Curriculum and Instruction (EdD)

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

www.uni.edu/coe/graduate/doctorates

618 Schindler Education Center
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0606

Head: Jill Uhlenberg, Interim Head
Phone: (319) 273-7671
E-mail: jill.uhlenberg@uni.edu

Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Linda Fitzgerald
Phone: (319) 273-2214
E-mail: linda.fitzgerald@uni.edu

Read the UNI Catalog description:

This program is intended to provide practicing educators the opportunity to continue their study and earn the terminal professional degree in their field. The Ed.D. degree requires a minimum of 60 semester hours of credit beyond the master's degree, including a minimum of 45 hours of course work at the 200/6000-level or 300/7000-level. Some intensive study areas may require more hours of 200/6000-level or 300/7000-level course work.

There are three components to the program: 15 semester hours in a Professional Common Core of work in educational foundations, fundamentals, and research; 38 semester hours of Advanced Professional Study in one of four areas of intensive study and a related area; and a Dissertation of 7 semester hours.

By design, then, all students are required to study in basic areas that undergird and define educational practice and develop skills of problem definition, data collection and analysis, and interpretation. The four areas of intensive study provide for a specialized focus on practice. The four intensive study areas are: Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Leadership; Allied Health, Recreation, and Community Services; and Special Education. (In some areas, it is possible to combine doctoral degree study with work toward an endorsement to perform a particular role in K-12 education.) Brief definitions of the four areas are listed within respective departments.

The Curriculum and Instruction intensive study area is designed to prepare scholar-practitioners to plan, implement, evaluate, and supervise educational programs for children and adult learners. (For more information, contact the Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.)

The Graduate Record Examination (General Test) is required for admission to the program.

Students interested in this program must submit a completed Application for Admission to Graduate Study. Graduate information and application for graduate admission can be found at www.grad.uni.edu/admission. See this University Catalog for requirements concerning admission, candidacy, scholarship, residence, examinations, dissertation, and graduation for the Doctor of Education degree and also visit www.uni.edu/coe/departments/curriculum-instruction/graduate-study/doctoral-study