Higher Education (HGED)

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Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Survey course in the history of higher education in the United States, from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis is placed on enduring debates about the purpose(s) of higher education and issues of equity and access along lines of race, class, and gender. Readings include primary and secondary materials.

(Cross-listed with ENGR 5380/ AERE 5380).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Introduction to the field of engineering education, with an emphasis on engineering education history, existing challenges, teaching and learning pedagogies and theories, research opportunities, and research methodologies. The course goal is to develop students as scholars and to have students think critically about engineering and education. Students will apply the knowledge gained from this course to propose a research project related to their own discipline. The proposal is intended to help students learn and apply the key elements of engineering education research. This course is intended for students with a variety of interests and career goals, including those interested in learning to conduct engineering education research, exploring research discoveries about teaching and learning, and engaging with the engineering education community. (Typically Offered: Fall)

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Introduction to leading and learning in higher education. Course will include concepts, competencies, and skills necessary for leading higher education organizations, the various roles leaders may fill within the higher education sector, using assessment for improvement as a leader in higher education.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Overview of higher education in the United States, including a brief history, the functions, organization, external influences, funding, and the major issues impacting postsecondary institutions today.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Educational theories, methods and strategies for the improvement of college instruction. Assist potential college instructors in developing knowledge of protocol, assessment, and the scholarship and art of teaching. Emphasis on the unique challenge of college teaching in a changing student population environment.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Modes of curriculum design, development, and change in colleges. Development of curricular leadership and evaluation strategies.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Assessment of global education policy issues in education. Analysis of policies, implementation strategies, and policy outcomes.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Prereq: Graduate standing
An examination of resource management in higher education. Planning, allocation, and administration of financial, human, and physical resources in colleges and universities.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Explores theories of equity, diversity, and inclusion to build knowledge and skills related to social justice in student affairs practice.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Introduction to the profession of Student Affairs in higher education. As a survey course, readings, learning artifacts, and class discussions will be used to uncover a breadth of topics related to the student affairs profession. Course content is organized around, but will not be limited to, the history, philosophical underpinnings, values, ethics, and standards espoused, as well as the concepts of learning and community development.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Topics related to organization and administration of student affairs in higher education. The course surveys organizational and administrative aspects of student affairs within the broader context of post-secondary education with particular attention paid to organizational development, budget and finance, and law and policy.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Theories of student and adult development and their applications in student affairs programs, services, and activities are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on theories exploring psychosocial, cognitive, moral, and social identity development as well as on integrated theories of development.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Study of the impact of the college environment on students and use of environmental theory to create positive learning situations for students.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

The relationship between college students and characteristics from 1950 to the present. Traditional assumptions about the impact of higher education on students will be reviewed and challenged. Campus issues and concerns relative to commuters and residential life. Participants will analyze institutional responses to students through college missions, organizational development, structure, core curriculum and retention.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Development of effective, basic counseling skills. Understanding of group dynamics. Ability to work effectively in groups.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Current issues and new directions in community college practice, policy, and research.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Prereq: Graduate standing
Overview of the community environment in which community colleges serve and the external groups with whom they partner, including environmental scanning, partner development, strategic planning, and maintaining relationships.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

The community college as a unique social and educational institution: its history, philosophy, functions, programs, faculty and student characteristics, organization and finance, trends, and issues. Reviews current research and exemplary community college practices internationally, nationally, and in Iowa.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Introduction to governance and oversight of higher education, including federal and state roles, boards of trustees, governance structures, external oversight, regulation, strategic planning, and legal issues.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Independent study on specific topics arranged with an instructor.

Credits: 1-4. Repeatable.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course
Supervised on-the-job field experience.

Credits: 1-5. Contact Hours: Lecture 5.
Repeatable.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

The primary goal of this course is for advanced students to demonstrate their preparedness to progress in the field of Student Affairs as educators who are able to apply concepts and formal (and informal) theories addressed in previous course and fieldwork to their professional student affairs thinking and practices.

Credits: 1-30.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course

Courses for graduate students:

Credits: 1-4. Contact Hours: Lecture 4.

Credits: 1-4. Contact Hours: Lecture 4.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Repeatable.

Prereq: Graduate standing
Focus on theoretical and practical issues of program evaluation and decision-making within the community college sector of higher education. Includes components of theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of results for program improvement.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Comprehensive understanding of students in American community colleges while enhancing research skills and a scholar-practitioner approach to working with students. Examine the curricula in place that serve a diverse student population with different educational objectives. Examine student types found in comprehensive community colleges including transfer, career & technical, adult basic education, and English language learners.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Examination of administrative organization and behavior using theories and lenses to understand topics such as: communications, leadership, resource allocation, strategic planning, and institutional governance.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Lectures, discussions, and individual investigation relating to financial administration in colleges and universities. Budgeting, auxiliary enterprises, administration of financial planning, fund raising, examination of theories on expenditures. Designed for persons aspiring to serve as college administrators.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Examination of institutional culture and issues in higher education focusing on the roles and responsibilities of faculty and academic administrators.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Prereq: Admission to Ed.D. program
An examination of advanced community college leadership practice. Team-based leadership, leadership strategies, planning, and change.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Prereq: Admission to Ed.D. program
This course provides an overview of how community colleges influence workforce, economic, and community development through their education missions.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

Critical understanding of issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education. There are multiple dimensions to diversity and inclusion, far too complicated to cover in one course. Therefore, the goal of this seminar is to provide a general understanding of theory, research, and practices related to diversity and inclusion issues. Considers intersectional perspectives of diversity and inclusion within higher education.

Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.

An examination of social identity theories including those exploring race, ethnicity, gender, class, ability, sexuality, and spirituality. An exploration of how social identity is influenced by the dynamics of power and oppression in education and society and how to enhance the college experiences of students from diverse backgrounds.

Credits: 1-4. Repeatable.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course

Credits: 1-30. Repeatable.

Prereq: Instructor Permission for Course