Students examine the history of higher education, particularly in the United States. Students examine the aims and institutional forms of higher education. The nature of academic pursuit in terms of the development of disciplines and fields of study and the development o fthe professorate are examined. Students examine organizational theory in relation to the higher education institution, its policies, and its decision-making processes. With the consent of his or her Doctoral Advisory Committee, the student selects at least three additional courses with the EPHE prefix.
Students study images found in popular films.
Images of education presented in films are analyzed from a variety of perspectives for their representations of such phenomena as school work, knowing, knowledge, and education. Meanings of postmodernism and implications for curriculum are explored. Students examine the offered curriculum and the experienced curriculum through such lenses as diversity, aesthetics, politics, and hermeneutics. It is intended that students expand their understanding of postmodernity in general and gain deeper insight into its presence in their personal and professional lives. Students examine the sociocultural relationship between gender and education in U.S. society.