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Program Requirements
Required Courses (9 credits)
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EDPE 575 Educational Measurement (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Statistical measurements in education, graphs, charts, frequency distributions, central tendencies, dispersion, correlation, and sampling errors.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Gomez-Garibello, Carlos (Fall) Hoover, Michael L (Winter) Muis, Krista (Summer)
Offered through Continuing Education and Summer Studies.
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EDPE 602 Uses of Research Findings in Education (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Basic concepts of educational research for the student who is likely to be a regular consumer of research but only an occasional generator of research and will be able to use common tools of information retrieval.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Hoover, Michael L (Fall) Jazvac Martek, Marian (Winter)
Pre-/Co-requisite: EDPE 575 or equivalent.
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EDPE 635 Theories of Learning and Instruction (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An analysis of the relationship between theory and research about learning and teaching from a historical perspective.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Hall, Nathan (Fall) Hall, Nathan (Winter)
Complementary Courses (27 credits)
Students select 27 credits from one of the following streams: Learning Sciences Stream, Family Life Stream, Inclusive Education Stream, General Educational Psychology Stream.
Note: Admission to the Family Life Stream is currently suspended.
Learning Sciences Stream
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EDPE 535 Instructional Design (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : This course draws on the fields of learning theory, developmental psychology, and measurement to focus on the tasks of constructing instructional materials. Areas to be considered include behaviour analysis, concept formation, and test construction.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Gebre, Engida (Winter)
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EDPE 550 Consciousness and Virtual Reality (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An exploration of the nature and role of consciousness from the virtual reality research perspective, and the implications of virtual reality and cyberspace in education.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDPE 650.
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EDPE 555 Applied Cognitive Science (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Examination of foundations of cognitive science including contributions by psychology, linguistics, and computer science. Consideration of theory and methodology or cognitive science in educational and instructional contexts.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Breuleux, Alain (Fall)
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EDPE 561 Artificial Intelligence in Education (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An exploration of the principles of artificial intelligence as a metaphor for understanding conventional instructional and learning-processes. Topics include expert systems, intelligent computer-assisted instruction, tutoring systems, fifth-generation languages, and logic programming (e.g. Prolog). Lectures, discussion, demonstrations, and where possible site visits and hands-on experience will be provided.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDPE 660.
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EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research methods and designs, planning and evaluating research, relations between research and statistical designs, interdisciplinary and nonquantitative approaches, meta-analysis, and the use of computers beyond computation. Ethics, scholarly writing.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Shaw, Steven (Winter)
Corequisite: EDPE 676
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EDPE 635 Theories of Learning and Instruction (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An analysis of the relationship between theory and research about learning and teaching from a historical perspective.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Hall, Nathan (Fall) Hall, Nathan (Winter)
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EDPE 636 Classroom Processes - Social (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Instructional or environmental effects on learning and their implications for educational practice, with particular emphasis on such topics as the social psychology of learning, family background and effects, classroom interaction, teacher impact, and ethnographic and survey approaches to their study.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Hall, Nathan (Winter)
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EDPE 640 Research in Computer Applications (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Recent research findings on applications of the computer to educational and psychological issues. Research paradigms. The use of the computer as an object of research as well as a research tool in education. Future directions in research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPE 641 Use of Computer in Educational Instruction (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Computer-assisted, -aided, and -managed instruction. Direct experience with remote-access terminals and micro-computers, and the writing, preparation and developmental testing of instructional sequences, in computerized form. Parts of this course are presented in computerized mode.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPE 648 Instructional Psychology Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Theoretical, methodological, and empirical bases of research in instructional processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPE 655 Learning Science Research Seminar (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Seminar treating current issues in theory, research and methodology in the learning sciences.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P; Azevedo, Roger (Fall)
Prerequisite: EDPE 666 - Foundations of Learning Science or permission of instructor. Prerequisites cannot be taken at the same time as this course.
Restrictions: The content of course is sufficiently different to benefit those students who would wish to take the course again.
