Peabody College Catalog Catalog Vanderbilt 2016/2017University 2016/2017 College Archived Peabody Containing general information and courses of study for the 2016/2017 session corrected to 1 July 2016 Nashville Catalog The university reserves the right, through its established procedures, to modify the requirements for admission and graduation and to change other rules, regulations, and provisions, including those stated in this bulletin and other publications, and to refuse admission to any student, or to require the with- drawal of a student if it is determined to be in the interest of the2016/2017 student or the university. All students, full time or part time, who are enrolled in Vanderbilt courses are subject to the same policies. College Policies concerning noncurricular matters and concerning withdrawal for medical or emotional reasons can be found in the Student Handbook, which is on the Vanderbilt website at vanderbilt.edu/student_handbook. 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Produced by Vanderbilt University Creative Services and Vanderbilt Printing Services Printed in the United States of America Contents Calendar 4 Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt 5 Centers and Outreach Efforts 5 Facilities 7 The University 7 Life at Vanderbilt 9 Degree Programs 18 Professional Degree Programs 18 Graduate Degree Programs 20 Licensure for Teaching 21 Academic Regulations 26 Admission 29 Financial Information 31 Courses of Study 33 Human and Organizational Development 33 Leadership, Policy, and Organizations 36 Psychology and Human Development 40 Special Education Catalog 42 Teaching and Learning 45 Courses 49 Administration and Faculty 69 Index 2016/2017 76 College Archived Peabody Calendar 2016/2017 FALL SEMESTER 2016 Classes begin / Wednesday 24 August October Break / Thursday 13 October–Friday 14 October Homecoming / Saturday 22 October Thanksgiving holiday / Saturday 19 November–Sunday 27 November Classes end / Thursday 8 December Reading days and examinations / Friday 9 December–Saturday 17 December Fall semester ends / Saturday 17 December SPRING SEMESTER 2017 Classes begin / Monday 9 January Martin Luther King Jr. Day—Classes do not meet / Monday 16 January Spring holiday / Saturday 4 March–Sunday 12 March Classes end / Monday 24 April Reading days and examinations / Tuesday 25 April–Thursday 4 May Commencement / Friday 12 May Catalog 2016/2017 College Archived Peabody 5 Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt eabody College is Vanderbilt University’s college of Centers and Outreach Efforts education and human development and a national leader among graduate schools of education. The college, Accelerated Academic Achievement (A3) Center Pembodied in its faculty and students, constitutes a vibrant intellectual community dealing with pressing questions and Funded with a grant of $10 million by the National Center for expanding knowledge about education, including special Special Education Research, the A3 Center enables researchers education; psychology, especially focused on families and to study instructional programs aimed at students with learning children; the development of individuals, organizations, and disabilities in grades 3 to 5. Scholars affiliated with the center communities; and educational administration, leadership, and seek to develop and test strategies to improve reading and math policy. Peabody seeks to educate highly skilled professionals success. The new instructional programs developed at the center from diverse backgrounds, for organizations both in and out will help educators address challenges such as how to assist of education, who share a deep concern for the human condi- students in progressing to more complex subject matter and tion. Most academic programs include a strong practice ori- how to transfer learning between different intellectual tasks. entation. The college offers the following professional degrees: master of education (M.Ed.), master of public policy (M.P.P.), Center for Research on Rural Families and and doctor of education (Ed.D.). The Vanderbilt University Communities Graduate School, through Peabody departments, offers the The Center for Research on Rural Families and Communi- master of science (M.S.) and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.). ties serves as a change agent in promoting the well-being of Peabody enrolls more than 900 graduate or professional families and youth residing in rural communities. It does so students and more than 1,000 undergraduates. The full-time by collaborating with community stakeholders to develop and teaching faculty numbers 145. Many faculty members are conduct research benefiting community residents; designing nationally recognized for their research, while others serve as preventive interventions that promote positive development, editors of scholarly journals and leaders of professional orga- adjustment, and adaptation; implementing efficacy trials and nizations. Eighteen faculty members hold named, endowed disseminating effectiveCatalog interventions; conducting studies to professorships. The faculty is organized into five departments: advance knowledge about social, economic, and environmen- Human and Organizational Development; Leadership, Policy, tal impacts on rural culture and rural health disparities; and and Organizations; Psychology and Human Development; informing effective policy interventions. Special Education; and Teaching and Learning. A research institution, Peabody disseminates findings 2016/2017Classroom Organization and Management Program through dynamic partnerships with K–12 schools, higher edu- (COMP) cation peers, government, and nonprofit organizations, as well COMP’s primary goal is to help teachers improve their overall as through its nearly 30,000 graduates. Faculty and students at College instructional and behavioral management skills through Peabody engage in a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied planning, implementing, and maintaining effective classroom research to generate new knowledge and translate that knowl- practices. The program also seeks to improve student task edge into practice. Current research findings inform classroom engagement and reduce inappropriate and disruptive behavior teaching at Peabody in every program. Moreover, Peabody through well-planned academic tasks and activities. faculty members bring an interdisciplinary and entrepreneur- ial spirit to the research enterprise.Archived Working collaboratively, IRIS Center often through one of the college’s research centers, faculty and students publish and present their findings, apply them in The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements was designed in real-world settings, and help to shape thePeabody public debate about response to a request from the U.S. Department of Education’s the nature and future of education and human development. Office of Special Education Programs. This national effort, Peabody College traces its lineage to Davidson Academy, serving college faculty working in pre-service preparation pro- organized in 1785, ten years before the state of Tennessee was grams, aims to ensure that general education teachers, school founded. Its emergence in 1875 as a college dedicated to the administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well training of teachers and its relocation to a new campus in 1914 prepared to work with students who have disabilities and with were made possible largely through the beneficence of George their families. IRIS is the nation’s only faculty enhancement Peabody, America’s great educational philanthropist, for center established for this purpose. whom the college is named. Bruce Ryburn Payne, president of the college from 1911 until 1937, was architect not only of National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention the physical campus, but also of the ideal that was to become The National Center for Leadership in Intensive Intervention the Peabody College tradition.