This schedule subject to change
Fall
AHE 621 Organization of Living Systems (3 credits)
Envision organizations as living systems; support patterns that nourish discovery and creativity. Develop new organizational structures, use new communication techniques to support new organizational systems.
AHE 517 Education and Work (3 credits)
Issues related to work in the U.S. and other countries. The role of public, private, corporate, government, military and other education and training programs in meeting changing individual, corporate, and community work-related needs.
Winter
AHE 621 History of American Higher Education (3 credits)
American higher education and specifically the community college have played a unique role in the preparation of individuals to live and work in an increasingly complex environment. Influences on this role have included various social, cultural and political factors. An understanding of these factors and their influence on higher education will facilitate decision-making, policy development, forecasting, advocacy and the appreciation of the place education holds in a democracy.
This is a course not so much about reviewing what has happened as it is about change, what brought change about, and about policy development and the results that followed.
AHE 653 Instructional Leader I (3 credits)
Course is intended to develop theoretical principals that will assist the learner in the understanding and development of systemic frameworks for instructional leadership. This course is designed to inform participants of the major theories and theorists who have contributed to the understanding of learning, in general, and to the application of adult learning and training, in particular. From such theoretical frameworks, participants will identify those theories and approaches which support a personal philosophy of teaching and learning and which provide applications of principals and concepts for managing learning and successful performance of faculty and students.
Spring
AHE 621 Leadership in Student Services (3 credits)
Students in this course will be afforded an opportunity to explore significant issues in the design and delivery student services in community college settings. The focus of the course will be on group discussion, group model building, problem posing and issue analysis, and philosophy development. The course will serve to help course participants think about current and future practices in student services.
AHE 654 Instructional Leader II (3 credits)
Focuses on the current realities of instructional leadership in community and technical colleges at the present.
Summer
AHE 612 Research Perspectives in Education (3 credits)
Research perspectives, how they are influenced by world views, and how these world views influence research. PREREQ: AHE 562 or AHE 565. COREQ: Introductory statistics course.
AHE 610 Internship (3-6 credits)
AHE 599 Quantitative Analysis in Educational Research I (3 credits)
AHE 599 Quantitative Analysis in Educational Research II (3 credits)
Fall
AHE 613 Research Analysis & Interpretation I (3 credits)
Critical analysis of scholarly studies in education from a variety of research perspectives. PREREQ: AHE 612. COREQ: Intermediate statistics course.
AHE 640 Community College Administration (3 credits)
This course addresses current leadership/management theories and issues, systems or organization, patterns of internal and external governance, institutional planning, and issues of institutional advancement directed specifically at community colleges.
Winter
AHE 614 Advanced Research Methods in Education (3 credits)
Selected topics in research methods as appropriate for research perspectives in education. May be repeated. PREREQ: AHE 613.
Students will increase their competence in the role of scholar/researcher.
AHE 575 Educational Finance (3 credits)
Provides an overview of financing of post-secondary education, with an emphasis on community college finance issues. The goal of the course is to provide students an understanding of local, state and federal financing issues, and institution level operational issues of budgetary planning and control. Special attention will be paid to those administrative operations of the community college that affect the college’s fiscal health.
Spring
AHE 615 Research Issues (3 credits)
This course is a core course in the School of Education’s doctoral programs. Students will increase their competence in the role of scholar/researcher.
AHE 582 Legal Issues in Higher Education (3 credits)
A comprehensive presentation and discussion of the law governing administration within community colleges and college/universities with a special emphasis on student services administration.
Summer
AHE 645 Ethical Dimension of Professional Practice (3 credits)
Review major ethical theories with an emphasis on practical applications related to community college professional practice.
AHE 603 Thesis (6 credits)
(NOTE: Thesis credits are always with your major professor)
Fall
AHE 603 Thesis (3 credits)
Winter
AHE 603 Thesis (3 credits)
Spring
AHE 603 Thesis (3 credits)
Summer
AHE 603 Thesis (9 credits)
EdD students register for AHE 607 (3 credits) each term until you have successfully defended your dissertation.
PhD students continue to register for at least 3 credits of AHE 603 Thesis each term until you have completed 36 credits of Thesis. Once you have completed 36 Thesis credits register for 3 credits of AHE 607 Seminar Research each term until you have successfully defended your dissertation.
