| COURSES OF INSTRUCTION |
Credit
Hours |
| ELPS 500 |
Thesis |
1-15 |
| |
Grading Restriction: P/NP only. Repeatability: May be repeated. |
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| ELPS 502 |
Registration for Use of Facilities |
1-15 |
| |
Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is complete. Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only. Repeatability: May be repeated. Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements |
|
| ELPS 503 |
Problems in Lieu of Thesis |
2-3 |
| |
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours. |
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| EDAM 513 |
Administrative and Organizational Theory |
3 |
| |
Introduction to theoretical administrative and organizational foundations of management and leadership of educational programs and institutions.
(Same as Higher Education Administration 513) |
|
| EDAM 515 |
Human Relations and Communication in Administration
|
3 |
| |
Development and use of effective interpersonal communication skills and channels, inter-group relations, supportive work climates, personnel motivation, conflict management skills, and role of values, attitudes, and expectations in administration. |
|
| EDAM 516 |
Research Methods |
3 |
| |
Descriptive, experimental, and quasi-experimental designs to help students without quantitative backgrounds to read and understand technical professional literature. Introduction to inferential statistics, needs assessments, and evaluation procedures. (Same as Higher Education Administration 516) |
|
| EDAM 523 |
Administration of Special Services |
3 |
| |
Legal, programmatic, and ethical responsibilities of educational administrators in design and implementation of special service programs within school settings. Special learner characteristics, program categories, service delivery models, and legal/ethical frameworks. Inclusion and full service delivery. |
|
| EDAM 529 |
Politics and Public Relations in Education |
3 |
| |
School/community relations in political context of modern, complex society. Administrator and supervisory competencies: political, social, ethnic, cultural, and racial environments in which schools operate. |
|
| EDAM 533 |
Program Evaluation in Education |
3 |
| |
(See Educational Psychology 533) |
|
| EDAM 535 |
Administrative Applications of Micro Computers |
3 |
| |
DOS, word processing, data based management, spreadsheets, and computer communications. Review and development of specific administrative applications: scheduling, attendance, student record systems, and accounting. |
|
| EDAM 544 |
School Finance and Business Management |
3 |
| |
For prospective building level administrators. Financial and logical management tasks and procedures in individual school setting. |
|
| EDAM 548 |
Supervision and Personnel Administration |
3 |
| |
Basic supervisory and personnel concepts and related competencies at the micro-organizational level: interviewing, personnel planning, collecting and maintaining employee information, supervision of personnel, performance appraisal and staff development. |
|
| EDAM 553 |
Strategic Planning |
3 |
| |
Processes for improving decision-making function through use of both quantitative and qualitative planning techniques. |
|
| EDAM 554 |
Policy Issues in Educational Law, K-12 |
3 |
| |
Logical arrangement of case and statutory materials for public school administrators and teachers; problems concerning law and public education. |
|
| EDAM 560 |
Grant Writing and Project Management |
3 |
| |
Processes of finding funding for research efforts, writing grant proposals, negotiating with funding sources, implementing and maintaining funded programs, and closing out projects at the end of funding support. |
|
| EDAM 577 |
Educational Statistics |
3 |
| |
(See Educational Psychology 577) |
|
| EDAM 580 |
Internship in Educational Administration |
3 |
| |
Field experience in appropriate educational setting working directly with administrator. At end of planned program of study. Placement by department assignment. Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours. |
|
| EDAM 583 |
Educational Leadership-Principalship |
6 |
| |
Knowledge, skills and relationships for principals to be effective educational leaders. |
|
| EDAM 592 |
Field Problems in Educational Administration & Supervision |
3 |
| |
Topic to be assigned. May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours. Satisfactory/No Credit or letter grade. |
|
| EDAM 596 |
Seminar in School Leadership, K-12 |
3 |
| |
On-site study of quality school processes throughout region.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours. |
|
| EDAM 605 |
Advanced Seminar in Administrative Theory |
3 |
| |
(See Higher Education Administration 605) |
|
| EDAM 606 |
Leadership Forum |
3 |
| |
Development of research, evaluation, policy analysis skills and critical analysis and evaluation of philosophical principles undergirding American education. Continuous on-campus enrollment for 2 years. (Same as Higher Education Administration 606)
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. maximum 12 hours. |
|
| EDAM 608 |
Development of and Current Issues in Educational Administration |
3 |
| |
Introduction to the area of educational administration. Focusing on the development of educational administration, school leadership preparation programs as well as current reforms, issues and indictments. |
|
| EDAM 610 |
Internship in Educational Administration |
3 |
| |
Opportunity for doctoral students and advanced graduate students to gain experience in performance of critical tasks of educational administration under supervision of practitioner and university representative. Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only. Repeatability: May be repeated at discretion of student's committee. Maximum 12 hours. |
|
| EDAM 614 |
Statistics for Educational Administrators |
3 |
| |
An introductory statistics course that focuses on the application of statistical procedures to proglems in educational administration. Included are: scales of measurement, hypothesis testing, an descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Computer applications are explored. (Same as Higher Education Administration 614). |
|
| EDAM 615 |
Research Design |
3 |
| |
The foundations of designing, conductin, and evaluating quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research an the philosophical assumptions underlying these approaches. Topics covered include: identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, specifying a purpose, writing research questions and hypotheses, and collecting an analyzing data. (Same as Higher Education Administration 615). |
|
| EDAM 616 |
Research Methods |
3 |
| |
The techniques of multiple regression, analysis of covariance, and mulivariate analysis as applied to problems in educational administration. Computer applications are explored. (Same as Higher Education Administration 616)
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 614. |
|
| EDAM 617 |
Case Study Methods in Educational Research |
3 |
| |
Methods, techniques and strategies consistent with case study approaches to inquiry in educational and related settings. (Same as Higher Education Administration 617)
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 615. |
|
| EDAM 629 |
Seminar in Policy Issues in Education |
3 |
| |
Local, state, and federal education policy: theory analysis, development and implementation. Why education policy is changing rapidly, wys to follow and influence education policy, and conceptual frameworks to use for future understanding. (Same as Higher Education Administration 629) |
|
| EDAM 646 |
Personnel Administration |
3 |
| |
Personnel administration functions for professional and supporting staff in educational organizations. recruitment, selection, placement, personnel policies, employee wage and salary administration, fringe benefits, collective negotiations, human relations, staff development, and staff evaluation. |
|
| EDAM 656 |
Legal Issues in Education |
3 |
| |
School law; constitutional foundations as they relate to plublic education at state and local levels. |
|
| EDAM 658 |
Conflict Management |
3 |
| |
(See Higher Education Administration 658) |
|
| EDAM 670 |
Values and Ethics in Educational Leadership |
3 |
| |
(See Higher Education Administration 670) |
|
| EDAM 680 |
Administration of Complex Organizations |
3 |
| |
Concepts and theoretical formulations to understand, analyze, evaluate, and change complex educational programs and organizations. (Same as Higher Education Administration 680) |
|
| TPTE 519 |
Curriculum for School Leaders |
3 |
| |
This course is designed to equip aspiring school leaders with practical and theoretical knowledge of various curriculum models that might be used to foster instructional leadership and enhance school improvement initiatives. Seminars, lectures, and inquiry-based approaches will be used. |
