2963 R.A. Training. Introduces various theories and skills that aid the student in the performance of the duties of a resident advisor. Areas of study include student development theory, community development, programming, peer counseling, and policy enforcement. The class will review current issues confronting college students. (F, Sp)
4993 R.A. Training Special Problems in Education. Prerequisite: junior standing. Introduces various theories and skills that aid the student in the performance of the duties of a resident advisor. Areas of study include student development theory, community development, programming, peer counseling, and policy enforcement. The class will review current issues confronting college students. Students will also be involved in University community-building programs and special events which relate to the roll of resident advisor. (F, Sp)
G5013 The Adult Learner. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Course content includes: (a) recent history; (b) social, technological and economic factors associated with changes in educational philosophy with consequences for lifelong learning: (c) trend data on adult enrollments by socio-economic, racial, ethnic and other factors; (d) major providers; (e) research and issues concerning adult learning ability, adult development, stresses upon the adult learner, teaching adults, etc. (F)
G5023 Administration of Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Organization and administration of adult and higher education from legislative, legal, structural-functional, power, political, bureaucratic and social perspectives. Topics considered include: governance, central office organization, administrative position analysis, faculty organization, faculty participation in policy formation and decision making, academic freedom, goals analysis, budgetary policies and methods, and decision strategies. (F)
G5033 Critical Literature in Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Explores twentieth-century ideas and issues in adult and higher education. The majority of the literature and discussion concern the university. (F)
G5043 Introduction to Research in Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Recommend specific prior enrollment -- see adviser. An introduction to data collection and analysis, research methods (experimental, quasi-experimental, qualitative), and statistics used in adult and higher education. (F, Sp, Su)
G5103 Instructional Strategies in Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Encourages a rational consideration of the problems of college teaching. A problems-based course, requiring that each student be involved in an actual college teaching experience while taking it. Topics to be considered include: learning potentials of young adults; preparation of instructional objectives; evaluation of instruction; instructional techniques. (Su)
G5123 Decision-Making in Adult and Higher Education (Crosslisted with Human Relations 5123). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provide students with an understanding of various forces which influence the process of decision-making in adult and higher education, as well as provide an opportunity to examine how such decisions can be reached and implemented. The student will examine realistic examples of decision-making in such areas as budgeting, trustee relations, tenure decisions, faculty development, curriculum, etc. (F, Sp)
G5133 The American Community/Junior College. Prerequisite: graduate standing. A study of its purposes, functions, curriculum, organization and administration; exploring this uniquely American institution as an emerging factor and significant element in the structure of higher education in America today. (Sp)
G5143 Leadership Development in Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Apply concepts from the behavioral and social sciences to the development of techniques and strategies specific to leadership development in adult and higher education. (Sp)
G5153 Legal Aspects of Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey of principles, legislation, and court rulings in such areas as employment, affirmative action, dismissal, contracts, tenure, civil rights, due process, student rights, and other issues of concern to higher education administrators. (F)
G5163 Diversity Issues in Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Explores the educational participation of diverse groups in higher education. The student will gain a further understanding of issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and physical disability and their influence on colleges and universities. (F, Sp)
G5173 Management Issues in Student Personnel Services. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provides students with those skills and understandings that will facilitate the assumption of managerial roles within student personnel services. Specific areas that are addressed include: an introduction to basic management skills including planning, goal setting and increasing managerial effectiveness; fiscal management and budgetary skills. Also covers managing human resources which includes interviewing techniques, motivation, group processes, and conflict management; working with key constituency groups, and ethics management. (F, Sp)
G5213 History of American Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. The history of American higher education during the twentieth century, with an examination of the major issues which have shaped, and are shaping, the development of American colleges and universities. (Sp)
G5223 Student Personnel Services in Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The need, function, organization and administration of student personnel services in institutions of higher learning. Critical review of trends and practices in student personnel programs in colleges and universities. Designed for students majoring in guidance and counseling and higher education. (F)
G5233 Research on the College Student. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The primary aim is to introduce students to the history of college students, research methodologies employed in research on college students, and theoretical concepts and research findings related to student characteristics, college environments, choice, student development, attrition, persistence, cognitive and affective development and general outcomes. An understanding and knowledge of these topics is considered a precursor for those interested in student personnel administration and/or in advanced research on college students. (Sp)
G5243 Financial Management in Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Students will be introduced to the following topics: administrative organization function and structure; financial management of sponsored programs (grants and contracts); fund accounting and basic financial statements; state coordination policies and procedures; basic budgeting concepts and techniques; cost analysis and comparisons. (Sp)
G5253 Institutional Research in Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Recommend specific prior enrollment -- see adviser. Covers the roles and functions of institutional research, student information systems, faculty and staff analysis, facilities analysis, capital and financial analysis, environmental scanning, assessment studies, program review, student outcomes studies, and quality assessment. (F)
G5263 Planning in Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Recommend specific prior enrollment -- see adviser. Covers concepts, practices, issues and problems related to planning in higher education. (F)
G5273 Athletics in Higher Education (Crosslisted with Human Relations 5273). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provide students with an understanding of the history, structure and administration of intercollegiate athletics, as well as an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of related contemporary issues. (Irreg.)
