Course Descriptions

This graduate course provides a foundation on learning theories that are essential for understanding how people learn, the selection of instruction and assessment within curricula, and development of curriculum and research inquiries. The course begins with an introduction to principles and dimensions of learning and module content focuses on the sequential exploration of learning theories and related educational research critical to the future conduct of health professions education and research.

This course will provide a macro view of health professions learning, from the curriculum theory perspective. Modules will focus on major concepts, trends, issues, and conditions for curriculum design and development.

This course is designed to create a community of scholar-practitioners working together to explore a variety of constructs, principles, and models of leadership and to apply that learning to current, and future leadership experiences and opportunities. The course encourages a scholar-practitioner analysis of these experiences/opportunities with focused application to academic and professional goals of Ph.D. students. Students are expected to draw on learning from prior life experiences, and new learning acquired in this course to complete the course activities and produce products that focus on context-based problems in urban educational organizations (or others) and demonstrate evidenced-based leadership strategies for leveraging change.

This course will provide a macro view of leadership in the health professions, from the leadership theory perspective. Modules will focus on major theories, approaches, trends, and issues, in leadership.