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Doctor of Education
EDD 7000
Experiential Learning: Leadership Issues
3 credits
This course is experiential in nature and focuses on leadership and group process. Students will acquire and apply knowledge, skills, and feelings in an immediate and relevant setting. Topics include: examining core values in the leadership process, group problem solving, leadership styles, decision-making, power and influence, conflict management, ethical dilemmas, and community building. The outcome of the course will include an initial plan for the internship.
EDD 7100
Curriculum Engineering
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to examine the roles leaders play in the curriculum design process and in removing barriers to teaching and learning.
EDD 7101
Pluralistic Communities: Administrative Issues
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to provide an historical and philosophical overview of policy issues in leadership. Premise: Insights into contemporary learning communities can be obtained by examining their antecedents. Particular emphasis is placed on issues of: 1) Governance - Who influences learning organizations and how? 2) Equity and democracy in learning organizations - How have learning organizations responded to diversity? 3) The individual moral and ethical reasons for becoming a leader - Who should be our leaders?
EDD 7102
Incorporating Technology Into Instruction
3 credits
This course is designed as an introduction to the components of information technologies, specifically computer technology. It will focus on both lecture and 'hands on' experiences to familiarize students with the terminology, the hardware and software components, and the instructional applications of information technologies. Word processing, database management, and electronic spreadsheets will be discussed. This course will also focus on issues related to incorporating technology into instruction. Students will be introduced to techniques for planning, implementing, and evaluating information technology in the curriculum. This is a required course for Cohorts 14 and earlier.
EDD 7105
Leadership, Equity, and Educational Law
3 credits
This course will focus on ethical and legal issues that arise in educational systems. Its purpose is to provide leaders with the knowledge and skills they need to deal effectively with legal problems, including the ability to practice "preventive law" and to consider creative ways to address problems.
EDD 7106
Disciplined Inquiry I
3 credits
The purpose of this introductory two-course sequence is to further students' understandings of types of data available to leaders and skills needed to read and interpret that data in multiple ways in order to be an effective leader. The course will help students develop skills which will enable them to become reflective practitioners, critical thinkers, and informed consumers of educational research literature.
EDD 7107
Disciplined Inquiry II
3 credits
The main focus of the second of this two-course sequence (EDD7106 and EDD7107) is to offer students additional tools that will be useful in becoming critical consumers of educational research literature and competent applied problem-centered practitioners. Students will continue to develop a specific set of methods of inquiry that may be applied to the problem each has identified.
EDD 7200
Supervisory Behavior
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to help students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and sustain an organization's culture that is conducive to teaching and learning. This course will also help leaders to identify their own supervisory behaviors so that they may adjust and control those behaviors that best serve the organization. The course explores directive, collaborative, and non-directive approaches to supervision.
EDD 7201
Managing Human and Material Resources
3 credits
This course examines the following broad topics: personnel administration, negotiations, and contract and facilities management. Recruitment, selection and training of employees, motivation, morale, welfare and benefits, record keeping and its legal aspects are considered. The processes of negotiation, contract language issues, and simulation experiences for both certified and classified employee groups will be covered. Students will also learn how to identify, mobilize, and direct available resources to improve an organization.
EDD 7202
Leadership Dynamics and Data-Driven Decision Making
3 credits
This course examines how data can be used in decision-making processes that support the educational visions and missions of learning organizations. Students will learn to identify data that are relevant to educational vision and mission, to analyze the data and use the results to support institutional purposes, and to make recommendations for change.
EDD 7203
Leading High Performance Learning Organizations
3 credits
This course examines organizational theory and focuses on the organization as a complex and dynamic structure, emphasizing culture and the change process as it occurs in multiple organizational settings. The process and function of various leadership positions are explored.
EDD 7204
The Art of Leadership
3 credits
The purpose of this course is to examine past and current research theory and philosophy relative to leadership development. It explores leadership theory and models to help students understand and prepare for future leadership roles. This course will also explore some of the major paradigms and paradoxes of organizational change and educational reform. Using basic principles of organizational behavior, this course explores how context matters to the sites engaged in change by investigating an organization -- its history, culture, and particular factors that influence how it operates when engaged in systematic reform or improvement efforts.
EDD 7300
Policy Systems/Analysis, Evaluation, and Implementation
3 credits
Leaders operate in a complex web of political relationships within organizations, between organizations and their communities, and across levels of government. This course is designed to aid leaders in becoming more effective actors within this web of political relationships. It draws its intellectual base from research and theory in political science and public policy with application through case study and student projects.
EDD 7301
Finance, Resource Development and Implementation
3 credits
Finance functions, including development of budgets, purchasing, accounting, insurance, transportation and current problems in handling the business office are examined in this course. Building design, construction, maintenance, life-cycle costing, and finance will also be covered.
