Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Total minimum hours: 57 hours
(not including Dissertation)

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
• EDC 384P: Instructional Systems Design
• EDC 385G: Learning Theory: Instructional Implications
• EDP 380G: Psychology of Human Learning
• EDP 382L: Instructional Psychology

Curriculum Theory and Development (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 383N: Curriculum Theory

Cultural Studies (6 hours minimum)

• EDC 385K: Introduction to Multicultural Education
• EDC 385G: Race and Ethnic Relations in Schools
• EDC 396: Latino Educational Policy in Texas
• EDC 385G: Education in Contemporary Black America
• EDC 385G: Cultural Knowledge of Teachers and Teaching
• EDC 385G: Advanced Mutlicultural Curriculum
• EDC 384P: The African American is Sport and Higher Education

Research Methodology (15 hours minimum)

Introductory level knowledge of statistics is a prerequisite for the quantitative methods courses listed below. The requirement can be satisfied with previous coursework, coursework at other institutions, or one of the statistics courses listed below. Hours of introductory statistics do not count towards the 12 hour departmental research requirement.

• EDA 381P: Basic Statistics
• EDP 371: Introduction to Statistics
• EDP 380E: Fundamentals of Statistics
• EDC 684PA: Research Design and Analysis I 

Foundations of Inquiry (3 hours required)

• EDC 385G: Introduction to Systems of Inquiry
• EDC 387A: Introduction to Systems of Inquiry
• EDP 382: Philosophy of Social Sciences

Introducation to Qualitative Research Methods (3 hours required)

• EDC 385G: Qualitative Research in Educational Settings
• EDC 381Q: Qualitative Research Design
• EDC 384: Qualitative Research Methods

Introducation to Quantitative Research Methods (3 hours required)

• EDC 684PB: Research Design & Analysis II
• EDP 482K: Experimental Design and Statistical Inference
• EDA 381P: Quantitative Research Design and Analysis

Advanced Qualitative OR Quantitative Research (3 hours required)

Qualitative 

• EDC 385H: Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Methods
• EDC 385G: Narrative Research
• EDA 381S: Advanced Qualitative Research

Quantitative

• EDP 380P: Evaluation Models and Techniques
• EDP 380P: Measurement and Evaluation
• EDP 382K: Correlation and Regression
• EDP 382K: Survey of Multivariate Methods
• EDP 382K: Factor Analysis
• EDP 384: Introduction to Survey Research
• EDP 380P: Psychometrics 

Directed Research (Minimum: 12 hours)
(All students will take the following)

• EDC 196: Doctoral Seminar
• EDC 396: Doctoral Seminar: Physical Education Teacher Education
• EDC 396T: Directed Research in Physical Education Teacher Education (or another course that has a substantial research component) [EDC 396T can be taken more than once for credit

Specialization Requirements (Minimum: 15 hours)

Students will take specialization courses (minimum 15 hours), selected with the assistance and approval of the area program adviser. Among the courses that might be selected to fulfill this requirement are the following:

Physical Education

• EDC 385G Curriculum in Physical Education
• EDC 385G Current Issues in Physical Education
• EDC 384P Research on Teaching in Physical Education
• EDC 384P Analysis of Teaching in Physical Education
• EDC 385G Program Planning in Physical Education (proposed)
• EDC 385G Research on Teacher Education in Physical Education (proposed)

Courses Outside the Departments (Minimum: 6 hours)

Kinesiology

• KIN 395: Technology in Physical Education
• KIN 382: Assessment of Motor Development
• KIN 395: Nutrition and Sport
• KIN 395: Children’s Exercise and Activity
• KIN 395: Biomechanics of Human Movement
• KIN 395: Motor Control: Performance and Learning
• HED 395: Child and Adolescent Health Psychology
• HED 395: Risk and Resilience in Children and Adolescents

*Appropriate courses from other content areas such as health education, kinesiology, nursing, human ecology, sociology, social work, or others may be included with the consent of the advisor.

Dissertation (Minimum: 12 hours)
(Two consecutive semesters of dissertation registration)

Students in the Curriculum and Instruction department are required to register for 6 hours of dissertation credit* during each fall and spring semester during which they are working on their dissertation research. EDC 699R and 699W: One semester of EDC 699R is scheduled first, during which the dissertation proposal defense should take place. International students and students receiving fellowship, assistantship, or other financial aid, may be required to take 9 hours of dissertation credit each semester.
* Please note that editorial changes will be made to this document as newly-approved courses are added in categories specified by cluster faculty.

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