Fall
Semester
Eppl 613:
The Academic Life
Collegiate
curriculum and faculty are intimately intertwined. This course explores how the logic of
faculty socialization and career development relates to the evolution of teaching
and learning environments in colleges and universities. Career issues and the institutional
roles of the faculty and curricular forms, functions, processes, content, and
contexts are examined.
EPPL 628: History of Higher Education
This graduate
course presents critical analysis and interpretation of historical developments
in higher education from the medieval to modern periods. Emphasis is on key institutions,
episodes, and social trends which illustrate the continuities, complexities,
and changes in colleges and universities.
Students are introduced to the use of historical documents and the logic
of historical analysis.
Eppl 790: Educational
Policy, Planning, and Leadership Research
Seminar
This seminar
enables students to explore the current literature associated with their
research interests and resources for doing research, and to confront problems
in conducting original investigations in higher education, general education
administration, gifted education administration, and special education
administration. Attention is given
to the investigation of a research problem of each student’s interest.
SYLLABUS
Spring Semester
Eppl 511: Budget Policy and Practice in Higher
Education
This course
enables students to understand the budget process employed by colleges and
universities. After examining the
fundamental budgeting operational models, the annual planning operations,
policy decisions and ramifications, and construction of an institutional budget
are discussed and practiced through computer simulations.
Eppl 604: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives in
Educational Theory,
Research and Practice (Odd Years)
This course
explores the general paradigmatic structure of knowledge, focusing in
particular on the
social sciences and humanities, and engages students in the
process of conceptualizing educational research problems that are based in social
science and humanities theory and models.
After considering basic conventions and principles from anthropology,
sociology, social psychology, political science, and the humanities, students
explore and apply various theoretical perspectives and models to potential
research topics in education.
Eppl 638: Comparative Higher Education (Even
Years)
This course explores diverse post-secondary systems,
structures, and organizational issues across the glove and outside of the
traditional American system. After
gaining an understanding of various distinct models of national tertiary
systems, attention will turn to the general topics of history, curriculum,
faculty, access, governance, and finance.
Students will pursue a research topic of choice and share their
scholarship in a colloquium format.
Eppl 661: Law and Higher Education
A course for
advanced graduate students that examines constitutional, statutory, and case
law relevant to higher education and the implications of this body of law for
policies and practices affecting students, faculty, administrators, and
staff. Students will learn basic
legal concepts and become familiar with relevant legal terminology.