AgLEC Courses
| ALEC |
[ES] [IS] 102 |
Course Title | Interpersonal Skills for Leadership | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) I, II Lec/act. |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Introduction to the principles and practices of positive interpersonal relationships for leadership development. Emphasis on self-awareness, awareness of others, effective interpersonal communication, and the building of trust relationships as a basis for understanding and developing leadership. An experiential approach, including field projects and a supervised community service project. |
| ALEC | 134 | Course Title | Agricultural Education, Journalism, and Leadership Careers | Credit Hours | (2 cr) I |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Course has guest speakers and field trips.Explore the career opportunities available in agricultural education, journalism, and leadership focusing on agribusiness, industry training positions, secondary agriscience instruction, extension education, advertising, broadcasting, news-editorial, and international agricultural education. |
| ALEC | 135 | Course Title | Early Field Experience in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication | Credit Hours | ((1 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | Agricultural leadership, education and communication major or permission. Required of all agricultural leadership, education and communication majors. |
| Description | Observing and/or performance of professional skills in agricultural education, extension education, agribusiness, journalism, and leadership. |
| ALEC |
[ES][IS] 189H |
Course Title | University Honors Seminar | Credit Hours | (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation. University Honors Seminar. 189H is required of all students in the University Honors Program. |
| Description | Topic varies. |
| ALEC | 202 | Course Title | Leadership Development in Small Groups and Teams | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I, II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Leadership and followership skills in small groups and teams. Leadership dynamics which make team leaders and members influential and satisfied in both informal and work group settings. Leadership from the perspective of student practical experience. A shadowing experience and simulation exercise. |
| ALEC | 233 | Course Title | Extension Education | Credit Hours |
(2 cr) I Lec/act |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Overview of extension education within the community, state, national, and international settings. Emphasis on principles and procedures of developing and conducting user-driven, research-based extension, programs, along with the study of extension's relationship to other public and private agencies. |
| ALEC | 234 | Course Title | Planning Leadership and Experience Programs | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II Lec 2/lab 3 |
| Prerequisites | Sophomore standing and ALEC 134 and/or 135 |
| Description | Theory of experiential education to middle school and secondary agricultural education programs, especially leadership and career education. Development of Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), Young Adult/Farmer, FFA, and alumni activities, appropriate to the community, school, and student needs using electronic technology in learning how to teach Nebraska's agricultural education financial management system. |
| ALEC | 237 | Course Title |
Introduction to Human Relations in Education (EDPS 237) |
Credit Hours |
(2 cr) |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | For course description, see EDPS 237. |
| ALEC |
[ES][IS] 302 |
Course Title | Dynamics of Effective Leadership in Organizations | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I, II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Principle and process of effective leadership in complex organizations of society and commerce. Develops an understanding of the dynamic interactions of personal characteristics, technical skills, interpersonal influence, commitment, goals, and power. |
| ALEC | 305 | Course Title | Presentation Strategies for Agricultural Audiences | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I, II |
| Prerequisites | JGEN 200 or 300. Student presentations integral to the course. |
| Description | Presentation strategies used in agribusiness, education, government and public service. Attention to audience need, organization, methodology and management of presentation resource, especially electronic technology. |
| ALEC | 308 | Course Title | Laboratory Instruction and Management | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II Lec/act |
| Prerequisites |
6 hrs mechanized systems management; advanced standing. Student demonstrations and presentations required. |
| Description |
Planning, conducting, and administering the instructional programs related to experientially based education in school laboratory settings. Variety of laboratory settings, including agricultural mechanics, greenhouse, soils, etc. |
| ALEC | 331 | Course Title | Supervised Field Experiences | Credit Hours |
(2-5 cr) I, II, III Lab 3 |
| Prerequisites | Junior or senior by application. |
| Description | Field course of supervised observation and participation with various phases of agricultural education and/or agribusiness. |
