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Education
  

  • EDN 551 - Exploring Literacy Processes from a Personal Perspective

    Credits: (3)
    Examine the cognitive, linguistic, motivational, attitudinal, and socio-cultural aspects of literacy processes and the influences of families and teachers’ dispositions on K-12 children’s literacy learning. Individuals’ personal literacy processes and experiences are explored and analyzed in order to develop teachers’ theoretical and pedagogical understandings of literacy.


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  • EDN 552 - Introduction to Gifted Education

    Credits: (3)
    Study of gifted education including historical and current views in the field. Emphasis on characteristics of gifted learners and issues of development, identification, diversity, and impact of parents and community. Course to include readings, lecture, discussion, presentations, and school-based assignments.


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  • EDN 553 - Social and Emotional Development and Guidance of Gifted Learners

    Credits: (3)
    Examines theories of motivation, and social and emotional development of gifted learners. Students will develop awareness and understanding of social-emotional issues of gifted learners and implications for developing classroom, school, district, family, and community support systems. Course includes lecture, discussion, and student classroom observation assignments.


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  • EDN 554 - Curriculum, Methods, and Materials for Gifted Education

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: EDN 552  and EDN 553 . Examines curriculum, instructional methods, and materials to use in support of gifted learners. Focuses on models of curriculum and instructional methods, including assessment, diversifying/modifying strategies, and resources for gifted education. A clinical field experience is required.


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  • EDN 555 - Program Design, Implemation, and Evaluation in Gifted Education

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: EDN 552 , EDN 553 , EDN 554  or permission of instructor. Designed to develop knowledge and skills in program planning for gifted education. Topics include standards and principles of program development, exemplary program models and program features, materials and resources, advocacy, program evaluation, professional development, and legislation and policies influencing design and supervision of gifted education programs. Issues in Gifted Education will be revisited. Field-based activities will be required.


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  • EDN 556 - Clinical Teaching in Reading Recovery I

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Develops skills in observing, recording, and analyzing children’s reading and writing behaviors and in implementing effective methods for teaching literacy to young children at risk of reading failure. Generates understanding of theories of reading and writing processes and of reading acquisition from an emergent literacy perspective.


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  • EDN 557 - Clinical Teaching in Reading Recovery II

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Develops skills in observing, recording, and analyzing children’s reading and writing behaviors and in implementing effective methods for teaching literacy to young children at risk of reading failure. Generates understanding of theories of reading and writing processes and of reading acquisition from an emergent literacy perspective.


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  • EDN 558 - Language, Literacy, and Culture

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 566 . Explore the emergence of language and literacy in relation to cognitive development and cultural experience. Examine literacy as psycholinguistic and strategic processes within the context of diverse learning communities. Examine implications of theories on language and literacy development for teacher decision-making, teaching practices, and literacy learning.


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  • EDN 559 - Adult Literacy

    Credits: (3)
    Examines the definition of illiteracy and the problem of adult literacy. Reviews approaches to dealing with the problem from philosophical, pedagogical, and sociological bases. Reviews the many movements to overcome the problem in the United States and abroad. Provides students with ideas, methods, and materials for teaching adults to read.


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  • EDN 560 - Personnel Administration

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: EDN 502 , 510 , 511 , 521 , or approval of department. Designed to develop knowledge, skills, and abilities in specification and analysis of roles and role performance, and in selection, supervision, and utilization of personnel resources. The contents will include educational roles, criteria for role performance, personnel selection criteria and procedures, personnel policies and practices, and labor relations. Activities will include lecture, discussion, analysis and design of simulated and actual personnel procedures and a variety of simulated personnel related tasks.


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  • EDN 562 - Introduction to Administrative Applications of Technology

    Credits: (2)
    Designed to provide an introduction to basic technologies associated with word processing, spreadsheets, data-base usage, network communications, and models for decision-making, problem-solving, and project planning. Students will develop basic competency in the operation of computer based applications of technology to address typical problems and needs facing school administrators.


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  • EDN 563 - Educational Environments

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to develop knowledge skills, and abilities in the analysis, design and change of physical and social environments in education with emphasis on providing a welcoming environment for all students. Activities will include lecture, discussion, library research, case studies, and a variety of group and individual projects.


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  • EDN 564 - Policy Formulation as a Systemic Process

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to develop student’s ability to engage in effective school level policy formulation. Emphasizes analysis of institutional level explanations of school policy environments; national, state, and district influences on school level policy formulation; and the dynamic realities of strategic policy decision-making in a community of diverse and competing interests. Emphasis on the role of school leaders in formulating policy which supports stated goals, objectives, school visions, and school roles. Study and analysis of the types and nature of policy and implementation decisions associated with policy issues in an actual school setting.


