Higher Education Administration Program

Special Program Features

Humanities and Research Seminar

The Humanities and Research Seminar is offered on one full Saturday each month during the first year of doctoral study and is designed for two purposes. The seminar sessions will feature readings from a selection of novels, biography, essays, plays, poetry, letters, history, and the extraction of leadership lessons from those. Literature will feature reading and study of such works as

Arthur Miller, All My Sons

Sophocles, Antigone

Ernest Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men

Herman Melville, Billy Budd

Nancy Boyd, Three Victorian Women Who Changed Their World

Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country

Shakespeare, Henry V or Coriolanus

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Plato, The Republic

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage

Christopher Hibbert, Elizabeth

Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maya Angelou, James Kavanaugh, and others

Activities of the seminar will also center on concepts of research design, exploring both quantitative and qualitative designs. Students will be invited to link concept and action in the development of a research proposal during the seminar.

Issues and Inquiry Seminar

During the second year of study, an Issues and Inquiry Seminar will be offered on one full Saturday each month. This seminar will explore contemporary issues facing higher education in the early years of the 21 st century, with readings designed to bring students into engagement with the best scholars and literature at work on these issues. Issues explored will include finance and cost containment, quality assurance and accountability, scholarship definition and assessment, governance, marketplace and privatization pressures, etc.

The “inquiry” dimension of the seminar will continue the emphasis on research design of the previous year’s work and will be specifically designed to yield an acceptable dissertation prospectus.

Visiting Scholar Series

Each year, students in the doctoral program will have the opportunity to hear visiting scholars from other departments of The University of Tennessee, exemplar leaders from other colleges and universities across the nation, and policy/research scholars from other higher education programs nationwide. In some cases, visiting scholar appearances will be arranged in partnership with college and university officials for presentation an dialogue in a college or university forum.

 

Updated 08/16/2005

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