Graduate Programs of Study

The program has two areas of specialization: Educational Leadership or Curriculum Studies.

Degree Pre-Requisites

• The Educational Leadership concentration requires graduate level course work in:
  • School Administration
    
  • School Law
    
  • School Finance
    

• The Curriculum Studies concentration has no formal prerequisites; however, applicants typically have had some coursework and/or work experience pertinent to the field.

Degree Requirements
Courses: 76 credit hours (68 credit hours of coursework and 8 credit hours of dissertation research), doctoral dissertation, and oral defense.
The superintendent endorsement requires an additional 4 credit hour internship.

Doctoral Core Courses

• SCG 701 Ethics and Education
  
• SCG 711 The Social Foundations of Multiculturalism
  
• SCG 721 Human Development and the Educational Process
  
• CS 704 Curriculum Discourses/Perspectives Over Time
• CS 751 Curriculum for Human and Community Development
  
• A&S 801 Leadership Practices for Urban Administrators
  
• A&S 811 Assessment and Accountability (required for Educational Leadership; optional for Curriculum Studies)
  

Concentration Courses (choose one concentration)

Concentration in Educational Leadership

• A&S 803 School Programs, Plant and Human Resources
  
• A&S 823 Community Consensus Building for School Improvement
• A&S 843 The Politics of Schooling
• A&S 873 Current Trends in Budgeting and Finance
  
• A&S 883 School Law
• A&S 899 Superintendent Internship (Superintendent credential only)

Concentration in Curriculum Studies

• CS 754 Curriculum Theorizing: Multiple Lenses
• CS 761 Assessing School Curriculum
• CS 764 Ideology, Culture, and Society: Youth Development
• CS 774 Engaging in Curriculum Deliberation
• CS 784 Curriculum and Program Design

Research Courses

• SCG 775 Seminar: Frameworks of Inquiry in Educational Research I
• SCG 785 Seminar: Frameworks of Inquiry in Educational Research II
• SCG 735 & 755 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods I and II OR
• SCG 745 & 765 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods I and II
• SCG 895 Advanced Doctoral Research Seminar

Independent Dissertation Research

• A&S 849 Supervised Dissertation Proposal Development-Educational Leadership AND
• A&S 859 Independent Disseration Research in Educational Leadership (to be taken only after all other course work is completed)

OR

• CS 849 Supervised Dissertation Proposal Development-Curriculum Studies AND
• CS 859 Independent Disseration Research in Curriculum Studies (to be taken only after all other course work is completed)

Course Descriptions
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School of Education, SAC 325
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