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  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    For undergraduate students selected to collaborate with UW faculty or professional staff in the delivery and sometimes the design of a university course, this course augments in-class experiences with an examination of basic learning and teaching principles. Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides reading, discussion, research, and appraisal of new methods, materials, equipment, and experimental programs concerned with the improvement of education as it pertains to adult education. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed as an introduction to the field of adult education; its focus is the general knowledge base upon which the practice of adult education rests; e.g. history and philosophy, adult learning and development, agencies and programs, and problems and issues. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Learning and development theories are essential for educators who are designing and implementing educational applications and opportunities. Topics covered include orientations toward learning, motivation, life transitions, cognition, learning how to learn, self-directed learning, and strategies for improving learning in educational contexts. Prerequisite: graduate Standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides exposure to situations students will likely encounter professionally. It establishes a forum where students apply and refine theories, principles, and skills learned during their programs. Students examine and critique current scholarship and document general and degree specific competencies. Cross listed with ITEC 5090. Prerequisites: Check with advisor and complete required sequence of courses for Educational Administration (Adult and Postsecondary Education) or Instructional Technology masters degree programs prior to enrollment.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Within residential and learning community, this course seeks to strengthen one's relationship with the natural world, increase understanding of cultural heritage, and heighten sensitivity for time and place. Participants explore ways of further developing keener ways of seeing, critiquing, and connecting to the setting and heritage surrounding them. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Developed upon the premise that individuals teach as they would expect to be taught. Focuses on methods for teaching adults in formal as well as informal settings. The learning styles literature is reviewed and implications for instructional settings are analyzed. Participants also critique their teaching performance through videotaped sessions. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to help participants examine the current issues and debates in the literature of race, class, and gender from theoretical and practical perspectives. Related areas of ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, language, physical appearance, body size, and other constructs of difference will also be addressed. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides information to help learners efficiently access information electronically. Philosophical, ethical, and management issues as well as technical information on the various mechanisms for electronic access now and in the near future are presented. The analysis of needs combined with knowledge of electronic tools for the purpose of efficiently meeting the information needs of clientele is stressed, as well as knowledge of the appropriate use of electronic products for more specific problems/projects. Cross listed with LIBS 5440. Prerequisite: graduate standing and/or consent of instructor.
  • 1.00 - 2.00 Credits

    Used for special topics in adult education on the basis of need. Prerequisite: graduate standing.