Courses

EDAD 502 Program Administrator Ldrshp 3.00 credits
This initial course is designed to assist program administrator formation students in gaining a deeper understanding of their own belief and an understanding of leadership issues through concentrated study as administrative team members within a cohort group. This introductory core experience, conducted during an intensive, academic-like summer session, focuses on the investigation of personal beliefs, strengths, and mission; and an understanding of the literature on effective central office leadership behavior. Summer.
 
EDAD 512 Role Seminar Program Admin. 2.00 credits
This final course in the Integrative Core will be a three day, retreat-like experience with program administration formation students immersed in individual and collaborative study and reflection on their calling to the educational leadership as an administrator. The seminar will employ a variety of planned readings and experiences to include the administrative performance portfolio and personal journal. Summer.
 
EDAD 520 Program Administrator Intern 3.00 credits
This internship is planned for students after they have completed the Integrative Core Series of Courses. The purpose of the internship is to provide experiences capable of bringing insight to professional educators contemplating a calling to central office administration. This two semester course field experience places the student-administrator in a first hand work experience in which academic knowledge can be applied in the educational setting. The minimum requirements for academic credit include: completing planned program administrator administrative duties; completing a district-wide improvement project; completing a school board analysis; detailing involvement in a community organization; and attendance at Saturday Seminars. Fall.
 
EDAD 525 Program Administrator Intern 3.00 credits
 
EDAD 602 Personal Vision: Principalship 3.00 credits
This initial course is designed to assist students in gaining a deeper understanding of their own beliefs and of principal leadership issues. Students begin to formulate a personal vision for principal leadership.
 
EDAD 604 Understanding People 3.00 credits
Theories on personal empowerment, staff development, team building, and adult development as they apply to the role of school principle are the focus of this course. Students analyze how principals might effectively work with faculty and staff members in the school setting.
 
EDAD 606 Understanding Environments 3.00 credits
Social, political, economic, and legal influences on educational organizations are discussed. also analyzed are school and community power bases on how they can positively and negatively impact school effectiveness.
 
EDAD 608 Shaping Organizations 3.00 credits
Principal behavior and compliant patterns found in the practices of school administration and how these behaviors and patterns shape the school as an organization are the focus of this course. Also investigated are relationships between various organizational structures that typically exist in schools and how these structures help or hinder educational reform.
 
EDAD 610 Programmatic Leadership 3.00 credits
This course centers on the role of school principal in establishing a positive learning environment for students. Emphasis is placed on situational leadership, school improvement and issues of quality, local implementation of state learning goals, program evaluation, and technology to assist learning.
 
EDAD 611 Continuing Education 1.00 credit
 
EDAD 612 Principal Role Seminar 2.00 credits
The role seminar is a one week, retreat-like experience with principal formation students. The seminar provides opportunities for students to reflect on their calling to educational leadership as principal. The seminar incorporates a variety of planned readings and experiences to include in the student's Leadership Portfolio.
 
EDAD 620 Principal Internship 3.00 credits
The internship is planned for student after they have completed courses numbered EDAD 602 through EDAD 612. This two-semester field experience places the student- administrator in a first-hand experience in which academic knowledge can be applied to the educational setting.
 
EDAD 625 Principal Internship 3.00 credits
See EDAD 620.
 
EDAD 630 Independent Study 1.00 - 5.00 credits
Individualized study designed by the student in consultation with an instructional team member. Self-directed learning in a selected area of interest related to a problem of practice is the process employed. The instructional team member serves as a resource. An Issue Analysis Paper is the product produced from such a study. Fall, Spring and Summer.
 
EDAD 635 Directed Readings 1.00 - 3.00 credits
 
EDAD 636 Read in Contextual Domain 1.00 - 3.00 credits
 
EDAD 640 Leadership Formation Project 3.00 - 4.00 credits
A formal research project investigating a particular problem related to one or more of the program domains conducted under the tutelage of the Leadership Formation Program advisor is the focus of this seminar.
 
