In Summer Session 2 2012 (8 Week):
EPE 557-420- "Gathering Analyzing and Using Educational Data" taught by Dr. Eric Reed Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-8:30 PM
This is a lecture and lab combined version of our usual EPE 557 offering.
EPE 684-220- "Higher Education and Athletics: An Historical Analysis" taught by Dr. John Thelin
This is a distance learning version of our usual EPE 684 offering.
EPE 798-221- "Seminar in Higher Education: The University in Global Context" taught by Dr. Jane Jensen
This course is offered through the distance learning program and reflects the institutional history of how the Western university has been and is situated in a global context. Travelling in time from the first medieval institutions in the 12th century through the student protests of the sixties to the globalization of the university today, course participants will trace the themes of academic freedom, student and faculty activism, and the knowledge economy. Although this course centers on the Western university, we situate our conversation in a larger global context with the comparative story of Islamic, colonial, and post-colonial higher education. From medieval Bologna to current EU reforms called the Bologna Process this course provides an excellent background to a variety of research interests in the study of higher education.
In Fall 2012:
EPE 525-001/773-004- "Special Topics Seminar: "Let's See: Approaching the History of Education through Photographs" taught by Dr. Richard Angelo on Thursdays from 1-3:30 PM
EPE 525/001-773-004 is open to beginning as well as advanced graduate students. Because it is a "seminar," the emphasis will be on original research. Alan Trachtenberg's Reading American Photographs: Images as History from Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (1989) is an early and outstanding example of what has become a burgeoning literature. Using appropriate secondary works as guide and inspiration, students will explore a topic of their choice that bears on history of education in Kentucky. The only requirement (aside from the final paper) is that the topic be rooted in one way or another in the photographic collections at our disposal here on campus or on line. (For a sample, see the "Brief Photo Essay on the History of Education in KY" on the EPE website: http://education.uky.edu/EPE/content/research-briefs )
EPE 773-005- "Seminar in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation: "Global Education, Gender, Media and Popular Culture" taught by Dr. Karen Tice on Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM
EPE 773-005 will consider the convergence of gender, popular culture, mass media, education, consumerism, globalization and transnational networks, and neo-liberal/postfeminist discourses of assimilation, empowerment, and mobility. It will explore the impacts of these dynamics on both formal and informal educational spaces and practices. We will also examine how commercialized popular culture, celebrity, and media pedagogies help to shape gendered student identities and cultures. This course will also focus on the production, consumption, and diffusion of various forms of popular culture as well as their localization, negotiation, and reinterpretation.
The objectives of this course include enhancing our understandings of transnational patterns of education, cultural flows, and diffusion, as well as the consumption and reception of popular culture and media pedagogies. Multidisciplinary readings will draw from education, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and other fields of inquiry.
EPE 773-006- "Seminar in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation: Applied Structural Equation Modeling" taught by Dr. Hongwei Yang on Tuesdays from 4-6:30 PM
EPE 773-006 "Applied Structural Equation Modeling" is an applied methodology course covering various topics in structural equation modeling (SEM) where a smaller number of latent variables are assumed to exist that explain covariances and correlations between observed variables and thus the relationship between latent/observed variables needs to be examined through statistical models. The course will teach you the popular SEM technique through a preferred and easy-to-use analysis platform: SPSS AMOS, and it will apply SEM to both cross- sectional and longitudinal data analysis.
Specifically topics in this course include the following: Review of basic concepts (mean, correlation, covariance, etc.), path analysis of observed measures, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), general structural equation models incorporating measurement and structural models, etc. Both single-group analysis and multiple-group comparison will be covered. For the longitudinal data analysis part of the course, both unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models will be presented in the absence/presence of time-varying/time-invariant covariates.
EPE 798-001- "Seminar in Higher Education: LGBT Issues in Higher Education" taught by Dr. Steven Oliver on Wednesdays from 1-3:30 PM
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.
EPE 798-401- "Seminar in Higher Education: Sociology and Education" taught by Dr. Eric Reed on Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM
In "Sociology and Education" we will survey many of the ways in which Sociologists study and discuss Higher Education. Our survey includes (but is not limited to): the study of Higher Education as part of a system of inequality; Higher Education as a stratification mechanism; Higher Education as an organization or institution; Higher Education as a workplace; and Higher Education as a change agent. We will conduct this survey by evaluating and discussing a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological works.
EPE 798-402- "Seminar in Higher Education: Diversity and Education" taught by Dr. Willis Jones on Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM
Specifically topics in this course include the following: Review of basic concepts (mean, correlation, covariance, etc.), path analysis of observed measures, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), general structural equation models incorporating measurement and structural models, etc. Both single-group analysis and multiple-group comparison will be covered. For the longitudinal data analysis part of the course, both unconditional and conditional latent growth curve models will be presented in the absence/presence of time-varying/time-invariant covariates.
The course will be useful to students/researchers in the following fields of study:
1. Educational research – Evaluate training program outcomes to determine impact on classroom effectiveness
2. Psychology – Develop models to understand how drug, clinical, and art therapies affect mood
3. Program evaluation – Evaluate program outcomes or behavioral models using SEM to replace traditional stepwise regression
4. Institutional research – Study how work-related issues affect job satisfaction
5. Market research – Model how customer behavior impacts new product sales or analyze customer satisfaction and brand loyalty
6. Business planning – Create econometric and financial models and analyze factors affecting workplace job attainment
7. Social sciences – Study how socioeconomic status, organizational membership, and other determinants influence differences in voting behavior and political engagement
8. Medical and healthcare research – Confirm which of three variables –confidence, savings, or research – best predicts a doctor’s support for prescribing generic drugs
EPE 798-001- "Seminar in Higher Education: LGBT Issues in Higher Education" taught by Dr. Steven Oliver on Wednesdays from 1-3:30 PM
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.
EPE 798-401- "Seminar in Higher Education: Sociology and Education" taught by Dr. Eric Reed on Thursdays from 7-9:30 PM
In "Sociology and Education" we will survey many of the ways in which Sociologists study and discuss Higher Education. Our survey includes (but is not limited to): the study of Higher Education as part of a system of inequality; Higher Education as a stratification mechanism; Higher Education as an organization or institution; Higher Education as a workplace; and Higher Education as a change agent. We will conduct this survey by evaluating and discussing a theoretically and methodologically diverse sample of sociological works.
EPE 798-402- "Seminar in Higher Education: Diversity and Education" taught by Dr. Willis Jones on Thursdays from 4-6:30 PM
"Diversity and Education" will critically examine how various areas of post-secondary education are impacted by diversity at the student, faculty, and administrative levels of a college/university. Among the topics to be covered in the course are college student racial identity development, understanding and creating a diverse campus climate, and approaches for consuming and analyzing research on the impact of diversity in higher education.
If you have questions concerning the course listing for EPE, or if you require assistance with registration, you should contact Amberly Warnke at aaburk00@uky.edu. *Please note* If you are a newly admitted student, you will not be able to register until just before the beginning of the academic term to which you were admitted.
