Adult Education & Higher Education Leadership (AHE)
AHE 410, INTERNSHIP/WORK EXPERIENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 440, INTRODUCTION TO ADULT LEARNING, 3 Credits
Explores various theories and principles of development for the adult learner. Integrates various methods of understanding for how adults learn and process information. Develops a personal philosophy of adult education.
Recommended: ED 253
Available via Ecampus
AHE 445, INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS FOR ADULT LEARNING, 3 Credits
Explores instructional strategies to facilitate adult learning in higher education and workplace settings. Develops resources for instructing and evaluating adult learner experiences through observation and practice.
AHE 450, EXPLORING LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Examines leadership and management theories often used in education and training settings, while studying values, characteristics, and challenges in the development of a philosophy and portfolio. Explores the value of diversity within leadership in education and training.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 502, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: CSSA 502
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 505, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: CSSA 505
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 506, PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: CSSA 506
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 510, INTERNSHIP, 1-18 Credits
By special permission and arrangement.
This course is repeatable for 18 credits.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 522, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY I, 1 Credit
Explores technologies used in distance education to deliver content and facilitate active learning through learner creation of digital portfolios and artifacts using online tools and apps.
Corequisites: AHE 553
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AHE 523, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY II, 1 Credit
An overview of best practices in digital-age learning design, including implementation of backward design principles.
Prerequisite: AHE 522 with C or better
Corequisites: AHE 533
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AHE 524, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY III, 1 Credit
Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to design and create complete online teachings/courses within a learning management system.
Prerequisite: AHE 522 with C or better and AHE 523 [C]
Corequisites: AHE 531
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AHE 525, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY IV, 1 Credit
Learners will research and demonstrate how to use a current innovative instructional technology, as well as develop skills in understanding trends and preparing for future innovations in instructional technology.
Prerequisite: AHE 522 with C or better and AHE 523 [C] and AHE 524 [C]
Corequisites: AHE 547
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AHE 531, INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, 4 Credits
Designed for instructors, trainers, managers, organizational consultants or others who are responsible for the development of programs and courses in community colleges, the workplace or other settings. Using systems concepts and methods, students will learn to design learner-centered instructional programs and courses.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 532, PROGRAM EVALUATION, 4 Credits
Assessing outcomes in college curriculum and workplace training programs from a systems perspective and evaluation of program effectiveness. Particular emphasis on formative and summative evaluation, frameworks for program evaluation, quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis, communicating and reporting evaluation findings, and the ethics and standards of evaluation practice.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 533, NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH, 4 Credits
Introduces workplace learning needs assessment (WLNA) and research principles and practices for individual and collaborative learning groups.
Prerequisite: AHE 553 with C or better
Available via Ecampus
AHE 534, ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS THEORY, 4 Credits
Introduces principles and practices underlying individual and collaborative work group learning. Participants will learn how to create an environment that promotes effective and efficient workplace learning.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 547, INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ADULT LEARNERS, 4 Credits
Exploration of and practice using instructional strategies to enhance adult learning. Acquisition of an instructional strategy tool kit as well as a method for evaluating adult learning events.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 549, ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES, 4 Credits
Focuses on issues facing professionals working with adult learners as well as ethical issues relevant to the practice and scholarship in the field. Combines instruction in inquiry-based teaching methods and learning theory with work in professional settings, such as for-profit and non-profit organizations and government agencies.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 553, ADULT LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT, 4 Credits
Introduce participants to key theories, orientations, models, and principles of learning and development in adulthood.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 567, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RELATIONS, 4 Credits
Exploration of multiple theories of leadership in different organizational contexts; synthesize theory with experience to construct a personal framework for leadership practice.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 575, EDUCATIONAL FINANCE, 3 Credits
Finance, budgeting and accounting for sources of revenue; deferral, state and local financing, budgeting and accounting models, practical experience combined with examination of theory, trends and issues. Focus in either public schools, community colleges or higher education through practical experience.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 582, LEGAL ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
A comprehensive presentation and discussion of the law governing administration within community colleges and college/universities with a special emphasis on student services administration.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 599, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 602, INDEPENDENT STUDY, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: ED 602
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 603, THESIS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 999 credits.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 605, READING AND CONFERENCE, 1-16 Credits
Equivalent to: ED 605
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 606, PROJECTS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 609, PRACTICUM CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.
AHE 610, INTERNSHIP, 1-15 Credits
This course is repeatable for 15 credits.
Available via Ecampus
AHE 611, QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH I, 3 Credits
Foundational course to methods and statistics used in quantitative educational research. Examines data analysis, statistical procedures, and interpretation of results within postsecondary environments.
AHE 612, RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Research perspectives, how they are influenced by worldviews, and how these worldviews influence research.
Recommended: Completion or concurrent enrollment in an introductory statistics course
AHE 613, RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IN EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Critical analysis of scholarly studies in education from a variety of research perspectives.
Recommended: AHE 612 and completion or concurrent enrollment in an intermediate statistics course
AHE 614, ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATION, 1-3 Credits
Selected topics in research methods as appropriate for research perspectives in education.
This course is repeatable for 6 credits.
