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Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 57

The Foundation Courses provide the framework for what we mean by scholar practitioner. Each of  the Foundation Courses is grounded in the assumption that research in service of improved practice will facilitate deliberate change.

These courses address such issues as: how bias and our histories  inform how we understand the world; how we can ethically identify and describe practice-embedded  educational research; how conducting a literature review and integrating, from both practice and  research, allows us to be transparent and critical about the ways we pursue and generate knowledge;  how we can align research questions and approaches; and what it looks like to gather and work with  research data to affect change.

Foundation Courses

• EDL 703 - History of Higher Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 710 - Sociology of Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 708 - Change Leadership in Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 730 - Current Issues in Educational Policy (Cr: 3)
  

Method Courses

• EDL 704 - Introduction to Critical Inquiry (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 716 - Literature Review I (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 727 - Qualitative Research Methods (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 728 - Mixed Methods for Educational Research (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 752A - Action Research (Cr: 3)
  

Higher Education Leadership Electives

Electives - 12 credits

Students must choose from four of the following:

• EDL 706 - Family-School Engagement (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 719 - Finance, Budget and Operations in Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 725 - Diversity, Access, and Equity in Education (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 731 - Leading well: Educational Leadership and Wellbeing (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 739 - Culture and Change in School Organizations (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 760 - Student Development: History and Issues (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 768 - Teaching, Learning & Institutional Culture (Cr: 3)
  

Misc Courses

• EXM 700 - Research Defense Proposal (Cr: 0)
  

• EDL 711 - Prior Learning Assessment Seminar (Cr: 3)
  

Experiential Courses

• EDL 772A/772B - Doctoral Apprenticeship I & II (Cr: 6)
  

Dissertation Courses

• EDL 755A - Dissertation Study Part I (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 755B - Dissertation Study Part II (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 755C - Dissertation Study Part III (Cr: 3)
  

• EDL 782 - Dissertation Continuation (Cr: 0)
  

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, students will:

• Locate, analyze and synthesize existing research to address problems in the field that address questions of equity, ethics, and social justice to bring about solutions to complex problems of practice.
• Prepares leaders who can construct and apply knowledge, theories and frameworks from education and related fields of inquiry to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals, families, organizations, and communities
• Utilize social scientific research processes (Action Research) to develop and evaluate research
• Emphasizes the generation, transformation, and use of professional knowledge and practice to communicate clearly with scholarly audiences and communities via written research, oral presentations, and in dialog with each other which integrates multiple perspectives.
• Develops a professional knowledge base that integrates both practical and research knowledge, which links theory with systemic and systematic inquiry to affect change in educational contexts and the greater community.