EDAD 650 Methods of Education Research 4.00 credits
A comprehensive perspective on reading and understanding quantitative education research is provided. Emphasis is placed on utilizing library resources to review, interpret, and abstract research appropriate for the professional seminar paper. Students plan, conduct, write, and present an in-depth review of literature on an administrative problem approved by the Program Director.
 
EDAD 680 Issue Analysis Research 3.00 credits
Candidates must register for this course following EDAD 650 (Research Methods) to research and apply what is known in the analysis of the issue chosen for the Analysis Paper. Registration can occur for more than one semester.
 
EDAD 690 Professional Seminar & Orals 1.00 credit
This capstone experience has two components. The first is the Professional Seminar in which degree students are responsible for presenting results of a research project begun during the research course. the second component is the Oral Examination in which degree students present their Leadership Portfolio to the faculty team.
 
EDAD 691 Directed Readings 1.00 - 6.00 credits
 
EDAD 692 Independent Study 1.00 - 6.00 credits
 
EDAD 702 Personal Vision:Superintendent 3.00 credits
This initial course is designed to assist student in gaining a deeper understanding of their own beliefs and of superintendent leadership issues. Students begin to formulate a personal vision for superintendent leadership.
 
EDAD 704 Strategic Leadership 3.00 credits
The importance of establishing a shared vision and strategic plan for a district is the focus of this course. In addition, the course discusses conditions that can enhance motivation of teachers, staff, students, and parents in the community to achieve the vision. Emphasis is placed on decision making based on reasoned understanding of major historical, philosophical, ethical, social, and economic influences on education.
 
EDAD 706 Political & Community Ldrshp 3.00 credits
The core experiences of this course reflect the world of ideas and forces within which the school district operates. Knowledge and skills concerning public relations, education law, public policy, and political systems are integral to this course.
 
EDAD 708 Organizational Leadership 3.00 credits
Understanding districts as an organization and as a system is a primary focus of this course. In addition, discussions of how organizations can be developed for a better future are inherent to the course.
 
EDAD 710 Instructional Leadership 3.00 credits
Curriculum design models, needs analyses, instructional planning, and program evaluation are presented. In addition superintendent formation students discuss how to mobilize the participation of appropriate people or groups to develop programs and establish a positive learning environment.
 
EDAD 712 Superintendent Role Seminar 2.00 credits
The role seminar is a one week, retreat-like experience with superintendent formation students. The seminar provides opportunities for students to reflect on their calling to educational leadership as superintendent. The seminar incorporates a variety of planned readings and experiences to include in the student's Leadership Portfolio.
 
EDAD 720 Superintendent Internship 3.00 credits
The internship is planned for students after they have completed courses EDAD 702 through EDAD 712. This two semester field experience places the student-administrator in a first-hand experience in which academic knowledge can be applied to the educational setting.
 
EDAD 725 Superintendent Internship 3.00 credits
 
EDAE 501 Basic Princ of Anesthesia 6.00 credits
This course assists the student in learning the methods, techniques, and agents in general anesthesia. Specific type of anesthetic machines are demonstrated. The course includes pre and post-anesthetic assessment of the patient, drugs which augment anesthesia, common complications related to anesthesia, and the importance of initiating and maintaining the patient's anesthesia record. Throughout the course the student has a variety of experiences administering anesthesia under the supervision of a qualified anesthetist.
 
Equivalent: EDAC 500A - Successful completion
EDAE 502 Basic Princ of Anesthesia II 2.00 credits
A continuation of EDAE 501. Throughout the course the student has a variety of experiences administering anesthesia under the supervision of a qualified anesthetist.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 501 Minimum Grade: C
EDAE 520 Anatomy and Physiology 4.00 credits
This course provides an intensive study of the structure, functions, and functional processes of the human body. Topics include the respiratory system, central nervous system, endocrine glands, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, review of intermediate metabolism, liver and gall bladder. It also includes a review of year's work via "clinical cases" to integrate all systems. It is intended primarily for nurse anesthetists.
 
