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2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

EDIT - Educational Instructional Technology (Graduate Courses)
  

  • EDIT 5320 - Educational Network Applications

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides fundamental concepts of computer networking and knowledge of server-based applications for instructional settings. Emphasizes hands-on activities pertaining to installing and setting up server operating systems, content management systems, learning management systems and other related tools.
  

  • EDIT 5321 - Computer Programming for Educators

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Emphasizes understanding and skills pertaining to computer authoring programs through the development of interactive multimedia and hypermedia applications.
  

  • EDIT 5322 - Authoring Systems for Educational Software

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Covers visual design for learning and data visualization. Students acquire extensive knowledge of graphic design guidelines and create instructional visuals based on various principles and visual representation of massive data.
  

  • EDIT 5325 - Planning and Developing Instructional Media

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Production and use of visual instructional media. Includes visual design, photographic techniques, video production, and computer graphic presentations.
  

  • EDIT 5326 - Instructional Software Design

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth study of instructional software and e-learning application development. Focuses on principles and procedures for designing sound instructional software and online learning tools.
  

  • EDIT 5330 - Computers, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving in the Content Areas

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Surveys research and strategies for using computers to promote higher order thinking and problem solving in all content areas. Includes software identification, use, and evaluation.
  

  • EDIT 5341 - Curriculum Applications of the Internet

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines the theory and practice of teaching online courses in diverse educational settings. Emphasizes the design of instructional activities using online communication, collaboration, and assessment tools.
  

  • EDIT 5342 - Authoring Tools for Internet Instruction

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores web authoring tools with emphasis on using effective principles of instructional design to develop personal, professional, and educational websites.
  

  • EDIT 5370 - Foundations of Distance Education

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Overview of the field of distance education including history, research, technologies, and related design models.
  

  • EDIT 5380 - Principles and Practice for Video Based Distance Learning

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores emerging online learning technologies and video-based learning systems with emphasis on how these tools can be used to promote performance and learning.
  

  • EDIT 5390 - Online Distance Learning

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Covers the design and development of online courses and e-learning applications in K-12, adult, and higher education. Also covers instructional management and related issues.
  

  • EDIT 5395 - Administration of the Educational Technology Program

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Overview of the procedures in planning, administering, and evaluating instructional technology programs in both educational and corporate settings. Major topics include organization improvement plans, software evaluation, and project management.
  

  • EDIT 5397 - Practicum in Educational Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Students receive a supervised practicum experience in an educational setting requiring the application of competencies related to the design, development, implementation, management, and evaluation of instructional technologies.
  

  • EDIT 6317 - Advanced Instructional Design: Theory and Practice

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EDIT 5317  or EDCI 5310 . Explores the theory and practice of instructional design in-depth. Product development, research, and evaluation of instructional design models are included.
  

  • EDIT 6322 - Research in Instructional Technology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Minimum of 6 hrs in EDIT and B or better in 6 hrs of EPSY or instructor consent. Review of research on instructional technology, use of computers for research data analysis, and designing research on instructional technology.
  

  • EDIT 6325 - Multimedia Production for Instruction

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores a systematic procedure (analysis, design, development, and evaluation) for producing an online instructional unit based on an instructional design model. Emphasizes advanced development skills and in-depth understanding of instructional design models.
  

  • EDIT 6380 - Distance Education: Trends, Issues, Research

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Students will identify and evaluate relevant literature to synthesize theories, trends, issues, and concerns related to the field of instructional design and technology.
  

  • EDIT 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • EDIT 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours

EDLD - Educational Leadership (Graduate Courses)
  

  • EDLD 5001 - Advanced Education Workshops in Teaching and Administration

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Advanced workshop activities and experiences in administration. A maximum total of 6 hours of credit may be earned either simultaneously or in different semesters.
  

  • EDLD 5306 - School-Based Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines the major theories, concepts, and empirical findings related to school-based leadership.
  

  • EDLD 5310 - Instructional Supervision

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Principles, planning, organizations, and processes of supervision in both elementary and secondary schools, including TAP.
  

  • EDLD 5320 - Data-Driven Communication and Decision Making

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth exploration of the use of data and data communication strategies for decision making by principals.
  

  • EDLD 5325 - Decision Making in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth exploration of decision making within the context of school leadership. Explores the irrationality of decision making, the role of emotion, heuristics and biases, and decision making under uncertainty, which includes bounded rationality.
  

