Licensure Concentration
Students applying for admission to the Educational Leadership, Licensure Concentration, must meet one of the following criteria:
- Hold a Master's Degree in School Administration from a regionally accredited institution and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current NC principal's license;
- Hold a Specialist Degree in School Administration/Leadership from Appalachian State University and hold, or be eligible to hold, a NC superintendent's license; or
- Hold a Master's Degree from a regionally acredited institution and hold one or more degrees leading to licensure in the public schools. This individual then may either apply for a Master's Degree in School Administration and then apply for the Doctoral Program upon receipt of the MSA or have their transcripts reviewed by the MSA program coordinator in order to identify courses needed to meet principal licensure requirements.
Students will select a minimum of 12 elective semester hours with the advice and approval of the Director of the Doctoral Program. Courses marked with an asterisk are required of all students who do not hold the MSA degree and/or principal licensure along with other required courses that may be identified based on review of the student's transcripts by the MSA program coordinator. Courses marked with two asterisks are required of all students not currently holding a superintendent license along with other courses that may have been identified based on a review of the student's transcripts.
- LHE 5030 The Principalship *
- LHE 5560 Classroom Assessment *
- LHE 5180 School Fiscal and Operations Management*
- LHE 6180 School Finance **
- LHE 6300 Personnel Administration**
- LHE 6481 Educational Facilities **
- EDL 7050 School Finance and Business Administration
- EDL 7120 Advanced Tests and Measurements
- EDL 7130 Multivariate Statistics
- EDL 7140 Advanced Experimental Design
- EDL 7170 Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis
- EDL 7180 Advanced Qualitative Research in Education
- EDL 7500 Independent Study (limit of 6 hours)
- CI 7130 Investigations into Curriculum and Instruction Problems
- CI 7131 Emerging Issues in Curriculum and Instruction
- CI 7132 Reflective Supervision in Curriculum and Instruction
- RE 7570 Administering Reading/Language Arts Programs
- RE 7710 Improving Reading/Language Arts Instruction
- SPE 7120 Issues and Trends in Special Education
- SPE 7121 Organizational Design and Implementation of Special Education Programs
General Concentration
