**Review** Graduate Catalog 2025-2026

ELPS 751 Doctoral Core I

Team-taught seminar focusing on teambuilding and group processing, inquiry and reflective practice, and moral and ethical dimensions of leadership. Extensive attention given to developing scholarly writing skills.
6

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 752 Doctoral Core II

Continued doctoral study in educational leadership and policy. Team-taught seminar exploring the nature of organizations, leadership and policy through readings, group discussions, and a collaborative research project.
6

Prerequisites

ELPS 751 with a minimum grade of C

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 754 Research in Educational Leadership

Classic and contemporary published quantitative and qualitative studies on organizations, leadership and policy studies are used to analyze research strategies and tactics.
3

Prerequisites

(ELPS 751 and ELPS 752 and SRM 602 with a minimum grade of C)

Level Restriction

Include GR

ELPS 797 Doctoral Proposal Research

To enable advanced doctoral students to learn the essential elements of effective research proposals and to develop analytic skills needed to critique other research. S/U graded.
1- 4

Prerequisites

(ELPS 751 and ELPS 752 with a minimum grade of C)

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with a maximum of 4 credit hours

ELPS 799 Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Complete research of a major problem in educational leadership and policy. Must earn total of 12 hours of credit. S/U graded.
1-12

Prerequisites

ELPS 797 with a minimum grade of S

Level Restriction

Include GR

Repeatable Status

Course is repeatable with no limitations