Please see the descriptions below for Fall 2013 seminars offered in EPE. Priority registration for the 4 WK Summer, 8 WK Summer and Fall terms begins Monday, March 25th. The majority of our course offerings have been posted to the course schedule accessible at through MyUK. If you have questions about the registration process or are experiencing difficulty, you should not hesitate to contact Amberly Warnke in the EPE office at aaburk00@uky.edu .
Important notes:
- EPE/EDP 558 is no longer being offered in the 8 WK Summer term.
- EPE 669 is no longer being offered in the Fall term.
- Members of the EdD in EPE Cohort and the PLS Cohort will be unable to register until further notice. If you are a member of one of these cohorts, you will be contacted when the issues preventing your registration have been resolved.
- EPE 773-004 "Manuscript Writing" taught by Dr. Kelly Bradley on Tuesdays from 9:30-Noon. Bring your research and learn the ins and outs of manuscript writing through various lenses, as you produce a final product of your research, a piece to put under review and hopefully publish.
- EPE 525-001/773-005 "Education & Film" taught by Dr. Richard Angelo on Tuesdays from 4-6:30. This seminar is open to graduate students at both the masters (EPE 525) and the doctoral level (EPE 773). Undergraduates with advanced standing are also welcome to enroll under the EPE 525 number. We’ll be exploring a number of distinct but related themes. Coming-of-age comedies and melodramas are certainly on the docket—Dead Poets Society (1989), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Finding Forrester (2000) and the like. But we will also take the long view. We’ll consider the revolutionary emergence of cinema at the turn of the last century, as well as the hopes, anxieties, and politics that cradled what was still a new technology in the 20’s and 30’s. While Hollywood fare was perceived to be a threat as well as an opportunity for the schools, others were drawn to the promise of “practical cinema”—to non-theatrical releases of one sort or another—to advance a range of educational agendas in a wide variety of venues. While the seminar sheds fresh light on our curricular past—to date, the historiography of American education has all but ignored film and photography—it also affords new perspectives on our digital present. 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.
- EPE 798-001 "Sociology of Education" taught by Dr. Jane Jensen on Wednesdays from 11-1:30. A study of higher education and society using sociological views and policy perspectives. Topics include inequality and diversity in higher education; universities and colleges as social organizations and cultural institutions; the academic profession, academic departments and disciplines; the social and academic lives of students; as well as the impact of higher education and its relations to labor markets. The examples we'll use in the course will lean heavily toward rural higher education and Appalachian Studies. This course will count toward an elective in the Graduate Certificate in Appalachian Studies, if you are interested, and is a good foundational course for higher education students interested in socio-cultural issues in post-secondary education.
- EPE 798-001 "Diversity and Education" taught by Dr. Willis Jones on Mondays from 4-6:30. This seminar will examine how race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and other issues of diversity impact various areas of post-secondary education. The goal of the class is for students to develop a greater understanding of how diversity is defined, understood, and conceptualized in higher education research, practice, and policy. Among the topics to be covered in the course are post-secondary access, the college student experience, the educational impact of diversity, and campus climate.
