EDF 4731 - Youth Administration & Leadership Communication Techniques

College of Education

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2019 (555)

Requisites

Admission to Educational Studies and Community Leadership (Bachelor of Science) (EDST-BS)

Course Description

This course will focus on specific effective professional communication efforts of administrators and leaders from military, social agencies, educational settings, and organizational environments, including non-profit agencies and organizations. Skills emphasized in the course include: oral and written presentations for varied audiences and technology-rich communications for leading organizations and developing communicative organizational environments.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will examine effective professional communication techniques used by administrators and leaders in a variety of social agencies, educational settings, and organizational environments by:
    1. identifying the interrelationships between administrators and their employees.
    2. analyzing the societal and cultural effects on communication within the local and global community.
    3. developing strategies to communicate effectively orally and in writing to varied audiences.
    4. describing effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques and using them to communicate effectively.
  2. The student will apply technology-rich communication strategies in organizational settings by:
    1. researching emerging technologies and their potential educational applications.
    2. identifying various technology devices used to improve communication within organizations.
    3. analyzing the implications, challenges, and barriers of using technology within a variety of organizations.
    4. developing technology-rich forms of communication for use within social agencies, educational settings, and organizational environments.
  3. The student will analyze issues relating to communication and leadership in an organizational environment by:
    1. examining language development and the role of language in learning and communication.
    2. describing dispositions and behavior that foster and/or hinder effective communication between leaders and their employees.
  4. The student will describe strategies for becoming an effective and ethical communicator by:
    1. identifying strategies for becoming an effective and ethical communicator in organizational settings.
    2. communicating and collaborating with appropriate support agencies to promote effective communication in an organizational environment.
    3. modeling effective communication strategies in conveying ideas and information, asking questions, listening, giving directions, and helping express ideas.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will, with a minimum of 75% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

9/5/17: Course submitted to SCNS as EDF 4730; returned as EDF 4731. A.Ashe C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2018 (540).
C&I Approval: 07/26/2018, BOT Approval: 09/18/2018, Effective Term: Spring 2019 (555)

Related Programs

  1. Educational Studies and Community Leadership (EDST-BS) (610) (Draft)