English Department

• 443G (cross-listed with LLA 443G)
  Creative Uses of Literature for Children and Young Adults. (3) Presents the development of effective programs in informal and formalized interpretive experiences for children and young adults, emphasizing individual creativity and sources for materials.  Prerequisite: LS 313 or permission of the instructor.

• 480G Computers and Writing. (3) Practice and study of computer-mediated communication. File management, word processing, networked communication, hypertext, and other current applications. Prerequisites: ENG 180 and 280.

• 574 New Media Studies. (3) Theory and/or production of new media, visual arts, and the notion of novelty and newness itself, drawing from theory in English studies and media studies. Relation of new media to English studies.
• 22 Internship. (1–3, repeatable to 3) Supervised applied experience at a work site inside or outside the Department of English and Journalism. Graded S/U. Prerequisites: Completion of at least 15 semester hours of course work for Option I or Option II of the Master of Arts degree in English; approval of graduate adviser, departmental supervisor, and on-site supervisor.
• 680 Capstone Course. (3, repeatable to 6) Directed readings and written summaries ending in an examination. Directed by a supervisory committee. All students must meet with the Director of Graduate Studies in English to submit an exit survey.
• 412G Problems in Contemporary Mass Communications. (3) Research into current social, economic, and professional problems affecting the mass media.
• 417G Law of Mass Communications. (3) Study of legal rights of and constraints on mass media: prior restraint, publicity control, source protection, libel, privacy invasion, and other relevant legal issues.

Non English Department

Literature and Language Arts

• 443G (cross-listed with ENG 443G) SEE ABOVE
  Creative Uses of Literature for Children and Young Adults. (3) Presents the development of effective programs in informal and formalized interpretive experiences for children and young adults, emphasizing individual creativity and sources for materials. Prerequisite: LLA 313 or permission of the instructor.

• 476G Parent/Community Involvement. (3) Techniques for working with and involving families/communities, including conferencing skills, newsletters, home visits, parent education, volunteers, meetings, and other ways to develop open communication and parental and community support.  A minimum grade of C is required of teacher education students.  Restricted: departmental permission. Prerequisite: Fully accepted into Teacher Education Program.

• 513 Advanced Children's Literature. (3) Focuses on the wide range of genre to be found in children’s literature, examining its historical development, major awards for fiction and nonfiction, and current trends in the field. Prerequisite: LLA 313 or permission of the instructor.
• 523 Advanced Literature for Young Adults. (3) Traces the development of literature for young adults with particular emphasis on noteworthy authors, major awards, and issues and trends in the field. Prerequisite: LLA 433 or permission of the instructor.

Instructional Design and Technology

This department has many appropriate courses http://www.wiu.edu/grad/catalog/idt.php

Information Systems

• Information Systems 514 An Introduction to Information Management. (3) A survey of topics in information management/management information systems, including an introduction to decision support systems with particular emphasis on model management systems, executive information systems, and intelligent systems.
• There are other courses such as 524 and 554 which might also be appropriate--but a student would need to deal with prerequisite issues.

College Student Personnel

• 554 Higher Education in the United States. (3) An overview of higher education in America. The course reflects the historical development of higher education and provides students the opportunity to explore the broader functions, issues, and participants that comprise postsecondary education in the United States. Prerequisite: CSP major or permission of the instructor
• 559 Student Development Theory and Application I. (4) A critical analysis and review of student development as the theoretical basis for the student affairs profession. Consideration is given to formulating a personal philosophy of student development, current research, and methodology, and writings. Prerequisite: CSP major or permission of the instructor.

Computer Science

• Many classes in this department would be appropriate--depending on the student's current knolwedge of CS http://www.wiu.edu/catalog/programs/com-sci.php

Marketing

• 500 The Management of People and Organizations. (3) This course focuses on the theories and applications of managing people and organizations including the functions of management, organization behavior, organization theory, and human resource management. Topics include decision making/problem solving, planning and organizing, motivation, leadership, organizational change, communication, conflict, teamwork, human resource planning, performance appraisal, training and development, negotiations, and reward systems.

Museum Studies

• 500 Introduction to Museums: Purpose, Function and History. (3) This course will provide students with an overview of the purpose, function, and history of museums and their role in society. Students will be introduced to all of the disciplines within the museum and will discuss recent issues in the field.
• 503 Museum Collections Management. (3) This course will provide an introduction to the basic theories, methodologies, and current issues relating to archives management. Establishing collections policies; laws, regulations, conventions, and codes that bear on acquisitions, deaccessions, loans and collection care; accountability; access problems. The implementation of collections policies: establishing and managing collections; management procedures and systems; documentation of collections; records preservation; tax codes; data bases; collections access and storage; restitution and repatriation laws and controversies; handling, packing and shipping; inventory control; and responsibilities of a museum registrar.

