Degree Requirements

Core Courses

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
CS 794	Special Topics in Curriculum Studies	4
VCE 711	Value-Creating Approaches to Society, Knowledge, and Power	4
VCE 720	Human Revolution in Schools and Society	4
VCE 731	Human Education and the Poetic Spirit	4
VCE 760	Dialogue and Education	4
VCE 795	Special Topics in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship	4

Research Courses

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
SCG 775	Foundations of Inquiry and Educational Research	4
SCG 785 VCE 770	Foundations of Reviewing Educational Research or Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education	4
SCG 735	Quantitative Research Methods I	4
SCG 745	Qualitative Research Methods I	4
SCG 755 SCG 765	Quantitative Research Methods II or Qualitative Research Methods II	4

Elective Courses

Choose Five

Course	Title	Quarter Hours
A&S 688	Service Learning for Higher Education	4
A&S 801	Leadership Theory & Practice	4
A&S 843	The Politics of Schooling	4
BBE 606	Leadership in Educating Culturally Diverse Learners	4
CS 694	Curriculum 2.0: Curriculum for Learning in Global Networks	4
CS 751	Curriculum for Human & Community Development	4
CS 764	Youth Development, Ideology, Culture and Society	4
CS 784	Curriculum and Program Design	4
SCG 627	Global Studies in Education Seminar	4
SCG 711	Culture, Power, and Education	4
VCE 733	Peacebuilding and Education	4

Students must maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 prior to the completion of 36 credit hours and 3.3 after the completion of 36 credit hours. Students are allowed no more than two grades of “C.” Upon receiving a third grade of “C,” students must retake the class in which the grade was received. Grades of “D” and “F” require that the course be retaken.

Course Requirements
18 courses; 72 credits