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ADSU 7030 Dispute Resolution
ADSU 8030 Organizational Leadership
ADSU 8130 Strategic Planning and Systems Alignment
ADSU 8131 Policy, Knowledge Management, and Forecasting
ADSU 8132 Transition and Change Management
ADSU 8230 Ethics, Values and Social Responsibilities
ADSU 8330 Human Resources Administration
ADSU 8430 Financial Resources Management
EDUC 7030 Quantitative Research I
EDUC 7031 Quantitative Research II
EDUC 7130 Qualitative Research
LLLS 7030 Professional Writing and Communications
SILC 7030 Intercultural Communication
ADSU 7030** Dispute Resolution (3 SCHs)
Designed to analyze various approaches in resolving disputes and to develop skills in helping to resolve disputes that may occur in managing responsibilities. The elements of arbitration, mediation, and negotiations would also be discussed. Teaching strategies would include case studies, readings, role-play simulations, and skill development experiences. Materials from educational, governmental, and service organizations would be used.
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ADSU 7130** Program Evaluation (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: EDUC 7130. Addresses the evaluation of the effectiveness of programs and policies. Topics include purposes for evaluating; evaluator’s role; evaluation structure, various design applications, including experimental, quasi-experimental, and descriptive; indicators for effectiveness and program process; along with a series of components, including collection of quantitative and qualitative data, analysis, and use of evaluation results in the decision-making process.
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ADSU 7636** Politics and School Finance (3 SCHs)
Includes federal, state and local sources of funding; issues related to the distribution of moneys and local taxation policies; understanding the concepts and issues of bond elections investments, debt service and risk management, analysis of the community power structure within the district, how national and state political forces affect local education policies.
ADSU 7637** Personnel Management (3 SCHs)
Covers the various aspects of administering personnel in the educational setting: rights and responsibilities of employees, contracts, collective bargaining, termination, advertising, recruiting, interviewing, hiring practices, staff development and creation of policies governing personnel.
ADSU 7833** Superintendent’s Seminar (3 SCHs)
Contemporary theory and issues in School Leadership.
ADSU 7837** Superintendent’s Internship (3 SCHs)
Supervised internship in an approved educational environment. Written and oral reports required.
ADSU 7931** Doctoral Research Topics in Educational Leadership (3 SCHs)
Identified by specific topic each time course is offered.
ADSU 7939** Doctoral Independent Study in Education Leadership (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor and student’s doctoral committee.
ADSU 8030** Organizational Leadership (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: LLLS 7030. Explores major philosophies and theories of leadership and their applications to successfully leading and managing educational organiza-tions in community settings, especially ones with a diverse population. Topics would include theories of organization and their implications for diagnosis and action; managerial styles and their implications in addressing individual and group dynamics; values and ethics; cultural sensitivity; legal responsibilities; effective decision-making strategies for successful outcomes. Teaching strategies would include case studies, readings, simulations, and skills development experiences. Materials from educational organizations would be used. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8130** Strategic Planning & Systems Alignment (3 SCHs)
Addresses components of systems theory, comprehensive strategic planning and modeling, and organizational alignment. Topics include developing systems analysis, strategic and unit-level planning, contingency planning, integration of planning horizontally and vertically, and alignment of planning with resources and assessment. Teaching strategies include case studies, readings, simulations, and skills development experiences. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8131** Policy, Knowledge Management & Forecasting (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: ADSU 8130. Investigates the use of data systems for organizational management and policy development. Uses techniques of knowledge manage- ment systems, data mining, and forecasting tools to effectively integrate diverse data sets, such as demographics, facilities needs, planning documents, assessment data, human resource data, and financial data. Topics include the development and use of demographic models, GIS models, database design, forecasting tools, and simulation tools. Teaching strategies include case studies, readings, simula- tions, and skills development experiences. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8132** Transition and Change Management (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: ADSU 8131. Explores the theory and research of change manage-ment as applied to enterprise-wide change, organizational transitions, and proc-esses. Topics include analysis of the various aspects of systemic change, such as change leadership, team building, process planning, accountability systems, succession management, data analysis, communication and survey tools, resource allocation, community relations, and marketing of services. Teaching strategies include case studies, readings, simulations, and skills development experiences. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8230** Ethics, Values, and Social Responsibility(3 SCHs)
Identifies highest standards in professional collaboration, duty to stakeholders, the extent of professional responsibility extending beyond matters of designated and measurable accountability and finally, commitment to the community served. The course would merge the best of the technical literature by professional ethicists with an emphasis on practice and continuous improvement. Teaching strategies would include case studies, guest speakers, simulations and skills development experiences.
