Jun 16, 2024  
2022-2023 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2022-2023 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

Course Descriptions


Many course descriptions include a designation of Term(s) Offered: with one or more of the following: Fall, Spring, Summer. This indicates the term(s) in which the course is typically offered and is intended to aid students in planning their programs of study. Departments reserve the right to change the term(s) in which a course is offered.

 

Education

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • EDUC 567 - The Internet in Education


    Credits: 3

    Focuses on the process of connecting learners with remote resources as primary or secondary means of learning. Examines the systematic design and development of distance learning environments (e.g., video, computer, and Internet-based delivery systems) with special consideration to learner needs and varied communication channels. Students plan and design instructional sequences, then apply distance learning techniques that address issues such as the need for real-time vs. delayed interaction. The evolving roles of technology, faculty, and learners are discussed. The course will be taught using the technologies demonstrated in class.

    Prerequisite(s): EDUC 214, EDUC 565 , or equivalent

    Term(s) Offered:


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Educational Leadership

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • EDLE 724 - Policy and Practice in Higher Education


    Credits: 3

    Policy analysis, formulation and implementation are presented as elements for leaders to utilize in promoting and establishing sound and stable protocols and procedures to guide and govern individuals and organizations in performing tasks and achieving desired outcomes. Means by which transformative leaders introduce new or revised policy with maximum participation and minimum disruption are emphasized. Major national policies will be analyzed to understand their effect on employees and employers.  Students will investigate a policy that is relevant to their work and environment and create a formal policy brief. This policy brief must be rooted in both theory and its potential practice.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the EdD program.

    Term(s) Offered: Summer


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  • EDLE 742 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Higher Education


    Credits: 3

    Students will be exposed to a complex set of issues relating to ethical and legal behavior in institutional settings, including academic integrity, curriculum choices, student assessment, parental involvement, community relations, and administrative-staff conflict. Through readings, case analyses, and other means of investigation, the consequences of ethical and unethical practices and their impact on individuals and organizations are examined. This seminar will also provide an opportunity to examine and discuss current research on race, class, gender, poverty, institutional practices, state, and federal policy factors that are known to impact participation in higher education. Particular attention is given to the legal context of access in higher education, the various pathways to higher education, and the impact of various policies and programs on higher education.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the EdD program

    Term(s) Offered: Fall


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  • EDLE 743 - Organization and Management of Colleges and Universities


    Credits: 3

    Students will be exposed to critical competencies (attitudes, knowledge, skills) needed to create conditions for systematic and productive change, and to facilitate the process of introducing and sustaining innovation with maximum collaboration and minimum disruption. Also considered are various perspectives on how organizations function, and how individuals and groups within those settings can interact to achieve organizational goals for planned, purposeful change. This seminar will also allow students to explore and generate greater understanding of the culture of organization and administration in higher education. Students will also be exposed to literature that will allow them to identify and apply the appropriate organizational theories to different colleges and universities. After this course students will be able to unpack and understand the intricacies of colleges and universities as organizations and unique environments. We will also explore different conceptual and theoretical frameworks and view higher education through the lens of how these frameworks impact, support and hinder various institutional, culture, norms, and contexts.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the EdD program

    Term(s) Offered:


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  • EDLE 745 - Competitive Context of Higher Education


    Credits: 3

    The context of higher education is an increasingly complex and increasingly competitive environment. This seminar discusses the contemporary and future roles of enrollment management, the nature and scope of institutions in higher education, and constituency engagement. This seminar will also explore the competitive context, current practices, policies, and conditions that have, and continue to shape access to colleges and universities at the undergraduate level. This course is rooted in a philosophical approach to understanding conditions of access to higher education. This seminar will also provide an opportunity for students to discuss and unpack current research surrounding social stratification, educational quality, and how k-12 preparation, and cost impacts access. Students will also be prepared to unpack the following questions:

    • How do we go about preparing our youth to enter higher education?  
    • What should be the purposes of a public education, and educating a country’s citizenry
    • Is access to higher education a public good, and how is this public good defined?


    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the EdD program.

    Term(s) Offered: Spring


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  • EDLE 899 - Dissertation in Practice


    Credits: 1-3

    The purpose of the course is for doctoral students to undertake a scholarly endeavor that impacts a persistent, contextualized, and specific problem/issue embedded in the work of a professional practitioner, the addressing of which has the potential to result in improved understanding, experience, and outcomes. Students may register for 1 to 3 hours, repeatable each semester for a maximum of 9 credit hours. Continuous registration for dissertation in practice credit is required for each semester, excluding summer sessions, until the manuscript has been accepted by the University of Southern Indiana.
     

    Prerequisite(s): Doctoral candidacy status

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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English

  
  
  • ENG 512 - Advanced Academic Writing


    Credits: 3

    This course is an elective in the Studies in Rhetoric and Writing of the Master of Arts in English curriculum. In order to improve students’ upper division and graduate level writing across the disciplines and strengthen connections between reading and writing, the Advanced Academic Writing course will engage students with composing in scholarly genres that require effective application of rhetoric and writing studies approaches to original research and analysis; integrating, citing, and documenting sources; and synthesizing information with a view toward publication in professional, academic outlets in students’ areas of disciplinary focus.

     

    Cross-Listed: This course is cross-listed with LBST 512  and PRFS 412
    Term(s) Offered: Fall


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