EDAE 521 Anatomy & Physiology 2.00 credits
A continuation of EDAE 520.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 520 Minimum Grade: C
EDAE 551 Chemistry & Pharmacology 6.00 credits
This course covers the basic fundamentals of blood, respiratory, and pharmaceutical chemistries and the principles of general anesthesia and antonomic pharmacology including all pharmaceutical agents used for these purposes and their application in diseased state.
 
EDAE 552 Chemistry & Pharmacology 2.00 credits
A continuation of EDAE 551
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 551 Minimum Grade: C
EDAE 553 Chemistry & Pharmacology 4.00 credits
A continuation fo EDAE 551 and 552.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 551 Minimum Grade: C and EDAE 552 Minimum Grade: C
Equivalent: EDAC 552B - Successful completion
EDAE 560 Theories of Adult Learning 3.00 credits
Students explore current research and theories of adult development and learning. This course is designed for those who work with adults in most educational settings. Serves as a basis for EDAE 561.
 
EDAE 561 Instr Strategies for Adults 3.00 credits
This course focuses on instruction, curriculum, development, course planning, instructional strategies, and evaluation models for adult learners.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 560 Minimum Grade: C
Equivalent: EDAC 584 - Successful completion
EDAE 570 Integrated Software Sys Design 3.00 credits
Students examine the relationship between integrated, presentation, and online applications. Course projects focus on practical approaches to educational environments.
 
EDAE 595 Professional Sem/Teaching 1.00 credit
This course provides an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge and skills in anesthesia and education within the context of professional leadership.
 
EDAE 603 Regional & Ped Anesthesia 2.00 credits
A study of regional anesthesia theory and clinical practicum begin this semester as well as pediatric anesthesia theory and practicum.
 
EDAE 604 Obstetrics & Neonatal Anesth 2.00 credits
This course focuses on anesthesia for the obstetric patient for routine and complicated patients, and includes epidural anesthesia theory and practicum. A study of clinical anesthesia for neonatal patients for routine and high risk patients begins in this course.
 
EDAE 605 Cardiovascular/Thoracic/Neuro 2.00 credits
This course covers the didactic and clinical practicum of cardio-vascular and neuro-surgical anesthesia.
 
EDAE 606 Integration Adv Prin Anesth 2.00 credits
This course provides a review and synthesis of general and specialty anesthesia content including pharmacology, pathophysiology and drug and technique selection for all types of patients and procedures.
 
EDAE 621 General Practicum 1.00 credit
In this practicum students learn the actual administration of anesthesia under the supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists and physician anesthesiologists. Pre-operative and post-operative assessment of the patient is made by the student. S/he is responsible for selecting the appropriate anesthetic, administering needed pharmaceutical agents, and maintaining homeostasis during general surgical procedures. Monitoring, positioning, and recovery are stressed. Each student will be assigned anesthesia in obstetrics, pediatrics, VAMC in addition to general practice.
 
EDAE 622 Specialty Practicum 1.00 credit
This is a continuation of EDAC 621. Students rotate through obstetrics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, neuro surgery, and evening trauma rotations, in addition to general practice.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 621 Minimum Grade: C
EDAE 623 Integrated Practicum 2.00 credits
This is a continuation of EDAE 621 and 622. Students rotate to the specialties of neurosurgical and cardiovascular services.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 622 Minimum Grade: C
EDAE 670 Medical Ethics 3.00 credits
This course examines the duties and obligations of persons in the medical field. Issues studied include cooperation, abortion, mutilation, sterilization, transplants, and genetic engineering.
 
EDAE 671 Law and Medicine 2.00 credits
The critical issues pertaining to liability and legal responsibilities as related to the practice of medicine are studied and current cases are reviewed.
 
EDAE 672 Professional Leadership 3.00 credits
The critical analysis of components inherent in professional leadership is provided in this course through an exploration of literature and situational analysis. A modified seminar approach is employed.
 
EDAE 689 Research & Data Analysis 4.00 credits
This course is designed to help students understand the research process through the development of a research proposal including selecting a topic, reviewing the relevant literature, choosing an appropriate data collection methodology, and determining the appropriate method to analyze the data. Proposals are submitted to an Institutional Review Board.
 