| ALEC | 337 | Course Title | Instructional Internship in Leadership Development | Credit Hours | (1-3 cr) I, II, III Act 3 |
| Prerequisites | Permission. |
| Description | A structured professional and personal development experience. Small group facilitation and instructional assistance in leadership development courses. |
| ALEC |
[ES][IS] 388 |
Course Title | Ethics in Agriculture and Natural Resources (AECN 388) | Credit Hours | (3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | Permission. |
| Description | Ethics focusing on agricultural and natural resource issues. Using case studies from the professional workplace and contemporary society, develops intellectual skills necessary to reflect critically on ethical issues and apply appropriate conceptual tools for resolution of issues arising from conflicting ethical and value systems. |
| ALEC | 397 | Course Title | Special Topics | Credit Hours | (1-3 cr, max 3) I, II, Lec 3, lab |
| Prerequisites | Permission. |
| Description | Readings; in depth discussions; analysis of current theory, issues, problems, research and practice in leadership, education and/or communication. Topics vary. |
| ALEC | 399 | Course Title | Independent Study in Communications | Credit Hours | (1-3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Permission and advance approval of plan of work. |
| Description | Individual or group projects in research, literature review, or extension of course work under supervision and evaluation of a departmental faculty member. |
| ALEC | [ IS]405 | Course Title | Methods of Instruction for Secondary Agriscience Education | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I |
| Prerequisites | Senior standing and 3 hrs educational psychology, or permission. |
| Description | Instructional delivery of a secondary agricultural education program in the public school system. Organizing instructional content, individual lesson planning, methods of formal instructional delivery, student behavior management, instructing the handicapped and disadvantage, and student testing. Considerable time is spent on undergraduates demonstrating instructional delivery. |
| ALEC | 405L | Course Title | Methods of Instruction Laboratory Education | Credit Hours | (1 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Admission to the teaching program in agricultural education and parallel registration in ALEC 405. |
| Description | Laboratory exercises that complement material covered in ALEC 405. Involve practice teaching at either the middle or secondary school level. |
| ALEC | 407/807 | Course Title | Supervisory Leadership | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I |
| Prerequisites | 302. |
| Description | Knowledge and theoretical basis for practicing supervisors in a changing workplace where supervisors have increasing responsibilities due to the flattening or organizational structures, solving supervisory challenges in organizing and planning, problem solving and decision making, performance appraisal and leading a diverse workforce. |
| ALEC |
[ES][IS] 410/810 |
Course Title |
Environmental Leadership: A Historical and Ethical Perspective (NRES 413/813) |
Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Chronological study of major figures in conservation and ecology that emphasizes historical and ethical development and relationships. Primary focus on the Great Plains. |
| ALEC | 412/812 | Course Title | Multimedia Applications for Education and Training (NUTR *812) | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec/lab |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Practical applications in developing and evaluating multimedia resources for students. Surveys new applications, creates and develops various instructional materials, and reviews current practice against relevant theory. Use current software packages to develop materials for various audiences. |
| ALEC | 413 | Course Title | Program Development | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec/rct |
| Prerequisites | Junior standing and acceptance into the student teaching program in agricultural education. |
| Description | Planning, marketing and managing formal and non-formal educational programs for youth and adults. The learning process applied to learner needs and styles. Building collaborative relationships. |
| ALEC |
[ES][IS] 414/814 |
Course Title | Classic Figures in Leadership | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec/rct |
| Prerequisites | Junior standing. Requires extensive writing and oral presentations Leadership theory in an applied context. |
| Description | Leadership analyzed through a variety of genres: autobiography, drama, fiction, tracts and treatises, speeches. |
| ALEC | 420/820 | Course Title | Improvement of Instructional Programs for Post-High-School Occupational Education | Credit Hours |
(1-3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Designing new instructional programs, expanding the impact of student behavioral objectives, and evaluating the total instructional program. |
| ALEC | 431 | Course Title | Student Teaching1 | Credit Hours |
(3-12 cr) |
| Prerequisites | 3 hrs educational psychology, passing score on the Preprofessional Skills Tests (PPST) and permission. |