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EDPE 661 Discourse Processes (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Structure and function of discourse processes. Topics include language acquisition, syntactic and semantic processes, text comprehension, spoken versus written discourse, classroom discourse, narrative discourse, literary discourse, computational discourse, and an overview of methods for discourse analysis.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPE 663 Learning Environments and Processes (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research on natural and designed contexts to support learning and development of expertise: social and cognitive processes underlying effective participation and learning in collaborative learning environments including those mediated by technology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPE 664 Expertise, Reasoning and Problem Solving (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Current research on the development of expertise, problem solving, and reasoning in formal and informal educational settings, exploring cognitive, interpersonal, and socio-cultural dimensions. Introduction to methodologies for analyzing data related to cognitive processes.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Azevedo, Roger (Winter)
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EDPE 666 Foundations of Learning Science (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : An introduction to theory and research pertaining to the interdisciplinary study of the learning sciences. Focuses on cognitive-psychological and social-psychological foundations of human leaning, as well as on the design of learning environments.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Lajoie, Susanne P (Fall)
Prerequisites: A 500- or 600-level graduate course in cognitive or instructional psychology or permission of instructor
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EDPE 697 Special Activity 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology)
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
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EDPE 698 Special Activity 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A project relevant to improving educational practice. It may be an internship, a research project, or an innovation in teaching, supervised by the student's advisor and with the approval of the department. It is completed by the submission of a project report, monograph, or production. For M.Ed. students only.
Terms: Winter 2012, Fall 2011
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Winter) Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
Family Life Stream
Note: Admission to this stream is currently suspended
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EDPC 501 Helping Relationships (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : A course in the basic principles of human relationships and communication skills, approached from a theoretical and experimental viewpoint. An emphasis will be given to training in basic listening skills, interviewing techniques, and the interpretation of non-verbal behaviour and communication.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Bernardelli, Antonio (Fall)
Offered through Continuing Studies
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EDPC 502 Group Processes and Individuals (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : A laboratory course in which participants observe individual dynamics within a group setting as well as understand the developmental phases of the group. Participants will be encouraged to experiment with their own behaviour, in order to increase their own awareness of functioning.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Oala, Monica (Fall)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPC 503 Human Sexuality: Professionals (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Historical, biological, anthropological, psychological and sociological perspectives of human sexual development. Sexual dysfunctions and approaches to sex therapy. Attitudes toward sexuality held by professional helpers relative to their implications for the learning and teaching of human sexuality and sex therapy.
Terms: Summer 2012
Instructors: Mitelman, Stephanie A (Summer)
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EDPC 504 Practicum: Interviewing Skills (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : This course will enable students to become practitioners in the field of Applied Social Sciences. Theoretical principles of the helping relationship will be applied in particular situations. Demonstration, lecture, role-playing and psychodrama techniques will be used.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Bernardelli, Antonio (Winter)
Offered through Continuing Studies
Prerequisite: EDPC 501
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EDPC 505 Crisis Intervention Processes (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Instruction in the skills of working with crisis situations involving persons emotionally disturbed, suicidal, or alcoholic, and those who are on drugs or experiencing emotional trauma, as well as other problems. Attention will be given to identification of referral sources and the writing of reports.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Peternelli, Loris (Fall)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPC 507 Practicum: Group Leadership Skills (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : The practical aspects of group leadership, group design and planning. Candidates will set up groups, conduct such groups over a number of sessions, and assess these groups according to the theoretical models covered in the prerequisite course.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Oala, Monica (Winter)
Offered through Continuing Education.
Prerequisite: EDPC 502
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EDPC 508 Seminar in Special Topics (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : Content will vary from year to year and will be announced prior to registration. The seminar may be given by a single instructor or by a group, as the occasion warrants.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Offered through Summer Studies.
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EDPC 509 Individual Reading Course (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling)
Terms: Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Sinacore, Ada L (Winter) Drapeau, Martin; Ruglis, Jessica (Summer)
Restriction: Permission of Program Director required
By arrangement with individual instructor.
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EDPC 510 Family Life Education and Marriage (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : The contribution of central concepts of psychological theories and therapeutic systems to the understanding of marriage and relationships. Special attention will be given to gender and ethnicity issues in order to increase the sensitivity of students to the issues typically confronted in the modern marriage and family.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Oala, Monica (Winter)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPC 540 Foundation of Family Life Education (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Counselling) : An examination of the psychological and sociological foundations of family life education tracing the evolution of theory, research and practice within this domain.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Oala, Monica (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDPC 640
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPE 560 Human Development (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A review of current theory and knowledge of human development through the life cycle. Particular attention is given to emotional and social development. All major age-stages are considered. Emphasis is placed on the effects of interaction between individuals of these different age groupings.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Glen Soles, Tamara Lisa (Winter)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPE 564 Family Communication (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Family communication processes and interpersonal reactions in the context of marriage and the contemporary family will be considered. Attention will be given to role changes and the effect of crises on marital and family relationships.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- May be offered through Summer Studies
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EDPE 595 Seminar in Special Topics (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : The content of the seminar will vary from year to year and will be announced prior to registration. The seminar may be given by a single instructor or by a group, as the occasion warrants.
Terms: Summer 2012
Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Summer)
Restriction: Permission must be obtained from the Department before registration.
