Department of
Educational Leadership
Minnesota State
University, Mankato
115 Armstrong Hall
Mankato, Minnesota 56001
Phone: (507) 389-1116
Fax: (507) 389-5863
| Course Number | Course Title | No. Credits | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDAD 490 | Workshop | 1–4 | Workshop |
| EDAD 499 | Individual Study | 1–4 | Individual Study |
| EDAD 560 | Citizen Involvement in Community Education | 2 | Course develops skills in regulation of community issues, working with advisory groups, sustaining community involvement and developing community leadership |
| EDAD 561 | Interagency Coordination | 2 | The course addresses strategies for trust–building among community groups, mutual goal setting and public relations |
| EDAD 562 | Reading in Community Education | 2 | Students will engage in secondary research and discussions of community education programs that work. |
| EDAD 563 | Financing Community Education | 2 | The course will develop the knowledge base regarding the finance of community education programs, including calculating revenue. |
| EDAD 580 | Evaluation in Community Education | 2 | This course will focus on skills in evaluation of personnel, programs and monitoring evaluation efforts. |
| EDAD 584 | Needs Assessment in Community Education | 2 | The course will focus on community assessment, including preparing and conducting surveys and interpreting results. |
| EDAD 590 | Workshop | 1–3 | An experience where the principal learning takes place through interchange among class members and the facilitator. |
| EDAD 622 | Seminar in Theory/Reactive Public Administration | 3 | Theory of leadership and management in administration. Advanced topics with emphasis on current practice. |
| EDAD 633 | School Administration | 3 | Skills and procedures for implementing site–based management, effective school leadership and management. |
| EDAD 634 | Practicum | 1–4 | Practical experience in educational leadership (K–12). |
| EDAD 635 | Internship | 1–6 | Field–based experience in administration of school programs. |
| EDAD 636 | Techniques of Clinical Supervision | 3 | Objective data gathering and non–directive conferring procedures, including peer coaching. |
| EDAD 639 | Laboratory in Decision Making | 3 | This course will center around problem–solving and decision–making skills. |
| EDAD 648 | School Public Relations | 3 | The philosophic framework with practice for organizations and their relationship to community, including the school as a focal point of community. |
| EDAD 652 | Structure/Governance/Trends | 3 | An overview of the organization and administration of education in the United States; analysis of federal, state and local roles in school governance; investigation and integration of trends, concepts and models which impact the role of the school. |
| EDAD 654 | Theory and Practice in Supervision | 3 | This course examines functions of supervision, knowledge, interpersonal communications and technical skills. Supervision models are presented and communications and human relations skills are emphasized. |
| EDAD 657 | Supervision of Special Programs | 3 | The administration of special programs and activities within education curricular and staffing needs are included. |
| EDAD 659 | Seminar: School Administration | 3 | Emphasis on leadership and management within the school setting. Advanced. |
| EDAD 663 Prerequisite: EDAD 664 |
School Business Management | 2 | This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge of school accounting, budgeting and other business administration functions. |
| EDAD 664 | Public School Finance | 3 | This course is designed to provide information to help the student understand the relationship of the economy and education, several types of taxes, and several state and federal school aid schemes. |
| EDAD 665 | School Law | 3 | This course is the first of two courses designed to give students a comprehensive view of the law that governs the state school systems of America. Topics range across civil, criminal and institutional law as they touch the student, teacher and administrator. |
| EDAD 667 Prerequisite: EDAD 665 |
Seminar: School Law | 2 | This course is the second of two courses designed to give students a comprehensive view of the law that governs the state school systems of America. |
| EDAD 668 | Human Resource Management | 2 | This course includes a comprehensive study of all aspects of human resource management for direct application to employment. Topics will be delivered within a working model of educational organizations and will range from the initial planning of personnel positions through each stage of employment. |
| EDAD 669 | Selected Human Resource Topics | 1 | Selected Human Resource Topics |
| EDAD 670 | Situational Observation | 1–3 | The process by which candidates for licensure as school administrators document and present evidence of mastery of required competencies. |
| EDAD 674 | Fiscal Administration of Higher Education | 3 | This course examines various aspects of the fiscal administration of a college or university organization. |
| EDAD 675 | Organizational Development | 3 | Sources of grant funds, design of proposals and regulations. |
| EDAD 676 | Administration of Higher Education | 3 | This course will focus on funding, organization, governance, processes, structures of higher education. |
| EDAD 677 | Individual Study | 1–4 | Individualized study in an area of leadership theory, research or inquiry. Admission by prior application only |
| EDAD 679 | Practicum | 1–4 | Application and practice of leadership competencies. Admission by prior application only. |
| EDAD 681 | Planning & Facilities Management | 3 | This course is a study of the principles, techniques and procedures used in the planning of programs and facilities with a focus on K–12 systems. It examines the system approach to comprehensive planning with an emphasis on strategic and tactical planning techniques. |
| EDAD 682 | Sem: Field Study Design | 3 | This course is designed for those students involved in writing theses. It is intended to aid students in the selection and development of the instruments to be used in the study for data gathering purposes. |
| EDAD 683 | Community School Administration | 3 | A comprehensive overview of community education: establishing, developing, maintaining and evaluating community education process and programming. |
| EDAD 685 | Administration of Nonprofit Organization | 3 | This course examines the policy in which nonprofit organizations operate. |
| EDAD 690 | Workshop | 1–6 | In workshops the principal learning takes place through interchange among class members and the facilitator. |
| EDAD 692 | Research in Educational Leadership | 3 | This course will focus on techniques and methods for becoming consumers of research. |
| EDAD 694 | Alternate Plan Paper | 1–2 | The alternate plan paper includes a research requirement less extensive in nature than a thesis but significantly greater in quality and quantity than the standard graduate term paper. |
| EDAD 697 | Internship | 3–9 | Field experience focused on development of specified leadership/ administrative competencies |
| EDAD 698 | Internship | 3–9 | Practical experience on the job for aspiring administrators focused on the development of administrative competencies |
| EDAD 699 | Thesis | 3–6 | The thesis involves extended research resulting in a significant contribution to new knowledge. This reflects a student's ability to do individual, independent work of a creative and/or investigative type in an area of relation to the student's major field. |
