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3263 Sports and Higher Education (4)
This course provides an overview of the general history of college and university sports, athletics, intramurals, intramurals, and wellness programs as a broad introduction to this area; additional emphases center on issues related to intercollegiate sports (e.g., athletic department positions, student-athlete support systems, ethical considerations, legal issues, politics and policies pertaining to institutional and NCAA norms/regulations, and current and future issues in collegiate athletics. Prerequisites: must be Junior- or Senior-level student.
3264 Psychosocial Dimens of Sport (4)
3265 Sport Admin - Higher Education (4)
This course will focus on the scope and responsibilities of the administration and leadership for a collegiate athletics department and related recreation and wellness operations. This course will teach the foundations of sports administration, define the skills and attributes required of a sport administrator, and review the specific knowledge and competencies necessary to be a successful leader in a collegiate sports and recreation arena. Theory and application of these concepts will be incorporated in the class. Prerequisite: Must be Junior- or Senior-level student
3991 Independent Study (1 to 10)
3992 Directed Study (1 to 10)
4210 Social/Politcl Context High Ed (3)
This course examines the social and political context of U.S. education and provides an analysis of schooling, cultural politics, and global influences that inform current practices and structures of the higher education system. Central to this courseis the development of a critical understanding of topics related to meritocracy, stratification, diversity, and decentralization in higher education. Prerequisite: Ph.D. student in higher education or permission of instructor.
4211 Current Issues in Higher Ed (3)
A study of contemporary higher education as a specialized field of inquiry and as a professional area in which to work. Explores institutional missions as well as entities such as administration, faculty, curriculum, and student, in relationship to current issues.
4212 Public Policy in Higher Educ (3)
Overview of federal and state public policy, current issues, research methods. Introductory seminar to public policy sequence. Recommended prerequisite: HED 4210, 4211.
4213 Leadership and Supervision (3)
General leadership theory and its implications for higher education; specific focus on leadership skills, such as conflict resolution, problem solving, use of teams and change advocacy.
4214 History American Higher Ed (3)
Development of North American higher education from colonial times to the present, focusing on important educators and institutions. Primarily for doctoral students.
4215 Curriculum Dev in Higher Ed (3)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of curriculum design, development, and change in higher education.
4216 HED Research Processes (3 to 5)
Enables students to explore current research and theories associated with their scholarly interests and resources for doing research, and to address problems in conducting original inquiry and investigations in postsecondary education. Attention is directed to the investigation of a research problem of each student's interest. Prerequisite: Successful completion of 10 credit hours of research courses or permission of instructor.
4217 Col Student Personnel Admin (3)
Review of student services, emphasis on programmatic content and relationship to student development; organization of student service programs and national trends. Introductory course for all master's students.
4220 Org & Governance of Higher Ed (3)
Study of theoretical perspectives and empirical research drawn from the social sciences related to higher education organizations and governance with an emphasis on application of theory and practice.
4221 Financing Higher Education (3)
Financing public and private institutions of higher learning; sources of income, budgeting procedures, funding and control, use of simulated exercises to illustrate principles. Recommended prerequisites: HED 4210, 4211 and 4214.
4222 Higher Education and Law (3)
Review of a broad range of administrative problems with legal dimensions; process for analyzing case law on issues of access, student rights, employment, collective bargaining, church-state relations, private sector and liability.
4223 Inst Research & Enroll Mgmt (3)
Explores the important area of institutional research (IR) in a postsecondary setting. Issues relating to how an IR office functions and typical responsibilities of the professionals who staff these offices will be explored. Enrollment management concepts and themes will be highlighted along with data collection and reporting aspects of the college admissions and retention processes. Prerequisites: HED 4213, 4217 and 4260 for master's students. HED 4213, 4220 for doctoral students.
4224 College HR Policies (3)
Organizational dynamics of human resource administration related to faculty and staff at colleges and universities.
4225 Tools-Institutional Resrch/Pln (1)
4226 The Community College (3)
General issues related to community college, such as history, mission, characteristics, students, curricula, teaching and student services.
