Course Levels

Graduate courses are numbered 500-699

Cognitive Domain:

• Relatively independent initiation of effort toward proposing and solving problems, creating new scholarship, and/or producing a new intellectual product;
• Independent application of best practices of the discipline in solving problems, creating new scholarship, and/or producing a new intellectual product;
• Increased focus on student becoming a practitioner of the discipline rather thanprimarily a learner of that discipline.

Student Behavioral/Affective Domain:

• Inherent interest in self-education and self-direction within the discipline;
• Willingness to accept responsibility for outcomes of self-directed research and creative activities.

Assumed/Expected Student Preparation:

• Facility with obtaining and understanding current primary literature/scholarly works and/or literature focused on practitioner/professionals within discipline;
• Ability to communicate effectively using accepted conventions of the discipline through oral, written, and/or performance modes.