| Description | Placement arranged by the department. Seven to sixteen weeks of off-campus student teaching. Students receive guided participation in various phases of a school agricultural education program. |
| ALEC | 433/833 | Course Title | Planning and Implementation of Cooperative Extension Programs for Domestic and Foreign Audiences | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II Lec 3 |
| Prerequisites | Senior or graduate standing and consent of instructor. |
| Description | The cooperative extension service as an educational institution and its involvement of local people in the program development and identification of problems and design of long-range plans, annual plans, community development, and plans for single events; applicable to domestic and foreign extension programs. |
| ALEC | 466/866 | Course Title | Course Leadership and Diversity in Organizations and Communities | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Examination of leadership theories and their applications in diverse organizations and communities, with special emphasis on rural environments. |
| ALEC | 477/877 | Course Title | Course Leadership and Motivation | Credit Hours |
(3cr) I Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Classic and contemporary motivation theories applied to leadership in organizations and communities. |
| ALEC | 488/888 | Course Title | Course Leadership, Power and Influence | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Organizational influence processes, power, and politics in organizations and communities. |
| ALEC | [IS]480 | Course Title | Dynamics of Agricultural Environmental Journalism | Credit Hours | (3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | Junior standing. |
| Description | Roles of the professional agricultural journalist and/or communicator in today's society. Synthesis of agricultural and natural resources sciences and journalism. |
| ALEC | 494 | Course Title | Undergraduate Seminar in Agricultural Education | Credit Hours | (1-3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Philosophy and relationship of agricultural education in the public schools. Development and coordination of adult and continuing agricultural education programs. |
| ALEC | 495 | Course Title | Internship in Leadership Development1 | Credit Hours | (2-5 cr) I, II, III |
| Prerequisites | ALEC 102, 134, 135, permission, and completion of the Internship Agreement form. |
| Description | The internship site and training program are subject to approval by the department. Practical internship experiences in a selected agribusiness, industry, or agency. Collaborative development of a training program and leadership activities in which the student will participate. |
| ALEC | 496/896 | Course Title | Independent Study in Leadership Education | Credit Hours | (1-9 cr, max 9) |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Projects in research, literature review, or extension of course work. |
| ALEC | 499H | Course Title | Honors Thesis | Credit Hours | (3-6 cr) I, II, III) |
| Prerequisites | Admission to the University Honors Program and permission, AGRI 299H recommended. |
| Description | Conduct a scholarly research project and write a University Honors Program or undergraduate thesis. |
| ALEC | 801 | Course Title | Theoretical Foundations of Leadership | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Major research thrusts in leadership field. Historical and contemporary research studies, surveying the literature, developing theory, and conceptualizing original research questions and problems. |
| ALEC | 802 | Course Title | Developing Leadership Capacity in Organizations and Communities | Credit Hours | (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | ALEC *801 or equivalent. |
| Description | Leadership capacity in individuals and organizations. Impact of leadership on organizational outcomes and means for diagnosing leadership developmental needs. Assessing, creating and implementing a comprehensive leadership development program for an organization or community. |
| ALEC | 804 | Course Title | Problems of Beginning Agriscience Teachers | Credit Hours | (2-5 cr) I, II, III Lec/act |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Problems in instructional planning and methodology and in organizing secondary and continuing education, FFA, and agriculture experience programs. |
| ALEC | 805 | Course Title | Advanced Teaching Strategies (CURR 805) | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Contemporary and innovative teaching strategies, emphasizing learner-centered instruction, suitable to teaching in college and postsecondary institutions, outreach programs public schools, and other settings. Students participate in active learning as they apply learning theory in practice, prepare and demonstrate teaching methods, and plan for instruction in discipline areas of their choice. |
| ALEC | 806 | Course Title | Introduction to Distance Education | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) I Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Introduction to the field of distance education through readings, discussions, field trips, and research. Basic principles and key concepts of distance education in a variety of educational settings. |
| ALEC | 807 | Course Title | Supervisory Leadership (FACS 807) | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | ALEC 801 or permission. |
