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Doctoral Studies in The Department of Curriculum and Instruction

English, Literacy, Speech Communication and Theatre Education (Ph.D. /Ed.D)
Mathematics Education (Ph.D. /Ed.D)
Minority and Urban Education (Ph.D. option only)
Music Education (Ph.D. Option Only)
Professional Development/Teacher Education (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)
Reading Education (Ph.D. option only)
Science Education (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)
Second Language and Culture (TESOL/FLEd) (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)
Social Studies, Geography, History Education (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)

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Doctoral Requirements in Teacher Education and Professional Development

Graduate study specialization in Teacher Education/Professional Development is designed to prepare students become teacher leaders, research scholars,
and change agents in schools, colleges and universities.  At the master’s level, candidates are encouraged to enroll in the M.Ed. in teacher leadership
with emphasis in a specialization area that most directly addresses their areas of certification and/or interest.  Within each of these specialization areas
(or the Special Studies option for candidates with interests or background in other areas), candidates are able to design their studies around the systematic
inquiry into their own teaching and to become teacher leaders. The M.Ed. in teacher leadership focuses on both the professional development needs of teacher
practitioners and the organizational culture of the school that promotes or inhibits professional growth. 

The Doctoral program (Ph.D.-granting only) specialization in teacher education/professional development is designed primarily to prepare teacher education
scholars with strong research orientations, who will go on to become leaders in college and university settings based on their research agendas in teacher
education and teacher development. It is also suited for students who plan to conduct research on these issues in school settings. The Doctoral program
focuses coursework in four areas: Department requirements (30 credits), program requirements (minimum 9 credits), program recommended courses
(minimum 9 credits), and a cognate area of study (minimum 9 credits).  The cognate allows students flexibility to pursue particular individual interests
that are relevant to the program's direction but beyond its immediate scope. 

Faculty who teach in this program have research interests in the areas of teacher professional development and career trajectories in school settings;
school organization and culture; learning how to teach both generally and in subject-specific ways (e.g., learning to teach English or history and social studies);
teacher identity development; teaching for diversity; and critical approaches to teacher education and professional development.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER EDUCATION Specialization Area

Department Core Requirements: (minimum 18 credits) more info...
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements

Specialty Courses: (minimum 18 credits)

Required (12 credits):
      EDCI 791:  Qualitative Research I:  Design and Fieldwork
      EDCI 785:  Teacher Preparation, Diversity, and Social Change
      EDCI 782:  Power, Privilege, Diversity and Teaching
      EDCI 788M:  Pedagogy of Teacher Education
      (or similar courses approved by advisor)

6 credits from the following:
      EDCI 787           Disciplinary Knowledge, School Subjects and Teaching Practice
      EDCI 788K       Transformative Pedagogies and School Subjects
      EDCI 792      Conducting Interpretative Inquiry in Classroom Contexts
      EDCI 698      Conducting Research on Teaching
      EDCI 888      Apprenticeship in Education
      EDMS 651       Intermediate Statistics in Education
      EDPL 737      Phenomenological Inquiry
      EDPL 711 Oral History and Education
      (or equivalent courses to be determined by advisor)
Note: Students are required to demonstrate competency in statistics at the level of EDMS 645.

Cognate Area Electives (minimum 15 credits; at least 9 credits in one area)

African American Studies
Anthropology
Curriculum Theory
History
School Subject Area Emphasis (e.g. math, reading, social studies, science)
Social Foundations
Sociology
Urban Studies
Women’s Studies

Dissertation Research:  Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD.

Note:             Preferred candidates will have teaching experiences within grades K-12. 

 V.            READING EDUCATION Specialization Area (Ph.D. and Ed.D. options)

EDCI Department Core: (minimum 18 credits)
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements as described on page 25.

Specialty Courses:  (minimum 12 credits)

            Required Specialty (minimum 12 credits):
                        EDCI 769a             Theory and Research in Reading
                         EDCI 769b              Theory and Research in Reading
EDCI 860            Seminar in Reading Education
EDCI 861            Research Methods in Reading

Electives (minimum 15 credits)

Other courses in the specialty such as:
EDCI 660                Diagnostic Reading Instruction
EDCI 661            Content Area Reading
EDCI 663                Issues in Reading Education
EDCI 666            Leadership in Schoolwide Reading Program
EDCI 664            Clinical Assessment in Reading
EDCI 665            Clinical Instruction in Reading
EDCI 761            Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Assessment
EDCI 762            Advanced Clinical Practices in Reading Instruction

Also acceptable:  courses outside the specialty area such as
EDCI Writing courses, EDCI TESOL courses, in consultation with faculty advisor.

Dissertation Research:  Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;

 
VI.   SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND CULTURE Specialization Area (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)

EDCI Department Core: (minimum 18 credits)
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements as described on page 25.
           

Specialty Courses: (minimum: 15 credits)

            May include other courses as they become available.

