Programs in Organization and Leadership

Overview

The Organization and Leadership Program at the School of Education offers a dynamic and unique program that educates people to create and sustain just institutions through active and responsible leadership. Leadership is an essential resource for creating and sustaining organizations, communities and societies. Leadership is understood as a summons to serve the other. The faculty answers this summons through offerings grounded in ethical inquiry and course content based in a curriculum foundation of trust and community, cultural and spiritual values, and leadership and development imperatives.

Students may pursue the M.A. or Ed.D. in Organization and Leadership. Courses and field experiences are offered leading to the Preliminary Administrative Service Credential and the Professional Administrative Credential.

Organization and Leadership graduates are prepared to assume leadership positions in a variety of settings. They may also consider consulting or higher education teaching positions.

For more information on the Organization and Leadership programs, please visit: www.soe.usfca.edu/departments/organization_leadership

Please see Organization and Leadership Course Descriptions.

Educational Philosophy of the O&L Program

The O&L program philosophy is to collaboratively prepare graduate students who will possess the knowledge, skills, values and vision to transform and change organizations as leaders. The objective is based on the assumption that adult learners bring skill sets to the learning environment where collaborative student-centered interactions take place among faculty and peers. It is through dialog, the action of new knowledge and experiences that new ideas and reform can take place. Within the Jesuit tradition, faculty values the student learner and seeks to provide opportunities for self renewal and growth.

Masters Programs

The general Master of Arts in Organization and Leadership requires the completion of 30 units: 27 units of course work and a 3-unit Masters Field Project, EDOL 655. The 27 units of instruction are chosen from the following courses:

• O&L - 614 Career Choice and Work Adjustment
• O&L - 615 Information Systems in Educational Management
• O&L - 617 International Adult Learning: Domestic and Transcultural
• O&L - 618 Law and Culture
• O&L - 619 Participatory Hermeneutic Research
• O&L - 620 Budget and Finance
• O&L - 622 Education Law
• O&L - 626 Sociocultural Foundations of Organization and Policy
• O&L - 630 Educational Leadership
• O&L - 632 Educational Management
• O&L - 635 Anthropology of Education
• O&L - 648 Field Experience I
• O&L - 649 Field Experience II
• O&L - 652 Educational Program Improvement
• O&L - 654 School, Community and Society
• O&L - 658 Culture and Work
• O&L - 659 Legitimation of Power in Societies and Organizations
• O&L - 661 Organization Development and Learning
• O&L - 670 Ethical Organization
• O&L - 697 Directed Study
• O&L - 698 Special Topic

Credential Programs

The Preliminary Administrative Services Credential requires successful completion of 27 units: 21 units of course work:

• O&L - 615 Information Systems in Educational Management
• O&L - 620 Budget and Finance
• O&L - 622 Education Law
• O&L - 630 Educational Leadership
• O&L - 632 Educational Management
• O&L - 652 Educational Program Improvement
• O&L - 654 School, Community and Society

and 6 units of supervised field experience:

• O&L - 648 Field Experience I and
• O&L - 649 Field Experience II

In order to be eligible for the Preliminary Administrative Services Credential, candidates must hold a baccalaureate degree and one of the following: a valid teaching credential; or a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services, library services, health services, or clinical rehabilitation services; or a designated subject credential, verify three years of successful, full time teaching experience in public or private schools; or two years of successful, full time experience appropriate to the services credential held. In addition, candidates must provide evidence of passing CBEST scores.

The Professional Administrative Services Credential requires successful completion of 24 semester units of course work including:

• O&L - 731 Professional Credential Induction Seminar
• O&L - 732 Professional Credential Assessment Seminar
• O&L - 733 Professional Practice of Educational Leadership
• O&L - 734 Professional Practice of Educational Leadership

and 12 units of electives selected to meet individual professional goals.

Eligibility for the Professional Administrative Services Credential requires candidates to possess a valid Preliminary Services Credential, employment in a position requiring a Professional Administrative Services Credential and verification of a minimum of two years of successful, full time experience in a public or private school equivalent status while holding the Preliminary Services Credential prior to program completion.

Doctoral Program

The doctoral program at the USF School of Education requires the completion of at least 60 semester credit hours of coursework beyond the master's degree. This work must be completed within seven years of a student's admission date. All students are required to complete 12 units in General Education Core Curriculum and 9 units of O&L Core Courses. The Organization and Leadership major is defined as 24 units of doctoral level coursework developed by the student and their advisor.

Students may elect to use 12-15 unit block as electives or to design a minor.

A block of 9-12 units is devoted to the development of a dissertation proposal and to the research and writing of a dissertation.

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