Required Credit Hours/Tuition and Fees
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Curriculum
Fifty-four semester hours of graduate credit beyond the master’s degree are required for the EdD.
Required courses (15 semester hours)
EPFR 517 (3) Leading for Student Learning
EPFR 523 (3) Access and Equity in P-12 Education
EDAD 563 (3) School and Community Relations
EDAD 570 (3) Leadership Theory and Practice
EDAD 580 (3) District Program Development
Electives (15 semester hours)
Students select five of the following courses (or other courses as approved by the program):
CI 510 (3) Analysis of Instruction
CI 511 (3) Differentiated Instruction
CI 563 (3) Curriculum Models
CI 578 (3) Organization and Administration of Literacy Programs
CI 581 (3) Foundations of Teacher Leadership
EDAD 555 (3) Superintendency, District Administration, and Governance
EDAD 565 (3) Personnel Administration
EDAD 585 (3) School District Business Administration
ENG 544 (3) Reading and Writing Pedagogy in TESL
ENG 576 (3) Writing Across the Curriculum
ENG 587 (3) Politics of Composition Pedagogy
SOC 502 (3) Seminar in Intergroup Relations
SOC 542 (3) Seminar in Gender and Gender Inequality
SOC 590 (3) Special Topics (to be approved by advisor)
SPED 514 (3) Legal Aspects of Special Education
SPED 515 (3) Administration and Supervision of Special Education Services
SPED 517 (3) Special Education Finance
Or other electives as approved by program faculty.
Advanced Study and Research
EDAD 600 (3) Professional Seminar in Doctoral Study
EDAD 620 (3) Advanced School Law
EDAD 660 (3) Politics and Policy-Making in Education
EPFR 601 (3) Quantitative Inquiry
EPFR 605 (3) Qualitative Inquiry-includes field study
EDAD 690 (3) Research Topics in Educational Leadership
EDAD 698 (3, 3) Doctoral Capstone Research Project
NOTES — All required courses (both the initial 15 hours of required courses and the 24 hours of advanced study and research courses) typically meet one evening a week with additional work completed online.
Retention Policy
In addition to the Graduate School Retention Policy (1L2), the program has the following additional Retention Policy:
If a student leaves the Educational Leadership program long enough for their status to become “inactive”, they will need to reapply to the program. If they qualify for readmission, instead of being directly admitted, they may be placed on a waiting list until it becomes clear that there is space in the Educational Leadership program for them. Qualified new program applicants may receive space priority over a student who has left the program and then applied for readmission, even if the returning student's application is received earlier than the new student's application.
