2007-08 Academic Year - Humboldt State University

Course Descriptions
Administrative
Services
CREDENTIAL/LICENSURE
AS 742. Curriculum: Development & Governance
(3). Structure and organization of curriculum.
Historical, traditional, and contemporary
influences. Problems related to governance,
leadership, procedures, and implementation.
AS 745. Personnel Administration & Supervision
(3). Issues related to school personnel
procedures, from employment to retirement.
Supervision of instruction, employee evaluation,
collective bargaining.
AS 746. The Principal: Leader & Administrator
(3). Role and responsibilities of principal. Leadership
concepts, decision making techniques, school
organization, community relations, school climate,
curriculum administration, and categorically
funded projects.
AS 747. Practicum: Diversity Issues & School
Administration (2). Class assessment of contemporary
issues most important to them as future
school administrators.
AS 748. Legal & Fiscal Aspects of School Administration
(3). California Educational Code and
significant court cases. State and federal funding
of schools. California funding formulas; school and
district budgeting procedures. Court decisions
and case analyses.
AS 749. Ethics & School Administration (1).
Review personal, institutional, and community
values. Clarify their conflict and impact on school
administration and leadership. [Prereq: admission
to level I administrative services program.]
AS 760. Technology & School Management
(2). School administrator’s role/responsibility in
providing leadership in computer technology and
improved delivery and management of educational
programs. Media technology for the instructional
program. [Prereq: admission to level I administrative
services program.]
AS 761. Professional Development—Induction
(2). Collaborating with school district mentor,
candidate develops individual professional development
plan. [Prereq: administrative services
level I credential and employed full-time as school
administrator.]
AS 762. Leadership, Management, & Policy
Development in a Multicultural Setting (2). Assist
in developing skills necessary to meet social,
educational, and cultural needs of a diverse student
population. [Prereq: administrative services
level I credential and employed full-time as school
administrator.]
AS 763. Strategic Issues Management (2).
Examines the issues of school reform and school
improvement through a series of strategic planning
processes. Differences between strategic
and conventional planning will be studied and
evaluated. [Prereq: administrative services level
I credential and employed full-time as school administrator.]
AS 764. School & Community Relations (3).
Administrative and communications strategies
to effect positive working relationships with the
community in an effort to improve student learning
and build public support for schools.
AS 765. Ethical & Reflective Leadership (3).
Contemporary issues/problems and acceptable,
ethical solutions. Emphases: identifying values that
sustain a community organization; conflicts that
arise daily in managing ethical choices.
AS 766. Information Systems & Human & Fiscal
Resources (2). Review and use contemporary
information systems and technology to understand
and address emerging issues and problems
in human and fiscal resources administration.
AS 767. Candidate Assessment & Evaluation
(2). Final assessment and evaluation of each
candidate’s induction plan. Results provide basis
for final recommendation for approval for level II
professional administrative credential.
AS 780. Special Topics (1-5). [Rep.]
AS 794. Elementary School Administration
Fieldwork (3). Supervised performance of administrative
tasks in an elementary school to
meet requirements for preliminary administrative
service credential.
AS 795. Secondary School Administration
Fieldwork (3). Supervised performance of administrative
tasks in a secondary school to meet
requirements for preliminary administrative
services credential.
AS 796. Fieldwork & Final Evaluation Seminar
(1). Procedures and expectations related to fieldwork
experiences. Develop Individual Educational
Plan (IEP) for fieldwork experience.
American Indian
Education
UPPER DIVISION
AIE 330. History of Indian Education (3). From
first contact with Europeans to contemporary
times. Emphasis: how federal policy shaped educational
policy for American Indians. DCG-d.
AIE 335. Social & Cultural Considerations (3).
How social and cultural factors affect educational
experiences of American Indian students attending
mission, BIA boarding, or public schools. Apparent
learning problems. DCG-d.
AIE 340. Educational Experiences (3). Local and
national American Indian tribes. Educational history,
life ways, cultural attributes, and educational
problems. [Prereq: AIE 330 or 335. DCG-d.]
AIE 345. American Indians in Higher Education
(3). History of American Indian higher education
experiences in U.S. public, private, and tribal colleges.
Literature review includes student- and
campus-centered factors influencing academic
persistence and non-persistence of American
Indian students.
AIE 380. Special Topics (.5-3). Topics of current
interest in education, American Indian health, and
tribal professional issues. [ Rep.]
AIE 430. Seminar: Proposal & Grantwriting
Process (3). Examine funding sources; develop a
grant proposal for an Indian education program.
AIE 435. Counseling Issues (3). Dynamics and
process of effective crosscultural interactions between
American Indians and non-Indians. [Prereq:
AIE 330 or 335. DCG-d.]
AIE 491. Fieldwork in American Indian Education
(1-3). Directed and supervised observation
of selected aspects of school educational programs,
with appropriate written reports. Hours
arranged.
AIE 492. Seminar: Professional Opportunities
(1). ITEPP students assess interests and careers
in education and tribal services. [Prereq: IA.]
AIE 499. Independent Study (.5-3). Directed
study, reading, conference, research on selected
problems in American Indian education.
GRADUATE
AIE 580. Special Topics (.5-3). Topics of current
interest in education, American Indian health, and
tribal professional issues. [CR/NC. Rep.]
Anthropology
LOWER DIVISION
ANTH 104. Cultural Anthropology (3). World’s
diverse cultures. Richness of human life in different
times and places. Multicultural nature of
today’s world. [CAN ANTH 4. GE.]
ANTH 105. Archaeology and World Prehistory
(3) This course introduces students to the field of
archaeology and traces the many paths of cultural
evolution as reconstructed from the archaeological
record. GE.
ANTH 110. Physical Anthropology (3). Evolutionary
theory; genetic basis for evolution; ecology and
behavior of nonhuman primates; human biological
evolution. [Coreq: ANTH 111.]
ANTH 111. Laboratory in Physical Anthropology
(1). Practical, hands-on learning in genetics,
human osteology, primate comparative anatomy,
methods for observing primate behavior, fossil evidence
for human evolution. [Coreq: ANTH 110.]
ANTH 113. Anthropology Skills Development
(2). ALADIN curriculum (Academic Language: Assessment
and Development of Individual Needs)
teaches academic skills to help in the transition
DCG diversity & common ground; d domestic, n non-domestic; disc discussion; F fall, S spring, Su summer; GE general ed; IA instructor approval; lect lecture; prereq prerequisite; rep repeatable
2007-2008 Humboldt State University Catalog
Courses Listed Numerically by Subject Area 189