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  • EDN 565 - Applied Research Practicum in Secondary Schools

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to develop curriculum, instructional, and research skills in the content areas, the course will address methods, applications, and research within specific content areas. Students will demonstrate planning and presentation skills in a supervised practicum and complete a research project and report.


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  • EDN 566 - Research in Literacy Education

    Credits: (3)
    Examine research methods including action research design, scientifically based inquiry, student-data analysis and program evaluation from a theoretical and pedagogical stance. Critique studies in literacy using positivistic scientific research design and interpretive ethnographic research/evaluation design to support effective decision making.


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  • EDN 568 - Literacies and Technology

    Credits: (3)
    Explore how new technologies influence K-12 literacy practices. Understand the role of critical literacy within literacy development and review and revise curriculum to include technologies.


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  • EDN 572 - Practicum in Reading

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 588 . Application of understandings of literacy processes and literacy acquisitions to the level of the classroom. Student designs and implements a classroom program based upon a defensible philosophical perspective.


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  • EDN 573 - The Disabled Reader

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: EDN 588 , 589 . Designed to develop competence and performance in testing teaching, and designing reading/learning programs for the severely disabled reader. Appropriate referral services will be identified. Consultation skills will be developed. Supervised practicum required.


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  • EDN 575 - Seminar and Practicum in Early Literacy Intervention I

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Co–requisites: EDN 556  and EDN 557  Explores theories of professional development, supervision, and systematic changes and issues affecting early literacy, program development, and teacher learning. Develops skills for implementing, evaluating, and improving literacy intervention programs, including Reading Recovery™, and skills in facilitating conceptual change and improving teaching performance. Seminar and practicum experiences extend over two semesters.


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  • EDN 576 - Seminar and Practicum in Early Literacy Intervention II

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Co–requisites:  EDN 556  and EDN 557 . Explores theories of professional development, supervision, and systematic changes and issues affecting early literacy, program development, and teacher learning. Develops skills for implementing, evaluating, and improving literacy intervention programs, including Reading Recovery™, and skills in facilitating conceptual change and improving teaching performance. Seminar and practicum experiences extend over two semesters.


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  • EDN 579 - Instructional Leadership in Secondary Schools

    Credits: (3)
    Facilitates the development of instructional leadership skills and professional documentation of scholarly teaching by providing expectations and assignments promoting development of leadership skills and preparation and defense of professional documentation and portfolio products.


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  • EDN 581 - Comparative International Education

    Credits: (3)
    Will examine and compare major differences in the approach to education in the K-12 setting in selected countries/regions. Differences in theoretical approaches as well as application of pedagogies will be studied.


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  • EDN 584 - Development of Language and Literacy Curriculum

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 566 . Examine best literacy practices to support the synthesis of theoretical knowledge of literacy curriculum. Provide opportunities for classroom applications within a comprehensive literacy framework.


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  • EDN 586 - Professional Roles and Systems for Change in Literacy Education

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 584 . Examine contrasting theories, models, programs, and practices to understand the impact leaders have on improving literacy instruction in the 21st century. Analyze the change process in a school setting to understand complexities of change. Promote team-building, coaching, and collaboration to positively affect student learning.


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  • EDN 588 - Assessments in Language and Literacy

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 584 . Develop a conceptual framework for obtaining and interpreting data about students’ language and literacy performance. Explore current practices in assessment and measurement, including development and interpretation of assessment data to inform instruction.


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  • EDN 589 - Tutoring and Coaching for Literacy Development

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDN 588 . Apply instructional theories and practices for tutoring and coaching in a K-12 educational context. Issues of cultural, linguistic, economic, intellectual, and other areas of diversity are explored in terms of assessment and instruction.


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  • EDN 590 - Practicum in Elementary Education

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: At least 18 hours of graduate coursework. Designed to provide a supervised internship in a school setting. Focus on execution and evaluation of a project involving application of theory and pedagogical principles and practices studied in the graduate program.


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  • EDN 591 - Independent Study

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: 15 semester hours of graduate credit and permission of instructor. Intensive study of topic in the student’s area of specialization.


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  • EDN 593 - Contemporary Perspectives in Education

    Credits: (1)
    Independent investigation of a contemporary controversial education issue. Students will research a topic, take a professional stance, and defend their position in a formal presentation to faculty and students. Must be taken during the semester in which the comprehensive exam is scheduled.


