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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ADE7261
Tracking Number - 1578

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2008-06-09
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Detail Information

1. Date & Time Submitted: 2008-04-16
   
2. Department: Adult Career and Higher Ed, College of Education,
   
3. College: ED
   
4. Budget Account Number: 17310000
   
5. Contact Person: William H. Young
   
6. Phone: 9741861
   
7. Email: wyoung@coedu.usf.edu
   
8. Prefix: ADE
   
9. Number: 7261
   
10. Full Title: Leadership in Adult Continuing Education and HRD
    
11. Credit Hours: 3
    
12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
    
13. Is the course title variable?: N
    
14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
    
15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
    
16. Is this course repeatable?:
    
17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
    
18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Leadership in ACE and HRD
    
19. Course Online?: -
    
20. Percentage Online:
    
21. Grading Option: R - Regular
    
22. Prerequisites: None
    
23. Corequisites: None
    
24. Course Description: This course is a study of leadership theory, public policy analysis, best practices and related leadership research in adult continuing education and human resource development.
    

25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Most of our doctoral students take leadership positions in the field; therefore, it becomes apparent that a leadership course in the fields of adult continuing educaiton and human resource development is necessary.
    
26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Students and alumni have requested that a leadership course be developed
    
27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Twice
    
28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Faculty must have a doctorate in adult education or a closely related field of study.
    
29. Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

    •Critically evaluate both the organizational and individual implications of a variety of leadership styles and approaches that relate to adult education, continuing education and human resource development;

    •Compare and contrast the major research approaches to the study of leadership in adult education, continuing education and human resource development;

    •Identify and analyze the major adult education, continuing education and human resource development leadership paradigms within the literature including functionalist, radical humanist and postmodern paradigms;

    •Develop a personal statement of leadership for use in the field;

    •Identify and analyze common ethical dilemmas that adult education, continuing education and human resource development leaders face;

    •Develop cultures for tomorrow’s adult education, continuing education and human resource development workplace as a leadership strategy; and

    •Develop new capabilities, competency models and planning strategies for leadership in the field.
    

30. Learning Outcomes: Requirements include:

    •Attendance and Active Participation

    •Design and Delivery of a Presentation

    •Completion of a Research Project

    •Site Visit with a leader in the field and subsequent written report

    •Completion of a Course Portfolio
    

31. Major Topics: Topics include:

    •Ethical Judgments and Considerations in Education and Business;

    •A Mentorship Model of Leadership for the Field; Symbolic Leadership;

    •Creating a Learning Organization in an Adult Education, Continuing Education or Human Resource Development Unit;

    •Leadership and Staff Development in Adult Continuing Education and Human Resource Development;

    •Leadership and the Future of Adult Continuing Education and Human Resource Development; Visioning and Strategic Planning Adult Continuing Education and Human Resource Development;

    •Transformational Leadership;

    •Executive Characteristics for Leadership in the Field;

    •Leadership in Using Information Technology;

    •Using Adult Continuing Education and Human Resource Development Best Practices and Trends;

    •Mastering Change; Team Building as a Leadership Strategy;

    •Leadership in Creating New Marketing and Finance Systems in Adult Continuing Education and Human Resource Development;

    •Using Annual Reports Effectively; and

    •Global Leadership in the Field
    

32. Textbooks: Texts

    •Cynthia C. Jones Shoemaker, (1998). Leadership in continuing education and distance education in higher education, Allyn and Bacon.

    •Sarita Chawla and John Renesch, Eds. (1995), Learning organizations: Developing cultures for tomorrow’s workplace, Productivity Press.

    •Roth, K. K.(2004). Executive leadership attributes relating to transformational organizational human resource services, Dissertation.Com, Boca Raton, FL.

    •Best Practices, Adult learning, (2004), Volume 15, Number 2, Spring.

    •Edelson, P. J., Ed., (1992). Rethinking leadership in adult and continuing education, N
    

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37. Policy on Make-up Work:
    
38. Program This Course Supports:
    
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