|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Explores professional applications of adult development theory and research to facilitating adult learning in a wide variety of contexts, including formal educational and training programs as well as general environments such as learning organizations. Course includes an additional, concurrent 30 hour minimum field project requirement.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the professional field of student affairs within the context of colleges and universities, including its historical, philosophical, ethical, and theoretical foundations. Current and future issues for the profession are also critically examined. Course includes an additional concurrent 30-hour minimum field project requirement.
-
4.00 Credits
Examines emerging conceptualizations and forms of leadership and leadership development in postsecondary education. Ethical and value bases of leadership inform a focus on the creation of organizational and social change within postsecondary settings. Course emphasizes non-hierarchical models of leadership that value diversity and involve collaborative relationships and collective action. Application of leadership development issues within a variety of educational and social service organizations are explored. Course includes an additional concurrent 30-hour minimum field project requirement.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
4.00 Credits
Examination of the field of instructional program design for adult learners within the training and development field, in educational and non-educational organizational settings. Focus on learning to design and manage instructional activities in response to training needs and skills analyses. Students are required to select and use an appropriate design model, design a preliminary needs assessment, develop program goals and learning objectives, develop an instructional plan, develop a plan to assess student learning and evaluate the program, and critically review the design document. Major emphasis given to developing the instructional design document that demonstrates a student’s ability to align and integrate effectively all aspects of the design process and to incorporate adult learning theory.
-
3.00 Credits
Focuses upon research-based, practical approaches for leading, managing, and evaluating the training and devlopment fuction in organizations. It explores the role of training and development in achieving individual and organizational goals, as well as strategies and resources used in effective personnel development. Students analyze how to: develop, manage and evaluate the training function; identify strategies and resources for effective training management; and diagnose how the organization’s culture and needs affect the selection and success of training management efforts.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the field of curriculum or program design for adult learners and introduces students to a process of program planning and development. Curriculum development or design is viewed as both a technical and political process. It also provides a historical and philosophical perspective on postsecondary curriculum, with attention given to review and analysis of current practices and issues, including life-long and collaborative learning. A comprehensive program planning model will be examined.
-
3.00 Credits
Focus on the theories, knowledge ad skills necessary to plan, develop and use effective participant and presentation training materials that enhance adult learning in training and development settings. Study the linkage of instructional design, adult learning representational systems and graphic design theories and how materials increase transfer of learning. In addition, examine writing issues relevant to effective communication, the selection and use of production methods, and project plans for training materials.
-
4.00 Credits
Fundamental principles and practices of service-learning in postsecondary education. Service-learning pedagogy, its relationship to adult development, historical foundations in educational institutions, and civic education. Resources and organizations, and issues of race, class, gender, and power in service-learning. Required participation in a service-learning project provides practice in application of theories.
-
4.00 Credits
This multi-media seminar and discussion course will review, analyze and critique the history, politics and rhetoric of sustainability. Four key themes are covered within the rubric of leadership for sustainability: the issues surrounding the Johannesburg summit, 2002, the growing conservation economy in the Pacific Northwest, the issue of indigenous cultures, and sustainability. Students apply these concepts in real life by developing a wildest dream project in sustainability and outlining social, natural and economic capital needed to implement it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|