| Description | Knowledge and theoretical basis for practicing supervisors in a changing workplace where supervisors have increasing responsibilities due to the flattening of organizational structures. Solving supervisory challenges in organizing and planning, problem solving and decision making, performance appraisal, and leading a diverse workforce. |
| ALEC | 810 | Course Title | Environmental Leadership: A Historical and Ethical Perspective (NRES 813) | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Chronological study of major figures in conservation and ecology that emphasizes historical and ethical development and relationships. Primary focus on the Great Plains. |
| ALEC | 812 | Course Title | Multimedia Applications for Education and Training (NUTR *812) | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec/lab |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Practical applications in developing and evaluating multimedia resources for students. New applications, creation and development of various instructional materials, and review of current practice against relevant theory. Projects use current software packages to develop materials for various audiences. |
| ALEC | 814 | Course Title | Clsssic Figures in Leadership | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec/rct |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Requires extensive writing and oral presentations. Leadership theory in an applied context. Leadership analyzed through a variety of genres: autobiography, drama, fiction, tracts and treatises, speeches. |
| ALEC | 815 | Course Title | Development and Organization of Vocational Education | Credit Hours |
(1-3) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | For teachers, administrators, and guidance personnel. Vocational and practical education, their place in the community school; planning comprehensive programs in agriculture, business, homemaking, and industrial education. |
| ALEC | 816 | Course Title | Management Strategies in Distance Education Environments | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II, III Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Management strategies for a variety of distance education situations. Planning, organization, motivation, and control provide a framework for analyzing distance education in formal and non-formal, large and small, private and public, and established and emerging organizations. |
| ALEC | 820 | Course Title | Improvement of Instructional Programs for Post-High School Occupational Education | Credit Hours |
(1-3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | Baccalaureate degree; 12 hrs agricultural education or equivalent; and/or permission. |
| Description | Determining new instructional programs, expanding the impact of student behavioral objectives, and evaluating the total instructional program. |
| ALEC | 826 | Course Title | Program Evaluation | Credit Hours | (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | ALEC *833 recommended. |
| Description | Builds upon program development in extension programming and provides a basic overview of program evaluation principles and methods. Applies program evaluation principles in extension education. |
| ALEC | 832 | Course Title | Leading Agricultural Agencies and Organizations | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) III Lec/act |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Administrative-management theory and practice, research and techniques applied to agricultural agencies organizations. Exposure to philosophies and experiences of outstanding administrators. Applicable to domestic and international students. |
| ALEC | 833 | Course Title | Planning and Implementation of Cooperative Extension Programs for Domestic and Foreign Audiences | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) I Lec 3 |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Unique features of the cooperative extension service as an educational institution and its involvement of local people in the program development and identification of problems and design of long-range plans, annual plans, community development, and plans for single events; applicable to domestic and foreign extension programs. |
| ALEC | 845 | Course Title | Research in Occupational Education (FACS 845) | Credit Hours | (1-12 cr) I, II, III |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Steps in preparing a research proposal, including statement of the research question, review of relevant literature, and determination of an appropriate research design and methodology. Research methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative procedures. |
| ALEC | 866 | Course Title | Course Leadership and Diversity in Organizations and Communities | Credit Hours | (3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Examination of leadership theories and their applications in diverse organizations and communities, with special emphasis on rural environments. |
| ALEC | 877 | Course Title | Course Leadership and Motivation | Credit Hours | (3cr) I Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Classic and contemporary motivation theories applied to leadership in organizations and communities. |