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  • EDN 594 - Seminar in Education

    Credits: (1-4)
    Designed to assist the elementary reading or special education graduate student in identifying and synthesizing ideas within and across courses and formulating reasoned responses to contemporary educational questions.


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  • EDN 595 - Special Topics in Education

    Credits: (1-4)
    Seminars of varying duration and credit may be arranged for the study of special topics relevant to student needs not served by established graduate courses. Seminars of this nature may be offered only upon approval of the dean of the Graduate School. A maximum of six semester credit hours may be counted toward degree requirements.


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  • EDN 596 - International Practicum in Education

    Credits: (6)
    (468)   Consent of instructor. A full time practicum experience within the area of specialization. Students will engage in a variety of supervised instructional activities, assuming an increasing amount of responsibility for instruction.


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  • EDN 597 - Teacher Change

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite:  21 hours of coursework or permission of instructor.  Capstone course for the M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning.  Students complete a culminating research project and defend a portfolio synthesizing their learning from the program.


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Educational Leadership
  

  • EDL 508 - Professional Development and the Learning Leader

    Credits: (3)
    (608)   Designed for the graduate student with demonstrated leadership experience. This course builds a research-based foundation for exploring how to best work with adults, plan for their professional growth, establish learning communities, and evaluate professional development at both the school and district levels.


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  • EDL 512 - Legal Issues and Policy as a Systemic Process

    Credits: (3)
    Required for all licensure-only and degree seeking MSA students. Provides opportunities for educational leaders to begin to understand school law and its relationship to educational policies in public schools. Activities required of students and methods of evaluation include three papers, a midterm exam, a final exam, and attendance at a Board of Education meeting.


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  • EDL 513 - Organizational Theory and Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to provide school leaders with the conceptual and analytic tools necessary to design and evaluate classroom instruction and school-wide instruction improvement efforts. Instructional units will examine principles of instructional design, assessment of teaching, and strategies of professional development. Activities will include lectures, seminar discussion and participation in case and field-based analysis.


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  • EDL 514 - School Improvement, Innovation and Change

    Credits: (3)
    MSA Status or by permission. Required for MSA degree seeking students. Designed to provide a foundation in technology applications for school leaders. This course will develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are positive and effective indicators of the use of technology in a school setting. This course develops and collects artifacts that are evidences of the course requirements.


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  • EDL 515 - Curriculum and Instruction for School Leaders

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to provide knowledge and practical skills in the selection, evaluation, and implementation of effective curricula.


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  • EDL 516 - Human Resource Development Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    MSA status or by permission. Required by MSA degree seeking students. This course prepares students to provide effective leadership and to lead school improvement to effect positive change. Emphasis given to recruitment, induction, development, and retention of highly qualified faculty and staff.


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  • EDL 520 - Instructional Development for School Leaders

    Credits: (3)
    CIS Elective.  Provides students in leadership roles with the knowledge and skill required to design and evaluate instructional plans, units, and educational programs.  Includes a study of learning, learning hierarchies, task analysis, educational goal and objective formulation, and assessment of learner entry skills.


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  • EDL 521 - Using Data for School Improvement

    Credits: (2)
    Co-requisite with EDL 522 . MSA status or by permission. Required for MSA degree seeking students. This course prepares students to lead school improvement and change through the use of data. Students gain knowledge and skills in assessment, program evaluation, and action research through data-based decision-making and the school improvement process.


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  • EDL 522 - Educational Program Design and Evaluation

    Credits: (3)
    MSA status or by permission.  Required for MSA degree seeking students. This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to conduct evaluations of school instruction, program and activities.  Formative and summative assessments are emphasized to assist students in determining the achievement of educational goals and objectives.


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  • EDL 523 - Research in Education

    Credits: (3)
    Develop research competenices required for interpretation and critique of research reports and for design of and implementation of research for educational decision-making. Contents will include measurement, problem identification and analysis, research design, selected statistical analysis procedures, data interpretation and reporting, and research critique. Activities will include lecture, discussion, research critique, simulated and actual proposal development, simulated report development, and computer analysis of actual data.


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  • EDL 526 - Managerial Leadership and Administration

    Credits: (3)
    MSA status or by permission. Required for degree seeking and licensure only students. Provides both academic and field-based experiences. In conjunction with EDL 570 , this develops students’ understanding of leadership and management skills for both the school and district settings. Both organization and management skills are emphasized.


