Course Description:
"This seminar crosses a broad region of issues from two related angles. On the one hand, we'll take a critical look at some outstanding coming- of-age comedies and melodramas-e.g.,Dead Poets Society (1989), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), or Finding Forrester (2000). What do contemporary films like these have to teach us about education and American culture? On the other hand, we'll consider some of the ways in which motion pictures were greeted in the 1930's. Some saw Hollywood fare as a potential threat to school performance. Others, with an eye on documentary style film-making, saw a fresh opportunity for public education or a new way of overcoming the otherwise abstract, bookish lessons in the classroom. A paper of 20-25 pages in length on any aspect of these broad topics will be due at the end of term. There will be no final exam."
Selected bibliography:
Thomas Doherty, Teenagers & Teenpics: the Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950’s (2002); Robert Bulman, Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools and American Culture (2005); Henry James Forman and Carrie Chapman Catt, Our Movie-Made Children (1933, reissued 2010); Garth S. Jowett et.al., Our Movie Made Children: The Payne Fund Controversy (2007); William Stott, Documentary Expression in Thirties America (1973, 1986); Charles F. Hoban & Charles F. Hoban, Jr., Visualizing the Curriculum (1937); Dan Streible, ed., Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the US (forthcoming).
PLEASE NOTE: EPE 525-402/773-401 is currently full.
EPE 798-001- Seminar In Higher Education: Legal Issues in Student Affairs, taught by Dr. Neal Hutchens on Mondays from 4-6:30 PM in room 301 Dickey Hall.
Course description:
"This course will offer a focused inquiry into legal issues in higher education in relation to common legal issues encountered by student affairs professionals, especially in regards to their work with students. The course will cover topics that include student liability, privacy issues (especially in relation to FERPA), student speech rights, and student conduct. While there is not any pre-requisite for the course, it will be helpful to have had an introductory higher education law course. For those students not having had such a course, they should be prepared to engage in additional reading and preparation so that they will find the materials in the course meaningful."
EPE 798-002- Seminar In Higher Education: Theory to Practice In Support of Student Learning, taught by Dr. Karin Lewis on Wednesdays from 11:00 AM-1:30 PM in room 108 Taylor Education Building.
Course description:
"EPE 798-002 Seminar participants will explore a range of theoretical frameworks related to teaching and learning in the context of higher education. Theory informs both researchers and practitioners as we structure how we work, teach, navigate the institution, interact with and support students. Looking through different theoretical lenses, including but not limited to, student development, cognitive development, gender dynamics, adult learning, personal epistemology development, system dynamics, communities of practice, and organizational sociology participants in the seminar will peel back layers of daily experiences in academe, college teaching-learning processes, and synthesize theoretical concepts from their other coursework and experience to gain a deeper understanding of our work in academe as we address major contemporary challenges in higher education."
Seminar Student Learning Objectives:
- Explore prevalent issues facing contemporary higher education.
- Examine theoretical frameworks used to explain models of organization, strategic planning, social constructs, power, bureaucracy, student development, cognitive development, and dimensions of personal epistemology
- Analyze internal assumptions, pedagogical issues and cultural capital in practice
- Critique the daily practices at institutions of higher education as examined through a range of theoretical lenses
- Recommend theory-informed best practices in a specific topic relating to support of student learning
EPE 798-402- Seminar In Higher Education: LGBT Issues in Higher Education, taught by Dr. Steven Oliver on Wednesdays from 7-9:30 PM in room 122 Taylor Education Building.
Course description:
"Increasingly institutions across the US are grappling with the question of how to create space within the academy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, faculty and staff. These questions have implications for every aspect campus life including human resource policy, faculty recruitment and retention, student affairs, the development of new courses, and creating a welcoming campus climate as part of the broader work of diversity and inclusion. This course will explore the growing body of literature that seeks to understand the needs of LGBT students, faculty, and staff. We will examine the pathways various institutions have taken to address these issues at times in the face of considerable resistance despite shifting societal trends."