EDAE 690 Research Seminar 1.00 credit
A seminar designed for students who are in the data collection and analysis stages of their research project.
 
EDAE 691 Research Seminar 1.00 credit
A seminar designed for students who are writing a presenting their final research report.
 
EDAE 695 Prof Seminar/ Continuing Ed 1.00 credit
This course focuses on issues in continuing education for nurse anesthetists.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 595 Minimum Grade: B-
EDAE 698 Pro Sem/ Integration 1.00 credit
This course focuses on the integrating of education and anesthesia. Must Also Register For EDAE 699 Oral Exam.
 
Prerequisite: EDAE 595 Minimum Grade: S and EDAE 695 Minimum Grade: S
EDAE 699 Comprehensive Oral Exam .00 credits
The oral exam consists of three areas of focus: the research project; the integration of anesthesia, teaching, and leadership; clinical practice.
 
EDLA 501 Professional Development 1.00 - 5.00 credits
This course provides for continuing certification standards of competencies that are deemed essential for experienced teachers. The course involves both in-class and field-based learning. Alternative course work can satisfy the generic standards.
 
EDLA 520 Computers in School Curriculum 3.00 credits
The nature of contemporary school curriculum and the need for the professional educator to gain a basic understanding of computers and computer technology are discussed. The course also explores a variety of computer applications and evaluates their uses in the classroom.
 
EDLA 525 Appropriate Use of Technology 3.00 credits
This hands-on, project-based course consists of some direct instruction in which the professor devotes instructional time to incorporating technology into different curricular areas, and some lab time in which participants will develop technology-rich, subject area enhancement projects in order to incorporate them into their own professional practice.
 
EDLA 540 Ethical Dimensions in Ed 3.00 credits
This course presents a review of ethical concepts, and an examination of ethical decision-making that affects the daily life of students, teachers, administrators, staff, and parents involved in the K-12 education. This course explores important elements of ethics and the culture of institutions in K-12 education.
 
EDLA 546 Adv Learning Strategies 3.00 credits
This course is designed to identify for teachers, principals and curriculum developers a range of teaching models and instructional approaches for creating learning environments. The course provides a systematic exploration of interactions among educational objectives, pedagogical strategies, curricular designs, social and psychological theory. The course emphasizes the wide range of options teachers may adopt and adapt to their unique teaching situation. The course assists students in developing a basic repertoire of teaching models through analysis of the underlying theoretical structures, principles and procedures of four different groups of approaches to teaching. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the "coaching" process designed to assist with the acquisition of new teaching behaviors.
 
EDLA 548 Program Evaluation 3.00 credits
Study and development of strategies for determining the quality of instructional programs. Topics include specifying and auditing program inputs, process, and outcomes, evaluating the quality of measures, and conducting actual program evaluations, both formatively and summatively.
 
EDLA 553 Teaching Thinking Skills 3.00 credits
This course presents a practical introduction to strategies that develop thinking skills: theory as well as practical applications to use in the classroom. Emphasis is on how to integrate thinking skills development into the existing classroom curriculum.
 
EDLA 554 Cooperative Learning 3.00 credits
This course provides a treatment of collaborative learning strategies. Course topics include recognizing elements of cooperative learning, diagnosing and grouping for a cooperative classroom environment, utilizing eight applied teaching techniques, and promoting responsible evaluation techniques for collaborative learning.
 
EDLA 564 Psychology of Learning 3.00 credits
Based on the respect for the prior knowledge and teaching experience of the educational practitioner this course has been designed to engender a higher order of professional competence and satisfaction in teaching. The format allows for inquiry-orientation sessions so students may engage in a cycle of thought and reflection about their actions and classroom experiences. Through a systematic investigation of historical and current research, use of multiple texts and group discussion students will explore the quantitative and qualitative relationships that exit in the teaching-learning act. They will be provided opportunities and challenges to explore and describe their teaching behaviors, to articulate the principles of their theories-in-use and to seek alternatives in classroom interactions.
 
