Special Education, EdD

EdD Curriculum

The EdD program is a three-year 84-credit program, including 24 credits transferred from relevant graduate work. Students are required to transfer 24 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 opportunities to meet program faculty, EdD program information, and cohort-building activities as well as an introductory session with other students in your academic major.  Orientation typically takes place in March or April.
• 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 typically takes place in June, and is a component of the first summer courses (Foundations 1 and Practitioner Inquiry 1).
• 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: 24 credits

   

  Foundation Courses: 12 credits

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

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  Practitioner Inquiry Courses: 12 credits

• 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: (3 credits)

• EDUC 3009 - SUPERVISED PRACTITIONER INQUIRY

• Students will identify, review, and synthesize relevant scholarship that supports their focus on addressing a problem of practice.

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  Laboratory of Practice: 3 credits

• EDUC 3012 - LABORATORY OF PRACTICE

• 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.

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  Guidance In Scholarly Practice: 18 credits

• EDUC 3099 - GUIDANCE IN SCHOLARLY PRACTICE

• Students conduct their Dissertation in Practice, with the support from their advisor.

   

Special Education Academic Major Courses (12 credits)

• TLL 3542 - WEB CURRNT ISSUES & TRENDS SP ED
• TLL 3541 - WEB INSTRNL PRACTICES SP EDUC
• TLL 3928 - WEB LEGL & LEGISLTV FDS OF SP ED
• TLL 3571 - SUPERVISION AND FINANCING OF SPECIAL EDUCATION