This field-based course is intended to provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their readiness for teaching students with disabilities across grade levels, special education settings, and types of disabilities. This intermediate practicum will allow you to gain experiences in teaching students with disabilities and apply your course content to a classroom setting.

This field-based course is intended to provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their readiness for teaching students with disabilities across grade levels, special education settings, and types of disabilities. This advanced practicum will allow you to gain experiences in teaching students with disabilities and apply your course content to a classroom setting.

Principles of behavior analysis will be used to determine behavioral functions and intervention development for students exhibiting challenging behaviors within the schools. The course will focus on the key tenants of functional behavioral assessments and behavior intervention planning, with special attention to the provisions of indirect services to students. Field experiences are required as part of this course.

This course provides an introduction to the procedures used in determining special education eligibility and subsequent program planning for students with disabilities. Emphasis is placed on understanding various assessment processes, instruments, norm-referenced and curriculum-based scores,and individualized educational program planning.

This course focuses on technologies in protecting infrastructure, networks, programs and data from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction. It provides a survey of latest developments in cyber-security through study of theoretical foundation and hands-on practical implementation. Topics include basic security technology, cryptography, security management, risk assessment, operations and physical security, software and network security, as well as ethical and legal issues.

This course covers advanced topics on electric power systems including power system analysis, operation, monitoring, protection, optimization and control.

A professional development course focused on scientific communication in the geosciences.

Project Lead The Way is the nation's leading provider of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs. Through world-class K-12 curriculum, high-quality teacher professional development, and outstanding partnerships, PLTW is helping students develop the skills needed to succeed in the global economy. To be an educator in this program teacher must successfully complete a core training session. Core Training is an intensive program intended to give Instructors an overview of the PLTW course they will be teaching.

This course will provide unique experiences through visits to a variety of energy-related sites and presentations from topical experts. The course begins with preparations through readings, videos, and assignments. The course then has a week-long tour of selected energy related sites, which may include: pumped storage site, coal mine, coal- and gas-fired and nuclear power plants, power operations center, wind farm, hydroelectric generation, landfill gas site, smart grid demonstration center, solar farm, high efficiency building, etc. in the region.

This course is an introduction to Kentucky's characteristic built environment. There will be a focus on central Kentucky to enable context for assignments and access to sites for field trips. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach to architectural and cultural landscape developments, using both historical and geographical perspectives. It will include lectures, discussions, field trips/field observations and readings. Students will need to provide their own transportation to the field trip site.