Leadership, Ed.D. Traditional Research

Required Orientation Course: 0 cr.

• EDD800 Student Orientation (0 cr.)

Required Organizational Leadership Core: 12 cr.

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

Required Education Core: 9 cr.

• EDD810 Communication, Power, and Learning in Organizations (3 cr.)
• EDD813 Instructional Design for Learning Improvement (3 cr.)
• EDD827 Adult Learning: Theory and Practice (3 cr.)

Required Applied Practice Core: 9 cr.

• EDD814 Assessment for Learning and Organizational Improvement (3 cr.)
• EDD829 Financial Leadership (3 cr.)

• Students select one of the four doctoral seminar courses (3 cr.): 

• EDD826 Doctoral Seminar: Non-Western Cultural Thought: An Ethnographic Approach to Research and Leadership (3 cr.)
• EDD840 Doctoral Seminar: Creativity and Innovation (3 cr.)
• EDD850 Doctoral Seminar: Social Justice in a Global World (3 cr.)
• EDD872 Doctoral Seminar: Leading Multi-Faith Lasallian Communities (3 cr.)

Required Inquiry Core: 12 cr.

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

Required Summative Activities: 13 cr.

Students may substitute 1 credit of EDD834 Proposal Development for 1 of the 9 required credits of EDD830 Dissertation needed to graduate. 

• EDD830 Dissertation (9 cr.)
• EDD834 Proposal Development (1 cr.)
• EDD835 Dissertation Design and Planning (3 cr.)
• EDD899 Comprehensive Examination (1 cr.)
• EDD900 Dissertation Defense (0 cr.)