| ACE-Adult Continuing Education |
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| ACE600 |
Introduction to the Adult Education Doctoral Program |
An introduction to the program and university institutional resources. Students will examine their learning styles, experience collaborative learning and study methods for successful completion of the program. The three questions that inform the final Critical Engagement Project (CEP) are introduced and linkages between coursework and the CEP are demonstrated. 3 semester hours
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| ACE601 |
Advanced Seminar Critical Reflection and Critical Thinking |
| Reviews theories, concepts and processes of critical reflection and critical thinking and how these can be realized in academic work and adult education practice. Emphasis will be placed on how the three CEP questions can bring conceptual unity to critically reflective inquiry across the program. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE602 |
Life History and Adult Education |
| Develops awareness of students' own motivations, aspirations, self-concepts, assumptions and experiences as adult educators and how these have framed their careers, philosophies and educational practices. Students will be asked to write an analysis of their autobiographies as adult learners and adult educators. Grounding in techniques of life history writing and analysis will provide background for research into the first CEP question (Who am I?). 3 semester hours |
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| ACE603 |
Advanced Adult Development and Learning |
| Reviews current theory and advanced research on adult development and learning and critically examines claims for distinctive forms of adult cognition. Analyzes cultural and social influences on adult learning and the place of adult learning in the lifespan. Study of psychological formation as a social process will be related to the first CEP question (Who am I?). Investigation of the practices in which each person has been engaged will be related to the second CEP question (What are my commitments?). 3 semester hours |
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| ACE604 |
Adult Education: Core Concepts and Processes |
| Reviews and evaluates the core ideas and educational processes that make adult education a distinctive field of theory and practice. In examining core beliefs and assumptions about adult education students will explore the extent to which their own practices embody, contradict, challenge or diverge from core concepts and principles, thus addressing the second and third CEP questions (What are my commitments? How will I live out these commitments?). 3 semester hours |
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| ACE605A, ACE605B, ACE605C, ACE605D, |
| ACE605E |
Reflective Practice Seminars I-V |
| Examines connections between doctoral coursework and students' specific practices and provides opportunities for students to reflect on their development as adult learners and their synthesis and integration of adult educational knowledge. During this seminar students will engage in a continual exploration of the three CEP questions. 3 semester hours each |
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| ACE610 |
Research Methods in Adult Education |
| Reviews and critiques different research methodologies in adult education including qualitative and quantitative, but with special emphasis on those methods most relevant to the three CEP questions. Provides opportunities to select appropriate research methodologies for diverse research projects. Methods introduced will be exemplified in relation to the CEP questions. |
| 3 semester hours |
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| ACE620 |
Understanding Adult Education Practice |
| Examines dilemmas, tensions and problems of adult educational practice and adult educators' development of theories of practice. Students will explore fields of practice outside their own, addressing the second and third CEP questions (What are my commitments? How will I live out these commitments?), and reflecting on connections and contradictions between ideals of critical practice and democratic action and their own practices. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE640 |
Research: Critical Engagement Project Proposal Seminar |
| An intensive immersion workshop in which students review the research elements of the CEP process and develop an outline for the CEP proposal. Reflecting on their first year of coursework, students will plan their study and research over the next two years, producing an individualized plan which will demonstrate how the three CEP questions will be investigated and how coursework will support the CEP. 6 semester hours |
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| ACE650 |
Research: Literature Review Seminar |
| Introduces elements of critical reviews of literature and develops the CEP literature review. Plans for the specific use of this course will have been made in the CEP Proposal Seminar. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE655 |
Philosophy of Adult Education |
| Reviews the chief philosophical traditions in adult education and analyzes the connections between these and students' development of their own philosophies of adult educational practice. Focusing on the second CEP question (What are my commitments?), each student will reflect on how personal commitments draw on or contradict some of the philosophical orientations in the field. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE660 |
Research: Critical Engagement Project Methodology |
| Reviews all aspects of the CEP with a special emphasis on the presentation of a CEP methodology appropriate to the three questions addressed in the research. Individualized training will be provided in methods each student needs to accomplish their CEP plan. Plans for the specific use of this course will have been made in the CEP Proposal Seminar. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE661 |
Educating in a Social and Political Context |
| Examines social and political context for the development of adult education theory and practice, as well as the roles of the adult educator. Assesses the social and political outcomes of adult education activities. Focusing on the third CEP question (How will I live out these commitments?), students will investigate political and cultural factors which promote or impede the realization of their commitments and pitfalls of committed action and study tactics. Included will be strategies and approaches available in political analyses and case studies of activism. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE670 |
Research: Advanced Data Collection and Analysis |
| Reviews data collected in relation to the CEP in progress and provides a forum for critique of preliminary analysis and further refinement of collection and analysis procedures. Plans for the specific use of this course will have been made in the CEP Proposal Seminar. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE699A |
Dissertation Critical Engagement Project I |
| Reviews and strengthens students' work by assessing work in progress including CEP methodology, literature review, data collection and analysis, and conclusions. Plans for the specific use of this course will have been made in the CEP Proposal Seminar. 6 semester hours |
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| ACE699B |
Dissertation: Critical Engagement Project II |
| Assists students to complete CEP research through intensive collective and individualized study. Plans for the specific use of this course will have been made in the CEP Proposal Seminar. 3 semester hours |
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| ACE699C |
Critical Engagement Project Advisement |
| Assists students to complete Critical Engagement Project through individual study and advisement. 3 semester hours |
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