This course entails an introduction to the history, philosophy, and social aspects of educational leadership. It reviews relevant theories of administration; the historical role of administration in schools; and the political, social, economic, and philosophical frameworks that have informed administration.

Not Repeatable for Credit

Focuses primarily on legal concerns affecting teachers in public secondary schools. Topics include tort liability; church-state relations; expression rights; children with disabilities; conditions of employment; discrimination and harassment; student testing; collective bargaining; teacher life-style choices; copyright concerns; teach contracts; and dismissal, recordkeeping practices and student discipline.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course investigates characteristics of the community school, including the multicultural quality of the community. It also explores adapting the educational program to community needs, using community resources in instruction, and planning school-community relations programs.

Repeatable for Credit: 6 credits and 2 completions

The primary outcome is to develop the knowledge, interpersonal and leadership skills that can be applied in leadership for the improvement of instruction. Models of supervision and evaluation will be examined, but the major focus will be to examine the context for change in today's schools and apply leadership knowledge to the task of direct assistance, group development, professional development, curriculum development, and action research.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course focuses on theoretical and conceptual approaches useful in describing, explaining, and predicting political behavior related to schools. Forces for continuity and change at local, state, and federal levels are explored.

Not Repeatable for Credit

Individual research or study with School Administration faculty member, arranged in advance of registration. A one or two page written proposal should be submitted to the instructor during the first week of the term, specifying the scope of the project, project activities, meeting times, completion date, and student products.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions

This course is designed to identify problems of practice, determine issues, explore alternative solutions, and investigate implications of various actions.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course entails an overview of the legal framework affecting the organization and administration of public schools, including church-state issues, the rights of students and teachers, conditions of employment, teacher organizations, special education, student discipline, tort liability, school finance, and desegregation.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course considers constitutional and statutory provisions and court decisions affecting the administration of public schools. Particular attention is given to current legal concerns.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course engages students in a dialogue around building a professional learning community leading to instructional program coherence committed to the success of all students. Students complete their leadership platform as a part of this course.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This on-line course prepares educational leaders to critically collect, analyze, evaluate, and use various forms of data to inform instructional and organizational decision making in schools.  The focus of the course is on decision making to further student learning and school improvement.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course provides an introduction to economic thinking concerning K-12 education as well as the theory and practice of funding K-12 schools. Topics include economics and educational leadership, efficiency, equity, liberty, sources and characteristics of school revenue, and school funding distribution systems.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course provides an overview of how microeconomic theories and models can be used to examine a wide variety of issues in both K-12 and postsecondary education.  Topics include resource allocation, economic theory of individual behavior, investment in human capital, school choice and the return on education, application of demand and supply to education, the costs and production of education, theories of education pricing and funding, and labor markets for education professionals.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course explores the normative and positive aspects of financing K-12 public education. After a rigorous introduction to the foundation of school finance theory, the course investigates the concepts and practices of effective budget management.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course explores the background, present conditions, and future directions of school personnel management. It entails development and implementation of a school personnel management program and examination of problems and issues.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course focuses on the basic concepts in planning educational facilities as they relate to educational needs. It covers educational specifications for learning and environments, and renovation and modernization of school buildings.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course examines organizational factors in terms of impact on human behavior and student learning and the critical role of administrative policies and practices in shaping the organizational context. Alternative organizational designs and administrative strategies are studied in terms of their effectiveness under specified conditions.

Not Repeatable for Credit

Advanced students investigate and discuss current issues, developments, and concerns bearing on educational leadership. Specific topics vary each semester.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions

This course uses change scenarios at the school and district level to facilitate the application of planning and change principles. Students are required to produce personal change paradigms and critique contemporary restructuring and transformational models.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course examines the concept of leadership from a political, historical, and social framework, with emphasis on values and ethics in the leader-follower relationship. Topics include analyses of change processes, conflict, power, and transformation.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course addresses the historical and contemporary study of political, economic, and social factors that have influenced or are influencing the development and evolution of educational programs and services for students and adults with disabilities. Implications for district and site-level leadership practices are emphasized.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course, taken near the completion of degree requirements, permits interaction with practicing school administrators and others with expertise in educational leadership. The student prepares an "issues" paper, the subject of which may be discussed in the final oral examination.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course provides for a closely supervised field experience in various areas of school administration.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions

Students pursue in-depth research on specific topics pertaining to interpretations of constitutional and statutory law affecting education.

Not Repeatable for Credit

Individual and group study. One credit hour is offered for each week of full-time work.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions

This course entails applied research in the transformation of special education as a parallel and separate system to a unified system. Using problem-based learning strategies, participants use contemporary examples of school districts along a continuum to plan and design alternative systems of service delivery.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course is limited to candidates for the doctorate with a major or minor in educational leadership. The course focuses on study of research design, techniques, and procedures applicable to research problems in administration.

Not Repeatable for Credit

This course involves a supervised experience working in schools, agencies, or institutions. S/F grading.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions

This course is for the development of a dissertation proposal in Educational Leadership. Students should be finished or nearly finished with program course work.

Not Repeatable for Credit

Credit may be earned over a period of several semesters. The thesis may be an organized scientific contribution or a comprehensive analysis of theory and practice in a specific area. S/F grading.

Repeatable for Credit: 99 credits and 99 completions