  • EDLD 5330 - Staff Development

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Principles and procedures of organizing programs of school improvement through comprehensive and ongoing staff development.
  

  • EDLD 5340 - Educational Law

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the legal aspects of educational organizations, focusing on the school building level and emphasizing the rights and responsibilities of students, teachers, and administrators. (AGED 5340)
  

  • EDLD 5350 - School Personnel and Fiscal Management

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to the concepts of fiscal and human resource management with an emphasis on site-based decision making.
  

  • EDLD 5351 - Communication for School Leaders

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study and application of interpersonal communication theory and research as related to organizational, social, and environmental contexts. Individual conferencing, informational and employment interviewing, and group dynamics are included.
  

  • EDLD 5361 - Process of Educational Change

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A study of the knowledge base of change management in education. Application of the cognitive understandings to national change models and local settings.
  

  • EDLD 5370 - Implementation Challenges in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Involves students in implementation challenges in their internship school. Working with host ISD administration, students focus on how to implement change and overcome implementation challenges through instructional leadership, data-driven leadership, communications, etc.
  

  • EDLD 5381 - School District Resource Management

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to superintendent certification program. Critical analysis of the business services of school districts, emphasizing planning, budgeting, resource management, fiscal operations, and accountability.
  

  • EDLD 5385 - Teams in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth application of how principals form teams, work as team members, lead teams that result in building relationships that achieve results, and manage people/processes and climate.
  

  • EDLD 5391 - School and Community

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores the development of collaborative culture at school, enlist community support, and form partnerships with businesses, universities, and parents. Addresses improved communication among increasingly diverse members of the school staff, parents, students, community members, and media. (AGED 5391 )
  

  • EDLD 5392 - Principal Internship in Education

    V3-6 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: The internship can only be taken as the final course in the principal certification program. Guided experiences in principalship. May be repeated for credit with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  

  • EDLD 5394 - Superintendent Internship in Education

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to superintendent certification program. Guided experiences in central office administration under the supervision and direction of a central office administrator and a university professor. The internship can only be taken as the final course in the superintendent’s certification program.
  

  • EDLD 6001 - Advanced Study of Special Topics in Educational Administration

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and admission to doctoral program. An organized course to foster in-depth study of a current topic in Educational Leadership. Course work will focus on one major current topic. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • EDLD 6300 - Organizational Theory in Education

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Theories and paradigms to determine implications for theory development, for research activities, and for practical applications.
  

  • EDLD 6301 - EC-12 Learning and Performance in District Organizations

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth application of how senior executive leadership and campus leaders improve school district performance by analyzing the role of leadership as it influences student achievement.
  

  • EDLD 6305 - Social Justice Leadership Praxis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines complex challenges school leaders face in addressing inequitable educational outcomes experienced by marginalized children and youth in K-12 school systems.
  

  • EDLD 6307 - Inquiry I: Designing Problem-Based Research in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Knowledge and skill development in conceptualizing and designing problem-based inquiry in PreK-12 school district settings.
  

  • EDLD 6308 - Inquiry II: Designing Problem-Based Research in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Applied skill development experiences in designing, conducting, and evaluating problem-based inquiry in PreK-12 school district settings.
  

  • EDLD 6310 - Educational Leadership Ethics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Exploration of philosophical platforms, ethical/intuitive decision-making processes, secular ethics, and the interplay between cultural and personal value shifts that impact educational leadership.
  

  • EDLD 6312 - Issues in Educational Leadership: Accountability

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines processes of evaluating K-12 school and district performance using student and campus performance measures.
  

  • EDLD 6314 - Issues in Educational Leadership: Curriculum, Assessment and Interventions

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides practicing educational leaders with knowledge and applicable skills for leading critical improvements in curriculum, assessment, and intervention.
  

  • EDLD 6316 - Leadership for School Reform

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Explores the future of school reform through examining state and federal efforts to bring about system change in the American public education system.
  

  • EDLD 6321 - Educational Finance

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. The development and content of public school finance policy in the United States focusing on the fiscal, political, legal, and economic and normative dimensions.
  

  • EDLD 6330 - Educational Leadership, Democracy, and Schools

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Exploration of democratic principles, philosophy, and past and present cultural influences on our democracy and schools.
  

  • EDLD 6340 - Educational Policy and the Law

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. The interplay of the law and public policy emphasizing the relationship between legal decisions and educational practices from the perspectives of the governing board and central administration.
  

