ST: Comprehensive Comm College

Catalog description

This seminar course is designed to introduce students to the nature, philosophy, and historical evolution of the American community college and its role and function in higher education. It allows students to examine organizational patterns, curricular programs, students, administrators, faculty, services and current issues and trends that are part of the community college. It also provides students with a perspective on educational, economic, political, and social forces that have influenced the development of this unique and particularly American post-secondary institution and those forces that continue to shape its future. Knowledge gained from the course should provide students with the foundation for further study of issues in American community colleges. Prerequisite: Admission into a recognized graduate program at Binghamton University, or consent of the SAA department chair. Offered: spring only.