G5333 Program Planning for the Adult Learner. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Recommend specific prior enrollment -- see adviser. Designed to develop an understanding of institutional roles and institutional differences; a knowledge of the principles of program planning in relation to the delivery of adult education. Reviews the elements of program planning to include needs assessment, program objectives, program design and delivery, and evaluation. (F)
G5343 Gerontological Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Prepares students to respond effectively to the learning needs of the elderly and those professions who serve the elderly.
G5353 Adult Learning and Development. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Students will engage in inquiry into the adult development process and its relationship to learning and change. Students will become acquainted with a wide range of orientations to and theories of adult development. The focus will be more closely on development that takes an "inside" view of the learner, and correspondingly participants will be encouraged to explore their own development (as learners) as an instance of growth, learning and change. (F, Sp)
G5363 Self-Directed Learning. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Self-directed or independent learning is an important aspect of adult education because it represents a significant portion of all learning by adults. Students will explore self-directed learning from both an academic and a personal perspective. Topics include its history and development, its research base, areas of current interest and implications for adult education practice. (F, Sp)
G5373 Assessment in Adult and Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Covers the basic principles of assessment (evaluation) and strategies for ensuring that assessment activities are more effective and meaningful to educators, planners, and decision makers in adult and higher education organizations. Specifically, the course will examine conceptual and practical assessment issues related to finance, faculty or trainers, curricula or programs, students or learners, and institutions or organizations. (F, Sp)
G5383 Contemporary Issues in Student Personnel. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Designed to provide students an opportunity to synthesize ideas from previous coursework and practical experiences in student affairs. An integration of student development theories, current issues in the field, and analysis of case studies will be the focus of the course. (F, Sp)
G5403 Instructional Telecommunications. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduces the student to the use of telecommunications in the delivery of educational programming and includes a survey of the attributes of the predominant technologies, how these relate to the design of instruction, and the issues surrounding the management and organization of instructional telecommunications systems. (F)
G5413 Design and Delivery of Distance Education Programs. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Designed to prepare student to design instruction for distance learning systems. Topics include the distance learner, facilitating learning at a distance, instructional design for distance learning systems, and assessment of learning at a distance. (Sp)
G5503 Introduction to Training and Development. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provides an overview of the training and development functions in business, industry, government and voluntary organizations. It is designed for those who are expected to be responsible for some aspect of training and development and for those interested in learning more about these functions. This course will cover the traditional as well as broadening role of training and development and will examine how training and development might be different in the future. (F, Sp)
G5513 Management and Administration of the Training Function. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course is designed for those preparing for or having oversight responsibilities in the training and development function. Topics will include the management function, staffing, ensuring the quality of training, legal issues, marketing and financial management. (Irreg.)
G5523 Survey of HRD Competencies. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Focuses on the roles and competencies required to succeed as training and development professional as identified in ASTD's human performance improvement study. Students will develop or improve their basic competencies by designing and implementing class training program on one of the core competencies. Topics include: Negotiation; leadership; group process; problem solving; delegation; cost benefit analysis; coping skills; consulting; interpersonal relationships; goal implementation; needs analysis survey design and development; and listening and questioning skills. (F, Sp)
G6023 Theory and Practice in Higher Education Finance. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Covers important aspects of finance in American higher education. Topics covered include history of finance, politics of the budgetary process, state funding, student financial aid, internal budgeting, finance management, tuition pricing, costing, financial indicators, funding of private higher education, the "who-pays-and-who-benefits" question, and key financial terminology employed in higher education. Discussions of these topics are purposely more theoretical than hands-on and more focused at the national level than at the state or institutional levels. (F, Sp)
G6173 Theory and Research in Distance Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines the study of distance education throughout the globe; studies the emerging theoretical issues within the field, relating theory to practice through case studies; analyzes the current status of research in distance education with special emphasis on instructional telecommunications; and examines the role of distance education as a discipline.
G6213 Theory and Practice of Continuing Higher Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Defines continuing higher education and traces its development in the United States from the eighteenth century. Examines the range of institutions, kinds of programs, emerging issues, organizational structure, budgeting, administration and relationship to the larger institution in which continuing higher education operates.
G6223 Theory and Practice of Continuing Professional Education. Prerequisite: graduate standing. An examination and explication of the agencies, goals, institutions, issues, outcomes, purposes and processes of the continuing education of professionals.
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