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EPE 676 - Organization and Administration of Higher Education
Students will have the opportunity to learn more about and apply organizational theories and perspective related to the ways in which colleges and universities, public and private, are organized and administered. The course is meant to help students strengthen their analytic and research skills regarding organizational and administrative issues in higher education to inform topics related to policy and practice. During the course, students will have the opportunity to consider multiple theoretical and conceptual approaches related to organizational and administrative issues in higher education. Contact Dr. Neal Hutchens
EPE 683 - Affirmative Action and Federal Regulation of Higher Education
This course will provide students the opportunity to examine issues related to race equity and diversity in education, especially the legal framework surrounding the implementation of federal, state, and campus policies related to affirmative action. While much of the course will focus on topics related to higher education, the course will also consider recent cases from the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with equity and diversity efforts at the K-12 level. In the context of higher education, we will especially examine the impact of the Supreme Court’s decisions dealing with the use of race as a factor in higher education admissions in two cases involving the University of Michigan. The course will consider state-specific policy responses to issues involving affirmative action and will also consider federal law and policy issues, including proposed legislation dealing with access to higher education for undocumented students (the Dream Act). Contact Dr. Neal Hutchens
EPE773 Introduction to Rasch Measurement
Tuesday 9:30am-12
This reading and discussion-based seminar, with applied practice, will provide an overview of the practice of classical test theory. The focus will then shift to a detailed foundation of measurement as practiced using item response theory with a focus on Rasch measurement. What's wrong with the traditional approach to measuring 'things'? Rasch measurement facilitates more efficient, reliable and valid instruments. Rasch measurement focuses on the items and persons rather than the 'score' of the instrument, allowing for a synthesis of quantitative analysis with qualitative issues. Who uses Rasch measurement? This course is useful to anyone who wants to understand the role of modern measurement in research. Contact Kelly Bradley, Ph.D. with questions: kdbrad2@uky.edu
EPE 773- Global Education, Media, and Popular Culture
Mondays 4:00-6:30
This seminar will explore the interplay of popular culture, mass media, globalization, peer cultures, education, and gendered identities. The objectives of this course include enhancing our understandings of transnational patterns of gendered education, cultural flows and diffusion, normalization and resistance, and student cultures. We will analyze the impact of neo-liberal/postfeminist sensibilities and makeover technologies on formal educational institutions and practices, self-help and informal educational spaces, and the production of gendered identities. We will examine femininities, masculinities, class, belonging, citizenship, ethnicities, race, sexualities, and embodiment, along with ideologies of self-improvement and personal responsibility/empowerment. We will focus on a variety of popular culture forms including Reality TV makeover shows. For more information contact Dr. Karen Tice:
EPE 773-- Assessments from the Beginning
Tuesday Thursday 12:30 – 1:45
Become assessment literates! Learn about measuring things, tabulating and interpreting results, setting and using standards, and comprehending Kentucky, NAEP, and TIMSS assessments among other things in the testing and assessment arena. The seminar has no formal prerequisites.It is for those who have had no formal instruction in tests and measurements but are interested in them nevertheless. Contact Dr. Edward Kifer
EPE798 Seminar in Higher Education: Comparative and International Higher Education
Wednesdays 4-6:30
This seminar builds on concepts introduced in EPE555 Comparative Education (EPE555 is recommended but not required). Taught in three self-standing modules, the course will explore comparative methods and theoretical frameworks in comparative higher education research. With guest presentations and discussions with Dr. John Yopp, we will critique the process of internationalization in higher education in the US and abroad. Finally, we will examine the field of education abroad as an area of professional practice and as an important element of global education for today's post-secondary students. Assignments will include comparative investigations, policy papers, and assessment of programmatic and learning objectives. Graduate students from across the university are welcome to participate. For more information contact Dr. Jane Jensen: jjensen@uky.edu
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