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  • EDL 530 - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

    Credits: (3)
    Provides knowledge and skills required to develop, implement, and evaluate curriculum and instructional models.  Content covers curriculum models, alignment of curriculum to learning standards, study of learning, task analysis, goal/objective formulation, and meeting individual needs.  Also, includes assessment of curriculum and instruction for change and improvement.  Prerequisite for EDL 574 .


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  • EDL 550 - Foundations of Higher Education

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines the history, development, goals, functions, and administrative structures in a postsecondary educational context.


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  • EDL 551 - Student Development Theory

    Credits: (3)


    This course covers the study of major theories and practices of learning, student development, and advising and counseling.  Topics also include meeting the needs of diverse learners and supporting culturally diverse students in higher education settings.


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  • EDL 552 - Critical Issues in Higher Education

    Credits: (3)
    This course is an examination of social, political, ethical, and economic issues that impact higher education.  Perspectives will include political science, organizational theory, law, and other disciplines.


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  • EDL 553 - Evaluation and Assessment in Higher Education

    Credits: (3)
    This course will focus on the study of theoretical perspectives underlying program evaluation and assessment in the context of higher education.  Application projects will allow students to apply theory to practice and use date to drive decisions.


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  • EDL 554 - Leadership and Organizational Development

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines leadership theories and styles for the development and use of effective strategies and skills in higher education.  Specific application to units and programs found in higher education will be the focus.


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  • EDL 555 - Legal Issues in Higher Education

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines contemporary legal issues and ethical decision making in colleges and universities.  Discussions include proactive and reactive strategies that involve legal issues.


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  • EDL 556 - Technology in Higher Education Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    This course is a critical survey of social media, mobile devices and applications used by students and professionals in postsecondary education contexts.  Challenges and benefits in the use of technology, as well as, wanted and unwanted consequences will be examined.


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  • EDL 557 - Community Colleges

    Credits: (3)
    An examination of current community college programs, students, organization, resources, and issues that pertain to administration in the community college context.


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  • EDL 560 - Practicum

    Credits: (6)

    Supervised on-site experience as a practicing professional in a college, university, community or governmental agency setting.  Consent of major professor required.


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  • EDL 565 - Current Issues in Educational Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    Planned to provide “cutting edge” topics, this course is designed to explore critical areas of interest and concern for school leaders. Current research and innovation drive the focus for exploration.


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  • EDL 566 - Supervision and Teacher Evaluation

    Credits: (3)
    Teacher supervision and evaluation is considered in the broader context of education, with these processes intentionally tied to strengthening the quality of teaching and learning.  The course provides lessons, resources, theory to application assignments, and products that ensure the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be an effective supervisor and evaluator.


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  • EDL 567 - Learning-Centered Supervision

    Credits: (3)
    Develops an understanding of adult development theories and supervision models in relation to application for development of teachers at beginning of their careers. Topics include clinical supervision, research on novice teachers, conditions and strategies that support growth, and specific differentiated supervisory strategies. Students will develop materials and collect resources to support a model of curricular/instructional reform.


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  • EDL 568 - Program Design and Evaluation

    Credits: (3)
    Intended to familiarize students with a variety of approaches for planning and conducting evaluation and to provide practical guidelines for general evaluation. Within this framework, more specific goals are to develop awareness of and sensitivity to critical concepts and issues in educational evaluation, to develop a clear perspective about the role of evaluation in education, and to develop ability to conduct useful, feasible, and technically sound evaluation studies.


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  • EDL 569 - Internship: Pre-leadership Applications

    Credits: (2)
    This course is designed to provide the administrative intern with experience at one (or two) different level(s) (elementary, middle or high school) than the EDL 570-571 placement. This course serves as an applications-based opportunity to engage in clinical observations under the in-the-field guidance of the school principal and university supervisor.


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  • EDL 570 - Internship: Leadership Applications I

    Credits: (6)
    Corequisite: EDL 526  with EDL 570. Field course work. MSA program members only. Required for all MSA members. Designed to provide opportunities to experiment in “real world” settings with ideas presented in other courses throughout the leadership program. Application and analysis of management practices occur under guidance of professionals.


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  • EDL 571 - Internship: Leadership Applications II

    Credits: (6)
    Field course work. MSA program members only. Required for all MSA members. Designed to provide opportunities to experiment in “real world” settings with ideas presented in other courses throughout the leadership program. Application and analysis of management practices occur under guidance of professionals.


