Adult Education

Course Structure

1. [\'ADTED 456Introduction to Family Literacy (3) Introduces family literacy concepts, models, and components supporting families; adult, child, and parent education, interactive literacy activities, and case management. Effective: Fall 2014 Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits\', "ADTED 457Adult Literacy (3) Surveys adult basic and literacy education research, theory, programming, and instruction; highlights learners\' roles as parents, workers, and community members. Effective: Fall 2014 Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits", "ADTED 458Early Literacy Development (3) Focuses on young children\'s language and literacy development, including parental and staff support, grounded in scientifically based reading research. Effective: Fall 2014 Prerequisite: Associate degree or 60 undergraduate credits", "ADTED 459Interactive Literacy and Parental Involvement: Supporting Academic Success (3) Explores parental involvement in education and parent-child literacy activities that support children\'s language and literacy development, especially among diverse families. Effective: Fall 2014 Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits", \'ADTED 460Introduction 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 480Teaching Math and Numeracy to Adults (3) Examines issues of learning math as an adult and explores effective strategies for teaching math and numeracy to adults. Effective: Summer 2015 Prerequisite: Associate degree or 60 undergraduate credits\', \'ADTED 496Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 497Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 498Special 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 501Foundations 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 502Program 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 505The 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 506Program 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 507Research 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 510Historical 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 531Course 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 532Research 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 533Global Online and Distance Education (3) Students will explore the historical and current developments of online and distance education in different regions of the world. Effective: Fall 2015 Prerequisite: ADTED 460\', \'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 542Perspectives 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 543 (AFR 543, CI ED 543) Comparative and International Trends in Adult Literacy Education (3) This course critically examines the broad contemporary issues and interdisciplinary trends of literacy education with an international and comparative framework. Effective: Summer 2015\', \'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 550Qualitative Research in Adult Education (3) Introduction to the theory, principles, and practice of qualitative research. Effective: Fall 1997\', \'ADTED 551Qualitative Data Analysis (3) Students learn to analyze data qualitatively by engaging in, and continuously reflecting on the process. Effective: Fall 2015 Prerequisite: ADTED 550 andLDT 574\', \'ADTED 552Participatory 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 560Teaching 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: Spring 2014 Prerequisite: LL ED 440 or teaching experience\', \'ADTED 561Family Literacy (3) Examines the research related to the four components of family literacy, program effectiveness, and theoretical underpinnings. Effective: Summer 2004\', \'ADTED 562 (CI ED 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 2014\', \'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 575Administration 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 580Adult 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 588Professional 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 590Colloquium (1-3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 594Research Topics (1-18) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis. Effective: Spring 1997\', \'ADTED 595Internship in Adult Education (3-9) Supervised student internship in adult education agency. Effective: Summer 1996 Prerequisite: ADTED 460\', \'ADTED 596Individual 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 597Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 597A (COMM 597A) Consumption as Curriculum in American Culture (3) This course explores consumer culture in relation to its impact on structural inequities, issues of sustainability, and lifelong identity development. Effective: Fall 2015 Ending: Fall 2015 Prerequisite: graduate standing\', \'ADTED 597A (COMM 597A) Social Theory and Lifelong Learning (3) In-depth coverage of social theory, especially as it intersects with research in adult education and lifelong learning. Effective: Spring 2016 Ending: Spring 2016 Future: Spring 2016\', \'ADTED 597BDoctoral 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. It is intended for both practitioners who have experience in working with adult learners and people with little or no experience who have an interest in learning about the field. We will take a broad view of adult education and will accommodate the interest of persons concerned with non-formal education, informal learning, and formal learning in diverse settings. The principal aim is to develop a basic understanding of adult education in a global context as well as to begin preparing students for candidacy. The focus of this course will be on the socio-historical context of its methods, agencies, programs and issues. Effective: Fall 2015 Ending: Fall 2015\', \'ADTED 597C (CI ED 597C) Comparative and International Perspectives of Multicultural Adult Educationin Schools and the Workplace. (3) This graduate course is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to examine human relations and inter-group relations within the context of interdependent individual, cultural, and institutional behavior perpetrated in schools, workplace, and by the media industries. The objective will be to critique and develop theoretical frameworks, and assist in the development of researchable questions and curriculum models for classrooms and workplace training sites; and to explore issues related to multicultural and multiethnic education, e.g., ethnic literacy, cultural pluralism, the future of multiculturalism, teaching multicultural literacy teachers, etc. The focus is on group identity and individual differences as they impact and are impacted by inter-group dynamics and the global economy. Effective: Fall 2015 Ending: Fall 2015\', \'ADTED 598Special 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 600Thesis Research (1-15) No description. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 601Ph.D. Dissertation Full-Time Ph.D. Dissertation research. Effective: Spring 2014 Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination\', \'ADTED 602College Teaching (1-3) Experience in teaching in the Adult Education Program. Effective: Fall 2006 Prerequisite: Advanced standing in the Adult Education graduate program.\', \'ADTED 610Thesis Research Off Campus (1-15) No description. Effective: Summer 1996\', \'ADTED 611Ph.D. Dissertation Part-Time Ph.D. dissertation research\', \'Effective: Spring 2014\', \'Prerequisite: passing score on the Ph.D. comprehensive examination\']