The concentration in Teaching, Learning and Curriculum in Higher Education is designed to prepare students with a variety of backgrounds for a broad range of professional positions in higher and postsecondary education, such as: current or future faculty development professionals at community colleges and 4-year public or private institutions who seek positions in campus teaching centers; current or future college teachers at community colleges and 4-year public or private institutions who seek the PhD in Higher Education as a terminal degree to complement the master’s or professional degrees in their primary teaching fields (e.g., nursing faculty); current or future faculty and administrators at community colleges and 4-year public or private institutions who seek positions as academic administrators with responsibilities related to the curricular, teaching, and learning elements of academic programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs; future university professors of higher education who wish to teach and conduct research in the areas of teaching, learning, curriculum, and faculty development in higher education; and future college and university professors in any discipline who are completing their terminal degree in the content and research methods of their teaching field, but also seek to complete a complementary concentration or outside minor in college teaching, learning, and curriculum in higher education.

Required Course for the Concentration:

• 07B:385 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Recommended Courses for the Concentration:

• 07C:334 College Student Learning, Cognitive and Moral Development
• 07P:217 Seminar in College Teaching
• 07C:336 Impact of College on Students
• 07C:380 Practicum in College Teaching
• 07B:245 The American Professoriate

Alternative courses approved by the faculty advisor, such as courses on teaching in particular disciplines or a course on teaching with technology and distance learning.

For more information, contact Michael Paulsen.