& Student Handbook - Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

256 Doctorate Degree Programs
K-12 Education Track Courses
EDD841/EDUL611
Financial Management (3 cr.)
The emphasis of this course is on budget allocation, planning, reporting,
and auditing. Financial systems at the state, district and school levels are
evaluated. It reviews the historical development of Minnesota state
funding for public education.
EDD842/EDUL615
Legal Issues in Education (3 cr.)
The emphasis of this course is on identification of laws and legal issues
affecting schools and school systems. Education case law, contract law,
policies, and regulations pertinent to school districts are discussed.
EDD844/CAI715
Curriculum, Assessment and Instructional Leadership
(3 cr.)
The role of the instructional leader is explored. Analysis and
development of policies supporting effective curriculum, assessment,
and instruction systems are conducted. Advocacy for curriculum,
assessment, and instruction are examined. Research based strategies
for differentiating learning for special populations, including but not
limited to, special education, gifted, English Language Learners, and
culturally diverse learners are explored. Effective professional
development design and delivery models are examined, and adult
learning theories are investigated. This course also examines the
processes of implementing the design plans of curriculum, assessment,
and instruction.
Higher Education Track Courses
EDD851
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Higher
Education (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: EDD809
This course begins with a historical perspective of higher education,
including European roots, the founding of American universities, landgrant
colleges, the research university, the two-year college movement,
and changes since World War II. The course examines both the
historical and the contemporary governance structure and fictions, and
the impetus for institutional reform. Future trends, such as those driven
by the information age and demographic change, will be explored.
EDD852
Policy and Politics in Higher Education (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: EDD809
This course provides an overview of policy formulation in post-secondary
institutions, including the role of boards, administrators, faculty, and
students. The forces exerted by federal and state policy and regulatory
agencies on both public and private institutions are examined. Related
topics include policies on academic freedom, the future of the tenure
system, faculty participation in institutional planning, and the effects of
external and internal policy-making on financial planning.
EDD853
Development and Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education (3 cr.)
Prerequisites: EDD809, EDD814
The course will focus on the variety of issues surrounding the delivery
and evaluation of academic programs to changing student bodies. Topics
will include traditional, contemporary and future models of postsecondary
programs; the effects of the changing student population on
program development, particularly adult learners; educational offerings in
the workplace; keeping quality control in the midst of changes, such as
an increase in part-time faculty; accreditation issues; the impact of
student and faculty evaluations on quality programming; and faculty
development as an institutional response to quality programming.
EDD854
Organizational Learning (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: EDD809
This course applies the concepts of learning to the methods and
techniques through which organizations communicate information and
learn. Supported by the learning organization model of organization
theory, this course examines the structures and systems that allow
organizations to learn as well as those that inhibit or eliminate
organizational learning.
EDD855
Organizational Development (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: EDD809
This course applies the principles of education to the discipline of
organizational development, which studies the ways in which the
individuals as well as the organization refines existing skills and develops
new skills. Topics will include peak performance, surplus powerlessness,
intrinsic and extrinsic motivational systems, as well as techniques that
develop these attributes in organizations.