Recommended: AHE 613
AHE 616, QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH II, 3 Credits
Develop conceptual and practical understanding of research and evaluation in higher education. Course topics include basic statistics, survey design, data analysis, and assessment issues. As an advanced statistics course, students will have the opportunity to apply concepts and gain direct research experience by conducting an original research project.
Prerequisite: AHE 611 with C or better
AHE 617, NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Explores needs assessment as an applied research tool. Addresses definitions of types of needs assessment and compares needs assessment approaches. Applies research skills in the creation, design and implementation of a pilot needs assessment project focused around educational inequities.
AHE 618, QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 3 Credits
Introduces learners to a variety of qualitative research perspectives and methodologies. Participants will examine these approaches by critiquing a scholarly article containing qualitative methods; formulating qualitative questions; writing a short proposal; collecting, coding, and analyzing data; and writing a final synthesis paper.
AHE 619, QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH II, 3 Credits
Focuses on the interlocking concepts of theory and data to broaden understanding and application of qualitative methodologies to improve research design and analysis from varying disciplinary approaches for the study of higher education.
Prerequisite: AHE 618 with C or better
AHE 623, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Examines contemporary challenges facing higher education institutions and identifies connections between broader issues and problems of practice. Compares and contrasts issues and problems at different institutional types. Identifies relationships between major issues, policies, and external factors.
AHE 630, PROGRAM EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Examines program evaluation methods and frameworks used in higher education. Describes key models, theories, strategies, and underlying assumptions of evaluation practice and addresses appropriate evaluation designs. Explores the political and contextual factors that affect the practice of evaluation and effective methods for disseminating evaluation findings. Applies evaluation skills to assess efficacy and effectiveness of solutions focused on a problem of practice.
AHE 634, POWER AND PRIVILEGE IN LEADERSHIP, 3 Credits
Critically analyzes how systemic power and privilege serve to maintain/reproduce systemic inequities. Evaluates ways leadership identity is socially constructed and identifies leadership style in relation to identity. Distinguishes between academic and student affairs leadership. Analyzes leaders’ engagement with the environment and assesses critical perspectives, models, and theories that inform leadership practice.
AHE 638, HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Surveys American higher education across 200-plus years of American history, with a specific emphasis in this section on the American community college.
AHE 640, HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION I, 3 Credits
Examines the role of academic and student affairs leaders in managing effective and inclusive institutions. Explores creating equity-focused policies and practices that promote diverse and inclusive learning environments. Addresses how leaders can formulate equitable strategies to recruit, retain, and develop faculty, staff and leaders and analyzes leadership strategies for navigating institutional and environmental crises. Evaluates skills to foster productive cross-campus collaborations between units, divisions, and departments.
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AHE 641, HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION II, 3 Credits
Examines the role of external relations in leading effective and inclusive higher education institutions. Identifies the relationship between leaders, various stakeholders and external constituents, and analyzes strategies for leaders to effectively communicate with the media. Describes the role and responsibilities of college and university boards. Identifies leaders’ role in fundraising and philanthropy and compares strategies for individual fundraising and project fundraising at different institutional types. Evaluates community engagement strategies for higher education leaders. Analyzes the influence of globalization and internationalization on higher education practice, policy, procedures, and programs.
AHE 643, ORGANIZATION THEORY-HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
An introduction to organizational theory (OT). The texts allow us to explore how systems thinking is applied to our world, and how we can use it to better understand the nature of human social engagement. Both OT and living systems theories are deeply associated with improvement and change theories in higher education settings and business.
AHE 644, POLICY ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Examines state and national policy issues impacting leadership in higher education. Describes contexts underlying policies impacting college access and outcomes and distinguishes theoretical approaches for higher education policymaking. Explores how leaders inform and influence policy within systems of higher education. Applies knowledge to an analysis of policy issues impacting higher education.
AHE 645, ETHICAL PRACTICE, 3 Credits
Reviews major ethical theories with an emphasis on practical applications related to community college professional practice.
AHE 648, ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Examines the role of strategic, operational, and fiscal management and planning in leading inclusive and equitable higher education institutions. Analyzes strategies to efficiently and effectively manage institutional resources and explores the role of leaders in developing and executing strategic plans. Explains the role of leaders in supporting regional and program accreditation and compares different models of change. Identifies ways for leaders to lead proactive change and innovation. Analyzes the role of a budget manager including strategies for managing budget cuts and fluctuations. Explores elements of a budget, budget cycle, and steps for creating a budget and setting priorities.
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AHE 652, INDIVIDUAL LEVEL THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Analyze the role of theory in conducting equity-focused higher education research. Diagram systemic inequities in higher education and evaluate individual-level theories. Compare approaches to developing theories across social science disciplines. Identify appropriate theories and theoretical concepts for use in research.
AHE 672, INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 3 Credits
Introduces research methodologies designed to enable students to comprehend and critically evaluate research across social science disciplines, as well as prepare them for ethical research activities. Engages with the research process, including but not limited to the importance of existing literature, the role theoretical frameworks play, and generating impactful research questions. Exposes different methodological approaches to collecting data focused mostly on quantitative and qualitative research, as well as the limitations and advantages associated with the various methods (i.e., interviews, focus groups, secondary data analysis, etc.). Explores research epistemologies and how these beliefs influence worldview and subsequent research.
AHE 699, SPECIAL TOPICS, 1-16 Credits
This course is repeatable for 16 credits.