EDLA 565 Ed Evaluation & Measurement 3.00 credits
This course focuses on the role of evaluation in education and the necessity of validity in measurement. The development of valid tools for measurement in education and assessment of the quality of those tools as well as standardized instruments are also studied.
 
EDLA 566 Effec Teacher-Student Interact 3.00 credits
Various approaches to classroom management and teacher-student interaction: major assumptions, goals and characteristics of classroom management systems; psychological and philosophical foundations underlying each system are the foci of this course.
 
EDLA 567 Multi-Cultural Global Ed 2.00 - 3.00 credits
This course examines issues concerned with recognizing, accepting, and affirming cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, and physical diversity. The cognitive and affective goals are rooted in a search for an understanding of our common humanity within diversity and focus on the development of attitudes and convictions that shows respect for all people regardless of background or frame of reference. This content addresses the development of educators who exercise leadership in the design of culturally appropriate curriculum and instruction.
 
EDLA 597 Instructional Practicum 3.00 credits
This is a field-based experience for practicing teachers. The focus is on the development and documentation of growth standards from research on teaching. Teachers use peer coaching, effective schools research, climate expectations, and goal setting strategies. Some application of specific models, social styles, and positive growth strategies may be involved.
 
Equivalent: EDAC 597A - Successful completion
EDLA 611 Continuing Thesis Education 1.00 credit
 
EDLA 623 Risk and Protective Factors 3.00 credits
This course addresses the interdependency of family, school and community as they impact the school-aged child. Risk factors are addressed, as well as protective factors that can support family, school, and community in fostering resiliency in children.
 
EDLA 625 Classroom Intervention Skills 3.00 credits
This course offers teachers the opportunity to learn communication and counseling skills that can be used within the instructional settings. Supportive classroom management techniques that result in logical consequences and assist the child in accepting responsibility for behavior are addressed. This course focuses on a multitude of methods and modalities in order to address various learning styles reduce non-academic stressors.
 
EDLA 626 Multiculturalism:Sch/Comm/Fam 3.00 credits
This course acquaints teachers with the dynamics of today's family and helps educators gain insight into the significance of community and culture. The course focuses on interactional processes and addresses the ever-changing structure of the family and the influence of social factors such as diversity, divorce, loss, trauma, abuse, and socio-economics. Teachers learn methods of working within the school and community systems in order to support and enhance the family. The course addresses "culture" from a global perspective.
 
EDLA 627 Teacher as Counselor 3.00 credits
This introductory course addresses the metacognitive aspects of the teacher as person and counseling skill development for classroom teacher use. Areas of emphasis will include self-awareness, awareness of impact on others, recognizing and attending to different learning styles and personality types, maintaining healthy relationships with others, and creating a vision for the future. It will focus on personal and academic growth.
 
EDLA 628 Manage-Enhance Instr Culture 3.00 credits
This course includes methods and strategies teachers can use to match pedagogy to the various learning styles of students. Teachers translate theory into practice through experiences within the classroom as well as collaborate with families and community agencies. The course focuses on practical application of theory by the creation of curricula using methods, strategies, and resources that have been designed to facilitate child resiliency, involve family, and utilize school and community resources.
 
EDLA 633 Administrative Theory 3.00 credits
This course is competency-oriented, focusing upon administration issues such as describing management and decision-making theories, understanding social issues, identifying goals and action steps, and promoting a positive climate. Prerequisite: postgraduate standing or permission.
 
EDLA 635 Principalship 3.00 credits
This is a competency-oriented course which investigates the role of the principal in professional leadership, community service, shared decision making, personnel development, and the meeting of student needs.
 
EDLA 638 Human Resource Management 3.00 credits
This course presents a broad view of the human relations function as one of the critical and interrelated subsystems involved in the administration of a school or a school system. The major topics for consideration and investigation include knowledge of the processes and attitudes that facilitate the integration of a professional into the school organization, promotion of the instructional leadership of the individual and the enhancement of his/her work satisfaction and the awareness of the legal and ethical environment of personnel administration. The course challenges the student to respond to the changing needs in personnel administration by adopting new ways of working that can enhance the human resource capabilities of schools.
 
