Hd 750 Syllabus

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I chose to rework the syllabus of HED 750 (Student Services in Higher education) because numerous researchers have found the importance of student affairs professionals on campus diversity dialogue. Watt (2007) stated that student affairs professionals are the persons who may facilitate the discussion on diversity, so they should be aware of his/her own biases, values, and prejudices; understand the viewpoint of others; and develop skills “to develop appropriate intervention strategies and techniques” (p. 115). Furthermore, McClellan and Stringer (2009) supported this idea because student affairs professions guide students morally, educationally, and in terms of health especially mental health. In addition, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA, 2016) emphasized diversity on student affairs administrators and started to create opportunities and supports to help grow the understanding among student affairs professions.
There are several changes that was made in the syllabus:
1. According to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning (2015) of Princeton University, it is important for first-year students to get the professor’s contact information such as email and office
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Added Course Student Learning Outcomes section. I am confused by the outcome number and course outcomes chart on the original syllabus. Dr. Fink (2003) stated that the key components of integrated course design were to “analyze the situational factors, formulate the learning goals, design the feedback and assessment procedures, and select the teaching/learning activities” (p. 2). And it is important to put these components together and show their inter-relationship (Fink, 2003). Therefore, I summarized the outcomes #1, #2, and #3 from the original syllabus to make them more connected. In addition, I drew #4 and #5 to build more concepts on diversity, because Smith (2015) has studied the positive relationship between the diversity engagement and student

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