INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM /123 ESI 6547-Stochastic Systems Analysis II (3) Prereq: ESI 6546. TheWiener process. Diffusion processes.TheFokker-Planckequa- tion. Diffusion approximations. Multidimensional renewal pro- cesses. Selected applications. ESI 6585C-Robot Programming and Applications (3) Prereq:ESI 3154 or4161. Thorough coverage of high level robotic language. Robot classification. Applications of robotics in manufacturing. Laboratory projects with industrial robots. ESI 6912-Advanced Topics in ISE (1-4; max: 8) Prereq: consent of instructor. Course work in specialized topics for graduate students. INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM College of Education GRADUATE FACULTY 1992-93 Chair: M. C. Mahlios. Graduate Coordinator: R. Weade. Professors: R. A. Blume (Emeritus); E. J. Bolduc, Jr.; G. D. Carr; J. D. Casteel; R. Crews (Emeritus); M. Early (Emeritus); H. T. Fillmer; J. W. Gregory; C. L. Hallman; S. 0. Johnson; E. L. Kantowski;J. J. Koran, Jr.; L. L. Lamme; M. C. Mahlios; V. McGuire (Emeritus); B. F. Nelms; L. C. Oberlin; W. R. Powell; D. D. Ross; M. B. Rowe; E. A. Todd; E. L. Williams (Emeritus). Associate Professors: D. H. Bernard; L. L. Cronin- Jones; R. C. Ferguson (Emeritus); C. A. Henderson (Emeri- tus); N. L. Hoover;J. A. Hurt;A. E. Morgan; L.J. Mullally;A. P. Newcomb, Jr. (Emeritus); A. B. Packer (Emeritus); J. J. Shea (Emeritus); E. C. Turner; R. Weade; R. G. Wright. Assistant Professors: E. Bondy; J. Comas; L. Hartle; M. Mahlios. The Department offers programs leading to the Master of Education (nonthesis) and Master of Arts in Education (thesis) in curriculum and instruction (with emphasis in educational media and instructional design, middle school education, or English speakers of other languages), early childhood education, elementary education, English edu- cation, foreign language education, mathematics educa- tion, reading education, science education, and social studies education. Proteach prepares secondary teachers who have completed the bachelor's degree in the discipline they will teach and elementary teachers who have com- pleted the Department's undergraduate elementary educa- tion program. The standard master's is designed forteachers who are already certified. The Department also offers the Specialist in Education, Doctor of Education, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in curriculum and instruction with specializations in the afore- mentioned areas plus business education, instructional computing, and physical education. Beyond the Graduate School and College of Education admission requirements, students should have previous preparation appropriate to the program being pursued. Students having deficiencies in their previous preparation will be required to follow a program to remove such deficiencies. In addition to the graduate courses in Instruction and Curriculum described in this section the following courses in related areas are acceptable for graduate credit as part of the student's major: EDF 6113-Educational Psychology: Human Development; EDF 6175-Educational Psychol- ogy:Adulthood; EDF 6215-Educational Psychology: Learn- ing Theory; EDF 6436-Theory of Measurement; EDF 6487-Assessment of Classroom Behavior; EDF 6520- History of Education; EDF 6544-Philosophical Founda- tions of Education; EDF 6630-Sociology of Education; EDF 6712-Comparative Education; EDG 6250-The School Curriculum; EDG 7222-Curriculum Theory and Research. Students may not enroll for more than one special topics course within the same semester. General Courses ECO 6075-Economics/Consumer Education (3) Objectives, content, resource materials, and methods of teaching economic/ consumer education in the elementary and secondary schools. EDG 6691-Problems in Curriculum and Instruction (2-10; max: 10) Topics not available in regularly listed courses. For credit institutes, workshops, and short credit courses. EDG 6705-The Education of Culturally Disadvantaged Chil- dren and Youths (3) Curriculum content and procedures pertinent to educational needs. EDG 6910-Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U. EDG 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U. EDG 7941-Field Experience in Curriculum and Instruction (1- 4; max: 10) Admission limited to advanced graduate students. Supervised experiences appropriate to the student's professional goals. EDG 7979-Advanced Research (1-9) Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy. S/U. EDG 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U. Early Childhood Education EEC 5944-Laboratory in Nursery-Kindergarten Teaching I (3) Prereq: consent of instructor and teaching experience. EEC 5945-Laboratory in Nursery-Kindergarten Teaching II (3) Prereq or coreq: EEC 5944 or consent of instructor and teaching experience. EEC 6205-Early Childhood Curriculum (3) Students will de- velop and/or implement instructional strategies consistent with their personal philosophies of earlychildhood education. Open to majors and nonmajors seeking introductory knowledge of the field. EEC 6304-Creativity in the Early Childhood Curriculum (3) Techniques for teaching all areas of the early childhood curricu- lum so that these areas may be learned more creatively. EEC 6525-Day Care for Young Children (3) The background curriculum, organization, staffing, training of staff, parent educa- tion and involvement, funding, and research of day care. EEC 6615-Early Childhood Education: Background and Con- cepts (3) Trends in the teaching of nursery and kindergarten children as shown in past and current educational theory. EEC 6946-Practicum in Early Childhood Education (1-6; max: 11) Supervised experience in a variety of early childhood settings with weekly seminars. EEC 6947-Practicum in Parent Education (1-6; max: 11) Super- vised experience in a variety of parent education program settings with weekly seminars. EEC 7932-Seminar in Early Childhood Education (1-6; max: 6) Open to advanced graduate students. Educational Media and Instructional Design EME 5403-Instructional Computing I (3) Prereq: COP 3210. Use of computers in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Development of software for school settings. Review of commer- cial courseware. Study of BASIC will be extended through use of random and sequential files. EME 5404-Instructional Computing II (3) Prereq: EDG 5403. Use and development of computer assisted instruction in school settings. A study of computer authoring languages with major emphasis on the PILOT language. EME 6115-Selection of Print and Nonprint Materials (3) Prereq: