Planned Program of Study

ELPAP (certification only)

Fall (courses must be taken in sequence in the certificate program)

EDUC 643 Instructional Leadership to Promote Learning

EDUC 651 Field Internship Seminar: Inquiring into Principal Leadership for School Improvement

Spring

EDUC 652 Developing Instructional Leadership in Practice

EDUC 653 Field Internship Seminar: Inquiring into Organizational and Legal Dimensions to Principal Leadership

Summer

EDUC 654 Aligning Fiscal, Human and Community Resources in Support of the School's Instructional Mission

M.S.Ed. Degree/Certification Requirements
The M.S.Ed. degree requires 10 course units, 5 of which are earned in the first year through the ELPAP certificate program; 5 are taken during the second year, including 3 core courses, a distribution requirement course and one elective; a master's research paper completes degree requirements.

In addition to the above five certification courses:

Fall

Two of the three Educational Leadership Core Courses:

1. EDUC 544 School & Society (must be taken in the fall)

2. One of the following: EDUC 547 Anthropology in Education, EDUC 616 Teaching & Learning, OR EDUC 712 Policy Making

3. One research methodology course in Education: EDUC 545 Applied Quantitative Methods, EDUC 591 Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis, EDUC 672 Introduction to Ethnographic Methods, OR EDUC 677 Introductory Statistics for Educational Research

Spring

EDUC 668 Master's Research Seminar

Third Educational Leadership Core Course (one not taken from list above in the fall)

Penn GSE Distributional Course (a course taken within Penn GSE but outside the Educational Leadership Division)

Summer

Penn GSE Elective OR Penn GSE distribution course