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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.
MACS 6310- Autoethnography
This course introduces students to the historical, epistemological, theoretical,
methodological, and procedural foundations of autoethnography. Students will learn a
variety of approaches to autoethnography including individual, collaborative, critical,
interpretive, and transformational forms and will practice appraising the quality of
different types of autoethnographic reports. They will also learn how to conceive and
conduct an autoethnography.
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.
MACS 6599 – Assessment of Credibility – Theory and Implications
Students will explore a broad range of contemporary thought, discussion, and scientific
research, relevant to the assessment of credibility with the goal of developing a base of
knowledge for the assessment of statements made by, or on behalf of, individuals,
