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Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Educational Studies Ed.D.

Program Overview

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

General Doctoral Degree Admission Requirements

View delivery options, start terms and admission requirements.

Director: Jingzi (Ginny) Huang, Ph.D.

Location: McKee 216

Telephone: 970.351.2908

Website: www.unco.edu/cebs/teacher-education/

The Ed.D. in Educational Studies prepares candidates to understand the relationship among research, policy, and practice in education in order to contribute to reforming educational systems. Candidates complete an educational studies core, a multidisciplinary cognate, a research core, and a dissertation. The program prepares candidates to assume roles as university faculty members, educational leaders in school districts and state and federal agencies, district level curriculum specialists, and to assume leadership roles in nonprofit and private sectors.

Administered by the School of Teacher Education. The degree prepares candidates to understand the relationship among research, policy, and practice in education in order to contribute to reforming educational systems. Candidates are expected to assume roles as university faculty members, educational leaders in school districts and state and federal agencies, district level curriculum specialists, and to assume leadership roles in nonprofit and private sectors. Programs of study for degree candidates will be individualized to meet candidate’s career goals. The extent of an individual’s program will be dependent upon previous college work and professional experience, but the minimum is 64 credits

 

Degree Requirements — 64 Credits

Educational Studies Core — 12 hours

EDF 670Introduction of Research Literature

3

EDF 685Philosophical Foundations of Education

3

EDF 700Implementation and Evaluation of Curriculum

3

EDF 701Doctoral Seminar

1

EDF 701: Take at least 3 times

Research Core — 12 hours

(Coursework completed previously may be substituted for related research courses, within limits allowed by Graduate School)

EDF 610Teacher Research

3

SRM 680Introduction to Qualitative Research

3

Take two from among the following:

Substitutions may be coordinated with your advisor.

EDF 795Comprehensive Seminar

3

SRM 602Statistical Methods I

3

SRM 603Statistical Methods II

3

SRM 641Special Topics

1- 4

SRM 685Educational Ethnography

3

SRM 700Advanced Research Methods

3

SRM 641: with advisor consent

Multidisciplinary cognate — 24 hours

Candidates will design the cognate with the assistance of their program advisor.

Possible Cognates:

  • Curriculum Studies
  • Reading
  • Mathematics Education
  • Bilingual, Multicultural, and ESL Education
  • Innovation and Education Reform

Dissertation — 16 hours

EDF 797Doctoral Proposal Research

1- 4

EDF 799Doctoral Dissertation

1-12

EDF 797: Take 4 hours

EDF 799: Take 12 hours

Scholarly paper requirement

Students are required to submit for publication one paper to a professional journal prior to dissertation proposal hearing. Other research endeavors prior to the dissertation are encouraged. Students may take EDF 795 Comprehensive Seminar to support the writing of a scholarly paper.

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