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The following texts helped supplement instruction throughout my graduate career within the University of Southern California's Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs master's program.
The PASA program requires 41 units consisting of both core and elective classes.
Fall 2014 Courses
EDUC 508: Creating Communities of Interest (2 units)
Faculty: Dr. Raquel Torres-Retana, Ed.D.
This course is designed to help students develop a learning “conceptual framework” for their educational experience in their Master’s program at the Rossier School of Education.
EDHP 500: Foundations of Higher Education (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Samuel Kim, Ed.D.
This course explores contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States and offers analytic perspectives from disciplines including history, philosophy, and sociology with implications for policy and practice in higher education.
EDHP 563: Student Affairs Work in College (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Viannda Hawkins, Ed.D.
This course covers principles, services, and organizational patterns of student affairs programs and services for two-year, four-year and professional higher education institutions. It also offers a detailed introduction to those exploring various opportunities within student affairs.
EDHP 687: Student Development in Higher Education (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Kevin Colaner, Ed.D.; Dr. Susan Ashe, Ed.D.
This course explores theories of college student development and application of developmental models for program design, interventions, outreach, and research programs.
Summer 2015 Courses
EDUC 570: Research Methods & Data Analysis (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Nicole MacCalla, Ph. D.
This course covers basic qualitative and quantitative inquiry methods and their appropriateness for addressing different research questions. Threats to validity and other research-related issues will be addressed.
EDHP 587: Fieldwork in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education (70 hours)
Faculty: Shafiqa Ahmadi, J.D.
The purpose of this course is to provide structured participation in supervised teaching or administrative activities.
Spring 2016 Courses
EDHP 503: Curriculum, Teaching, Learning in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Michelle Castallanos
This course focuses on curriculum, teaching, and learning strategies for general, vocational, and professional education.
EDHP 565: Intervention Strategies in College Student Development (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Kristina Alvarado
This course explores current campus issues such as violence, diversity and academic remediation, and their related intervention strategies (policy-based, programmatic, and counseling-based).
EDHP 587: Fieldwork in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education (140 hours)
Faculty: Dr. Viannda Hawkins, Ed.D.
The purpose of this course is to provide structured participation in supervised teaching or administrative activities.
Spring 2015 Courses
EDHP 552: Politics of Difference (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. John Slaughter, Ph.D.
This course focuses on strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically underserved groups.
EDHP 567: Management of Student Services in Higher Education (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Ainsley Carry, Ed.D.
This course covers policies and theories for governance and management. Relations between historical and contemporary organizational processes in postsecondary education are also discussed, including analysis and applications of current research, including learning leadership models.
EDHP 679: Legal Issues in Administration of Higher Education (3 units)
Faculty: Shafiqa Ahmadi, J.D.
This course analyzes legal issues related to the administration of higher education; emphasis on relations with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus communities.
Fall 2015 Courses
EDUC 609: Academic Advising in Postsecondary Education (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Lynette Merriman, Ed.D.
This course promotes awareness of historical and theoretical perspectives that relate to academic advising, and a better understanding of how academic advising “works” in practice. Builds knowledge of academic advising for organizational systems and structures
EDHP 551: Applied Educational Ethnography (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Zoë Corwin, Ph.D.
This course teaches basic research skills for improving leadership in higher, adult, and professional education. Qualitative research designs, such as ethnographic field designs, observations, focused and unstructured interviews, along with unobtrusive techniques, will be covered.
EDUC 616: Higher Education Seminar (3 units)
Faculty: Dr. Tracy Poon Tambascia, Ed.D.
This course is designed to help encapsulate the experiences of the master’s degree for students in the Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs (PASA) program. The seminar serves as a resource to allow candidates to reflect upon the entirety of the masters program.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi