College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

231 MACS 6309 - Arts-Based Qualitative Research This course presents various ways in which to incorporate arts-based strategies into qualitative research design, in order to generate additional data, address researcher bias, deepen qualitative analysis, and enhance the presentation of research findings. For example, the course will explore ways in which the use of collage can be used to both strengthen researcher bracketing and reflexivity, as well as a data generation technique in combination with journaling. The course will also address how poetry can be used as a technique to both validate and represent research findings; students will practice found data poetry in developing findings, and the use of various poetic forms to convey key findings. In addition, students will be introduced to photo voice, a method that involves study participants taking photos to capture their lived experience and understandings of particular social phenomena. Throughout the course, ethical issues related to arts-based qualitative research will be considered and discussed. Offered occasionally. MACS 6310- Auto ethnography This course introduces students to the historical, epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and procedural foundations of auto ethnography. Students will learn a variety of approaches to auto ethnography including individual, collaborative, critical, interpretive, and transformational forms and will practice appraising the quality of different types of auto ethnographic reports. They will also learn how to conceive and conduct an auto ethnography. Offered occasionally. MACS 6322 – Food Web Dynamics A food chain is simply "who eats what". A food web weaves together many food chains to form a complicated network of feeding relationships. Many animals eat more than one thing, and each link in each chain is important and integral to the entire system. The interactions in a food web are far more complex than the interactions in a food chain. This course is designed to study the basic components and processes of trophic dynamics, how these comprise different marine ecosystems and how these systems can be altered. MACS 6332 – Human Sexuality and Gender Reviews the psychosocial development of sexuality and gender form childhood through old age. Summary of clinical approaches to sexual and gender problems, comparing interactional approaches with psychodynamic and behavioral models. MACS 6340 – Marine Mammals This course provides an overview of the anatomy, biomedicine evolution, husbandry, natural history, pathology, and physiology of the cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and allies. MACS 6550 – International Perspectives in Counseling and Therapy The course is designed to review issues relevant to the practice of couples and family therapy in an international context. Issues explored during the course include: the adaptation of western models of therapy for practice in other countries; immigrant family experiences and the relevance to clinical practice in the US; and global ethical issues in counseling and therapy. Specific cultures reviewed during the course will include Mexico, China, Cambodia, South America and India, to name a few. The content of the course is designed to build on the Family Theory course. This course will include a continued review of some of the major historic leaders or selected therapy models, model specific vocabulary, clinical techniques and theoretical conceptualizations. As part of the course, students will learn to become more sophisticated with regard to their understanding of family functioning and the role of therapy in an international context.