particular student.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of chairperson of department.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to upper level and graduate students.
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STAT 6020 - Quantitative Research Methods with Statistical Software
This is an introductory course where graduate students will gain understanding of statistical research methods. Topics include: Descriptive statistics, normal and binomial distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing for one- and two- sample problems, regression and correlation, simple analysis of variance models and categorical data analysis. Minitab software will be used for most computations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in statistics or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6030 - Fundamentals of Biostatistics
This course introduces students to statistical methods used in biomedical applications. Fundamental topics may include: basic probability, inference procedures for means and proportions, categorical data analysis, regression, analysis of variance, and nonparametric statistics. Biomedical subject matter may include: relative risk, odds ratio, diagnostic testing, bioequivalence, sequential testing, dose-response studies, and survival analysis. Emphasis will be placed on using statistical software for most of the computations and interpretation of results.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 2600 or STAT 3640 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6040 - Statistics for Epidemiology
Recent years, research in public and community health gains huge momentum. This course will cover the core concepts needed to understand, model, and interpret chronic and infectious disease risks in terms of risk factors. Topics include study design, prevalence and incidence, probability distributions, conditional probability, disease-exposure association, statistical significance, causal inference, regression analysis, exposure modeling, and structural equation models. Several interesting applications using real data will be discussed. R software will be used for computation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 2600 or STAT 3640 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6050 - Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
This course is designed to give an overview of the statistical issues and procedures in the various stages of drug development. Students will learn the fundamentals of design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 2600 or STAT 3640 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6120 - Data Analysis
Variation is the central concept of the course—how to understand it, what techniques to use, how to draw conclusions from data and evaluate the strength of such conclusions. Emphasis will be placed on graphical methods, simulations, computer usage, sampling, and experience with real data from the world around us and from experiments. Statistical thinking will be stressed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Advisor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course is primarily for teachers and ordinarily will not apply towards the Master of Arts in Mathematics. Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6350 - Spatial Statistics
Spatial statistical techniques are used to model complex phenomena in geosciences, climate and weather sciences, environmental and social sciences, economics, image analysis, etc. Statistical analyses of geostatistical data, lattice data, and point patterns will be discussed. Topics include variogram, kriging, Markov random fields, intensity functions, Boolean models, analysis of remote sensing data, hierarchical models, and space-time models. For computation WINBUGS, R, and Matlab software will be used.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 6600 and STAT 6620 with grades of “B” or better, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
When Offered: Every other Spring.
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STAT 6450 - Applied Bayesian Statistics
Bayesian statistical techniques play a pivotal role in applied research today. Topics include various loss functions and optimal estimators, Bayes factor, hierarchical models, Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation, robust Bayesian analysis, and non-parametric and semi-parametric Bayesian methods. Several interesting applications will be discussed from climate and weather sciences, medical and biological sciences, and machine learning and pattern recognition. For computation WINBUGS, R, and Matlab softwares will be used.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6600 with a grade of “B” or better, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6460 - Large Sample Theory
Asymptotic theory is to provide simple approximations to quantities or distributions which are very difficult or impossible to obtain exactly. This course covers four kinds of convergence - almost sure convergence, convergence in probability, L^P convergence, and convergence in distributions. Applications of the theory will be discussed in the area of maximum likelihood estimation, confidence intervals, statistical hypothesis tests and power calculation, and nonparametric estimation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6600 with a grade of “B” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
When Offered: Every other Fall.
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STAT 6500 - Statistical Theory I
A first course in statistical theory. Topics include random variables, distributions of statistics, limiting distributions, and elementary theory of estimation and hypothesis testing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2300 and STAT 3640, with a grade of “C” or better in all prerequisites.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6600 - Statistical Theory II
An advanced course in statistical theory. Topics include measures of quality of estimators, theories of estimation, functions of sufficient statistics, confidence intervals, theories of testing, likelihood ratio tests, and selected topics in statistics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6500
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6610 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis
A theoretical treatment of multivariate statistical problems and techniques. Topics include: multivariate normal distribution; quadratic forms; multiple and partial correlation; sample correlation coefficients; Hotelling’s statistic; Wishart distribution; applications to tests of the mean vector and covariance matrix; principal components; factor analysis; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6630
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6620 - Applied Linear Models
An advanced course in applied statistics. Linear models will be used to treat a wide range of regression and analysis of variance methods. Topics include: matrix review; multiple, curvilinear, nonlinear, and stepwise regression; correlation; residual analysis; model building; use of the regression computer packages at WMU; use of indicator variables for analysis of variance and covariance models.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2300 and STAT 3640.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6630 - Linear Models
A theoretical study of the general linear model including random vectors, quadratic forms, multivariate normal distributions, least squares estimation, hypothesis testing for full and reduced models, generalized inverses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: STAT 6600 and STAT 6620.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6640 - Applied Mixed Models
An applied course in the mixed models analyses. Topics include: introduction to mixed models, examples of mixed models in some design experiments, repeated measures data analysis, introduction to generalized linear mixed models.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6620
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6650 - Advanced Statistical Inference
Theories of statistical inference are discussed. Topics include (but not limited to) asymptotic theory, sufficiency, maximum likelihood methodology, Bayesian procedures, robust procedures, nonparametriecs, resampling, and asymptotic efficiency.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6600
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6660 - Advanced Nonparametric Statistical Methods
A theoretical study of nonparametric statistics and robust statistical procedures. Topics may include: order statistics, empirical cdfs, R-estimates, rank statistics, optimality considerations, asymptotic distribution theory.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 6600
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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STAT 6670 - Introduction to Random Processes
This course is a treatment of random sequences and Markov processes. Discrete and continuous Markov processes; transition and rate matrices; Chapman-Kolmogrov systems; transient and limiting behavior; examples and illustrations; random walks, birth-and-death processes, etc.; stationary processes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: STAT 5600 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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