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Graduate Degree Programs

Adult Education (ADTED)

ADTED 456 Introduction to Family Literacy (3) Explores comprehensive family literacy models, focusing upon families, services, outcomes, and roles and responsibilities of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits  

ADTED 457 Adult Literacy (3) Surveys adult basic and literacy education programs and best practices; applies recent research on adult and family literacy.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits  

ADTED 458 Early Literacy Development and Parental Involvement (3) Focuses on young children's language and literacy development, including parental and staff support, grounded in scientifically based reading research.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite: Associate degree or 60 undergraduate credits  

ADTED 459 Interactive Literacy: Parents and Children (3) Focuses on literacy and language interactions between parents and their young children (including English language learners), implementing intentional/planned learning.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits  

ADTED 460 Introduction to Adult Education (3) History, methods, agencies, program areas, and problems of adult education in the United States.
Effective: Fall 2001
 

ADTED 470 (CI ED 470) Introduction to Distance Education (3) An introduction to the history, philosophy, organizations, learning theories, and instructional procedures used in American and foreign distance education.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 498 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 501 Foundations of Medical Education (3) This course provides an overview of medical education, and considers how it operates as a specific form of adult education.
Effective: Summer 2010
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 502 Program and Instructional Design in Medical Education (3) This course focuses on program planning and instructional design in a medical setting with an emphasis on teaching with simulation.
Effective: Spring 2011
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 505 The Teaching of Adults (3) Examination of direct and indirect teaching; contracts, application of current technology, andragogy, motivation, evaluation; knowledge of research.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 506 Program Planning in Adult Education (3) Intensive study of theoretical foundations, policies, evaluation models, methods, and materials in program planning in adult education.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460, ADTED 505  

ADTED 507 Research and Evaluation in Adult Education (3) Guided discussion and reading in selected research and evaluation methods and trends as applied in adult education settings.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460 ; introductory statistics course; introductory research design course  

ADTED 508 (CI ED 508) Globalization and Lifelong Learning (3) Examination of globalization discourses and their relationships, implications and impacts on lifelong learning processes and contexts.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

ADTED 509 (CI ED 509) Language, Literacy, Identity, and Culture in a Global Context (3) Examines the relationship between issues of language, identity and culture for adult learners in an increasingly global context.
Effective: Spring 2004
Prerequisite: ADTED 508  

ADTED 510 Historical and Social Issues in Adult Education (3) Social and historical foundations of adult education in the United States and selected nations.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 531 Course Design and Development in Distance Education (3) In depth study of the practices of designing courses taught by print, broadcast, and telecommunications media to adult distance learners.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 470, INSYS 415  

ADTED 532 Research and Evaluation in Distance Education (3) Study of previous, current, and needed research strategies, and issues concerning evaluation in distance education.
Effective: Fall 2001
 

ADTED 541 (WMNST 541) Women and Minorities in Adult Education (3) Seminar on women and minority adults as learners and leaders in the various contexts of adult education.
Effective: Spring 1998
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 542 Perspectives on Adult Learning Theory (3) Introduction to adult education learning theory, principles, and models of adult learning by adults alone, in groups, and in communities.
Effective: Fall 1997
 

ADTED 549 (HI ED 549) Community Junior College and the Technical Institute (2-3) Distinctive contributions to meeting the need for postsecondary education; development, functions, curriculum and instruction, government, administration, and finance.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 550 Qualitative Research in Adult Education (3) Introduction to the theory, principles, and practice of qualitative research.
Effective: Fall 1997
 

ADTED 551 Qualitative Data Analysis (3) Students learn to analyze data qualitatively by engaging in, and continuously reflecting on the process.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: ADTED 550 andINSYS 574  

ADTED 552 Participatory Action Research (3) Examines origins, historical development, main characteristics, methodological assumptions and models, practice of participatory action research adult education and community development.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