                                                EDCI 630 Foundations of Second Language Education: Political, Social and Legal Trends and Issues

                                                EDCI 635 English Grammar for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

                                                EDCI 730 Theory and Research in Second Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

                                                EDCI 732 Second Language Acquisition

                                                EDCI 788 Selected Topics in Teacher Education: Learning Styles and Strategies

                                                EDCI 798 Special Problems in Teacher Education: International Perspectives in Language, Schooling, and Culture: Cultural and Linguistic Immersion for Teachers of ESOL

                                                EDCI 788 Special Topics in Teacher Ed.: Special Education and Oral Language Development in TESOL

                                                EDCI 788 Sociocultural Factors in Second Language Education 

NOTE: EDCI 788 (Selected Topics in Teacher Education) and EDCI 798 (Special Problems in Teacher Education) may be taken more than once upon consultation with advisor.  

Students should be taking courses at the 600 level or above for their doctoral program.  In some instances, the doctoral student may not have taken some of the foundational courses that are helpful (although not necessarily required) for gaining the most from the advanced courses listed above. In such a situation, the advisor has the prerogative of recommending one or more foundational course(s) to be taken as part of the doctoral program. Please refer to the Master’s Program Sheet for TESOL or the Master’s Program Sheet for Foreign Language Education.

Electives: (15 credits)

NOTE:  It is usually more productive to take courses leading to a unified cognate area than to take five elective courses that are totally disparate.  Cognate area courses must be at the graduate level.

Select cognate area from the following subject fields:

Adult Education (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Cognitive Science (see selected EDHD, LING, and PSYC course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Curriculum (see selected EDCI and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Diversity (see selected AASP, AAST, EDCI, EDHD, EDPL, and SOCY course listings in Graduate Catalog) 

Early Childhood Education (see selected EDCI and EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Educational Psychology (see selected EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Educational Technology (see selected EDCI, EDHD, and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Elementary Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)

English Language or Literature (see selected ENGL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

English Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Foreign Languages and Area Studies (see selected AAST, CHIN, FOLA, FREN, GERM, GREK, HEBR, ITAL, JAPN, JWST, LASC, RUSS, SLAV, and SPAN course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Human Development (see selected EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Hearing & Speech, Phonetics, Phonology, Pronunciation (see selected HESP course listings in Graduate Catalog) 

International Education (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Language Arts Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Linguistics (see selected LING course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Policy Studies (see selected EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Psychology (see selected EDHD and PSYC course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Reading (see selected EDCI and EDHD course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Rhetoric (see selected ENGL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Secondary Education (see selected EDCI course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Second Language Acquisition & Application (see selected SLAA course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Special Education (see selected EDSP course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Teacher Education (see selected EDCI and EDPL course listings in Graduate Catalog)

Other areas with approval of advisor

Dissertation Research:  Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;
Minimum of 6 credits of EDCI 899 for EdD.  

Minimum – 60 credits beyond master’s degree

VII.            SCIENCE EDUCATION Specialization Area (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)

Department Core Requirements: (minimum 18 credits)
Science education doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements, as described on page 25, with one additional stipulation: Along with the departmental prerequisite of EDMS 645, in quantitative methods, science education doctoral students must also demonstrate basic competency in qualitative methods, at least to the level of EDCI 791.  

Science Education Core (12 credits)
The three core courses in science education are EDCI 670, 770, and 771; students choose at least one course beyond that sequence, such as EDCI 671, Teaching Science in Elementary School, 677, Computers in Science Education, special topics or other courses as approved by the advisor.

Electives:   (minimum 15 credits)
Science education students elect a field of science for specialization. We expect that, by the completion of their degree, all science education doctoral students will have demonstrated graduate-level understanding in that field. Students concentrating on K-8 science education should also demonstrate a breadth of understanding, at the introductory level, across other sciences. Students concentrating on secondary and college levels should demonstrate masters-level understanding in their field of specialization. (Some students may need to take more than 15 credits of courses to meet these expectations.)

In addition to fulfilling the science content requirement, students may choose from courses in cognition, technology, history and philosophy of science, and other cognate areas.  Students may also design their own independent studies in consultation with their research advisors.

Dissertation Research:  Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;
Minimum of 6 credits of EDCI 899 for EdD.  

VIII.            SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION Specialization Area (Ph.D. and Ed.D. Options)

EDCI Department Core: (minimum 18 credits)
All EDCI doctoral students must meet the Department Core requirements as described on page 25.

Social Studies Program Specialty Courses:  (12 credits minimum)
                                      EDCI 720           Theory & Research in Social Studies Education
                                      EDCI 787           Disciplinary Knowledge, School Subjects, and Educational Reform
                                      EDCI 820           Seminar in Social Studies Education

            and one of the following…           
                                      EDCI 782           Power, Privilege, Diversity and Teaching
                                      EDCI 784           Teaching, Professional Development, and School Change

Electives (15 credits minimum)
Examples:  Courses in Curriculum Theory, Educational Social Foundations Leadership, Academic Disciplines (e.g., History, Geography, Political Science, African American Studies), additional research methods.

Dissertation Research:  Minimum of 12 credits of EDCI 899 for PhD;
Minimum of 6 credits of EDCI 899 for Ed.D.