Out-of-School Learning, EdD

EdD Curriculum

The EdD program is a three-year 90-credit program, including 30 credits transferred from relevant graduate work. Students are required to transfer 30 credits of graduate work into the EdD program. 

The EdD curriculum is delivered in several stages, through a variety methods:

• Orientation: The EdD cohort participates in a full-day, on campus, orientation in the spring before the summer start of the program.  The day includes a welcome from the Dean of the School of Education, EdD program information, and cohort-building activities as well as an introductory session with other students in your Area of Concentration.  Orientation typically takes place in April.
• One-week intensive on ramp: The EdD cohort will participate in a full-week, on campus, experience that includes intense work focused on understanding enduring problems of practice in education, health, and human development. This one-week experience, known as the “on-ramp”, will be your first foundations course on framing, identifying, and investigating problems of practice.  The on-ramp typically takes place in June.
• Hybrid seminars: You will experience a hybrid model of education through online course experiences and in-person, once per month (typically on Saturdays) sessions on the Pittsburgh campus.  Attendance at in-person, on campus sessions is required.

SCHEDULE

• CORE COURSES Credits / Units: 24 Total

   

  Foundation Courses Credits / Units: 12

• EDUC 3002 - FOUNDATIONS 1: BECOMING A LEADER SCHOLAR PRACTITIONER
• EDUC 3003 - FOUNDATIONS 2: LEADERSHIP IN GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
• EDUC 3004 - FOUNDATIONS 3: CONTEXTS OF EDUCATION
• EDUC 3005 - FOUNDATIONS 4: POLICY AS A LEVER FOR CHANGE

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  Practitioner Inquiry Courses Credits / Units: 12

• EDUC 3001 - PRACTITIONER INQUIRY 1: THE SCIENCE OF IMPROVEMENT
• EDUC 3006 - PRACTITIONER INQUIRY 2
• EDUC 3007 - PRACTITIONER INQUIRY 3
• EDUC 3008 - PRACTITIONER INQUIRY 4: APPLYING DISCIPLINED INQUIRY

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  SUPERVISED PRACTITIONER INQUIRY Credits / Units: 3

• Students will identify, review and synthesize relevant scholarship that supports as inquiry into a problem of practice.

• EDUC 3009 - SUPERVISED PRACTITIONER INQUIRY

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  LABORATORY OF PRACTICE Credits / Units: 3

• Students will complete a Laboratory of Practice, a setting where theory and practice inform and enrich each other and facilitate transformative and generative learning that is measured by the development of scholarly expertise and implementation of practice (Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, 2010). Students choose from three types of experiences: job embedded, aspirant, or global.

• EDUC 3012 - LABORATORY OF PRACTICE

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  GUIDANCE IN SCHOLARLY PRACTICE Credits / Units: 18

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  Guidance in Scholarly Practice: Based on research interests, the students will be required to write a manuscript that reports on the improvement science process.

   

  Portfolio of Scholarly Practice: The portfolio of scholarly practice will provide evidence of learning and success in foundations, inquiry, and ARCO experiences.

   

• EDUC 3099 - GUIDANCE IN SCHOLARLY PRACTICE

Out-of-School Learning ARCO Curriculum

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  Out-of-School Learning ARCO Courses Credits / Units: 12

• TLL 3024 - INFORMAL LEARNING: THEORY AND FOUNDATION
• Evaluation Assessing Impact and Evidence for Decision Making
• The Future of Out-of-School Learning
• Lifelong Learning for Diverse Audiences