The Practicum/Seminar is a two semester, three credit requirement. Students register for one credit during the first semester and for two credits during the second semester. It includes a performance assessment portfolio and may be taken only after all other course requirements have been met, although it is possible to take a course concurrent with the practicum each semester.

01.625 Organization of Schools and School Systems
This course is designed to help students understand the organizational dynamics of schools. The knowledge gained shoud assist students inidentifying and suggesting alternatives to programmatic and behavioral regularities found in a school or human service organization.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

01.630 Diversity Issues for School Leaders
"Diversity Issues for School Leaders" is designed to prepare experienced educators to provide effective leadership in a diverse community. Drawing from the Graduate School of Education's conceptual framework of "Education for Transformation," students will be expected to: examine their own cultural heritage and experiences; gain increased understanding of equity issues concerning race, language, gender, sexual orientation, and special education needs; develop new insights for culturally responsive pedagogy; assess alternative strategies for facing illustrative conflicts in culturally diverse school settings; and consider how to ameliorate the pervasive impact of poverty on children in today's schools.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

04.638 Curriculum Design K-12
A review of state mandates which, by law, shape the curriculum for the school. Examination of "new" curricula and their sources, as well as the development of a rationale for curriculum design and an evaluation fo the personnel and techniques by which these curricula can be developed.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

05.622 Financial Aspects of Educational Administration
Examines how moral and financial resources are marshaled and managed to meet needs of schools and human service agencies. Includes legal, economic and organizational analysis, program definition, budgeting, management and evaluation.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

05.638 Planning, Technology and School Improvement
This course helps educators develop a broad grasp of the educational possibilities and concerns the Internet raises, for K-12 educators as well as those in higher education. Through the course, students develop in-depth knowledge of Internet resources and problems related to a specific issue of professional interest.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3
Special Notes: EA, CI elective

05.623 School Law
Understanding and research of legal issues, and resolutions, pertinent to educational administrators. Ethical and creative practice of "preventive law."
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

05.642 Principles of Supervision
The interdisciplinary foundations of supervision: the function of theory, research on change, individual and group relationships in organizations, staff influence processes, talent utilization, and evaluations.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

05.643 Principalship PK - 12
The scope of the principal's role, including ethical dilemmas and practical realities, is examined by shadowing, case studies, simulation, literature review and written analyses. Participants identify and evaluate the effects of alternative styles of principals.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

05.672 Seminar: Administrative Planning and Policy
Involves an in-depth search and review of the literature appropriae to the student's future research.
Prerequisite:
Credits: 3

Candidates undertake a structured review of the literature culminating in a paper demonstrating their depth of understanding of an issued pertinent to K-12 educational administration. The CAGS seminar may be taken concurrently with the practicum, but not with any other course.
* To build a systematic knowledge base, it is recommended that courses designated with an asterisk be taken before other courses