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  • EDL 574 - Action Research in Curriculum and Instruction

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDL 530  or equivalent. Students will use the research, process of curriculum development, models of curriculum, alignment of curriculum, and instructional strategies studied in EDL 530  to develop and implement an action research project on curriculum and instruction in a PreK-12th grade classroom, school, or district setting.


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  • EDL 575 - Social Justice Issues in Curriculum and Instruction

    Credits: (3)
    This course facilitates understanding and analysis of contexts in which teaching, learning, schooling, and thinking about social justice have historically been located. Focuses on critical roles and responsibilities of educators as decision-makers in applying theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and dispositions to school curriculum, instruction and supervision. Open to all programs.


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  • EDL 578 - Practicum in Developmental Instructional Supervision

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: EDL 567 . Practicum experience designed to extend students’ understanding and application of theory, concepts, and techniques of learning centered supervision. Students will be engaged in a variety of supervision activities while mentoring a colleague, beginning teacher, or student intern in an educational setting. Includes self-analysis of own supervisory practices and the development and implementation of a plan for professional development.


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  • EDL 579 - Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities

    Credits: (3)
    This course will focus on collaborative processes for connecting partners in the education of students in K-12 programs. Effective programs currently being used will be studied. Students will engage in projects to develop strategies in local schools that support families and children.


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  • EDL 580 - Fundamental Issues

    Credits: (3)
    This course is directly tied to the Master of School Administration thematic standards: (a) School Leader as Learner; (b) School Leader as Conceptualizer, Synthesizer, and Inventor; (c) School Leader as Planner, Operations Guide, Evaluator, and Communicator; (d) School Leader as Decision Maker, Problem-Solver and Assessor. This alignment aims to develop the capacities and habits of critical, systematic thought and analysis within a leader.


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  • EDL 581 - Comparative Studies in International Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed to provide school leaders interested in curriculum, instruction, and supervision an international perspective through conceptual and analytic tools necessary to challenge, inform, and lead classroom and school-wide improvement efforts. The course will examine principle issues of curriculum, instruction, and supervision comparatively with one other country being the point of comparison. Activities will include participation in discussions, readings, academic writing, and field-based analysis.


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  • EDL 583 - Global Perspectives on Curriculum and Supervision

    Credits: (3)
    This 3-credit course focuses on gaining an appreciation and embracing global forces in education as a way of building educators’ capacity to prepare B-12 students for life in the collaborative, global, innovation age. This course is required for CIS graduate students and is by permission of the instructor.


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  • EDL 591 - Independent Study

    Credits: (1-3)
    Prerequisites: 15 semester hours of graduate credit and permission of instructor. Intensive study of topic in the student’s area of specialization.


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  • EDL 595 - Special Topics in Educational Leadership

    Credits: (1-4)
    Seminars of varying duration and credit may be arranged for the study of special topics relevant to student needs not served by established graduate courses. Seminars of this nature may be offered only upon approval of the dean of the Graduate School. A maximum of six semester credit hours may be counted toward degree requirements.


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  • EDL 598 - Thesis I

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites:  EDL 523 , at least 18 additional hours towards completion of the master’s degree, and permission of instructor required.  This course is designed to support CIS students in the development of the first three chapters of their theses.


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  • EDL 599 - Thesis ll

    Credits: (1-6)
    Prerequisites: EDL 523 , at least 18 additional hours toward completion of the master’s 99 degree, and permission of instructor required. Intensive study of topic selected by student and approval by thesis committee. Includes definition of problem, review of related literature, application of appropriate methodology, and interpretation of results and conclusions. Oral presentation and defense of thesis required.


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  • EDL 601 - Leadership Theory

    Credits: (3)
    Introduce students to major historical leadership models. Students will compare and contrast leadership theories and models within the context of prevailing social, economic and political circumstances.


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  • EDL 602 - Serving Urban and Rural Communities

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed to prepare educational leaders to successfully work in both urban and rural environments and to prepare for an reflect upon school-based and international internships.


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  • EDL 604 - Educational Policy, Governmental Regulation and School Law

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed to be an advanced level class on educational politics, policies, and law. It builds upon coursework taken at the Masters level. The course will develop the ability of future school leaders to analyze and assess laws and policies as they impact on school systems at the micro and macro levels. It will also provide candidates with frameworks with which to analyze and assess the political influences on educational systems.


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  • EDL 605 - Social Foundations of Education

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed to explore the social, historical, philosophical, and cultural foundations of United States public education. Students will examine past and contemporary school practices, educational policy and the relationship between policy, identity and practice.


