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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDAD 6600 or consent of department. Over-view of the development of the American system of post-secondary education its origins, philosophical perspectives, major characteristics, distinctive features, and trends.
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3.00 Credits
Factors that influence student choice in higher education, including decisions about attending college, choosing a school, choosing a major, and persisting in college are identified. The ways in which student choice research can inform the development and refinement of institutional enrollment management strategies and government finance policies are also analyzed and discussed.
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3.00 Credits
(EDCI 6758 AND EDAD 6640 are cross listed) This course provides an overview of the issues principles and practices associated with effective college teaching. Topics examined include learning and diversity; teaching models and strategies teacher and student behaviors and learning outcomes; and instructional improvement strategies. The interaction of theory and practice is an important theme of the course.
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3.00 Credits
(EDCI 6759 and EDAD 6645 are cross-listed) This course examines recent advances in research and theory related to behavioral, humanistic, information-processing, developmental, motivational, social, cognitive, epistemological, developmental, multicultural, constructivist, and other contemporary perspectives on how college students learn. Research and theory in these areas will be studied in ways that emphasize concrete implications for teaching practices, curriculum development, and student services in the design of effective learning environments for students in traditional twoyear and four-year classrooms as well as in other nontraditional postsecondary contexts.
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3.00 Credits
(EDCI 6658 and EDAD 6650 are cross listed) This course provides an over-view of the issues, principles, and practices associated with college curriculum development. Topics include the diversity of philosophical foundations for college curricula; perspectives and models of the college curriculum in higher education. The interaction of theory and practice is an important theme of the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines current issues in American higher education and provides an overview of the current status of higher education in terms of individual and institutional trends. It focuses on recent developments in theory, research, policy and practice related to prominent contemporary issues; facilitates the critical analysis of such issues; and provides a forum in which the most recent issues can be synthesized in a manner that promotes a greater understanding of the dynamic interactions between research (methods and theory) and application (policy and practice).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: admission to doctoral program in educational administration or consent of the department. This course requires students to use different analytical and critical approaches for understanding the complex manner in which American postsecondary education, primarily colleges and universities, are organized, governed, administered, and led. The purposes of the course involve providing an overview or organization including the forms, structures, roles, and functions of higher education and leadership theory including leadership roles, management principles and practices. Topics examined include classic organization theory, traditional administrative and governance models, campus climate and culture, leadership theory and analysis, management principles, institutional change and assessment, race and gender, and governance.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: admission to doctoral program in educational administration or consent of the department. his course examines policies within higher education institutions, as well as state and federal policies related to higher education, the elements of the policymaking process, and the strategies for research and policy analysis in higher education. Topics examined include the historical development of higher education policy; the process of policy-making at the institutional, state, and federal levels and the role of colleges or universities in that process; the various non-governmental agencies and constituents involved in policy-making; methods for policy analysis and research; and current issues in higher education policy such as access, affordability, and accountability and institutional response to these issues.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: admission to doctoral program in educational administration or consent of the department. This course examines the contemporary undergraduate college student in America. The topics of this course follow a logical progression from the choice of a college or university, a student's decision to remain or depart a given college or university, and the effects that college attendance has on students. This course will present a theoretical and practical literature regarding issues associated with today's college student. The course also focuses on ways in which the attributes of the "typical" college student have changed and how the proliferationof non-traditional students on college campuses has presented new challenges for administrators, student affairs professionals, and faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Prequisite: admission to doctoral program in educational administration or consent of the department. Advanced and in-depth study of the classic, contemporary, and emerging issues,ideas, concepts, theories and research that serve to define and expand the boundaries of the literatures related to the areas of teaching, learning and curriculum in higher and postsecondary education. Research and theory in these areas will be studied in ways that emphasize scholarly writing as well as concrete applications to the development of effective policy and practice in each area.
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