4227 American Professorate (3)
Overviews the complexity of the professoriate and the challenges if faces; initial historical context provides background for problems of the past two decades, issues include contemporary composition, characteristics and reward systems among others for public and private postsecondary education.
4228 Grant Writing (1)
Skills and elements necessary to produce effective grant proposals, including searching for and selecting proper funding sources, writing mearsurable objectives and preparing charts and timelines.
4229 Student Personnl Helpng Skills (3)
This class will introduce students to basic interpersonal helping skills required in Higher Education settings, including relationship building, listening, giving feedback, problem-solving, and resolving conflicts. Students will become familiar with crisis intervention models and techniques; signs and symptoms of distress and mental illness; strategies for making appropriate referrals to mental health providers; and considerations about self and other when engaged in helping relationships, particularly those with cultural differences. Central to the course will be discussion of the appropriate role Higher Education professionals have in helping students while recognizing their limitations.
4240 National Systems in Higher Ed (3)
Impact and effects of national governments' policies on higher education; comparative examination of selected systems of higher education throughout the world including the United States.
4241 State Systems & Boards-High Ed (3)
State systems of higher education, functions of governance and coordinating boards and responsibilities of their offices. Recommended prerequisite: HED 4212.
4242 Educational Policy Analysis (3)
Various methods to research public policy enactments by analysis of specific federal and state policies or judiciary decisions. Prerequisites: HED 4212, 4243.
4243 State Policy Making (3)
Focus on legislature and its role in developing public policy in higher education, its relationships to various state boards of education and the public; site visits to legislature to analyze its activities entails one-hour practicum.
4244 Legislative Policy Writing Wkp (1)
Overviews style, process and content of writing within the public policy environment. Specific focus will be on postsecondary education issues and how to word and/or write legislative bills.
4245 Art of Advocacy in Higher Ed (1)
Roles of lobbying and legislative process in non-profit organizations and higher education; importance of legislation to organization's mission, legal parameters of involvement and techniques for establishing effective presence in legislature.
4246 Issues of Access & Opportunity (3)
Overview of issues related to race, gender and socioeconomic status, as they affect access to and success in higher education.
4260 Students & College Environment (3)
Historical overview of student life, research and literature relating to contemporary college students and student services. Recommended prerequisite: HED 4217.
4261 Char Col Stud & Adult Learners (3)
Overview of theories related to college student development to understand issues and problems facing college students; application and use of theories as part of working with college students.
4262 Program Dev & Assessment (3)
How student affairs administrators conduct student outcomes assessment, evaluate program development and monitor program and division budgets.
4263 Sports in Higher Education (3)
General history of college and university sports, athletics, intramurals and wellness programs as a broad introduction; emphasis on gender equity and NCAA norms and regulations related to intercollegiate sports.
4264 Psychosocial Dimens of Sport (3)
Psychology and sociology of sports as related to college and university athletics and wellness.
4265 Students and the Law (3)
Overviews higher education law related to student personnel issues, programs and life.
4266 Ethical Issues in Higher Ed (3)
Basic ethical principles and methods for making ethical decision within context of administration, faculty and student life moral problems.
4267 Role of Advisor in Learning (3)
The heart of education is learning not only skills and knowledge, but values, attitudes and emotions. This course broadly covers learning principles and theories and their application for academic and career advisers. Advisers are often the nexus to enhance learning and personal development for students in higher education environment. Advisers intentionally create conditions that motivate and direct students to devote time and energy on educationally purposeful activities in and outside the classroom.
4268 Design/Facilitation Dev Wkshp (3)
Issues related to training and student life; overviews the development of workshops, associated learning and assessment theory and instructional technologies.
4269 Student Affairs Practicum (1)
Supervised experience in student-related issues including residence life, counseling, admissions, academic advising; practicum for graduate students interested in improving counseling skills to work effectively with traditional and nontraditional students. Arranged as one-credit seminars for three successive academic quarters at beginning of master's degree.