ADTED 560 (LL ED 560) Teaching Reading to College Students and Adults (3) Reading literacy for adults, including college reading, Adult Basic Education (ABE), and General Educational Development (GED) programs.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: LL ED 440 or teaching experience  

ADTED 561 Family Literacy (3) Examines the research related to the four components of family literacy, program effectiveness, and theoretical underpinnings.
Effective: Summer 2004
 

ADTED 562 Politics, Language and Pedagogy: Applying Paulo Freire today (3) Examines the work of Paulo Freire as it applies to community action projects.
Effective: Fall 2011
 

ADTED 564 (CI ED 564) Social and Cultural Contexts of Learning and Work (3) Examines the relationship between learning and work with special attention given to how certain forms of learning are legitimized.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: CI ED 500, ADTED 542  

ADTED 570 (CI ED 570) Comparative and International Adult Education (3) Critical and comparative analysis of adult education theory and practice outside North America, including international agency involvement.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 572 (CI ED 572) Policy Studies in Lifelong Learning (3) Examine lifelong learning policies and the relationship between lifelong learning issues and problems, policy development, policy actors and institutional structures.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: ADTED 508  

ADTED 575 Administration of Adult Education (3) Organization of a program of adult education; legal status, finances, selection of teachers, learning personnel, housing; other administrative problems.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 506 orEDLDR 480  

ADTED 580 Adult Education Research Seminar (1-3) A seminar dealing with specific research topics and methods in adult education. Open to advanced students in adult education.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 507, EDPSY 400, EDPSY 475  

ADTED 588 Professional Seminar: Research and Adult Education (3) Review of research in adult education, current and past, with analysis of its directions, effects, methodology, quality, financing, and prospects.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460, ADTED 507  

ADTED 590 Colloquium (1-3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 594 Research Topics (1-18) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Spring 1997
 

ADTED 595 Internship in Adult Education (3-9) Supervised student internship in adult education agency.
Effective: Summer 1996
Prerequisite: ADTED 460  

ADTED 596 Individual Studies (1-9) Creative projects including non-thesis research, supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 597 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 597A (CI ED 597A) Concept Mapping in Cross-Cultural Research in Education (3) This course explores concept mapping as analytical tool for research in cross-cultural and comparative contexts.
Effective: Summer 2013 Ending: Summer 2013
 

ADTED 597A Doctoral Pro-Seminar in Adult Education (3) This course provides both an orientation to the field of adult education as an area of study and an initial seminar for doctoral students to understand the process of graduate study in this program.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
 

ADTED 597B The Modern Practice of Distance Education (3) Students will explore current practices and issues in DE including: the changing relationship between Adult Education and DE; the growth of DE and online education in particular including open educational resources, for-profit online education, and MOOCs (massive open online courses); the changing information technology landscape driving changes to DE; and the pedagogical organizational, instructional design and research challenges these changes create.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
 

ADTED 597C (CI ED 597A) Multicultural Education Schools and the Workplace (3) Describes multicultural education as "an educational reform movement designed to increase educational equity for all students from diverse racial and ethnic groups, gender groups, exceptional students, and students from each social-class group."
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
 

ADTED 598 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or semester.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 600 Thesis Research (1-15) No description.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 601 Dissertation Research Ph.D. Dissertation research.
Effective: Summer 2004 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination  

ADTED 601 Ph.D. Dissertation Full-Time Ph.D. Dissertation research.
Effective: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination  

ADTED 602 College Teaching (1-3) Experience in teaching in the Adult Education Program.
Effective: Fall 2006
Prerequisite: Advanced standing in the Adult Education graduate program.  

ADTED 610 Thesis Research Off Campus (1-15) No description.
Effective: Summer 1996
 

ADTED 611 Dissertation Research Ph.D. dissertation research
Effective: Summer 2004 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination  

ADTED 611 Ph.D. Dissertation Part-Time Ph.D. dissertation research
Effective: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination  

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