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120 Graduate Catalog 2010-2012 Critical and Creative Thinking The thematic emphasis for each semester is described on the program website: www. cct.umb.edu.) Course may be repeated once (6 credits total) for credit. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits CRCRTH 619L (PPOL 719L) Biomedical Ethics CRCRTH 612 Seminar in Creativity This course delves deeply into the theory and practice of promoting creativity, using a specific theme, such as invention and innovation, humor, realizing creative aspirations, building creative communities, as a focus for the readings, discussion, class activities, and semester-long student projects. The course materials, which are drawn from a variety of sources to match the instructor’s specialty, student interests, and evolving trends in the literature, include biographies, intellectual histories, psychological studies, educational research, the popular media, guest speakers, and outside mentors. (Note: The thematic emphasis for each semester is described on the program website: www.cct.umb.edu.) 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits This course develops students’ critical thinking about dilemmas in medicine and health care policy, such as those that arise around allocation of scarce resources, criteria for organ transplants, informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, AIDS research, embryo research and selective termination of pregnancy, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Through such cases the course introduces methods in moral reasoning, including principle-based reasoning, rights-based reasoning, decisionmaking under uncertainty, and utilitarianism in classic and contemporary normative reasoning. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits environmental professionals, and concerned citizens. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits CRCRTH 645L (BIOL 545L) Biology in Society: Critical Thinking Current and historical cases are used to examine the political, ethical, and other social dimensions of the life sciences. Close examination of developments in the life sciences can lead to questions about the social influences shaping scientists’ work or its application, and, in turn, to new questions and alternative approaches for educators, biologists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits CRCRTH 627 Issues and Controversies in Antiracist and Multicultural Education CRCRTH 646L (SPE G 646L) The Gifted and Talented Student CRCRTH 616 Dialogue Processes Genuine dialogue provides a creative social space in which entirely new ways of thinking, learning, and relating to others may emerge. Dialogue involves a shared process of collective inquiry where people work together to understand the assumptions underlying their individual and collective views that limit their thinking and responses to the world. Course participants learn and experience approaches to dialogue inspired by Bohm, Isaacs, Scharmer, Weissglass, and others in the interest of bringing about significant educational, organizational, social, and personal change. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits This course explores two related forms of education—antiracist education and multicultural education—approaching them as issues in moral and value education and exploring controversies in the theories and practices of antiracist and multicultural education. The course deals with both practical and theoretical issues but concentrates more on theory. Specific topics include racism, race, and school achievement; ethnic identity and self-esteem; Afrocentrism; religious pluralism; multiculturalism as a unifying or divisive force. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits This course provides students with an overview of the gifted and talented student. Topics include definitions of “gifted,” identification of the gifted and talented, and methods and programs geared to these students. Special areas to be addressed are the gifted and talented minority student, as well as the gifted and talented underachiever. 3 Credits CRCRTH 649L (PPOL 749L) Scientific and Political Change CRCRTH 630 Criticism and Creativity in Literature and the Arts Expression and evaluation, freedom and discipline, creative production and its critique—how do these dualities relate to visual and verbal imagination as they are demonstrated in literature and the arts? Specific strategies for eliciting imaginative work in these areas are demonstrated, as are specific strategies for evaluating imaginative works. Finally, this course focuses on ways of helping others (including children) to develop these skills and utilize these strategies effectively. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits CRCRTH 618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Organizational Change Through interactive, experiential sessions and structured assignments, students learn critical and creative approaches to working in organizations. Skills addressed include: communication and team-building; facilitation of participation and collaboration in groups; promotion of learning from a diversity of perspectives; problem-finding and solving; and reflective practice. Students apply these skills to situations that arise in business, schools, social change groups, and other organizations with a view to taking initiative and generating constructive change. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits Although relatively few Americans have backgrounds in science or engineering, they are increasingly confronted with issues that are technically complex. This course explores the resulting tensions and asks how the needs for scientific expertise and democratic control of science and technology are reconciled. The first half of the course traces the historical development of American science policy and situates this development comparatively. The second half focuses on contemporary controversies, including those over the nature of university/industry relations, patent policy, and cases of expert/lay disagreements over risk. 3 Lect Hrs, 3 Credits CRCRTH 650 Mathematical Thinking CRCRTH 640 Environment, Science, and Society: Critical Thinking Through current and historical cases, this course explores the diverse influences that shape environmental science and politics and their pedagogical, professional, social, and moral implications for educators, This course explores several types of mathematical thinking in the context of number theory, algebra, geometry, and introductory calculus, and relates them to critical and creative thinking skills. Developmental and experiential factors in learning and teaching mathematics are considered, as well as techniques for determining a learner’s mathematical abilities and learning styles. Readings, discussion, research, and problem-solving are used to provide a historical http://www.cct.umb.edu http://www.cct.umb.edu http://www.cct.umb.edu

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UMass Boston - Graduate Studies 2011
Table of Contents
Graduate Program Affiliations
UMass Boston at a Glance
Foreword
Mission Statement
Trustees of the University
Administrative Officers of the University
Academic Calendar, 2010-2012
Admissions
Tuition, Fees, and Payments
Payment Information
Residency Status
Assistantships and Financial Aid
Facilities and Services
Regulations, Procedures, and Degree Requirements
Graduate Programs
Accounting
American Studies
Biology
Biology
Environmental Biology
Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Biology
Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (Multicampus Joint Program)
Biotechnology and Biomedical Science
Business Administration
Chemistry
Green Chemistry
Clinical Psychology
Computer Science
Database Technology
Counseling: Degree Programs
Counseling: Family Therapy
Counseling: Mental Health Counseling
Counseling: Rehabilitation Counseling
Counseling: School Counseling
Creative Writing
Critical and Creative Thinking
Dispute Resolution
Education
Higher Education Administration
Leadership in Urban Schools
Education: Educational Administration
Education: Special Education
Special Education
Orientation and Mobility
Teaching of the Visually Impaired
Vision Studies
Education: Teacher Education
Education: Applied Behavioral Analysis for Special Populations
Education: Technology, Learning, and Leadership
Education: Teaching Writing in the Schools
English
Environmental Sciences
Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Geographic Information Science
Professional Science Master’s™
Finance
Forensic Services
Gerontology
Management of Aging Services
Historical Archaeology
History
Human Services
Information Technology
Instructional Design
Instructional Technology Design
International Management
Latin and Classical Humanities
Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
School of Marine Sciences: Intercampus Graduate School
Mathematics
Nursing
Health Policy
Population Health
Acute/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
Family Nurse Practitioner
Applied Physics
Public Affairs
Public Affairs
International Relations
Women in Politics and Public Policy
Public Policy
School Psychology
Applied Sociology
Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
Road Map and Directions to Campus
Campus Map
Telephone Directory
Index

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