HALE 6233. Distance Learning Design & Administration. Provide a study of design and administration of organization structures, policies, and courses of study for the purpose of providing education to distant learners. Spring semester as needed.
HALE 6313. Budgeting Foundations of Distance Learning. Provides an overview of the economics and finance of higher education in the United States with an emphasis on the analysis of financial policies and current issues at the institutional, state, and national levels. Summer
HALE 6323. Curricular Design & Evaluation in Postsecondary Distance Learning. Provide a study of instructional design theories and applications needed for distance education course design. Topics include needs analysis, assessment, instructional material design, and evaluation. Spring, summer.
HALE 6343. Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Learning Education Seminar. This course is designed to introduce the prospective HALE educational practitioner to a broad range of issues at the forefront of current educational decision-making. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing, synthesizing, and critically examining topics that are pertinent to an individual student’s plan of study and career goals. Fall, summer.
HALE 6353. Foundations of Distance Learning. Serves as an introduction to distance education. General themes include the historical, theoretical, and philosophical foundations of distance learning, an overview of distance learning technologies, and an examination of effective techniques for teaching and learning with a distance learning system. Fall.
HALE 6363. History & Philosophy of Postsecondary Education. A study of the historical development of American higher education. The purpose of this course is to review significant changes within the higher education system, focusing on higher educational institutional philosophy, objectives, and functions. The course lays a foundation for understanding higher educational programs, issues, and trends. Fall semester.
HALE 6373. HALE Internship & Capstone Project. This course documents the successful completion of a written record of a completed project within the field of HALE. The course also requires a supervised internship. The internship activities provide an authentic experience which contributes to the practice and/or research in the field of higher, adult, or lifelong education. Fall, spring, summer, as needed.
HALE 6383. Leadership & Organization Development. Provides an introduction to the academics of leadership in a postsecondary setting. Student will examine personal attributes for effective leadership styles, prevalent theories of leadership and leadership development, structure of current organizations and future outlooks of organizational leadership. Also, time will be spent examining skills, abilities, values that will best equip leaders of future effective educational settings. Spring semester.
HALE 6393. Post-Secondary Teaching. The purpose is to help participants become more effective as instructors in postsecondary education by exploring different conceptions of instruction, characteristics of learners, theories concerning the learning process for adults, instructional design and planning, strategies to encourage active learning, and approaches to assessing learning, improving teaching through assessment and faculty learning and development. Spring semester.
HALE 6413. Program Planning and Evaluation in Postsecondary Contexts.
Application of learning from core courses in practical ways to provide solutions to real- world problems within an educational setting. Students examine program purposes, outcomes, planning models, transfer of learning models, budget development and evaluation. The culminating project is the development of an educational program related to the student’s professional goals. The student is encouraged to take this course toward the end of his/her plan of study. Summer.
HALE 6423. Special Problems in Adult Education. Purpose is to provide an opportunity to explore significant works and historical movements in adult education and instructional technology literature to analyze the emergence of adult education in the United States. Provides a broad perspective through selected readings. When possible, the student collects and uses primary information from an adult education/instructional technology setting. As needed.
HALE 6433. Survey of Adult Learning. Provides opportunity for developing a better understanding of learning in adulthood, implications knowledge holds for helping adults learn in postsecondary and other educational settings. The course is intended to be of practice use for student interested in teaching and learning in adult and other postsecondary education settings and for students interested in administration and leadership, student affairs and advising, and policy in postsecondary education. Exploration of historical, psychological, and social foundations of adult learning. Spring semester.
HALE 6443. The College Student. A foundational examination of student characteristics, demographics, beliefs, and cultural patterns in North American higher education. Major theories are reviewed that will assist the educational leader in developing policy and programs to maximize learning in the collegiate environment. Fall semester.
HALE 6453. The Community College. Concerns the philosophy, organization, programs and administration of community college including primary responsibility of instructional leaders. In particular, focus on remedial/developmental education programs, general education, liberal arts transfer curriculum, technical training, and noncredit/contract training programs. Summer.