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EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research methods and designs, planning and evaluating research, relations between research and statistical designs, interdisciplinary and nonquantitative approaches, meta-analysis, and the use of computers beyond computation. Ethics, scholarly writing.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Shaw, Steven (Winter)
Corequisite: EDPE 676
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EDPE 697 Special Activity 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology)
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
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EDPE 698 Special Activity 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A project relevant to improving educational practice. It may be an internship, a research project, or an innovation in teaching, supervised by the student's advisor and with the approval of the department. It is completed by the submission of a project report, monograph, or production. For M.Ed. students only.
Terms: Winter 2012, Fall 2011
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Winter) Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
Inclusive Education Stream
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EDPE 595 Seminar in Special Topics (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : The content of the seminar will vary from year to year and will be announced prior to registration. The seminar may be given by a single instructor or by a group, as the occasion warrants.
Terms: Summer 2012
Instructors: Burack, Jacob A (Summer)
Restriction: Permission must be obtained from the Department before registration.
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EDPE 605 Research Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Research methods and designs, planning and evaluating research, relations between research and statistical designs, interdisciplinary and nonquantitative approaches, meta-analysis, and the use of computers beyond computation. Ethics, scholarly writing.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Shaw, Steven (Winter)
Corequisite: EDPE 676
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EDPE 697 Special Activity 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology)
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
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EDPE 698 Special Activity 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : A project relevant to improving educational practice. It may be an internship, a research project, or an innovation in teaching, supervised by the student's advisor and with the approval of the department. It is completed by the submission of a project report, monograph, or production. For M.Ed. students only.
Terms: Winter 2012, Fall 2011
Instructors: Shore, Bruce M (Winter) Shore, Bruce M (Fall)
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EDPI 526 Talented and Gifted Students (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : The psychology and education of exceptionally able children. Definitions, assessment, classroom adaptations, technology, educational programs and educational issues. The course combines theoretical background and practical concerns. Application component: application of teaching methods with exceptionally able students.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: French, Lisa Rebecca (Winter)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPI 527 Creativity and its Cultivation (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Recent research, theory, and educational practice concerning creativity, with special attention to creativity in students and educational settings.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Hoida, David (Fall)
Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPI 536 Practicum Gifted Education 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Supervised practice in demonstration classrooms for gifted and talented children, with supporting seminars.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
- Prerequisite: EDPI 526
- Normally available in July only during the Explorations Gifted Summer School
- Restriction: Permission to register is required from Explorations
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EDPI 537 Practicum Gifted Education 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Supervised practice in demonstration classrooms for gifted and talented children, with supporting seminars.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPI 539 Field Work 1: Exceptional Students (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Supervised experience with exceptional students in an approved educational setting.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee (Fall)
Restriction: Permission of Program Director required.
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EDPI 540 Field Work 2: Exceptional Students (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Supervised experience with exceptional students in an approved educational setting.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Heath, Nancy Lee (Fall) Heath, Nancy Lee (Winter) Heath, Nancy Lee (Summer)
Prerequisite: EDPI 539
Restriction: Permission of Program Director required.
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EDPI 628 Gifted Students: Special Needs (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Gifted, talented, and creative students with handicaps, disabilities, and other special needs which may or may not compromise their high abilities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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EDPI 642 Education of Learners/Special Needs 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Introduction to learners with different types of special needs. Emphasis on current research and practice of educating students with special needs.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Fall)
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EDPI 643 Education of Learners/Special Needs 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Contemporary issues in the education of students with special needs: assessment and identification; service delivery models; instructional methods; parent/professional relationships; research priorities; legislative policies; adult education; employment training.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Cohen-Gazith, Karen (Winter)
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EDPI 645 Diagnosis and Assessment in Special Education (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Purposes of diagnosis and assessment; formal and informal assessment procedures; issues in traditional testing procedures; emerging trends in assessment.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Savage, Robert (Winter)
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EDPI 654 Instruction/Curriculum Adaptation (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Adapting instruction and curriculum for students with special needs; developing individualized programs and methods; building curriculum that addresses both academic and social needs of students.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Ruglis, Jessica (Winter)
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EDPI 665 Research and Theory in Learning Disabilities (3 credits)
Overview
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive) : Review of recent research and literature in the field of learning disabilities; examination of research and theory as it relates to current practices.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Savage, Robert (Fall)
General Educational Psychology Stream
Courses to be taken from the list of courses in other streams or any 500-, 600-, or 700-level courses offered by the Department with the approval of the Program Director, from other departments.
Elective Courses (12 credits)
500-, 600-, or 700- level courses to be taken from courses offered by the Department or with approval or the Program Director, from other departments.
Faculty of Education—2011-2012 (last updated Aug. 17, 2011) (disclaimer)