This course is designed to provide students a comprehensive understanding of professional and ethical practice within higher education and student affairs. The course focuses on developing professional identity, values, and competencies. Students will explore principles that guide student affairs professionals and critically analyze ethical challenges they may encounter as professionals. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Fall 2026 - Hybrid
This course explores the principles, theories, and practices related to teaching and learning in continuing and postsecondary settings. The course equips educators with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to effectively facilitate learning experiences for a variety of adult and postsecondary learning populations. Offered at least once a year. Prerequisite: EDH 651.
Fall 2026 - Hybrid Winter 2027 - Hybrid
This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills to effectively create, access and evaluate co-curricular programs and services in postsecondary settings. The course focuses on the principles, methods, and tools used to gather, analyze, and interpret data to inform decision-making and enhance the overall student experience. Offered at least once a year.
Winter 2027 - Hybrid
This course surveys theories and models of organizational structure, leadership, administrative behavior, funding, governance, and management of higher education; processes and factors influencing institutional decision-making; and higher education strategic planning. Offered once a year.
The community college will explore the organizational behaviors and administrative practices unique to community colleges. Drawing on current and historical research, the course will examine educational philosophy and curricular objectives, student demographics, faculty and staff development, governance and leadership, and financial management of community colleges. Offered once per year.
Summer 2026 - Online
This course will provide a comprehensive understanding of challenges, controversies, and emerging trends that shape the landscape of postsecondary education, with a particular emphasis on the social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions. Offered once per year.
This course examines how notions of gender and sexuality converge with additional categories, such as race or (dis)ability, to structure the distribution of access and resources in higher education contexts. Offered once a year.
This course examines theories and practical approaches to managing crises within higher education and student affairs. Students will learn how to recognize and respond to crisis situations in a postsecondary education setting, and strategies to communicate and assess crisis responses. Offered fall and winter semesters.
This course examines the roles of emotion and affect in postsecondary education and student affairs. Specifically, the course examines the roles of body, space, and time in generating emotionally- and affectively-laden learning environments. The influence of emotion and affect on student learning, development, engagement, retention, and administration will be explored. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Field-based experience designed to provide clinical experience for graduate students. Each practicum shall be no less than the minimum requirements set forth by state and accrediting agencies and must be with approval by the appropriate program personnel. All practica will require seminars. Offered at least once a year. Prerequisites: Candidates must apply separately to the College of Education and Community Innovation by February 15 for spring/summer; May 15 for fall semester, and September 15 for winter semester.
The student identifies a problem, reviews literature, creates a product based on applicable literature, research or theory that addresses the problem, and develops a plan for implementation and evaluation. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: Completion of 27 credit hours, EDF 660, application required (application deadline: fall semester May 15, winter semester September 15, spring/summer semester February 15); and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within the last three years.
Winter 2027 - Online
