Adult Education (ADTED)

ADTED 100 ADULT LEARNERS IN THE UNIVERSITY ( 3) Opportunity to develop effective learning strategies while exploring critical issues related to adults entering or returning to higher education.

ADTED 100S ADULT LEARNERS IN THE UNIVERSITY ( 1) Opportunity to develop effective learning strategies while exploring critical issues related to adults entering or returning to higher education.

ADTED 297 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

ADTED 456 INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY LITERACY ( 3) Explores comprehensive family literacy models, focusing upon families, services, outcomes, and roles and responsibilities of individuals, organizations, and communities. Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits

ADTED 457 ADULT LITERACY ( 3) Surveys adult basic and literacy education programs and best practices; applies recent research on adult and family literacy. Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits

ADTED 458 EARLY LITERACY DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ( 3) Focuses on young children's language and literacy development, including parental and staff support, grounded in scientifically based reading research. Prerequisite: Associate degree or 60 undergraduate credits

ADTED 459 INTERACTIVE LITERACY: PARENTS AND CHILDREN ( 3) Focuses on literacy and language interactions between parents and their young children (including English language learners), implementing intentional/planned learning. Prerequisite: Associate Degree or 60 undergraduate credits

ADTED 460 INTRODUCTION TO ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) History, methods, agencies, program areas, and problems of adult education in the United States.

ADTED 470 (CI ED) INTRODUCTION TO DISTANCE EDUCATION ( 3) An introduction to the history, philosophy, organizations, learning theories, and instructional procedures used in American and foreign distance education.

ADTED 496 INDEPENDENT STUDIES ( 1 -18)

ADTED 497 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

ADTED 498 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

ADTED 505 THE TEACHING OF ADULTS ( 3) Examination of direct and indirect teaching; contracts, application of current technology, andragogy, motivation, evaluation; knowledge of research. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 506 PROGRAM PLANNING IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Intensive study of theoretical foundations, policies, evaluation models, methods, and materials in program planning in adult education. Prerequisite: ADTED 460 , ADTED 505

ADTED 507 RESEARCH AND EVALUATION IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Guided discussion and reading in selected research and evaluation methods and trends as applied in adult education settings. Prerequisite: ADTED 460 ; introductory statistics course; introductory research design course

ADTED 508 (CI ED) GLOBALIZATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING ( 3) Examination of globalization discourses and their relationships, implications and impacts on lifelong learning processes and contexts.

ADTED 509 (CI ED) 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. Prerequisite: ADTED 508

ADTED 510 HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Social and historical foundations of adult education in the United States and selected nations. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 531 COURSE 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. Prerequisite: ADTED 470 , INSYS 415

ADTED 532 RESEARCH AND EVALUATION IN DISTANCE EDUCATION ( 3) Study of previous, current, and needed research strategies, and issues concerning evaluation in distance education.

ADTED 540 SERVING ADULT LEARNERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION ( 3) Seminar on the characteristics and needs of adult students in the higher education context: motivations, persistence, faculty development, advising/ counseling. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 541 (WMNST) WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Seminar on women and minority adults as learners and leaders in the various contexts of adult education. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 542 PERSPECTIVES 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.

ADTED 549 (HI ED) 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.

ADTED 550 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Introduction to the theory, principles, and practice of qualitative research.

ADTED 551 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS ( 3) Students learn to analyze data qualitatively by engaging in, and continuously reflecting on the process. Prerequisite: ADTED 550 and INSYS 574

ADTED 552 PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH ( 3) Examines origins, historical development, main characteristics, methodological assumptions and models, practice of participatory action research adult education and community development.

ADTED 560 (LL ED) TEACHING READING TO COLLEGE STUDENTS AND ADULTS ( 3) Reading literacy for adults, including college reading, Adult Basic Education (ABE), and General Educational Development (GED) programs. Prerequisite: LL ED 440 or teaching experience

ADTED 561 FAMILY LITERACY ( 3) Examines the research related to the four components of family literacy, program effectiveness, and theoretical underpinnings.

ADTED 562 POLITICS, LANGUAGE AND PEDAGOGY: APPLYING PAULO FREIRE TODAY ( 3) Examines the work of Paulo Freire as it applies to community action projects. Prerequisite: ADTED 508 and ADTED 509

ADTED 564 (CI ED) 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. Prerequisite: CI ED 500 , ADTED 542

ADTED 570 (CI ED) COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Critical and comparative analysis of adult education theory and practice outside North America, including international agency involvement. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 572 (CI ED) 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. Prerequisite: ADTED 508

ADTED 575 ADMINISTRATION OF ADULT EDUCATION ( 3) Organization of a program of adult education; legal status, finances, selection of teachers, learning personnel, housing; other administrative problems. Prerequisite: ADTED 506 or EDLDR 480

ADTED 580 ADULT EDUCATION RESEARCH SEMINAR ( 1 - 3) A seminar dealing with specific research topics and methods in adult education. Open to advanced students in adult education. Prerequisite: ADTED 507 , EDPSY 400 , EDPSY 475

ADTED 588 PROFESSIONAL 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. Prerequisite: ADTED 460 , ADTED 507

ADTED 590 COLLOQUIUM ( 1 - 3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.

ADTED 594 RESEARCH TOPICS ( 1 -18) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.

ADTED 595 INTERNSHIP IN ADULT EDUCATION ( 3 - 9) Supervised student internship in adult education agency. Prerequisite: ADTED 460

ADTED 596 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES ( 1 - 9) Creative projects including non-thesis research, supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.

ADTED 597 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

ADTED 598 SPECIAL TOPICS ( 1 - 9)

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Effective Date: Current

Review Date: 06/20/2008

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