EL600
Orientation and Writing Assessment (0 credits)
This required session introduces newly enrolled students in the MA in Educational Leadership program to the policies, procedures, and expectations of the program. Commonly asked questions are addressed including an overview of the preferred sequencing of courses, action research project overview, and exit procedures. A writing assessment is also administered.

EL602
Facilitation Through Communication (2 credits)
In this course students develop academic written and oral skills, interpersonal communication skills, and technology skills for presentations and organizational communication are developed. An examination of the relationship between communication and organizational culture are addressed.

EL603
Foundations of Educational Leadership (3 credits)
This course focuses on leadership principles designed to create and sustain educational organizations/programs through the creation and implementation of vision, mission, and reflective practices. Leadership styles coupled with personal, cultural, and ethical awareness are evaluated.

EL612
Coaching and Team Building (2 credits)
This course focuses on team building and collaboration skills needed to advance an organization. Creating and evaluating effective educational teams and learning communities, garnering community involvement and political support, and conflict managing are explored.

EL613
Fundamentals of Management (3 credits)
This course examines management strategies for supporting organizational systems and infrastructure within an educational organization. Management styles and models, technology assisted budgetary decision-making, project management, and crises management are addressed.

EL622
Supervision (2 credits)
This course examines methods of supervision, evaluation, and mentoring of personnel. Skills for hiring, evaluating, and developing personnel to enhance performance and growth of the educational organization with sensitivity to diversity are the main focus.

EL623
Curriculum and Instruction (3 credits)
This course focuses on designing and evaluating curriculum and instructional strategies to create programs that meet the needs of all learners including adults. Curriculum design models, instructional methodologies, methods for authentic assessment of learning, and learning styles are explored.

EL633
Ethics and Law (3 credits)
This course surveys ethical principles and legal issues that impact leadership in an educational setting. Legal trends, state and federal laws, case studies, and ethical dilemmas as they apply to personal and professional ethics are addressed.

EL632
Improvement Through Assessment (2 credits)
This course provides methods to gather and interpret data for institutional, programmatic, and employee/learner improvement. Assessment methodologies, technologies, risk analysis, and decision analysis are addressed.

EL630
Educational Research (2 credits)
This course focuses on recognizing, designing, and conducting valid, reliable, and ethical educational research for improving teaching and learning. Published studies are critiqued by identifying strengths and limitations of the methodology and evaluating potential impact on educational practice. Action research design, evaluation of literature and published studies, decision analysis, and methods for communicating and implementing results are practiced through several experiences.

EL652
Adult Learning (2 credits)
This course is designed to study and apply learning theories that engage diverse adult learners in professional and personal development. The main focus is developing coaching and team building skills, creating a learning organization through the use of adult learning theory, establishing staff development and comparing androgogy and pedagogy.

EL662
Promoting Change (2 credits)
This course surveys concepts and strategies related to the creation and implementation of visionary change. Theories surrounding systemic change based on the examination and implementation of internal systems within an educational organization are examined.

EL672
Integrating Diversity for Growth (2 credits)
This course focuses on becoming a culturally-aware leader able to integrate diversity for educational and organizational growth. An investigation of what is meant by diversity and ways to strengthen organizations through promoting and integrating personal and organizational cultural awareness is explored.

EL634
Action Research Project (2 credits)
In this summative course students apply research skills relevant to professional settings. The action research project results in a written paper which includes an introduction, a review of current literature, research questions, a description of the methodology and means of evaluation, the findings and interpretation of results, and possible questions for further study.

EL699
Project Presentation and Exit Interview (0 credits)
Students present, using visual technology, their summary paper including the literature review and action research to a panel of program members including paper advisor, reader, and department representative.

EL661
Administration and Assessment (1 Credit)
This course examines educational assessment concepts and students develop skills essential to assessment literacy. Students learn how to interpret and use the results of standardized and classroom assessments to make curricular and instructional decisions. Methods to communicate assessment results are explored.

EL671 (new MA in Ed Leadership elective course)
Leadership Roles of Activities Directors (1 credit)
This survey course examines the history and development of extra-curricular activities in our schools. Special emphasis is given to legal issues, policies, and funding for extra-curricular programs.

EL681 (new MA in Ed Leadership elective course)
Learning in Adulthood (1 credit)
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the nature of learning in adulthood. The main focus includes the adult learning process, learning development in adulthood, adult learning styles, and develop effective strategies for teaching adult learners.

EL691 (new MA in Ed Leadership elective course)
Charter School Leadership (1 credit)
This survey course examines the history, philosophy, growth, and legal issues surrounding charter schools. Topics include leadership, governance, sponsorship, policies, structure, funding, and public accountability.

EDUC645
Creativity (3 credits)
The history and theory of creativity are examined in this course. Topics include types and degrees of creativity. Identifying and serving highly creative students, developing strategies for all students, developing strategies and classroom management plans to respond to diverse needs of their students.

EDUC672
Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom (1 credit)
The role of emotional intelligence in the teaching and learning process is explored in this course. Participants design instructional activities to enhance the emotional intelligence of students.

GM605
Creative Problem Solving and Critical Thinking (2 credits)
This course gives students the opportunity to learn and practice higher level thinking skills such as curiosity and imagination, divergent thinking, idea generation, creative problem solving, evaluation, synthesis, critical thinking and analysis. Students develop strategies to search for challenges, identify problems, produce creative ideas, research solutions, design innovative applications, and build a case for the solution.

GM645
Marketing Management (2 credits)
This course emphasizes a practical and comprehensive application of key marketing concepts as they apply to businesses and organizations. Major marketing principles and strategies are explored from a managerial perspective as they apply to the marketplace domestically and around the world.

GM629
Project Management (2 credits)
This course facilitates learning and applying the principles and tools of successful project management in organizations. It examines how a successful project manager controls company resources within the limits of time, cost, and performance.

GM630
Quantitative Methods (3 credits)
This course focuses on statistical analysis of data for professional applications or research with an emphasis on quantitative methodologies. The course covers populations, sample selection, descriptive and inferential statistics. Significance, Chi Square, correlations, analysis of variance and simple regression, and concepts of reliability, validity and levels of measurement are addressed.

GM667
Information Technology (2 credits)
This course provides an overview of planning and managing technology and information flow in organizations. It addresses present and future issues regarding computer systems and their impact on management and operations.

HRM607
Managing Reward Systems (3 credits)
This course considers various philosophies of reward systems. It focuses on how to conduct job analysis and job evaluations and how to design pay levels and pay structures. This course examines pay for performance, compensation of special groups, and the impact of international pay systems on corporate strategies.

HRM609
Labor Relations (3 credits)
This course examines how changes in product and service markets affect the way labor and management relate to each other. The history of collective bargaining and its impact on labor relations, and state and federal employment laws and their impact on labor-management cooperation are explored. Various dispute resolution mechanisms and their impact on due process for all employees are examined.

HD568
Designing Corporate Training (2 credits)
This course examines the tools, techniques, and knowledge necessary to create corporate and industrial training programs and professional development seminars and workshops. It considers ways to design, develop, and deliver programs efficiently and in a way that maximizes adult learning.