Course Descriptions
ADMN 6105. Legal Aspects of Schooling. (3G) Education law for education professionals which focuses on the legal rights and responsibilities of students, teachers, and administrators and how these legal provisions affect educational policy and practice. (Fall, Spring)
ADMN 6106. Legal Issues in Special Education. (3G) Survey of federal and state statutory and administrative provisions governing the delivery of education and related services to exceptional students. (Spring)
ADMN 6107. School Law for Counselors and Related Professionals. (3G) Legal issues and problems of special relevance to school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and related professionals who work with school-age children. (Fall)
ADMN 6110. School Leadership and Management. (3G) Examination of school leadership and administration, focusing on the role, tasks, and responsibilities that accompany school-based leadership. (Summer)
ADMN 6120. Instructional Leadership. (3G) Examination of research-based teaching/learning models and the relationship between instructional decisions and curriculum experiences. Dynamics of group development and problems/practices related to providing instructional assistance to teachers. (Summer)
ADMN 6121. Strategies and Designs in Curriculum Development. (3G) Examination of principles and practices for educational leaders in program design, implementation and evaluation. (Fall)
ADMN 6125. Advanced Instructional Techniques. (3G) Analysis of models of teaching and the match between attributes of the models and the instructional outcomes desired by the teacher. (Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6130. Supervision of Instruction. (3G) Corequisite: ADMN 6410. Introduction to clinical supervision and development of skills in classroom observation, analysis, evaluation, and assistance. Systems of observation, principles of adult development in school settings, techniques for conducting classroom observations and conferences, and development of staff development programs to remedy assessed weaknesses. (Fall)
ADMN 6140. Curriculum Leadership. (3G) Corequisite: ADMN 6420. Examination of internal and external influences on curriculum formation and development at the building level with emphasis on development of administrative strategies for curriculum decision-making which are driven by staff involvement. (Spring)
ADMN 6160. Introduction to Educational Administration. (3G) Examination of behavioral components of administrative theory, organization, decisionmaking and planning for educational development including appraisal of significant functions, techniques, practices and problems as they relate to public school systems, social institutions, and the system of social and governmental agencies. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6161. The Principalship. (3G) Examination of school administration focusing on the role, task and responsibilities associated with the principalship with special attention to the conceptual, human and technical skills associated with the principalship. (Fall, Summer)
ADMN 6165. Supervision of Instruction. (3G) Examination of the fundamentals in the areas of clinical supervision, in-service education and leadership in curriculum development. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6166. Educational Leadership. (3G) Examination of leadership in formal organizations and social and behavioral science research concerning leader-ship ability with emphasis on educational organizations and the role of the leader in the accomplishment of organizational goals. (Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6410. Internship and Seminar Part I. (9G) Corequisites: ADMN 6130. Full-time academic year internship in Educational Administration designed to allow theoretical and course-based practical learning to be translated and interwoven into a supervised field-based experience. (Fall)
ADMN 6420. Internship and Seminar Part II. (9G) Corequisite: ADMN 6140. A continuation of the internship experiences and seminar begun in ADMN 6410. (Spring)
ADMN 6490. Internship and Seminar: Administration. (3-6G) Prerequisite: department approval. Internship under the supervision of University and on-site personnel in a setting consistent with the student's professional goals in which the student will be involved in the diverse activities expected of the professional administrator. Seminars are held concurrently. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6491. Internship and Seminar: Supervision. (3-6G) Prerequisite: department approval. Internship under the supervision of University and on-site personnel in a setting consistent with the student's professional goals in which the student will be involved in the diverse activities expected of the curriculum-instructional specialist. Seminars are held concurrently. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6601. Seminar in Administration and Supervision. (1-3G) Prerequisite: permission of the department. Examination of selected areas of interest in educational administration and supervision. May be repeated for credit with departmental approval. (On demand)
ADMN 6800. Independent Study. (1-3G) Prerequisite: permission of the department. Examination of selected areas of interest in educational administration and supervision under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for credit with departmental approval. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 6909. Project/Thesis/Comprehensive Registration. (0G) Prerequisite: permission of graduate adviser. The student must register for ADMN 6909 during the term in which he/she expects to take the comprehensive examination. Offered on a Pass/No Credit basis. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
Advanced Graduate Only
ADMN 7190. Public School Administration. (3G) Examination of theory and practice of public school administration including the roles of school boards, superintendents, central office administrators and other members of the leadership team at the district-wide level with emphasis on the role of the superintendent. (Spring)
ADMN 7191. Advanced School Law. (3G) Prerequisite: ADMN 6105 or 6107 or permission of the instructor. Advanced school law focuses on current policy issues, including educational finance, testing/grouping, desegregation/integration, and the provision of public educational services to private-school student. (Spring)
ADMN 7192. School Finance and Business Administration. (3G) Examination of the theory and operation of school finance systems and school business administration with special attention to local, state and federal sources of school revenue and such business functions as budgeting and financing capital outlay projects. (Fall, Summer)
ADMN 7193. School Personnel Administration. (3G) Examination of personnel administration in educational institutions with special attention to those functions and responsibilities related to the administration of personnel at the school district level including the contribution of the personnel function to the overall management and operation of a school system. (Fall)
ADMN 7194. Planning School Facilities. (3G) Examination of practices, principles and procedures related to educational facility planning including an overview of the major steps involved in planning educational facilities and the roles of all participants in a building program with special emphasis on the roles of the superintendent and board of education. (Summer)
ADMN 7196. Program Evaluation. (3G) Examination of strategies and techniques of program evaluation with emphasis on the mastery of skills for utilization of selected procedures for analyzing teaching/learning processes. (Spring)
ADMN 7250. Educational Policy Studies: Trends, Issues, and Problems. (3G) Examination of educational issues, trends, problems, proposals, policies, and practices within historical, social, economic, political, and philosophical contexts. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 7489. Practicum in Staff Development. (3G) Examination of techniques of delivering in-service training and development of leadership for in-service educational programs including design and implementation of a staff development program in a school setting. (On demand)
ADMN 7490. Culminating Experience-Administration. (3-6G) Demonstration of appropriate leadership abilities in a field setting. Required for school administrators. May be repeated for credit. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 7491. Culminating ExperienceSupervision. (3-6G) Demonstration of appropriate leadership skills in a field setting. Required for curriculum and instruction specialists. May be repeated for credit. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
ADMN 7601. Seminar in Administration and Supervision. (1-3G) Prerequisite: permission of the department. Examination of selected areas of educational administration and supervision. May be repeated for credit with departmental approval. (On demand)
ADMN 7695. Advanced Seminar in Teaching and Learning. (3G) Examination of a number of current teaching models to provide a framework for choosing those appropriate for a given classroom setting with special attention to the relationship between teaching strategies and learning outcomes. (Fall)
ADMN 7697. Advanced Seminar in Supervision. (3G) Investigation and evaluation of current trends and issues in supervision as they relate to the role of the curriculum and instructional specialist with special attention to the role of the instructional specialist in facilitating the teaching/learning process. (Spring)
ADMN 7800. Independent Study. (1-3G) Prerequisite: permission of the department. Research on special projects under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for credit with departmental approval. (Fall, Spring, Summer)