3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This course provides a foundation for examining historical and current perspectives of STEM education programs and policy at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Focusing on the relationships among education policy, leadership theories, and models of systemic change, this course will enable students to situate and envision their potential role in shaping engineering education within the context of the larger education landscape. Students will synthesize course readings, examine education policy, and reflect on leadership theories and change, as well as explore how they can influence leadership, policy, and/or organizational change in STEM education through a semester project.
Learning Outcomes1Evaluate leadership theories and the leadership process.
2Identify and evaluate factors that contribute to effective leadership within organizations.
3Analyze education policy at local, state, and national levels with a focus on STEM education.
4Evaluate models of systemic change and diffusion of innovative processes.
5Understand key aspects, strategies, and applications of systemic change in education.
6Generate strategies to implement change within STEM education environments.
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