  • EDLD 6341 - Legal Issues With Special Populations

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EDLD 5340  or consent of instructor. Prepare educational leaders for legislative and litigating aspects of working with special populations.
  

  • EDLD 6351 - Organizational Communication in Education

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. The study of organizational communication theory and research as related to theoretical issues, environments, and patterns in education. Organizational communication methodology and process are included.
  

  • EDLD 6361 - Doctoral Seminar in Educational Administration

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Advanced analysis and synthesis of research and practice concerning problems and issues in educational leadership. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • EDLD 6381 - Development of Human Capital and Resources

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines strategic efforts to lead human capital and the effective management of resources in K-12 schools to meet the needs of district improvement work.
  

  • EDLD 6385 - Research in Educational Administration

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Survey of educational leadership research focusing on contemporary issues, techniques in research design and methodology (qualitative and quantitative), and grantsmanship.
  

  • EDLD 6392 - Doctoral Internship in Educational Leadership

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program and consent of instructor. The application of reflective practice to problems of leadership in a school setting. Expert practitioners and University professors coach students through a process of thinking about the definition and solution of problems as they develop and test plans for action.
  

  • EDLD 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • EDLD 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours

EDLL - Language Literacy Education (Undergraduate Courses)
  

  • EDLL 2300 - Early Literacy in the School Setting

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Focuses on understanding and implementing instructional practices for preschool children’s early literacy development with classrooms and community agencies as the contexts for service-learning. Fulfills multicultural requirement.
  

  • EDLL 3350 - Children’s Literature

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Texts appropriate for children under 15, including standards of evaluation and criteria for selection. Includes field experiences.
  

  • EDLL 3351 - Foundations of Reading Instruction

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Overview of reading development, methods of reading instruction, scope and sequence of programs. Field-based course.
  

  • EDLL 3352 - Language Literacy Acquisition

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of the acquisition and development of language learning; study of curriculum, instruction, and exemplary classroom practices that foster literacy development. Field-based course. (CL)
  

  • EDLL 3353 - Reading at the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Selection of materials and methods for understanding and developing reading requirements, skills, and strategies for middle level students in grades 4-8. Field experiences required.
  

  • EDLL 3354 - Reading Processes and Practices at the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Overview of reading development, methods of reading instruction, and sequence of instruction for the middle-level classroom.
  

  • EDLL 4349 - Adolescent Literature

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of classic and current adolescent literature, selection of materials, and methods for use in middle and secondary level classrooms. Field experiences required.
  

  • EDLL 4350 - Linguistics for the Classroom

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Students will explore language development from a linguistic perspective that recognizes implications for professional teaching practice.
  

  • EDLL 4351 - Foundations in Reading for English Language Learners

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Evaluation and reflections of second-language literacy by examining its philosophy, theory, and examples of classroom-based practices.
  

  • EDLL 4380 - Literacy in the Content Areas

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Understanding literacy in the content areas and planning instruction to promote content learning. Field experiences required.
  

  • EDLL 4381 - Literacy in the Content Areas for Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Understanding literacy in the content areas and planning instruction to promote learning of students in grades 4-8.
  

  • EDLL 4382 - Adolescents, Multiliteracies, and Content Area Learning

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Developing literacy practices to learn in content area disciplines aimed at grades 8-12.

EDLL - Language Literacy Education (Graduate Courses)
  

  • EDLL 5340 - Literacy Acquisition Process and Pedagogy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Psychological and research bases of reading instruction. A foundations course.
  

  • EDLL 5341 - Developing Academic Literacy in the Disciplines for Adolescents

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Reading and writing to learn in content area disciplines intended for secondary students in grades 8-12.
  

  • EDLL 5342 - Classroom-Based Literacy Assessment for Differentiated Instruction

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines the use of both formal and informal assessment measures as a means to provide information useful for evaluating student performance and planning instruction.
  

  • EDLL 5343 - Practicum in Literacy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Provides an opportunity to work in instructional settings to assist children in their reading development. Student achievement is considered through instructional strategies and assessment procedures.
  

  • EDLL 5344 - Content Area Literacy Methods for Primary and Elementary Literacy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theoretical and research bases, issues, strategies, and methods related to learning from print in all content fields.
  

  • EDLL 5345 - Emergent and Early Literacy Development and Pedagogy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theoretical bases, procedures, techniques, and materials for early literacy instruction.
  

