Graduate Course Descriptions

Taking both theoretical and practice-based approaches, this course will examine the wide range of issues currently affecting student development and engagement. Topics include enrollment management, diversity issues, residence life, student activities, athletics, discipline, and campus security.

This course will focus on strategic planning for program and institutional research and assessment. Topics will include the development of clear outcomes expectations, selection of reliable instrumentation, data collection plans, and feedback loops. The role of accreditation agencies will be examined.

This course provides a critical analysis of the characteristics, scope, public policy issues, and impact of two-year colleges in America.

This course provides an overview of topics, practices, and policies of current importance in higher education. A group of topical areas will be explored such as theories of human development, policy analysis, institutional evaluation, curriculum design/delivery/assessment or new trends. Topics will be explored from the perspective of students’ concentrations (administration & instruction, community colleges, or nursing education).

In this course, students explore a higher education system in a selected country and compare it to the system in the United States. The course involves a faculty-led study trip to the country of the system being studied and visits to universities of various types within that country. The two systems will be compared through an examination of the ways in which these two systems differ in light of current issues such as the globalization of higher education, funding, access and assessment. During the trip students will learn about historical and contemporary national culture as they explore various aspects of the area they are visiting.

A one-semester independent project, which meets the approval of the program chair and is conducted under faculty supervision, frames this course. Student may merit one, two, or three credits according to the complexity of the project. Examples of study include executive leadership, global models of accreditation, advanced quantitative or qualitative research methods, community and governmental relations, student persistence and completion, etc.

Parts I and II (1.5 cr, 1.5 cr) A two part course offered each spring (early summer) on the Immaculata campus and focusing in the following scholarly and professional development areas. Grading is pass or fail.: Part I: Introduction to Doctoral Competencies and Professional Ethics Part II: Development of Doctoral Competencies and Professional Ethics (Pre-requisite HED 766 Part I)

This course gives students the opportunity to focus on the cyclical systematic process of program planning and assessment. Major topics include conducting a needs assessment and analysis, establishing program goals and student learning outcomes, planning of the program assessment, and setting up processes for evaluation and improvement that involve external and internal stakeholders at all levels in the context of all appropriate accreditation and licensing bodies in both Higher Education and Nursing. The course will culminate in the simulated experience of presenting a complete new Nursing program proposal delivered to a college board of trustees.

This course offers students an exploration of theory and practice of the systematic instructional design of nursing curriculum in the context of current institutional, professional, and regulatory environments at the local, state, national, and international levels.

In this course, students study and apply theory-based practices of teaching and learning in classroom and clinical nursing education courses utilizing face-to-face, hybrid, and online delivery models. Collaborative strategies for designing student learning outcomes, assessments, and activities are emphasized.