This is the list of seminars offered for the PhD program in Paris. You can click on each seminar title to see the details.

• Teaching and the Human Brain
• Case Study Development & Application
• Career Counseling in the 21st Century
• Accreditation in Higher Education

Teaching and the Human Brain
Learn powerful and practical success strategies to boost motivation, attention, understanding, meaning and recall. This course attempts to integrate what we now know about the brain with standard education practices. You'll learn how to apply brain-based learning principles to achieve immediate results with principles based on the way our brain naturally learns best. This course was developed using the most current information from the recent explosion of brain research as it applies to teaching and learning.

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Case Study Development & Application
This course includes an expanded discussion on the nature of qualitative research, the different types of qualitative research, and how to design a qualitative study, including problem formulation and sample selection. All material has been updated in relation to current advances, resources, and case studies. An excellent resource for teachers and researchers.

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Career Counseling in the 21st Century
Speaking to the needs of beginning and experienced career counselors alike, this course:

• Considers such topics as : what career counseling is, how to set up a career counseling practice, understanding the client's motivation and what tools to use.
• Discusses the history of ideas in the field since 1900, who invented these ideas and what their present usefulness is.
• Addresses the problems a career counselor runs into, how to deal with these problems and how to deal with one's own need for motivation.

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Accreditation in Higher Education
Accreditation plays a vital role in higher education and is seen as one of the major ways in which the higher education community sets expectations for quality and how government and the public define and communicate the overriding public interest in higher education. Accreditation has also, appropriately, evolved over the years in response to the changes in this higher education environment. But, accreditation, although a critical success factor of institutions of higher learning, is not something that is necessarily fully understood by all key institutional stakeholders – senior administrators, faculty, program directors, etc. The purpose of this course is to provide a thorough understanding of accreditation in higher education. It examines the purpose of accreditation, looks at the various domestic and international accreditation agencies, discuses the accreditation criteria and takes candidates through the accreditation process. In addition it draws comparisons of the top accrediting organisations and highlights institutional benefits of maintaining accreditations.

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