Higher Education Leadership and Policy Ph.D. Curriculum
Leadership, Policy and Organizations Doctoral Core - 12 hours
- Politics of Education (3 hours)
- Sociology of Education (3 hours)
- Economics of Education (3 hours)
- Comparitive International Education Policy (3 hours)
Program (Core) - 15 hours
Intensive, weekly, Ph.D. student only; seminars/courses focused on deep exposure to theory, research and literature in program area.
- Ph.D. Research Seminar 1 (3 hours)
- Ph.D. Research Seminar 2 (3 hours)
- Ph.D. Research Seminar 3 (3 hours)
- Ph.D. Research Seminar 4 (3 hours)
- Ph.D. Research Seminar 5 (3 hours)
Required Research Methods - 18 hours
- LPO Research Design (3 hours)
- Peabody Quantitative (PSYC 310) (3 hours)
- Qualitative Research (3 hours)
- Regression Analysis (3 hours)
- Research Tool Elective 1 (3 hours)
- Research Tool Elective 2 (3 hours)
Research Practicum - 6 hours
Group research endeavor, organized by area specialization, conceptualized and executed over first year of participants' Ph.D. program; meets bi-weekly during the year and as a "maymester" course.
- Group Research Practicum - Fall (1.5 hours)
- Group Research Practicum - Spring (1.5 hours)
- Group Research Practicum - Summer (3 hours)
Electives - 21 hours
TOTAL - 72 hours
