Higher Education and Student Affairs (EDUCST-ED, HEA)
Specialization Curriculum
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Specialization leading to Doctor of Education in Educational Studies
Core Requirements (15 hours)
First Year Seminar (6 hours)
Core 1 Course (3 hours)
- EDUCST 6891 Proseminar in Educational Studies (3)
Core 2 Course: Choose from one of the following courses (3 hours)
- EDUCST 5765 Grant Writing (3)
- ESEPSY 7404 College Teaching (3)
- ESEPSY 8404 Academic Writing in Education: Reviewing the Literature (3)
- ESEPOL 7100 Writing for Educational Policy Audiences (3)
- ESPHE 6403 Ethics and the Professional Context of Teaching (3)
- EDUCST 6892 Educational Policy and Inequality in Social and Cultural Context: Integrating Research Traditions (3)
Research Methodology (three courses, one required quantitative and two required qualitative, minimum 9 hours)
- ESQREM 7631 Applied Evaluation Design (3)
- ESQUAL/ESPHE 7240 Life History Methods (3)
- ESQUAL 8285 Qualitative Data Analysis Methods and Applications (3)
Specialization Requirements (33 hours)
Required Courses (18 hours)
- ESHESA 7576 Assessment in Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7540 Higher Education Institutions and Core Academic Issues (3)
- ESHESA 8560 Legal Aspects of Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7566 Strategy and Leadership in Higher Education (3)
- EDUCST 8700 Inquiry in Higher Education (3)
Choose one of the following:
- ESHESA 8515 Advanced Seminar in Theories of College Student Development (3)
- ESHESA 8552 Impact of College on Students (3)
Supporting Courses (choose three, 9 hours)
- ESHESA 7290: Contemplative & Creative Practice in Higher Ed: On the Art and Soul of Student Affairs (3)
- ESHESA 7512 Interactions of Students and Environments (3)
- ESHESA 7513 Understanding Educational Organizations (3)
- ESHESA 7550 Gender in Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7554 Admission and Retention of College Students (3)
- ESHESA 7558 Administering Service‐Learning Programs in HESA (3)
- ESHESA 7562 Broad Access Institutions and Community Colleges (3)
- ESHESA 7564 Financing Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7568 Higher Education and Public Policy (4)
- ESHESA 7570 Internationalizing Colleges and Universities (3)
- ESHESA 7574 Curriculum in Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7579 Higher Education Governance and Policy Analysis (3)
- ESHESA 7750 Facilitation Intergroup Dialogues in Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7850 Critical Race Theory in Higher Education (3)
- ESHESA 7854 Activism on College Campuses (3)
- ESHESA 8515 Advanced Seminar in Theories of College Student Development (3)
- ESHESA 8552 Impact of College on Students (3)
- ESHESA 8895 Seminar in Higher Education and Student Affairs (3)
- ESPHE 7222 History of Educational Policy (3)
- ESPHE 7572 History of Colleges and Universities (3)
- ESPHE 8201 Social Foundations of Education (3)
- ESPHE 6410 Philosophy of Education (3)
- ESEPOL 7224 Educational Policy Analysis in Contemporary Culture (3)
- ESEPSY 7403 Motivation in Learning and Teaching (3)
- ESEPSY 7404 College Teaching (3)
- ESEPSY 7405 Cooperative Learning: Research and Practice (3)
- ESLTECH 6223 Issues and Practices in Educational Technology (3)
- ESWDE 7701 Foundations of Distance Teaching & Learning (3)
- ESWDE 8911 Theoretical and Scholarly Perspectives on Workforce Development and Education (3)
- ESWDE 8932 Adult Learning Theory (3)
- ESWDE 7757 Aspects of Human Resource Development (3)
External Cognate (minimum 6 hours)
Sample Cognate Areas:
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership & Technology
- Sports in Education
- Human Development
- Educational Psychology
- Women’s Studies
- Administration
- Public Policy & Management
- Finance in Education
- Human Resource Development
- African American Perspectives
- Cultural Influences in Education
- Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education
Final Document Research (minimum 6 hours)
- ESHESA 8999 Dissertation or Thesis Research: Higher Education and Student Affairs (3)
Minimum hours post‐MA/MS: 54