| ALEC | 888 | Course Title | Course Leadership, Power and Influence | Credit Hours | (3 cr) II |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Organizational influence processes, power, and politics in organizations and communities. |
| ALEC | 890 | Course Title | Workshop Seminars | Credit Hours | (1-12 cr) I, II, III |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Work, singly or in groups, on practical educational problems, done under the supervision of staff with assistance of selected educational consultants. |
| ALEC | 893 | Course Title | Technical Agricultural Workshops | Credit Hours | (1-12 cr) I, II, III |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Group study of technology in agricultural occupations. Workshops, special meetings, and assignments. |
| ALEC | 896 | Course Title | Independent Study in Leadership Education | Credit Hours | (1-9 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Projects in research, literature review, or extension of course work. |
| ALEC | 897 | Course Title | Special Topics | Credit Hours |
(1-3 cr) I, II Lec Fld |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Readings, in-depth discussions and analysis of current theory, issues and problems, research and practice in leadership education and/or communication. Offered to address emerging topics not covered in other courses. |
| ALEC | 899 | Course Title | Masters Thesis | Credit Hours | (6-10 cr) |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser. |
| ALEC | 901 | Course Title | Leading Change in Rural America and Beyond | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec, fld |
| Prerequisites | ALEC 801, 18 hours graduate credit, or permission. |
| Description | Skills in leading change in the 21st Century in rural communities and organizations. Strategies for planning, organizing, and institutionalizing change. Develop a change plan for a community or organization. |
| ALEC | 903 | Course Title | Teacher Education in Agriscience | Credit Hours |
(1-3 cr) Lec/act |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Preparation of agriscience teachers to supervise and mentor student teachers, evaluate/coach performance, and instructional delivery. |
| ALEC | 904 | Course Title | Seminar in Leadership Studies | Credit Hours | (1 cr, max 4) |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Ideas, theories, and practices on recent and emerging leadership research themes. |
| ALEC | 905 | Course Title | Practicum in Postsecondary Teaching (CURR 905) | Credit Hours | (1-3 cr) Lab |
| Prerequisites | ALEC *805 or permission. |
| Description | Work with a faculty mentor in a discipline of choice and an instructional supervisor to prepare instruction and teach students in a postsecondary setting. Practicum students are assisted in arranging for the practicum and are provided consultation and feedback during the practicum. Lesson planning and reflective papers are part of the practicum experience. |
| ALEC | 906 | Course Title | Theoretical Foundations of Distance Education | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) II Lec |
| Prerequisites | ALEC *806 recommended. |
| Description | Major theoretical concepts and research finding of distance education, as broadly conceived. Emphasis on analyzing and deconstruction of major ideas influencing distance education in formal and non-formal settings. |
| ALEC | 908 | Course Title | Organization of the Agricultural Mechanics Program | Credit Hours |
(2-3 cr) Lec/lab |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Philosophy, objectives, procedures, and techniques used in organizing the program of agricultural mechanics instruction for secondary and post-high school students and adults. Determining units of instruction, evaluating student effort, procedures in shop instruction, selection of equipment, and integration into the vocational agriculture program. |
| ALEC | 910 | Course Title | Leadership in Cross-cultural Systems | Credit Hours | (3 cr) I |
| Prerequisites | ALEC 801 recommended. |
| Description | Issues of leading people in the global marketplace. Focus on understanding the impact of cultural differences, comparing and contrasting domestic and multinational leadership challenges, and review of current multinational leadership. |
| ALEC | 913 | Course Title | Program Development in Occupational Education | Credit Hours |
(3 cr) Lec |
| Prerequisites | None listed |
| Description | Philosophy and objectives of occupational education. Techniques of program development, choosing instructional areas, determining sequences, planning time distributions, integrated course of study and meeting individual needs, youth activities. |
| ALEC | 995 | Course Title | Doctoral Seminar in Leadership Studies | Credit Hours | (3 cr, max 18) |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Outcome-based scholarly activities with a faculty mentor. Working on either an individualized or small group basis, students develop, execute, and report one or more projects addressing the interaction between research and practice. |
| ALEC | 996 | Course Title | Research Other Than Thesis | Credit Hours | (2-6 cr) I, II, III |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Research in selected problems in leadership education. |
| ALEC | 999 | Course Title | Doctoral Dissertation | Credit Hours | (1-24 cr, max 55) |
| Prerequisites | Permission |
| Description | Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair. |
