requirements
The Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership strongly emphasizes research and evaluation, but it also allows you to explore individualized interest areas and apply your learning to issues that are specific to your work situation or personal interests. It is our goal to connect the work in the doctoral program to the social and political challenges facing education today.
Sample Course Load
- First Year: 18 units: 6 units core (summer), 6 units core (fall), and 6 units core (spring).
- Second Year: 18 units: 6 units core (summer), 6 units core (fall), and 6 units research (spring).
- Third Year: 18 units: 6 units core (summer), 6 units research (fall), and 6 units research (spring).
- Fourth Year: 6 units: Dissertation
Degree Requirements
- Sixty units of Ed.D. coursework
- Synthesis experience required for advance to candidacy
- A minimum of six units of dissertation research
- Oral defense of the dissertation.
Program Curriculum - Required Courses
- EDAD 601 - Philosophical Foundations of Education, 3 units
- EDAD 603 - Elective Seminar, 3 units
- EDAD 604 - Leadership Perspectives on Public Policy, 3 units
- EDAD 605 - Qualitative Research Design, 3 units
- EDAD 606 - Quantitative Research, 3 units
- EDAD 608 - Research Design, 3 units
- EDAD 609 - Applied Qualitative Research, 3 units
- EDAD 610 - Values and Ethics, 3 units
- EDAD 611 - Organizational Theory and Systems, 3 units
- EDAD 612 - Applied Quantitative Research, 3 units
- EDAD 613 - Literature Review, 3 units
- EDAD 614 - Dissertation Proposal, 3 units
- EDAD 615 - Learning and Leading, 3 units
- EDAD 616 - Elective Seminar, 3 units
- EDAD 617 - Introduction to Research, 3 units
- EDAD 618 – Leadership Theory to Practice, 3 units
- EDAD 619 - Organizational Change and Innovation, 3 units
Dissertation Research
- EDAD 629 - Dissertation Research and Writing, 6 units
- EDAD 630 - Dissertation, 1 unit