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  • EDL 606 - Leadership and Technology: Purpose and Power

    Credits: (3)
    This course uses ISTE.NETS.A Standards as a guide for developing effective and innovative school leaders. The ISTE.NETS.A standards are illuminated by case studies based on systemic leadership issues, dilemmas and problems. Guiding questions provide a means for students to analyze, assess and develop action plans to support effective decision making.


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  • EDL 607 - Generating, Managing, and Aligning Resources in Schools

    Credits: (3)
    Provides sources, strategies, and management of unit internal and external funds. Assist in the development of grant proposals, donor prospects, business partnerships, and the personnel and financial management of both internal and external funding budgets through private, state, and federal compliance regulations.


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  • EDL 608 - Prof Develop & Learning Leader

    Credits: (3)
    Designed for the graduate student with demonstrated leadership experience. This course builds a research-based foundation for exploring how to best work with adults, plan for their professional growth, establish learning communities, and evaluate professional development at both the school and district levels. 608 Doctoral level or 508 Master’s level with instructor permission. Summer elective.


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  • EDL 609 - Organizational Development: Structure, Processes and Practices

    Credits: (3)
    Provides students with the theory, knowledge and practices necessary to identify and understand the change processes involved in managing and sustaining organizations. Philosophical, ethical, social and economic issues impacting educational organizations will be identified for analysis and problem-solving.


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  • EDL 610 - Ethical Leadership and Decision Making

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to promote students’ purposeful inquiry for knowledge to be used for making ethical decisions. Applies ethical decision making to case studies reflecting current issues.


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  • EDL 611 - The Politics of Education: Historical Frameworks

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines how curriculum, objectives and program sequence are shaped as much by broad societal agendas as by professional expertise and practice. Focuses on analysis of interactions among school district, local community, state and federal systems and their impact on educational leadership.


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  • EDL 621 - Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

    Credits: (3)
    Designed to build upon candidates’ prior experiences as teachers and curriculum designers/evaulators. The course will develop school leaders’ skills in analyzing system-wide curricular efforts; evaluating curriculum, instruction and assessment models and approaches from a system-wide perspective and under the scrutiny of state and national accountability.


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  • EDL 622 - Supervision Theories and Applications

    Credits: (3)
    Provide advanced level study about educational supervision models, structures, and practices within school buildings and in the larger school system context. The course will develop school leaders’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary in designing, implementing, and sustaining a standards-based and effective systemic model for personnel evaluation and supervision. The creation of cohesive and coherent networks and practices will be emphasized in the context of educational reform and the stimulation of professional development across educational roles and the career cycle.


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  • EDL 623 - Accountability

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed for school leaders to identify, analyze and explore educational accountability issues at the classroom, district, state, national and international levels relative to the mandate that all young people will meet high learning standards and to successfully compete in our global society.


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  • EDL 641 - Applied Research

    Credits: (3)
    This course provides knowledge and skills for conducting applied research in educational settings. Major themes include key concepts of educational research, conducting literature reviews, research design, ethical considerations in conducting research, instrument development and data collection, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, action planning, and writing and reporting research results.


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  • EDL 642 - Program Evaluation

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite EDL 641 . Provides knowledge and skills for conducting program evaluation. Components include evaluation theories and approaches for conducting evaluations; evaluation planning and implementation; tests and measurement; and guidelines for conducting program evaluations, including The Program Evaluation Standards and the American Evaluation Association’s Guiding Principles for Evaluators.


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  • EDL 643 - Quantitative Research

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite EDL 641 . Provides knowledge and skills in applied statistics. Focus is for students to be able to appropriately approach statistical problems in their professional setting.


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  • EDL 644 - Qualitative Research

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite EDL 641 . This course provides knowledge and skills in qualitative methods commonly used in educational settings. Major components of the course include qualitative theoretical/conceptual frameworks, research designs, instrument development and data collection procedures, data analysis and interpreting and reporting results.


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  • EDL 645 - Learning-Centered Leadership

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines a foundational approach to coaching, mentoring, professional development, and leadership through a district and school leadership lens. Participants will be equipped to work with and empower educational stakeholders to enhance student learning.


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  • EDL 646 - Global Educational Achievement: Comparative Analyses

    Credits: (2)
    Introduces students to comprehensive assessments of student well-being dimensions in economically developed countries. Assists students in understanding current national and international educational achievement levels and its correlation with a strong economy and a high quality of life.


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