  • EDLL 5346 - Increasing Reading Proficiency for All Readers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines a constructivist framework as a foundation for understanding language and literacy development in elementary classrooms.
  

  • EDLL 5348 - Applied Linguistics and the Teaching of Literacy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A study of reading as communication with applications of linguistics to the reading classroom.
  

  • EDLL 5350 - Developing Traditional and New Literacies in Elementary Settings

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Applications of research findings and modern theory to teaching and organizing the language arts in the elementary school.
  

  • EDLL 5351 - Children’s Literature in the School Curriculum

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Literature for children in elementary and middle school; selection, use and organization. Includes nonprint media. Appropriate for English or language arts majors.
  

  • EDLL 5353 - Studies in Gender, Literacies, and Adolescence

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Investigation into current research concerned with the intersecting discourses of gender and adolescent’s literacy practices.
  

  • EDLL 5355 - Creating Writing-Centered Classrooms

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Application of in-depth studies of research and instructional practices in the teaching of writing to guide development of effective writing programs.
  

  • EDLL 5356 - Trends and Issues in Adolescent Literacy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Investigation of current problems, trends, and issues in the teaching adolescent readers in middle and secondary schools. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • EDLL 5366 - Teaching Developmental Readers Adolescent to Adult

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Examines current research and theories concerned with effective literacy instruction for developmental readers.
  

  • EDLL 5393 - Internship in Literacy Education

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Advanced graduate classification in education. Experiences in the various roles of language literacy education.
  

  • EDLL 6000 - Master’s Thesis

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • EDLL 6341 - Trends and Issues in Literacy Pedagogy and Research

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of selected problems, trends, and issues related to literacy teaching and learning. Topics will vary. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
  

  • EDLL 6344 - Content Area Literacy Policies and Research

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An in-depth study of trends and issues in content area literacy instruction in elementary and secondary schools. Designed especially for in-service teachers.
  

  • EDLL 6349 - Adolescent Literature

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Study of current literature for middle and secondary level students (grades 7-12); selection of material and strategies appropriate for adolescents.
  

  • EDLL 6351 - Critical Studies in Literature

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    In-depth studies of research and instructional practices pertaining to children’s literature. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • EDLL 6353 - Investigating Theoretical Models of Literacy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theoretical bases and research perspectives on literacy learning and instruction. An in-depth analysis of historically important research.
  

  • EDLL 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • EDLL 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours

EDML - Education Middle Level (Undergraduate Courses)
  

  • EDML 3252 - Assessment for Middle-Level Educators

    2 Semester Credit Hours
    Focuses on understanding the purposes and practices of assessment in the middle-level classroom. Teacher candidates examine ways to assess learning formatively and summatively. They collect, manage, and analyze data to guide instructional decisions.
  

  • EDML 3320 - Middle-Level Curriculum and Philosophy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An overview of sociological, historical, and philosophical foundations of the middle school movement. Focus is on unique characteristics of a middle school interdisciplinary curriculum and instruction. Field experience required. (CL)
  

  • EDML 3361 - Teaching Social Studies at the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Social studies curriculum principles and development, organization of materials, instructional techniques, and evaluation process unique to middle level social studies. Field experience required.
  

  • EDML 3370 - Teaching Mathematics at the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Emphasizes the content, learning and instruction, assessment, and professional development in teaching middle-school mathematics. Field experience required.
  

  • EDML 3375 - Teaching Science at the Middle Level I

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    A field-based course emphasizing teaching methods and techniques, lesson organization, assessment, and classroom management. Field experience required.
  

  • EDML 4000 - Student Teaching Middle Level

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Attainment of admission standards to student teaching. Supervised teaching involving a period of major responsibility for instruction and learning in a middle level classroom of an accredited school. (CL)
  

  • EDML 4230 - Capstone for Middle-Level Teachers

    2 Semester Credit Hours
    Focuses on teacher effectiveness in instruction, skills in classroom management, reflective practices from real-life situations in student teaching, and becoming a professional educator.
  

  • EDML 4325 - Classroom Organization and Management for the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Emphasizes theories of teaching and learning with a focus on classroom organization and management techniques for grades 4-8. Accompanies student teaching.
  

  • EDML 4362 - Interdisciplinary Language Arts and Social Studies Methods at the Middle Level

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Content, instructional strategies, and technologies for middle school English language arts and social studies with emphasis on integration through interdisciplinary projects. Field experience required.
 

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