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Easiest courses in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

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This graduate course critically examines race and class inequality in education across multiple levels of analysis.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2022–Fall 2025

Introduction to quantitative inquiry in education, teaching research methods, statistical inference, and regression analysis.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

ELPA 940 is a graduate seminar covering research and discussion on selected topics in educational leadership and policy analysis.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

Introduction to qualitative inquiry covering assumptions, standards, and methods for generating and communicating interpretations.

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

ELPA 900 is an internship in educational administration completed in a school setting to practice knowledge and examine administrative practice.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

ELPA 870 examines education policy development as a political process involving community power, state and national politics, and the role of leadership and pressure groups.

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Spring 2022–Fall 2025

ELPA 750 teaches coaching athletics using an everyday practices framework, focusing on brokering, embedding, and reflecting on coaching trajectories.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Fall 2022–Fall 2025

A supervised field experience course in educational leadership covering elementary, secondary, vocational, technical, higher, and special education settings.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

Examines athletics through the lens of human, social, economic, and cultural capital to understand leadership and social justice in sports.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Examines legal issues, policy decisions, and constitutional issues in US public education.

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

ELPA 701 introduces the history, philosophy, and current issues of higher and postsecondary education, covering governance, leadership, and government relations.

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Fall 2022–Fall 2025

ELPA 845 explores school-level leadership, focusing on the principal's role, advancing equity and excellence, and distributed leadership.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Fall 2022–Fall 2025

A capstone seminar for the master's program that applies prior coursework to analyze professional issues in higher education administration and support career transitions.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2022–Spring 2026

ELPA 710 examines the administration of intercollegiate athletics in higher education, emphasizing practical and theoretical approaches.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026