**Review** Graduate Catalog 2025-2026

ELPS 601 Leadership Development Through Inquiry

Experiences help students understand the nature of leadership and the importance inquiry plays in creating, using, and acquiring knowledge.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 603 Shaping Organizations: Management and Leadership in Education

Introduces students to qualities of effective leadership and management; organizational skill development; organizational behavior; and change in organizations.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 604 Understanding People: Professional Development and Educational Leadership

The fundamentals of working with people in educational organizations is reviewed. Emphasis is on adult learning, communications and working in teams, and personnel issues.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 605 External Environments: Social, Political, and Economic Influences in Educational Leadership

External influences on policies, curriculum and operations, including demographics, diversity, governance, partnerships, integrated service delivery for children and families, sources of revenue, budgeting and accountability.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 606 Internship in Educational Leadership

Involves part-or full-time leadership assignments in educational organizations. S/U graded.
1- 9

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations

ELPS 608 Issues in Educational Leadership: Implications for Practice

Multiple perspectives will be used to review and analyze critical past issues and current educational dilemmas. Focus on solution strategies and their impact on practice.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 622 Directed Studies

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.)
1- 3

Special Notes

Maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Level Restriction

Include GR

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations

ELPS 650 School Finance and Budgeting

Examines economics and politics of education, revenues for school systems, principles of taxation, conflicts between equality and efficient goals and local state and federal policies for education.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 654 Instructional Leadership and Supervision

Examine the school leader's role supervising the teaching and learning process. Focus on curriculum development, instructional improvement, and developing capacity of others to become curricular and instructional leaders.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 660 Law and the Administrator

Relate statutory provisions, court decisions, common law principles and constitutional requirements to legal problems affecting organization and administration of public and private school systems.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 665 Policy Analysis and Development

Study standard techniques for analyzing, evaluating and developing policies for educational systems and organizations, with special attention to contemporary policy issues.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 666 Planning and Change in Education

Understand planning and change theories; strategic planning development; particular emphasis on restructuring educational environments.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 667 Leadership at the District Level

Study the leadership responsibilities of school district administrators, with special emphasis on the knowledge, skills, and values needed by effective superintendents.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 670 The Principalship: Leadership at the School Site Level

Examine leadership and management issues of building principals, instructional leadership and problems facing principals at the site level.
3

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 695 Practicum in Educational Leadership

Enables students to engage in a particular task/activity in educational leadership in one or more field site. S/U graded.
1- 3

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations