Department of Leadership and Educational Studies (LES)


L. Arthur Safer, Chair


Roma B. Angel
Barbara S. Bonham
Hunter R. Boylan
Stephen C. Bronack
Larry H. Brown
Kelly Clark/Keefe
Charles S. Claxton
Michael W. Dale
Ralph G. Hall
Richard D. Howe
W. Thomas Jamison
Kenneth D. Jenkins
George A. Maycock
George H. Olson
Linda C. O'Neal
Richard E. Riedl
Robert L. Sanders
Bobby H. Sharp
E. Michael Sutton
John H. Tashner
Carol A. Truett
Gayle M. Turner
Linda A. Veltze
Stephen R. White




The Department of Leadership and Educational Studies serves the education
community and the public in many ways. It provides foundational courses which
have relevance to the professional studies component in teacher education. The
courses in Educational Foundations (FDN) provide students of education with the
opportunity to learn about social, philosophical, historical and cultural
factors that impact on schooling. The department provides courses that develop
the skills and knowledge needed to understand how research in the field of
education is designed, implemented, and evaluated. The department offers course
work in the classroom use and integration into teaching of computer-based
technology.


The Department offers courses of instruction leading to a Master's degree in 
the following areas:


Master of School Administration (M.S.A.)
This degree prepares persons for a school principalship at all public school
levels and leads to initial licensure as a school administrator in North
Carolina. (Prerequisite for admission to a program leading to administrative
licensure: North Carolina "A" Teaching License or its equivalent from another
state and three years of successful teaching experience or its equivalent.)
Students will need to pass a state licensure examination to complete
eligibility for a license to practice as a school administrator in North
Carolina.




Master of Arts (M.A.)
Higher education, administration; higher education, adult education; higher
education, developmental studies; and higher education, teaching - designed to
prepare students to teach in community, junior and technical colleges (does not
lead to NC Licensure); prepares students who wish to work in post-secondary
educational settings.


An M.A. degree in Educational Media (with concentrations in Instructional
Technology Specialist/Computers and Instructional Technology
Specialist/Computers, General) is housed in the department and is described in
the Graduate Bulletin. Students may choose the concentration that leads to
North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction Licensure 077
requirements or general concentration that does not lead to licensure. Students
holding a current teaching licensure can add the 079 endorsement to be computer
teachers.




Master of Library Science (M.L.S.)
The Department also offers programs of study which lead to the Master of
Library Science (M.L.S.) degree with a major in Library Science, General with
two concentrations: 1) School Libraries, 2) Public Libraries.




The Educational Specialist degree (Ed.S.) in the Department of Leadership
and Educational Studies is a 30 semester hour degree program offered in the 
following areas:


1. Educational administration--provides advanced graduate work for public
   school administration. This degree leads to sixth year licensure.


2. Higher education administration--provides advanced graduate work in the area
   of post-secondary education (administration, teaching, developmental
   studies, and adult education).




Consult the Graduate Bulletin for further information.




A student working toward a degree and/or licensure in the Department of
Leadership and Educational Studies must develop her/his program of study in
consultation with an approved advisor. Candidacy forms must be submitted to the
graduate office before the student has completed twelve hours of course work.
Degree seeking students who are taking courses without being officially 
assigned an advisor and/or receiving their advisor's approval, do so at the 
risk of not having the courses approved as part of their degree program.


Students who want a minor in the Department of Leadership and Educational
Studies should contact the Chairperson of the Department.


A graduate minor consists of 9-12 semester hours of designated courses from the
program track concentration selected (higher education, developmental studies; 
higher education, adult education; higher education, administration; higher
education, teaching; higher education, community, junior and technical
college).




COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION (FDN)
This catalog reflects only the fall and spring semester courses. Courses
offered in summer terms can be found in the Summer Sessions Bulletin.
(For a description of the course abbreviations used in the following list of
courses, see the index for abbreviations.)