Leadership, Ed.D. Traditional research (with dissertation)

Required Orientation Course: 0 cr.

• EDD800 Student Orientation (0 cr.)

Required Organizational Leadership Core: 12 cr.

• EDD855 Organization Development (3 cr.)
• EDD856 Organizational Effectiveness (3 cr.)
• EDD802 Leadership Theory (3 cr.)
• EDD805 Ethical Dimensions in Organizational Leadership (3 cr.)

Required Education Core: 15 cr.

• EDD810 Communication and Power in Learning Settings (3 cr.)
• EDD811 Theories of Adult Learning (3 cr.)
• EDD812 Instructional Strategies Techniques for Adult Learners (3 cr.)
• EDD813 Systematic Instructional Design (3 cr.)
• EDD814 Assessment: Theory and Practice (3 cr.)

Required Inquiry Core: 12 cr.

• EDD821 Techniques for Research (3 cr.)
• EDD822 Qualitative Research Design and Methods (3 cr.)
• EDD823 Quantitative Research Design and Methods (3 cr.)
• EDD809 Advanced Research Writing (3 cr.)

Contextual Electives: 9 cr.

• EDS741 Financial Management (3 cr.)
• EDS742 Legal Issues in Education (3 cr.)
• EDD873 Association for Mission (3 cr.)
• EDD874 Lasallian Leadership Traditions (3 cr.)
• EDD840 Creativity and Innovation (3 cr.)
• EDD850 Social Justice in a Global World (3 cr.)
• EDD851 Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Higher Education (3 cr.)
• EDD852 Policy and Politics in Higher Education (3 cr.)
• EDD853 Development and Evaluation of Postsecondary Education (3 cr.)
• EDD854 Organizational Learning (3 cr.)
• EDD872 Leading Multi-Faith Lasallian Communities (3 cr.)
• EDD816 Seminar: Topics in Education (3 cr.)
• EDD818 Knowledge Development: Theory, Formats, and Applications (3 cr.)
• EDD824 Leadership in Literature (3 cr.)
• EDD826 Non-Western Cultural Thought: An Ethnographic Approach to Research and Leadership (3 cr.)

Required Residencies

• EDD877 Residency I: The Doctoral Writer & Ethical Leader (0 cr.)
• EDD878 Residency II : The Doctoral Scholar & Educator (0 cr.)
• EDD879 Residency III: The Doctoral Researcher & Graduate (0 cr.)

Required Summative Activities: 13 cr.

Students may substitute 1 credit of EDD834 Proposal Development for 1 of the 12 required credits of EDD830 Dissertation needed to graduate. 

• EDD830 Dissertation (12 cr.)
• EDD834 Proposal Development (1 cr.)
• EDD899 Comprehensive Examination (1 cr.)
• EDD900 Dissertation Defense (0 cr.)