Educational Leadership, Ed.D. - General (Hybrid)

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The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below. In addition, a 3.2 cumulative GPA is required for graduation. The department website provides an overview of the program, including admission requirements, faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/educational-leadership/programs

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (63 CREDITS)

Students must maintain an Overall GPA and a Program GPA of a 3.2 or higher.

Core Requirements (27 Credits)
EDL 801 – Leadership in Organizations 
EDL 803 – Leading Organizational Change 
EDL 808 – Leadership for Social Equity 
EDL 811 – Educational Policy: Context and Inquiry 
EDL 802 – Applications of Leadership & Organizational Development 
EDL 804 Quantitative Methods in Educational Leadership 
EDL 805 – Qualitative Methods in Educational Leadership 
EDL 825 – Advanced Research Methods 
EDL 822 – Research Design & Evaluation I 

Area of Specialty (24 Credits)
8 courses in any subject at the graduate level with the consent of the student’s faculty advisor. 

Capstone (12 credits)

Proposal Preparation and Defense: Writing and defending a dissertation proposal is a required component of the doctoral program.  Once a student passes the comprehensive examination and defends the proposal, the student is granted Doctoral Candidacy and may begin dissertation research.

EDL 830 – Doctoral Inquiry Seminar I 
EDL 831 – Doctoral Inquiry Seminar II 
Note: If needed 1 credit in EDL 901 Continuing Enrollment (this extension does not earn credit towards graduation requirements for the program).

Doctoral Dissertation: The dissertation is the culminating component of the doctoral program. Successful defense of the dissertation before a dissertation committee advances a student to graduation eligibility and, if everything is in order, conferring of the doctoral degree.

EDL 900  – Dissertation Advisement 1 
EDL 900  – Dissertation Advisement 2 
Note: If needed 1 credit in EDL 901 Continuing Enrollment (this extension does not earn credit towards graduation requirements for the program).