Doctor of Philosophy Curriculum Requirements
Required Courses (81 credit hours)
Students are required to take a minimum of 81 credit hours to include up to 30 credit
hours from a relevant master's degree program. Students whose master's degree is not
in a education related discipline may be required to take additional coursework. These
students may meet the requirements for the core content in other ways, such as a master's
degree in an area that emphasizes coursework in diversity or multi-cultural education.
Committees may determine that the requirements for additional course(s) have been
met.
REQUIRED COURSES (50 CREDIT HOURS)
Core Educational Leadership Courses (Select a minimum of 6 of the following courses)
- EDAD 5150 Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning (3) or EDCI 5600 Diversity
(3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5600 Educational Leader as Manager of Human Resources (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5650 Educational Leader as Communicator (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5700 Educational Leader for Instruction (3) OR EDCI 5870 Learning Theories (3
credit hours)
- EDAD 5720 Educational Leader as Change Agent (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5750 Educational Leader for the Board and Community (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5800 Educational Leader as Resource Manager (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5850 Educational Leader as Direction Setter (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5870 School law (3 credit hours) or EDAD 5050 Leadership for Democratic Schools
(3 credit hours)
Electives (select 12 credit hours of applicable coursework)
Educational Research Courses
- Introduction to Research (usually included in master’s) (3 credit hours)
- EDRE 5600 Ed Research 1: Descriptive Research (3 credit hours)
- EDRE 5610 Ed Research 2: Group Comparison (3 credit hours)
- EDRE 5620 Ed Research 3: Correlation (3 credit hours) OR EDRE 5640 Intro to Qual.
Research (3 credit hours)
Post Comprehensive Examination
- EDRE 5660 Dissertation/Thesis Prospectus Writing (3 credit hours)
- EDAD 5980 Dissertation Research (12 credit hours)
