Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 SGPP Catalog and Handbook 
    
2017-2018 SGPP Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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EDD851 Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Higher Education (3 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): EDD809 , EDD820  
This course begins with a historical perspective of higher education, including European roots, the founding of American universities, land-grant colleges, the research university, the two-year college movement, and changes since World War II. The course examines both the historical and the contemporary governance structure and fictions, and the impetus for institutional reform. Future trends, such as those driven by the information age and demographic change, are explored.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

  1. Evaluate the relevance of historical information to today’s higher education environment.
  2. Apply historical trends to current issues in education.
  3. Predict outcomes or progression of the resolution of current issues in education based upon historical precedents.
  4. Identify and analyze the components of historical information.
  5. Synthesize information from a variety of historians to provide a deeper understanding of the whole of higher education.
  6. Compare current higher education trends to historical trends.
     



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