EDD 7302
Management Information Systems
3 credits
EDD 7302, Management Information Systems, provides an overview of the role of technology -- particularly Information Systems and Computer Technology (IS&T) -- in education. The course will focus on the changing landscape of technology-assisted, technology-enabled, and technology-managed educational offerings and administration. The course will concentrate on Ainformation systems@ as well as the use of electronic information to foster informed management decisions. EDD 7302 begins by briefly examining the national, state, and local information/reporting needs and relationships, and the shifting environment surrounding educational technology with a special emphasis on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Management Information Systems, and the technologies surrounding them, will be studied from a practitioner=s point-of-view. Administrative, research, operations, security, and data maintenance issues will be addressed in the context of workaday policy. Additionally, decision-making strategies, and common-sense responses to external and internal demands, will be discussed.
The course will explore the complexities of planning for technology within the enterprise of education. Data husbandry, educational reporting, social and ethical issues, budgetary considerations, operational concerns (training, classroom readiness, administrator responsibilities, etc.), administrative applications, academic applications, and a host of other concerns, all factor into the content of this course.
EDD 7400
Statistics
3 credits
This course prepares students to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions while at the same time recognizing the limitations of the data and the procedures employed. Students will study a variety of descriptive and inferential procedures; however, the emphasis will be placed on the use of common statistical procedures and the interpretation of results rather than on the theoretical basis for the procedures. The class is taught in a workshop format according to the attached topic schedule. Students will also receive assistance in formulating research questions and/or testable hypotheses, and in designing a data collection and analysis protocol.
EDD 7401
Research Design
3 credits
This workshop course is designed to assist students in developing the research framework and proposal for their dissertation research. We will explore what sound research design means and how design choices influence the validity/credibility of research findings and conclusions. Among the topics we will cover are: stating the research problem, purpose, need and questions; defining the inclusion criteria for a literature review; conducting and writing a relevant literature review; data sources and data collection methods; basic quantitative and qualitative design choices (strengths and limitations of various research methods); evaluation and action research; and appropriate data analysis techniques associated with different research methods. Students will receive a proposal/design framework and on-going assistance in developing their dissertation proposals. At minimum, students should have completed a detailed outline of their dissertation proposal by the end of the course.
EDD 7402
Problem-Centered Research I
3 credits
This course will prepare students to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions while recognizing the limitations of the data and the procedures employed. Students will explore the nuances of various inquiry methods, especially those most useful in action research settings. The catalyst of these examinations will be each student's proposed problem, with this course focusing on refining inquiry questions and exploring ways of addressing the problem that will lead to their capstone doctoral learning experience. Students in the Educational Leadership concentration will only take EDD 7402. EDD 7402 is a prerequisite for EDD 7403 for students in the Organizational Leadership Concentration.
EDD 7403
Problem-Centered Research II
3 credits
This course is the second of two courses designed to prepare students to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions while recognizing the limitations of the data and the procedures employed. The course will explore what sound research means and how design choices influence the validity/credibility of research findings and conclusions. Students will continue to develop their proposal/design framework and will receive on-going assistance in developing their research proposals.
Prerequisite(s): EDD 7402
EDD 8100
Practicum
3 credits
This course provides an opportunity for students to apply what they have learned in the curriculum/instruction, supervision/administration, and research strands. Students work closely with a practicum advisor to refine a proposal and implement the practicum. Students implement the practicum over a designated period of time, evaluate the impact of the intervention, and submit a completed document to the Ed.D. faculty for evaluation and grading. This course is a required course for students in Cohort 13 and earlier.
EDD 8102
Leadership Practicum
3 credits
The purpose of this practicum is to provide students with problem-based experiences regarding the major tasks and activities of leadership.
EDD 8103
Internship
3 credits
The purpose of this faculty/student-planned extensive field experience is to have students engage in meaningful learning experiences that complement their program coursework and provide a broad application overview of the work of a senior-level leader.
EDD 8104
Field Experience Assessment
3 credits
The purpose of this field experience is to complete and finalize the professional portfolio with examples of work from leadership assessment, career development field experience, and coursework as related to each of the standards.
EDD 9000-9004
Dissertation Project
9 credits
This course involves extensive work by the student with advisement from a faculty member. A pre-arranged plan of the project must be completed and be reviewed and approved by the student's advisor and one other committee member. This work may involve extensive on-going research/writing by the student on a research project or in topic inquiry with advising from one or more faculty members. The student will evaluate the impact of the project and share the results with colleagues. Students who have not completed their dissertations at the conclusion of EDD 9002 will register for EDD 9004 on a continuing basis in order to receive academic advisement and to remain in good standing in the program.