This course examines current issues in curriculum design and implementation. Through readings and dialogue students explore forces affecting the curriculum, including curriculum continuity and articulation, content trends in the subject areas, appropriate curriculum for students from diverse backgrounds, curriculum censorship, and effective instructional leadership for curriculum improvement.

This course considers current research and theories on leadership and organizational change in higher education, including multicultural organizational development theories, planning, and change. Students explore case studies of organizational leadership and change and examine issues, barriers, supports for, and outcomes of change.

This course examines the philosophy, ethics, and moral values of educational leadership for school administrators. Students reflect upon the theory and philosophy of educational change and examine research about ethical and moral leadership in schools.

Students explore (a) the dimensions of effective leadership of technology in educational institutions and (b) the opportunities afforded by technologies for enhancing educational leadership. The distinctive features in leading technology reform in education are studied.

Students acquire the knowledge, dispositions, and critical thinking skills necessary for conducting field research and apply these skills to implementing applied research studies that create knowledge for solving dilemmas related to instruction and learning.

This is the second in a series of field-based courses. Students develop and carry out a field study for three quarters that involves the development of a research question, review of relevant literature, ongoing data gathering and analysis, and in-depth reading and discussion on a particular topic.

This is the second in a series of field-based courses. Students develop and carry out a field study for three quarters that involves the development of a research question, review of relevant literature, ongoing data gathering and analysis, and in-depth reading and discussion on a particular topic.

This is the second course in a series focused on research in settings such school sites, districts, county departments of education, community colleges, and 4-year colleges and universities.