4270 Student Affairs Internship (1)
4280 Tch Strat Col Student & Adult (3)
Teaching strategies and learning paradigms typically used in teaching postsecondary learners in collegiate or training settings, including skill development and coaching, lecturing and explaining, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, simulation, group and team activities and mentoring for experience-based learning; practice in experiencing and using these strategies.
4281 Design/Admin of Multicult Prog (3)
Processes for identifying market needs, developing curricula, using delivery strategies and measuring learning outcomes and satisfactions for adult education activities, including community college, university outreach and customized training programs.
4282 Characteristics-Adult Learner (3)
Characteristics to consider in working with adult learners, including aptitude, motivation, cognitive development, psycho-social development, intelligence, learning styles, gender, ethnicity and social class; practice in analyzing learning characteristics of a specific individual.
4283 Training in Organizations (3)
Factors in the economic and social environment giving new importance to learning; scope and variety of training programs, place of training in organizations, role of training directors, examples of training programs and current efforts to measure training effectiveness.
4284 Diversity in Organizations (3)
In recent years, major demographic and economic changes in this country and worldwide have contributed to the diversification of the workplace. As a result, th eneed for understanding how to enhance cultural diversity inorganizations has taken a greater importance. Accordingly, this course focuses on the changing demographics of our society, especially related to race and culture, gender, age, physical ability, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status, emphasizing the implications these factors have for leadership and management in a variety of organizational settings.
4285 Instructional Design Project (3)
Using an actual site and identified training needs, students will develop a design for training and development that includes learning outcomes, an instructional plan, selected training strategies, appropriate materials, recommended media and means of assessment. Intended primarly as the culminating project for students enrolled in the master of science in management in training and development. Prerequisites: HED 4280, 4281, 4282.
4286 Use of Technology for Instruct (3)
Technology for instruction in college, adult education and training settings, including information retrieval systems, uses of computer, video, multimedia, amplified telephone and distance learning arrangements; practice in designing instructional technology.
4287 Critical Race Theory & Educ. (3)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an in-depth exposure to Critical Race Theory (CRT) as it pertains to education. Critical Race Theory is an analytical framework that provides race-based epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to the study of everyday inequalities in P-20 education.
4288 Gender & Sexual Orientn in Edu (3)
The purpose of this class is to explore the implications of sexual orientation or gender inequality for P-20 education. Feminist theory and queer serve as the foundational theoretical frameworks for this class. Through these theoretical lenses, the course examines the complex ways gender and sexual orientation are related to identity development, curriculum, academic policies, and school climate.
4290 Prof Dev Seminar (1)
This course will assess and help students develop critical self-reflection, leadership, and communication skills, and the capacity to work with others. This course will help students prepare their professional portfolio, outline personal and career goals, and network with leaders in the field. The course units will be delivered through seminars, workshops, and individual student and instructor sessions and supported by e-learning.
4291 PhD Professional Devel Semnr (3 or 4)
This course is designed to introduce the first year doctoral students to the field and discipline of Higher Education and to prepare doctoral students for their academic study.
4294 Seminar in Higher Education (1 to 4)
Advanced seminar to examine timely topics, issues, and problems. The course description is developed each time the course is offered to describe the topics to be investigated. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
4295 Intern Coll/University Admin (1 to 6)
Supervised experience in administration at college or university level. Prerequisites: EDUC 4210, 4211, 4220.
4296 Internship in Public Policy (1 to 6)
Supervised experience in postsecondary public policy analysis or research, usually at a state or national compact or agency in the Denver-Boulder area. Recommended prerequisiites: HED 4210, 4211, 4212, 4221, 4242, 4243.
4297 Internship in College Teaching (1 to 6)
Supervised experience in teaching at college level. Prerequisites: HED 4210, 4211, 4280 at the doctoral level, or HED 4217, 4261, 4280 at the master's level.
4991 MA Independent Study (1 to 17)
4992 Directed Study (1 to 10)
4995 Research - M.A. Thesis (1 to 17)
4XXX Higher Education Transfer (1 to 10)
5991 PhD Independent Study (1 to 17)
5992 Directed Study (1 to 10)
5995 Dissertation Research (1 to 20)