Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Total minimum hours: 57 hours
(not including Dissertation or courses in other departments)

List of Possible Courses

General C & I Requirements (Minimum: 21 hours)

With the approval of the program adviser, courses other than those listed below may be used to satisfy requirements.

Learning & Instructional Theory (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 383T: Instructional Theory
• EDC 381M Designs for Instruction
• EDC 385G Learning Theory: Instructional Implications

Curriculum Theory and Development (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 383N: Curriculum Theory
• EDC 381J: Curriculum Organization

Cultural Foundations (3 hours minimum)

• EDC 385H: Introductioin to Multicultural Education
• EDC 385G: Advanced Multicultural Education
• EDC 380G: Anthropology of Education
• EDC 385G: Race and Ethnic Relations in Schools
• EDC 385G: Foundations of Curriculum Decisions
• EDC 385K: General Foundations of Education
• EDC 392L: Philosophical Foundations of Education

Research Methodology (12 hours minimum)

Foundations of Inquiry - 3 hours required:

• EDC 385G: Introduction to Systems of Inquiry
• EDP 382E: Philosophy of Scocial Science

Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods - 3 hours minimum:

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

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods - 3 hours total:

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

Advanced Qualitative OR Quantitative Research Methods - 3 hours total:

Qualitative: 

• EDC 385G: Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
• EDC 385H: Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods
• EDC 385G: Case Study Research
• ANT 381K: Topics in Anthropological Methodology
• HIS 397K: Historiography
• HIS 395: Bibliography and Methods in Historical Research
• SOC 388K: Field and Observational Methods
• SOC 388L: Historical and Comparative Methods
• EDC 385G: Oral History Methods

Quantitative:

• EDC 684PB: Research Design and Analysis II
• EDP 380P: Evaluation Models and Techniques
• EDP 380P: Measurement and Evaluation
• EDP 382K: Correlation and Regression
• EDP 382K: Survey of Mulitvariate Methods
• EDP 382K: Factor Analysis
• EDP 382: Introduction to Survey Research

Directed Research (Minimum: 12 hours)

• EDC 396T: Directed Research - can be taken more than once for credit.
• EDC 396: Doctoral Seminar (required)

Select one of the following: (meets requirement for EDC 396T)

• EDC 385G: History of the Social Studies (TBA)
• EDC 385G: Inquiry in the Social Sciences/Middle Grades
• EDC 385G: Advanced Multicultural Education
• EDC 385G: Curriculum History

Specialization (Minimum: 18 hours) 

• EDC 382E: Teaching Elementary School Subjects: Social Studies
• EDC 385G: Elementary School Curriculum
• EDC 382M: Teaching Middle Grades School Subjects: Social Studies (TBA)
• EDC 385G: Middle Grades Curriculum (TBA)
• EDC 382S: Teaching Secondary School Subjects: Social Studies
• EDC 385G: Secondary School Curriculum
• EDC 385G: History of the Social Studies (TBA)
• EDC 385G: Inquiry in the Social Sciences/Middle Grades
• EDC 385G: Advanced Multicultural Education
• EDC 385G: Literature and the Humanities in Social Education
• EDC 385G: Critical Issues in Social Studies
• EDC 385G: The Culture of the Imagination: Philanthropy and Education Advanced courses in the social sciences.

Other courses may satisfy the specialization requirement with the permission of the program advisor. 

Courses in other Departments (Minimum: 6 hours)

Additional courses are recommended in a social science content area.

Dissertation (Minimum: 6 hours)

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