Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Leadership, Policy and Development: Higher Education and P-12 Education

ELPS 513 Professional Renewal

Update skills and knowledge of professionals in the discipline. Goals and objectives will be specifically directed at individual professional enhancement rather than the acquisition of general discipline knowledge or methodologies. S/U or letter graded.
1- 3

Class Restriction

Exclude Freshman and Sophomore

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles with no limits on the number of times it can be repeated

ELPS 550 Educational Leadership Group Coaching

For practicing administrators, this course enables participants to engage in problem solving and skill development through a coaching model. Participants focus on leadership issues associated with their current position such tasks as the management of educational change, systems analysis, information systems, human resource development, resource planning, and /or operations in educational agencies. Participants in this course will meet with a coach and other administrators in a small group setting. 

1-3

Prerequisites

Must hold a principal or administrator license and related position or be in the process of obtaining such a license while holding a principal or administrator position.

Offered

Offered in fall, spring, and/or summer semesters

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitation of credits.

ELPS 560 Educational Leadership Individual Coaching

For practicing administrators, this course enables participants to engage in problem solving and skill development through a coaching model. Participants focus on leadership issues associated with their current position such tasks as the management of educational change, systems analysis, information systems, human resource development, resource planning, and /or operations in educational agencies. This course is for participants who want one-to-one administrative coaching. 

1-3

Prerequisites

Must hold a principal or administrator license and related position or be in the process of obtaining such a license while holding a principal or administrator position.

Offered

Generally offered in fall, spring, and/or summer annually

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitation of credits.

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

ELPS 751 Doctoral Core I

Team-taught seminar focusing on teambuilding and group processing, inquiry and reflective practice, and moral and ethical dimensions of leadership. Extensive attention given to developing scholarly writing skills.
6

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 752 Doctoral Core II

Continued doctoral study in educational leadership and policy. Team-taught seminar exploring the nature of organizations, leadership and policy through readings, group discussions, and a collaborative research project.
6

Prerequisites

ELPS 751 with a minimum grade of C

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 754 Research in Educational Leadership

Classic and contemporary published quantitative and qualitative studies on organizations, leadership and policy studies are used to analyze research strategies and tactics.
3

Prerequisites

(ELPS 751 and ELPS 752 and SRM 602 with a minimum grade of C)

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 797 Doctoral Proposal Research

To enable advanced doctoral students to learn the essential elements of effective research proposals and to develop analytic skills needed to critique other research. S/U graded.
1- 4

Prerequisites

(ELPS 751 and ELPS 752 with a minimum grade of C)

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 4 credit hours

ELPS 799 Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Complete research of a major problem in educational leadership and policy. Must earn total of 12 hours of credit. S/U graded.
1-12

Prerequisites

ELPS 797 with a minimum grade of S

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations