Department of
Educational Leadership
Minnesota State
University, Mankato
115 Armstrong Hall
Mankato, Minnesota 56001
Phone: (507) 389-1116
Fax: (507) 389-5863
Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | No. Credits | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDLD 622 | School Improvement Through Collaboration | 3 | Theory of leadership and management of district school administration. Advanced topics with emphasis on current practice. |
| EDLD 634 | Practicum | 1–6 | Practical experience in educational leadership |
| EDLD 644 | Selected Topics | 1–3 | This seminar is intended to be used as a vehicle to be responsive to clientele with special study interests. |
| EDLD 646 | Punished by Rewards | 3 | This seminar explores the intended and unintended consequences of rewards and punishments as a source of motivation. |
| EDLD 647 | Organizational & Systems Change | 3 | This seminar explores the dynamics of organizational and systems change including two models of the transformation process and tasks facing any organization as it changes. |
| EDLD 648 | The Learning Organization | 3 | This seminar examines the concepts of the learning organization as articulated by Peter Senge in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization |
| EDLD 649 | Organizational Conflict | 3 | This seminar examines the stages, types and styles of organizational conflict, and addresses strategies for dealing with organizational conflicts. |
| EDLD 650 | Colloquium in Leadership | 3 | Examines leadership roles in the educational organization such as the change process, organizational theory, change and reform and the effects of change. |
| EDLD 651 | Ethics in Leadership | 3 | Selected ethical/moral philosophies are studied using theoretical paradigms. Students become skilled at making ethical and moral decisions regarding every day dilemmas facing educational leaders |
| EDLD 652 | Leadership Studies | 3 | This course examines past and current research theory and philosophy relative to leadership development in both formal and informal educational settings. |
| EDLD 653 | Women in Leadership | 3 | This course examines past and current research theory and philosophy relative to leadership development in both formal and informal educational settings. |
| EDLD 677 | Individual Study | 1–4 | Individualized study in an area of leadership theory, research or inquiry. Admission by prior application only. |
| EDLD 679 | Practicum | 1–4 | Application and practice of leadership competencies. Admission by prior application only. |
| EDLD 688 | Project Demonstration | 1–3 | This course will present a wide range of techniques and models for developing academic projects, including portfolios. Students will develop and demonstrate a professional project. This course may replace or be in addition to an APP or thesis. |
| EDLD 690 | Workshop | 1–4 | An experience where 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 collecting and analyzing data and developing organizational surveys. The course will also focus on the writing of the alternate plan paper. |
| EDLD 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. |
| EDLD 697 | Internship in Teaching | 3–6 | Internship in teaching |
| EDLD 698 | Administrative Field Experience | 3–6 | A field–based experience |
| EDLD 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. |
