Educational Leadership for Change Courses ELC-699 Foundations of Doctoral Study, 4 semester credits New student orientation to the ELC doctoral program is an in-person session between in-coming classes and doctoral program faculty. At the orientation, the faculty works with you to: assess your academic readiness; evaluate your research, personal skills and learning resources; facilitate your understanding of Fielding's learning model and delivery method, set your academic and professional goals; and develop your support group of faculty and peers. At orientation, students choose a faculty mentor and begin work on their learning plan - a personal map through the learning process. The learning plan takes into account each student's previous academic accomplishments as well as personal, professional, and academic goals. It includes a preliminary outline for the action- oriented research project that will ultimately become a dissertation. The learning plan should be submitted for approval within 30 days after the conclusion of the in-person orientation. However, the learning plan is a living document that students and their faculty mentors review on a regular basis. Delivery Method: In person/Blended Grading Default: Credit/No Credit Only
ELC-721 Critical Reading and Writing, 4 semester credits Critical Reading and Writing is the first of three courses in the Effective Communications area. This course builds on your powers of observation, discernment, and intuition as existing competencies that can be used to help build bridges to new competencies necessary to your Fielding journey. Some of the new competencies include learning to write critical reviews, literature reviews, and argumentative essays. Maintaining and developing your voice as a scholar-practitioner who can effectively communicate with various audiences is a foundational goal for this course. Delivery Method: Online Grading Default: Letter Learning Outcome(s): 1. Critical Reading
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Locates relevant sources.
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Uses theory, research, critical reflection, and practice to make a written argument.
Critically reads and evaluates literature to include a counterhegemonic point of view. 2. Critical Writing Highlights and analyzes alternative points of view. Revises and improves original drafts.
ELC-722 Oral and Digital Communications, 4 semester credits Oral And Digital Communication is the second of the three courses in the Effective Communications Learning Area. The overall goal for this course is to use your existing communication skills to help you make effective presentations. We will do this by helping you identify your strengths as a communicator and by helping you identify your learning style(s). These two activities will be a basis to select authoring software to make effective presentations. Our focus on presentations is intended to move you more fully into the realm of being an authentic information and knowledge producer as opposed to being only or primarily an information consumer. Delivery Method: Online Grading Default: Letter Learning Outcome(s): 1. Uses five appropriate digital media to communicate effectively with a diverse group in the role of leader/facilitator. Academic Catalog 2020-2021
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