Winter 07/Spring 08 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Winter 2007 and Spring 2008; however, some (or all) may not be offered in either term.  The courses that are offered in Spring link to the Schedule of Classes.  Classes with alternative delivery modes (Web based, cable TV, correspondence, etc) are noted in the Schedule at the section level.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

Higher Education (H ED)  Department Info

H ED 197A -- Success Express First Year Experience  (1 unit)
Description:  This course is about the first-year experiences of college students. It combines class activities and discussions with out-of-class learning experiences and reflective writings in a weekly journal. Discussion themes and activities focus on the transition from high school to college, making the adjustment to the campus culture, membership in a community of students, the importance of developing connections with fellow students, faculty, staff and the institution, the maturation and development of traditional-age freshmen, and encountering transforming experiences during one's college career.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 297A -- Exploring Leadership  (2 units)
Description:  This course will cover a broad range of areas associated with effective leadership. Today's students encounter a world that demands a new level of intellectual sophistication, intellectual literacies, and social engagement from college graduates.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 396H -- Honors Proseminar  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 397A -- Service Learning  (1-3 units)
Description:  Familiarizes students with issues of college access and equity among underserved populations. Presents an overview of theories about college access. Students will mentor and tutor local high school and middle school students.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 397B -- Service Learning  (1 unit)
Description:  The “Service Learning for Student Achievement” is a service-learning course designed for those committed to providing tutoring and mentoring for students at under-resourced high schools in the Tucson community, in an effort to increase the level of academic achievement for these students. Enrollees study learning and developmental factors as well as cultural, social and environmental factors that affect student academic achievement and their path to higher education.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 498 -- Senior Capstone  (1-3 units)
Description:  A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 561 -- The Community College  (3 units)
Description:  The scope, objectives, and educational functions of the community college, patterns of community college programs.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 565 -- Tribal Colleges  (3 units)
Description:  This course provides an introduction to the tribal colleges, which includes a discussion of their history, mission, governance, organization, finance, curriculum, and current challenges. It also includes student characteristics and support services, faculty characteristics, support services, roles, responsibilities and evaluation, and an introduction to assessment of learning in the tribal college.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Identical to:  AIS 565; AIS is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 601 -- Higher Education in the United States  (3 units)
Description:  The scope of higher education in the United States; brief survey of historical developments and philosophic bases, public policy issues at the state and federal level; types of institutions and their purposes; characteristics of faculty, students and curricula.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 602 -- Research Design in Higher Education  (3 units)
Description:  This course is primarily designed to prepare doctoral students for the process of writing their research outlines and dissertation proposals. In addition, this course will allow students to gain the skills necessary to critically evaluate the design of published research in their respective areas of expertise. The target audience for this course is doctoral students in the Center for the Study of Higher Education who have completed introductory courses in qualitative and quantitative methods, and who are at or near the proposal stage of their doctoral programs. Master’s students (especially those who are electing the thesis option) and doctoral students from other departments are welcome at the discretion of the instructor.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 605 -- Qualitative Methods in Education  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to theory and methods of conducting research through extended participant observation in school or community settings; field work, ethnography, case study, qualitative methods.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  LRC 605; LRC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 608 -- The College Student  (3 units)
Description:  History and characteristics of the college student; interactions with campus environmental influences; developmental and normative trends; major research findings.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 609 -- Organization and Administration in Higher Education  (3 units)
Description:  Organizational theory, structures, systems, and administrative procedures in varied higher education institutions; patterns of governance and policy development.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 617 -- Student Personnel Services in Higher Education  (3 units)
Description:  Student personnel services, philosophy, history, administrative procedures, representative programs, current trends.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

H ED 650 -- Higher Education Finance  (3 units)
Description:  Historical patterns of financing private/public higher education; current sources/types of financial support; alternative methods of financing; social benefits and consumer theories.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

H ED 679 -- American Indian Higher Education  (3 units)
Description:  Development of higher education for American Indians/Alaskan natives from the earliest efforts to contemporary times. Issues and their implications for the education of American Indians in institutions and agencies of higher education. Emphasis on tribally controlled colleges and universities, and the development of American Indian studies programs in higher education institutions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  AIS 679; AIS is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 693 -- Internship  (1-6 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 693C -- Internship: Higher Education  (1-3 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 12 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 694 -- Practicum  (1-3 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 696C -- Topics in Higher Education  (1-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 39 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 697A -- Learner Centered Teaching  (3 units)
Description:  Designed for graduate students who will be serving as teaching assistants/graders or who plan to pursue a career in teaching. Pedagogical issues central to teaching/learning at the college level such as learning styles, classroom climate and culture will be covered.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  GRAD 697A; GRAD is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

H ED 699 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 793 -- Internship  (3-6 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 794 -- Practicum  (1-3 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 799 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 900 -- Research  (2-4 units)
Description:  Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 910 -- Thesis  (1-6 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing).
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

H ED 930 -- Supplementary Registration  (1-9 units)
Description:  For students who have completed all course requirements for their advanced degree programs. May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
Grading:  Grade of K is awarded for this course except for the final term.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.