EDLA 641 Community Relations 3.00 credits
This course focuses on the skills of promoting effective cooperation between community and school. It also includes discussion of communication strategies, team building, and meeting patron need.
 
EDLA 646 Staff Development 3.00 credits
This course provides the professional teacher with an understanding of the concepts of adult learning and development and an awareness of some of the components, processes, and techniques of staff development programs. The focus is on the underlying theme of staff development programs that the professional teacher perceives learning and the acquisition of new competencies as a life-long process.
 
EDLA 648 Teacher Leadership 3.00 credits
This course focuses on the skills of promoting effective cooperation between community and school. It also includes discussion of communication strategies, team building, and meeting patron need. Prerequisite: postgraduate standing or permission. (Canada only)
 
EDLA 651 Supervision of Instruction 3.00 credits
This course is designed to support the position that the primary purpose of supervision is to provide the means for teachers and supervisors to increase their understanding of the teaching-learning process through collaborative inquiry that can increase classroom effectiveness and student learning. The primary assumption on which this course rests is given a democratic setting; all teachers have the potential for growth and are capable of making appropriate instructional decisions based on relevant classroom data. Teachers are perceived as active constructors of their own knowledge about learning and teaching and supervision is viewed as a collaborative means in creating this knowledge. The emphasis is on multiple methods of collecting objective data during instruction that can be used to make inferences and interpretations regarding the effectiveness of the teaching process
 
EDLA 653 Curriculum Development 3.00 credits
The basic approaches to planning and modifying school learning activities are covered in this course. Topics include the diagnosis of needs, selection and organization of learning experiences, and evaluating curricular systems.
 
EDLA 662 Leadership and Finance 3.00 credits
This course presents a thorough overview of the economics and financing of education. This course also presents, and prepares participants for using, standard budgeting procedures for managing schools and school systems.
 
EDLA 663 Leadership and Law 3.00 credits
The course is designed for graduate students in education without prior formal training in school law, but who have experience working in schools. Through multiple activities students are expected to be able to identify legal issues which may arise in their jobs in school, be familiar with the legal rules which govern these issues, and be able to make an educated guess about how a court might apply these legal standards to their situation.
 
EDLA 689 Professional Seminar 3.00 credits
This seminar is intended to be a culminating experience in the Master Degree program. During the semester, the candidate works with his/her academic advisor to complete the research and/or position paper. The final paper is presented to a small group of peers in a seminar setting. The time for the seminar is scheduled for five days dependent on the number of students needing to present. Each student has approximately 50 min. for their presentation. The presentation should be viewed as a discussion time for peer interaction about the topic of the paper, rather than a formal lecture or 'teaching' session.
 
EDLA 690 Directed Readings 1.00 - 3.00 credits
This is an individualized study based on readings approved by professor. Student develops a selected bibliography.
 
EDLA 692 Independent Study 1.00 - 3.00 credits
This is an individualized study designed by the student in consultation with the professor. It requires self-directed learning in a selected area of interest; the professor serves as resource.
 
EDLA 694 Special Project 1.00 - 3.00 credits
This is an individualized and project-based study, which results in a practical application of educational theory. The project or written report of project is submitted to the professor for evaluation.
 
EDLA 695 Professional Experience 1.00 - 3.00 credits
This is a planned series of field experiences in settings related to education, junior colleges, court services, social agencies, etc.
 
EDLA 698 Research and Statistics 4.00 credits
This course helps the student develop competencies in research and statistics. Students are required to review and abstract research articles and develop ad research proposal. Statistical theory and techniques are developed in the areas of distribution, central tendency, variance, inference, tests of hypotheses, regression and correlation.
 
EDLA 698A Research Project 3.00 credits
This is a research project for a master's degree.
 
EDLA 698B Research Seminar 3.00 credits
This basic concepts of internal and external validity; focus on action/evaluative research designs, and stress on interpretation and application of research findings within the classroom are presented in this course.
 
EDLA 698C Research Seminar 1.00 credit
An analysis of basic elements of research proposal design.
 
EDLA 699 Comprehensive Oral Exam .00 credits