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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ADE6198
Tracking Number - 1907
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2004-10-13
- Department: Adult, Career and Higher Education
- College: ED
- Budget Account Number: 1731000
- Contact Person: William H. Young
- Phone: 8139741861
- Email: wyoung@coedu.usf.edu
- Prefix: ADE
- Number: 6198
- Full Title: Effective Continuing Education for Professionals
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Eff CE Prof Grps
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: ADE 6385 and ADE 6080 or Permission from Instructor
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course will provide a description, explanation and critque of the goals, processes, outcomes, and issues related to the continuing education of professionals. The design, development and administration of these programs will be explored.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This is a growing area for programming in adult and continuing education. Associations, community colleges, higher education, the government and private entrepreneurs employ people and develop administrative units devoted entirely to continuing professio
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course will become part of a continuing education and human resource development specialization in the EdD. program in educational program development - adult education emphasis.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, this course has been offered once as a selected topics course.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) The instructor should an an earned doctorate in adult education or a closely related field of study and should have published in the area of continuing education for the professions.
- Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: 1) analyze the concepts of professionalism, modes of learning in the professions, and the politics of professionalism; 2)describe the strengths and weaknesses of the major providers and the role of interorganizational collaboration in continuing professional education; 3) analyze the impact of diversity and technology on continuing professinal education; 4)describe the current trends and issues; and 5) compare and contrast the educational activities of selected professional groups
- Learning Outcomes: Students will provide: 1) a presentation on the continuing education trends and issues of one of the professions; 2) provide a site visit report from a visit to a continuing professional unit in the greater Tampa Bay area; 3) complete an indepth paper on one of the many issues facing continuing professional education
- Major Topics: Topics include: 1) Analysis of the concepts of professionalism; 2) Modes of learning and the learning styles of professionals; 3) Politics of professionalism; 4) Quality in continuing professional education; 5) Determing educational interests and needs of professionals; 6) Analysis of the different program development models; 7) Providers of continuing professional education; 8) Delivery of continuing professional education; 9) Role of continuing professional education in empowerment, critical thinking, and entrepreneurship; 10) Analysis of mandatory continuing professional education; and 11) Future of continuing professional education
- Textbooks: Houle, Cyril O. Continuing learning in the professions. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1980
Cervero, Ronald M. Effective continuing education for professionals, San Francisco. Jossey-Bass, 1988
Young, William H. Continuing professional education in transition: Visions for the professions and strategies for lifelong learning. Malabar, Krieger Publishing, 1998
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.