Courses

• SED AP 500: Directed Study
  Open to undergraduate students only. Prereq: approval of advisor, the faculty member who is to supervise the study, and department chair. Plans must be submitted in advance of registration on a form obtained from the department office. Variable cr, either sem.
• SED AP 502: Community Education: Program Implementation
  Focuses on the theory and practice of curriculum development and implementation of programs serving multicultural populations. Examines institutional policies and practice of community agencies. Explores the role of the educator in out-of-school education. Students assume important responsibilities in selected educational agencies. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 520: Communications in Education and Human Services Organizations
  Overview of management of communication linkages between human service organization, including education, and their publics. Emphasis on the responsibilities of administrators and public relations officers in analyzing the organization's relationship to its total environment, interpreting significant issues, and planning effective communication programs. 4cr, Summer Term.
• SED AP 526: Citizen Participation and Community Development
  This highly participatory seminar format of this graduate-level course aims to engage students in a process of inquiry and discovery through reflection and analysis. Students will use a set of analytical tools and frameworks to analyze their own experience or a citizen organization, and develop a plan to increase participation in an agency, institution, school or school system. The seminar will also consider how to lead and manage citizen participation processes and will provide resources and tools for educational administrators, policy makers and community leaders who want to engage the public in the process of improving educational institutions. Rambaud, 4 cr., 1st sem.
• SED AP 550: Perspectives on Higher Education
  An introduction to the history and philosophy of higher education in Europe and America. Focus on the interplay between the goals of the university and the demands placed on higher education by society. 4cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 551: Issues in Higher Education Administration
  Examines crucial issues facing higher education administration, including curriculum, governance, finance, and mission. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 553: Student Affairs in Higher Education
  Many valuable university lessons are learned outside of the classroom. Through selected readings, class discussion, and guest lectures, this course will provide an overview of non-academic learning opportunities for student fostered by the departments that constitute student affairs divisions. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 599: Addressing the Achievement Gap: Leading and Learning with New Technologies
  This course examines policies and principles to offer innovative leadership solutions to better serving students considered “at risk for failure”. It presents comprehensive educational reform models for diverse populations in educational settings focusing on better assessment and instruction for immigrant and minority populations in the US and internationally. Emphasis is placed on leading and learning using new technologies as a tool to offer multiple entry points to access the general curriculum K-12. 4cr, either sem.
• SED AP 600: Diversity and Justice in Education
  How schools, colleges, and other education settings are affected by the growing pluralism of our society; the tension between respect for diversity and the maintenance of common purpose. Strategies of integration and separate development and of remediation and enrichment. 4cr, Summer II.
• SED AP 612: Governance and Decision-Making in Higher Education
  Focuses on decision-making in higher education and identifies, from a historical perspective, the changing roles of trustees, faculty, administrators, and students in the governance process, including an examination of how external forces influence decisions at a campus level. Accountability of the governing bodies and decision-makers will be addressed. 4cr, Summer term.
• SED AP 620: History of Education
  Topics in the history of education. Students prepare a paper on a topic selected in consultation with the instructor. Glenn. 4 cr. 2nd sem.
• SED AP 630: Education and Religion
  The relationship of government with schools and colleges based on religious convictions and the efforts of educators to shape and maintain a distinctive character in such institutions. Issues of educational freedom and the rights of parents from historical and comparative international perspectives. Students prepare a paper on a topic selected in consultation with the instructor. (Also offered as STH TE 845.)
• SED AP 640: Educational Freedom: U.S. and International Issues
  Guarantees and limitations of educational freedom in selected countries, focusing upon (1) establishment and management of independent institutions in relation to government supervision; (2) choice of schools by parents and of colleges by students; and (3) academic freedom of teachers and students. (Intended for graduate students; open to seniors by permission of the advisor and the instructor.)
• SED AP 652: Accountability in Independent, Charter, and International Schools
  Methods and resources for student and staff accountability in free-standing schools. How assessment programs like the International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement tests affect curriculum and school life. Leadership strategies for promoting a shared sense of mission in schools with diverse enrollment and administrative autonomy.
• SED AP 654: Human Resources in the International School Setting
  
• SED AP 662: Administrative Planning
  A comprehensive planning perspective integrates project design activities with project management and evaluation techniques. Topics include mission analysis, input-output specification and documentation, project budgeting, PERT diagramming, and decision and information flow diagramming. Each student prepares a planning document and should come to the first class with a project in mind. 4cr, 2nd sem.
• SED AP 680: Educations Policy and International Perspective (Online)
  An online survey of current social, legal and political issues in education, in the United States and in other countries, viewed in the context of emerging international standards. Students engage in online dialogue with one another and with the instructor focused on issues presented in the course, and submit a final project that explores the themes presented in the course in relation to a specific country or locality chosen by them. 4 cr, Summer I & II
• SED AP 701: Doctoral Colloquium I
  Provides opportunity for (a) discussion of the nature of successful doctoral-level work, (b) reading and discussion of challenging materials, and (c) reflection on common themes among the department's diverse specializations. Strongly recommended for all new doctoral students in Administration, Training, and Policy Studies, and open to others with the permission of the instructor. 2 cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 702: Research Colloquium in Administration, Training, and Policy Studies
  Provides students with an understanding of the basic purposes and essential logic of educational inquiry. Students critically examine and discuss selected policy studies, research reports, and literature reviews in order to understand the evidentiary requirements for making factual claims. Connections are drawn to issues of research design. 2cr, 1st sem.
• SED AP 713: Instructional Leadership
  Examines the role of the principal in working with teachers and specialists to shape the educational program of a school and to set clear and measurable objectives for outcomes. Meeting the needs of inner-city pupils and responding to program mandates.

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