· EDA 5339: Understanding Self
Successful leadership in organizational settings requires an understanding of human behavior. This understanding begins with the knowledge of self and leads to the understanding of others. The focus of this course is on the individual student. The intent is to enhance the student's self-awareness of values, beliefs, and attitudes related to successful school leadership.

· EDA 5340: Understanding Organizations
This course includes an understanding of the basic structural components of educational organizations and the theoretical frameworks which describe organizational behavior. Students will focus on the process of action research, planning decision making, change in organizations and leadership.
Pre or Co-requisite: EDA 5339

· EDA 5345: Understanding People
This course includes fundamental issues related to the development of personnel, entry-level knowledge of staff appraisal, adult learning and development, and staff development.
Prerequisite: EDA 5339

· EDA 5347: Understanding Environments
Concepts of the internal and external environment of educational organizations are explored. Entry level concepts are presented in areas of school environments.
Prerequisite: EDA 5339

· EDA 5348: Supervision of Instruction
Concepts of curriculum and instructional leadership models for schools will be developed. Factors such as curriculum leadership and instructional improvement are considered part of the internal environment of schools.
Prerequisite: EDA 5339

· EDA 6342 Curriculum Design
Theory and practice in planning for curriculum needs assessment, development, implementation and evaluation. Course may not be taken concurrently with EDA 5348.
Prerequisite: All Level I core courses or consent of instructor

· EDA 6343 Continuous School Improvement
Applies the concept and principles of Total Quality Improvement to schools and classrooms and integrates Total Quality Improvement with other school improvement models.
Prerequisite: All Level I core courses or consent of instructor

· EDA 6344: Campus Leadership
Develop student skills as a practitioner in elementary and secondary schools, focusing on the role and functions of the principal as a leader. Activities lead participants to practice skill development in evaluation processes, student activity programs, staffing patterns, site-based decision-making, community relations, accounting procedures, and other skills as a campus leader would assume.
Prerequisites: All Level I core courses; and EDA 6342, 6343 and 6348, or consent of the instructor

· EDA 6345: Administration and Staff Personnel (Superintendency)
This course examines the organization and administration of professional staffs, positions, and relationships, professional ethics, welfare, professional involvement in policy and curriculum, faculty development.

· EDA 6347: The Superintendency
The basic issues of problems confronting the superintendent, such as school buildings: planning, contracting, financing, equipping, fiscal and business management, taxation, budgeting, accounting, administering special services, transportation, food services, custodial services, management of personnel.

· EDA 6348: School Law
This course examines the constitutional provisions, statutory laws, court decisions, and regulations governing public schools, with special reference to state and federal relationships.

· EDA 6349: School Finance and Business Management (Superintendency)
Study of school funds on local, state, and federal level, budgeting, data processing, systems of accounting and reporting, supply management as related to school efficiency, and maintenance of buildings, grounds, and equipment.

· EDA 6351: Instructional Models
Characteristics of effective teaching, learning, classroom organization, assessment and professional development are identified and correlated with corresponding instructional strategies, methodologies, and models. Matching instruction to the needs of learners in integrative approaches is emphasized.

· EDA 6352: School as Center of Inquiry
Prepares the educational leader to be an intelligent consumer of research and to assume a leadership role in schoolwide action research.
Prerequisites: All Level I and II courses or consent of the instructor

· EDA 6358: Integrative Seminar
This course integrates key theories, concepts, and principles learned during the student's course of study. The student will complete a paper including an action research plan designed to solve an educational problem present within a specific educational setting. The student will defend the paper during an oral examination.
Prerequisites: Levels I, II, III, and IV or consent of instructor

· EDA 6387/6388: Field-Based Practicum
The practicum provides the student the opportunity to develop leadership and management skills needed by practitioners in elementary and secondary schools. Students will develop a practicum proposal based on their personal strengths and weaknesses. Studentswill practice and develop their administrative skills with hands-on activities. Students will take either six or nine hours of the field-based practicum to meet the requirements for the Principal certification.
Prerequisites: All Level I, II and III courses or consent of the instructor

· EDA 6389 Internship Practicum (Superintendency)
Designed to give prospective school superintendents on-the-job training under the guidance of successful, experienced, practicing school administrators. May be repeated for credit.