Course Description: Is an introductory courses that will cover topics such as the history of student affairs administration, philosophical/theoretical foundations of student affairs, critical contemporary issues, serving diverse student populations, social justice, and upholding equity in higher education.
Course Description: This challenges our notion of research, understanding theoretical frameworks, developing lenses as critical thinkers, understanding the politics of research, and articulating research.
Course Description: This course will focus on earlier and contemporary college student development theories. analyze and understand characteristics, cultures, and development associated with American college student.
Course Description: This course is devoted to helping students plan, execute, and reflect on their internship experiences. An important component of the internship is students being able to clearly articulate skills and knowledge they plan to obtain through their intentional involvement with projects, programs, and other work experiences.
Course Description: The goal of this course is to provide a broad overview of the sociopolitical history of American Higher Education including the evolution story of student affairs.
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide a foundation for understanding the organization and administration of student services in higher education in your current and future roles as a higher education and/or student affairs practitioner.
Course Description: This course examines the legal status of higher education in the United States, the rights and responsibilities of educators and students including fair employment, due process, tort liability and contracts, students rights, landmark court decisions, and federal state legislation having an impact on education.
Course Description: This course introduces school-university collaboration to improve students’ readiness to transition from high school to college. To best understand the need for school-university collaborations, we first explore the history, development, and barriers found in P-12 settings.
Course Description: An overview of program evaluation theories, models and perspectives currently being applied in higher education. Emphasis will be on how to perform evaluations and hence better plan programing of functional areas and/or organizational units in higher education that are focused on student support, activities and success.
Course Description: This course is devoted to helping students plan, execute, and reflect on their required internship experiences. An important component of the internship is students clearly articulating learning objectives – skills and knowledge they plan to obtain through their intentional involvement with projects, programs, and other work experiences.
HSA 5203: Multicultural Issues in Higher Education.
Course Description: This course focuses on diversity and multiculturalism regarding institution types, student populations, and research. Special attention is given to the impact of HBCUs, HSIs, PWIs; race, ethnicity, and gender among students; and income and first generation status on student achievement. Students are introduced to scholarship on multiculturalism and institutional transformation, and apply their knowledge in a culminating project.
EDL 6953: Independent Study.
Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member.