Political Science

• 546 Public Administration. (3) (Colloquium) This course provides an overview of the problems and issues that confront public administrators and introduces contemporary public management theory and skills for dealing with the problems and issues.
• 550 Nonprofit Management. (3) This course will focus on defining and categorizing the third sector and then exploring its relationship to the public sector as value guardians.  Considerable attention will be paid to the role nonprofits play in the formulation and execution of public policy
• 567 Ethics in the Public Sector. (3) This course will examine the ethical dimensions of the public sector through an administrative responsibility lens. Administrative responsibility will be explored through examination of the principles of responsiveness, fairness, flexibility, honesty, accountability, and competence.
• 580 (cross-listed with ECON 580, GEOG 580, CH 580 and RPTA 580)
  Skills in Community Development. (3) This course emphasizes the practical skills required to be an effective community developer, including conflict resolution, leadership, comunication, and community capacity-building.  The focus is on skill-building, as students are provided opportunities to practice new techniques.  Topics will be modified as new technologies and other external factors impact the practice of community development.  Graded S/U. 
• 592 Public Personnel Management. (3) Historical overview of public sector hiring systems.  Coverage of legal and management issues in personnel administration.  Examination of political context of government recruitment.

RPTA

• 424G Fund Raising and Volunteerism in Leisure Services. (3) A study of the principles and practices associated with fund raising and utilization of volunteers in public as well as private nonprofit leisure service organizations.  Prerequisite: RPTA 322 or permission of instructor.

  428G Youth and Leisure Services. (3) A study of the theories, principles, and practices related to youth and leisure, including social trends and issues, youth development, youth services agencies, program planning and evaluation, behavior management, leadership, and public relations.  Field Project.  Prerequisites: RPTA 230 and RPTA 332 or permission of the instructor.

• 448G Interpretation of Cultural and Environmental Resources. (3) Develops a basic understanding for interpretation of natural, environmental and cultural resources. Includes philosophy and techniques. Field trip. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

• 461G Conference and Convention Planning and Management. (3) Prepares students for positions as planners and managers of conferences and conventions at resorts, hotels, cruise ships, camps, universities, or other private or municipal convention centers. Graduate students will be expected to plan and carry out a conference. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

• 467G Special Event Planning and Management. (3) The application of methods and techniques to plan, implement and evaluate successful community special events.  Content includes selection of event themes and coordination of set up, staff, finance, promotion, partnerships, operations and evaluation.  Prerequisite: RPTA 332.

• 530 Program Development and Supervision. (3) A seminar in the administration and management of leisure programs in a variety of agency and organizational settings. Techniques in needs assessment; as well as development, implementation, and evaluation of leisure programs are studied.

Sociology

• 461G Educational Sociology. (3) A comparative and functional analysis of education as an institution; the interaction of education and other institutions; and the relation of education to social change. Prerequisites: SOC 100 and one additional sociology course, or permission of the instructor.

• 471G Urban Sociology. (3) City life forms and the alternative structures of complex societies; special arrangements, systems of decision making; belief formation, energy use, communication, socialization, and control. History of urban growth, ecology, complex organization, and sources of cohesion. Prerequisites: SOC 100 or 510 and three additional courses in sociology and anthropology.

• 520 Sociology of Knowledge. (3) A survey of theories and research concerning social determination of systems of knowledge. Historical development of the field and recent synthesis of the German, French, and American epistemological trends. Special emphasis is put on an intensive analysis of the relationship between knowledge and the power in post-industrial society. Authors studied include Marx, Scheler, Mannheim, Schutz, Levi-Strauss, Habermas, and Gouldner. Prerequisite: Twelve semester hours of sociology.

Mathematics

• 471G Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I. (3) The mathematical foundations of probability and statistics, principles of probability, sampling, distribution, moments, and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: MATH 231 or equivalent.

  472G Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II. (3) Continuation of Statistics 471, including further topics in estimation and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: STAT 471.

Women's Studies

508 (cross-listed with ANTH 508 and SOC 508) Women and Social Movements. (3) This course covers women in social movements. Sociological, anthropological, and feminist theories are used to study women’s movements and social change. Topics include, but are not limited to: suffrage, birth control, environmental, peace, child protection, and international human rights movements. Prerequisites: One previous undergraduate course in women’s studies, anthropology, or sociology, or permission of the instructor.