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This course is a continuation of ENGL 800 and ENGL 801, Thesis Design, and
Preparation I and II, respectively. The students will enroll in ENGL 802 if they
have taken ENGL 800 and ENGL 801 and they still need time to work with their
thesis advisors and committee members to complete the thesis.

School Administration and Supervision

ESAS 704 SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Former course number 504
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is designed to consider how issues and confrontations, such as school
personnel, pupils, parents, and representatives of social institutions and
agencies, interact. The question to resolve is how the school may best use the
human resources surrounding it to the enhancement of its goals and its
programs.

ESAS 705 RECENT ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Former course number 505
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
Emphasis in this course is upon the analysis of selected recent issues in education
for critical study. It further includes emphasis upon broad reading of the research
and literature in order to appraise current issues in terms of needs of children
and society.

ESAS 720 PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES IN CONTEMPORARY
Former course number 520
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is designed to assist the student to prepare for management of
educational organizations and programs. Emphasis will be upon identifying
specific problems and developing specific techniques by which to solve them.
The student will gain an understanding and application of system analysis as it
applies to leadership, organizational systems, communications, and change and
sustenance of existing systems; human management and technical skills will be
emphasized. Major topics to be explored will be accountability, mainstreaming,
teacher stress and burn out, alternative approaches to discipline, drugs and
alcohol, declining enrollment, and alternative methods for evaluating teachers

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