Minor Requirements

Required Courses (9 cr.)

• C675 Supervised College Teaching* (1-3 cr.)
• C750 Topical Seminar: Curriculum in Higher Education (1-6 cr.)
• C750 Topical Seminar: Learning and Teaching on the College Campus (1-6 cr.)

*A course on teaching or teaching practicum within the student’s department may be substituted to fulfill this requirement, but if so, an additional elective must be taken so that all 12 credits for the minor are out of department. Students using this option would be taking 15 credits for the minor, 3 in department and 12 in Higher Education and Student Affairs.

Additional Required Course (3 cr.)
Choose one suggested course from the following**:

• D500 Introduction to Adult Education Theory (3 cr.)
• D525 Introduction to Distance Education Systems (3 cr.)
• D600 The Teaching-Learning Transaction in Adult Education (3 cr.)
• L506 Reading and Learning in Postsecondary Education (3 cr.)
• P530 Instructional Psychology (3 cr.)
• P540 Learning and Cognition in Education (3 cr.)
• P544 Applied Cognition and Learning Strategies (3 cr.)
• P545 Educational Motivation (3 cr.)
• U548 Student Development Theory and Research (3 cr.)
• Relevant courses from other departments or programs may be counted at the discretion of the minor advisor, though no more than one such course may be counted toward the 12 credit minimum.

**Students in the departments offering these courses may not elect to apply them to the minor. The minor elective must be a course in a different department from the major.

The doctoral minor in College Pedagogy does not require a minor qualifying exam.