EDT5002 Research Methods in Education
The foundations of designing, conducting, and evaluating quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research and the philosophical assumptions underlying these approaches are the central themes of this course. Topics covered include: identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, specifying a purpose, writing research questions and hypotheses, and collecting and analyzing data. The course is a forum in which to investigate the paradigms and approaches to educational research that participants can utilize in their Master's Thesis. Participants discuss and refine their research questions and examine methods of data collection within the framework of research plans they design for their thesis. Teacher research and action research are particularly emphasized for practitioner researchers. Participants investigate criteria used to evaluate research relevant to education and experience peer review of their own research.
HEA5001 Introduction to Higher Education Administration
This course introduces students to the system of higher education and to skills that promote effective educational planning and academic success. It orients students to the systems, resources, policies, and procedures of higher education administration. This course also emphasizes goal setting, decision making, self monitoring, and time-management skills
HEA5002 Human Resource Management in Higher Education
The purpose of this course is to equip participants with the basic knowledge and skills regarding the management of human resources and competencies for effectively managing human resources functions. In this course, the advanced university academic and administrative policies and practices are examined from the perspective of human resources.
HEA5003 Selected Topics in Higher Education Adminsitration
This course explores several topics essential in the field of higher education administration such as new trends in higher education administration, effects of globalization and internationalization on university policies, privatization, learning and teaching environment of 21th century universities, new directions in financial aid; marketing strategies, outcomes assessment, and distance learning.
HEA5004 History of Higher Education and Turkish Higher Education
This course will offer an introductory overview of the history of higher education in general, and it will provide a particular focus on the history of Turkish Higher Education. It will also examine the philosophical and historical foundations of higher education to seek solutions for current problems. In other words, this course will provide learners with a broad understanding of major historical themes like: types of institutions that have evaluated; significant constituencies such as faculty, students, administrators and policy makers; policies such as curriculum, administration, governance, and financing. Within the philosophical component of the course, a philosophical context for above-mentioned issues will be covered.
HEA5005 Sociology of Higher Education
This course will explain the basic premises and purposes of sociology in relation to higher education, and it will also explore progressive and new conceptual perspectives of sociology of higher education particularly in light of historical and emerging sociocultural and global phenomena by presenting humanistic and social justice perspectives for new paradigms and applied policies and programs within the academy.
HEA5006 Comparative Higher Education
Designed as a culminating experience in Higher Education Administration, this course gives an opportunity to develop awareness of those internal principles and issues related to higher education mission and leadership in various systems and countries, and to lift the attention of students to more strategic policy questions and issues in national and international dialogue, furnishing some exposure to major ideas and scholars involved in those dialogues.
HEA5007 Higher Education Leadership
The course covers theories of leadership. Within the scope of the course, participants will get familiarized with the studies related to higher education leadership. The course will be supported with case studies.
HEA5008 Ethical and Legal Issues in Higher Education
In this course, legal professionals guide class participants through the legal and ethical issues associated with higher education administration. This includes applying both dimensions to the daily work of higher education administration.
HEA5009 Higher Education Policy
The course explores higher education policies within national, regional and institutional context. The course covers issues like: government plans, the Turkish higher education, an overview of the historical process, the resources allocated to higher education, higher education policies in different countries, cooperation agreements with different countries, OECD, World Bank, Erasmus, the European Higher Education Network, and Bologna process.
HEA5010 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
The course addresses issues of learning: what is learning in higher education and what challenges does it pose to teaching? How can the teaching respond to changing needs of students and workforce? Students will examine different models and theories of learning, recent research on student conceptions of and approaches to learning, the impact of learning on faculty understanding, and approaches to teaching.
HEA5011 Economics and Finance in Higher Education
The course will comprehensively address the budget process in colleges and universities, as well as the impact of budget activities on all areas of planning and operations within an institution. Course partcipants will develop and enhance their abilities to write and speak effectively about budget and finance-related issues.
HEA5012 Human Development and Administering Student Services
This course explores issues of human development and student services like: principles, assumptions, values, and beliefs for effective student affairs and services programme; the central role of professional preparation and development of student affairs and services staff; research, evaluation, assessment and strategic planning in higher education student affairs and services; ethics, safety, security, risk management and legal issues in student affairs; professional services and programmes delivered for enhancement of student learning and success; higher education student affairs and services in postconflict/ post-disaster countries; student affairs and services practice around the world.
HEA5013 Institutional Advancement in Higher Education
This course explores advancement structures and departments within private and public institutions including Alumni Relations, Communications, Government Relations. It fouces on leadership and management of institutional advancement divisions. Key issues such as annual giving, campaigns, corporate/foundation relations are introduced.
HEA5014 Institutional Research in Higher Education
The purpose of this course is to give an overview of data collection from various stakeholders of universities. The course focuses on collecting data with regards to the following issues: student enrollment rates, student demographics, success and failure rates, student drop out rates and other related data that give insights to higher education administrators.
HEA5015 Planning and Evaluation in Higher Education
The course will focus on three major areas that are driving the current evaluation and assessment movement in higher education: institutional performance; teaching and learning; and student learning and development. In so doing, this course will provide students with theoretical frameworks for understanding evaluation as well as the necessary quantitative and qualitative tools to design and provide valid and reliable empirically-based evidence. The course will also focus on how such evidence is used to evaluate and inform institutional policy as well as strategies for continuous improvement.
HEA5016 Quality Systems in Higher Education
This course covers quality and process improvement philosophies, theories, and strategies as they apply to the practice of professionals in higher education. It will also enable learners to apply improvement strategies to typical problems in the field and evaluate the merits and limitations of various approaches in public and private settings.
HEA5017 Special Topics in Education
This course provides students with indepth perspective on specialized issues regarding education such as politics of education, sociology of education, educational economics, issues of class-gender-race-ethnicity and religion, new developments in educational technology, recent formulations of teaching and learning, changing trends in education in the world, characteristics of today’s learners, dealing with rapid change in the world, ways to raise global citizens.
HEA5887 Seminar
The seminar course introduces students with various current research ideas widening their perspectives and awareness of topics of interests through invited speakers and their presentations. The course orients students to conduct literature review on a pre-determined subject, to help them gain competence in synthesizing the literature, collect data, analyze, interpret and discuss the findings.
HEA5888-1 Master’s Thesis
The aim of this course is to make graduate students who will write a thesis on the research field they have identified do a preliminary study. It aims to make students write a proposal on the selected problem within a certain time frame. This course helps students identify a research topic and write a proposal on the selected field of study.
HEA5888-2 Master’s Thesis
The aim of the course is to guide students whose thesis proposals are approved to finish their studies.
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