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ED 874 Organizational Decision Making in Higher Education (Fall: 3) Decision making behavior of the university is not necessarily subject to universal rules under which choices are made by willful actors with certain normative assumptions about consistency and predictability. Rethinking the approach to organizational decision making raises challenges in studying organizations and leadership in higher education. The course provides students with major studies and models of decision making from a wide range of examples such as foreign policy making organizations and corporate organizations. Ted I.K. Youn ED 876 Financial Management in Higher Education (Spring: 3) The acquisition and allocation of funds in institutions of higher education are studied. Financial management emphasis includes an introduction to fund accounting, asset management, capital markets, sources of funds, financial planning, and endowment management. Included also are specific techniques used in financial analysis (e.g., break-even analysis and present value techniques). Frank Campanella ED 878 Seminar on Law and Higher Education (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: ED 705 or Law student This seminar focuses on legal, policy, and ethical issues that affect higher education in the United States. The primary focus will be upon contemporary legal issues confronting public and private higher education, including such topics as due process and equity for students and faculty, tenure, academic freedom, affirmative action, disability rights, and free speech. Diana Pullin PY 879 Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with UN 879 Particularly relevant for clinically oriented graduate students in Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Social Work, and Education. For graduate students and upper division undergraduates with departmental permission. An introduction to psychoanalysis as an exciting and controversial theory of mind, method of treatment, and critique of culture. Topics to be explored by actively practicing psychoanalysts will include the unconscious, dreams, development, personality, psychopathology, and treatment. The unique stance of psychoanalysis toward culture, politics, and religion will also be explored. W.W. Meissner, S.J. ED/PY 885 Interim Study: Masters and C.A.E.S. Students (Fall/Spring: 0) Masters and C.A.E.S. students who need to take one to two semesters off during the academic year but wish to remain active in the University system must enroll in this course. Students cannot enroll in this course for more than two consecutive semesters during the academic year. Students who need to be away from their studies for more than two consecutive semesters during the academic year should file for a formal leave of absence. ED/PY 888 Masters Comprehensives (Fall/Spring/Summer: 0) All masters students who have completed their course work and are preparing for comprehensive exams must register for this course. ED 901 Urban Catholic Teacher Corps (Spring: 0) Open only to teachers participating in the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps program. See Urban Catholic Teacher Corps program brochure for details, or contact the program office at 617-552-0602. ED 910 Readings and Research in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation (Fall/Spring/Summer: 3) Prerequisite: Faculty member approval By arrangement Under the direction of a faculty member who serves as Project Director, a student develops and carries to completion a significant study. The Department PY 910 Readings and Research in Counseling and Developmental Psychology (Fall/Spring/Summer: 3) Prerequisite: Permission of a faculty member By arrangement Under the direction of a faculty member who serves as Project Director, a student develops and carries to completion a significant study. The Department PY 912 Participatory Action Research: Gender, Race, and Power (Fall: 3) This course will introduce students to theoretical and practical issues in the design and implementation of field-based participatory action research. We will review theories and practices that have contributed to community-based knowledge construction and social change. Ethnographic, narrative, and oral history methodologies will be used as additional resources for understanding and representing the individual and collective stories co-constructed through the research process. We will reflect collaboratively and contextually on multiple and complex constructions of gender, race, and social class in community-based research. M. Brinton Lykes PY 915 Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Race, Class, and Gender (Spring: 3) Using a social psychological framework, introduces multiple strategies for thinking culturally about select psychological constructs and processes (for example, the self, family and community relations, and socio-political oppression). Also pays particular attention to race and class as sociocultural constructs important for the critical analysis of the relationships of culture and psychology. Also explores the implications of these constructs for intercultural collaboration and action. Janet Helms PY 917 Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior (Fall: 3) This course discusses both the concepts of development and the key conceptual issues that are pertinent to the philosophical and scientific study of development across history and currently. The relation between the conceptual issues (nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, and stability-instability) and the philosophies of science and paradigms (or meta-models) that have shaped theories of development and the methods employed to study developmental change are reviewed. The range of past and contemporary theoretical models of development are discussed and the methodological proscriptions and prescriptions associated with each type of theory are reviewed. The Department The Boston College Catalog 2005-2006 313 EDUCATION

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