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ADSU 8330** Human Resources Administration (3 SCHs)
Addresses various aspects of human resources leadership and management. Topics include federal/state laws, meaningful work environment; motivation and job satisfaction; effective and interactive employee communications; and relevant and ongoing professional development opportunities for self and for staff, high-ighting lifelong learning. Discussions would include the research and theory of adult learning (transformational learning); reflective practices; and mentoring, to name a few. Teaching strategies would include case studies, group discussions, interactive exercises, lectures, and readings. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8430** Financial Resources Management (3 SCHs)
Addresses financial management practices and problems of nonprofit organizations in the area of education, government, and human services. Specific topics would include financial accounting, preparation and interpretation of financial statements, financial analysis and cost accounting, budgeting, cost containment and retrenchment, and financial planning. Teaching strategies would include case studies, exercises, lectures, and readings. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8530** Research Seminar (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: EDUC 7130. Focuses on challenging topics of leadership in educational settings. The main focus is on creating and maintaining effective schools. Educational leaders would be invited to address current real-world problems that doctoral students would analyze in order to develop workable alternative solu-tions. The process would work toward doctoral students developing viable research projects that could serve as relevant dissertation topics. Each student would be responsible for her/his own project, and for contributing to the intellectual development of all projects. Field experience is required.
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ADSU 8939** DISSERTATION (3 SCHs)
Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for doctoral degree and consent of Doctoral Program Committee. Once admitted to Doctoral Candidacy, the candidate may register for the dissertation course. Twelve (12) hours of dissertation count toward the program. The instructor of record is the student’s Dissertation Chair. The “course” focuses on the activities necessary for the completion of the dissertation. The program requires continuous enrollment in the dissertation until completion.
ADSU 8969** DISSERTATION (6 SCHs)
Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for doctoral degree and consent of Doctoral Program Committee. Once admitted to Doctoral Candidacy, the candidate may register for the dissertation course. Twelve (12) hours of dissertation count toward the program. The instructor of record is the student’s Dissertation Chair. The “course” focuses on the activities necessary for the completion of the dissertation. The program requires continuous enrollment in the dissertation until completion.
ADSU 8999** DISSERTATION (9 SCHs)
Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy for doctoral degree and consent of Doctoral Program Committee. Once admitted to Doctoral Candidacy, the candidate may register for the dissertation course. Twelve (12) hours of dissertation count toward the program. The instructor of record is the student’s Dissertation Chair. The “course” focuses on the activities necessary for the completion of the dissertation. The program requires continuous enrollment in the dissertation until completion.
EDUC 7030** Quantitative Research I (3 SCHs)
This is the first of a two-course sequence (with EDUC 7031) and focuses on quantitative techniques of inquiry that pertain to educational research and policy analysis. Using an integrated approach, students would study statistics; exploratory data analysis; sampling, survey, and experimental design; naturalistic observation and inquiry; and interview and questionnaire design in the context of using research information in planning, change management, policy analysis, and program management. Topics include inferential, descriptive, comparative, relational, and non-parametric statistics. Instructional material would include readings; case studies and reports from educational, governmental, and service organizations; and field research projects. SPSS programs would be used.
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EDUC 7031** Quantitative Research II (3 SCHs)
This is the second of a two-course sequence (with EDUC 7030) and focuses on quantitative techniques of inquiry that pertain to educational research and policy analysis. Using an integrated approach, students would study statistics; exploratory data analysis; sampling, survey, and experimental design; naturalistic observation and inquiry; and interview and questionnaire design in the context of using research information in planning, change management, policy analysis, and program management. Topics include inferential, descriptive, comparative, relational, and non-parametric statistics. Instructional material would include readings; case studies and reports from educational, governmental, and service organizations; and field research projects. SPSS programs would be used.
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EDUC 7130** Qualitative Research (3 SCHs)
Prerequisite: EDUC 7030. Focuses on qualitative techniques of inquiry that pertain to educational research and policy analysis. Using an integrated approach, the students would study many of the same topics discussed in EDUC 7030, but from a qualitative perspective. Instructional material would include readings; case studies and reports from educational, governmental, and service organizations; and field research projects.
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LLLS 7030** Professional Writing and Communications (3 SCHs)
Addresses public writing and presentation skills. This course begins with the study of creating case studies as well as reading, interpreting and discussing case studies. Part 2 would focus on dissertation writing and other textual forms including press releases, speeches, newsletters, and grants. Part 3 would focus on developing skills for speaking and listening effectively with different audiences, as well as the effective use of technology in presentations. Part 4 would focus on managing interactions with the media; e.g., interviews for print, radio and television. Teaching strategies would include case studies, readings, simulations and skills development experiences.
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SILC 7030** Intercultural Communications (3 SCHs)
Focuses on the understanding of cultural issues that influence communication effectiveness with diverse populations. Teaching strategies include case studies, readings, simulations and skill development experiences.
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