Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Total minimum hours: 60 hours
(not including Dissertation or courses in other departments)

List of Possible Courses

General C & I Requirements (Minimum: 24 hours)

With the approval of the program adviser, courses other than those listed below may be used to satisfy requirements. In general, core courses are taken in the Department of C&I.

Learning & Instructional Theory (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 383T: Instructional Theory
• EDP 382L: Psychology of Learning
• EDP 380G: Human Learning
• EDC 382L: Contemporary Theories of Discourse Comprehension

Curriculum Theory and Development (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 383N: Curriculum Theory
• EDC 381: Curriculum Organization
• EDC 384P: Curriculum Theory and Development

Cultural Foundations (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 380G: Anthropology of Education
• EDC 385K: General Foundations of Education
• EDA 388P: Politics of Education
• EDA 385G: Cultural Theory in Education
• EDC 392L: Philosophical Foundations of Education
• EDC 385G: Social/Cultural/Political Foundations of Language Learning

Research Methodology (15 hours minimum)

Research Foundations - 3 hours required, selected from the following:

• EDA 387Q: Introduction to Systems of Human Inquiry
• EDP 382: Philosophy of Social Sciences
• EDC 384P: Approaches to Human Inquiry

Quantitative Perspectives - 6 hours total, selected from the following:

One of these

• EDP 380E: Fundamentals of Statistics
• EDP 371: Introduction to Statistics
• EDA 381P: Quantitative Research Design and Analysis

And

• EDA 482K: Experimental Design and Statistical Inference

OR

• EDC 684PA: Research Design & Analysis I and
• EDC 684PB: Research Design & Analysis II

Qualitative Perspectives - 6 hours total, selected from the following:

One Basic

• EDC 385G: Qualitative Research in Educational Settings
• EDA 381Q: Qualitative Research Design

One Advanced

• EDC 385H: Ethnographic Methods
• EDC 385G: Postmodern Analytic Methods
• EDC 385G: Discourse Analysis

Note: Courses may be substituted by consent of the program advisor.

Directed Research in Curriculum and Instruction (Minimum: 12 hours)

• EDC 396: Research in Language Arts
• EDC 396: Research in Reading
• EDC 396T: Directed Research
• EDC 396T: Directed Research

Introduction to the Teaching of the English Language Arts (Minimum: 3 hours), selected from the following:

• EDC 382E: Language Arts and Reading (Elementary) OR
• EDC 382S: Teaching Secondary School Subjects: English Language Arts/Reading

Specialization (Minimum: 18 hours, 9 to be taken within Language and Literacy Studies)

Selections from the following courses are governed by the specialization of choice, for example, elementary language arts or reading, secondary/ junior college English or reading, K-12 English language arts or reading, clinical reading, reading specialist, literacy acquisition, literary theory, and composition.

• EDC 371: Adolescent Literature
• EDC 384P: Literature for Young Adults
• EDC 384P: Children's Literature
• EDC 384P: Teaching Composition
• EDC 384P: Literature for the Secondary School and Community College
• EDC 385G: Language Acquisition
• EDC 385G: Special Topics in Literacy (Biliteracy, Sociolinguistics, etc.)
• EDC 684P: Diagnostic/Prescriptive Reading Instruction
• EDC 384P: Diagnostic/Prescriptive Language Arts Instruction (must be taken concurrently)
• EDC 385G: Children's Questioning
• EDC 385G: Reading Difficulties
• EDC 382S: Secondary & Adult Reading
• EDC 384P: Practicum in Reading Difficulties
• EDP 382L: Contemporary Theory of Discourse Comprehension
• EDP 382L: Psycholinguistics
• EDP 394: Psychology of Reading
• EDC 398T: Supervision or College Teaching

Courses in additional departments such as linguistics, English, drama and anthropology may be recommended by the graduate advisor.

Courses in other Departments (Minimum: 6 hours)

Coursework from Sections General C&I Requirements, Directed Research in C&I, Introducation to the Teaching of the English Language Arts, and Specialization may fulfill this requirement.

Doctoral Seminar (Minimum: 3 hours)

EDC 196: Doctoral Seminar

Dissertation (Minimum: 6 hours)

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