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Special Education - Ph.D. Program Requirements PDFDownload to print

 I. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)
Course Title Credits
SPED 70094 College Teaching 3
  80040 Research Grant Development for Disability Programs 3
  83991 Seminar in Special Education (1-3)* 9
Research Electives: choose from the following 18
EVAL 68807  Statistics I for Educational Services (3)  
  75510 Statistics I for Educational Services (3)  
  78710 Classical Test Theory (3)  
  78716 Educational Statistics II (3)  
  78728 Educational Statistics III (3)  
  85515 Quantitative Research Designs and Application in Educational Services (3)  
  85516 Qualitative Research Designs and Application in Educational Services (3)  
  85517 Advanced Quantitative Research in Educational Services (3)  
  85518 Advanced Qualitative Research in Educational Services (3)  
  88791 Seminar in Evaluation and Measurement (1-5)  
SPED 83301 Single Subject Research Methods (3)  
  83998 Research: Special Education (1-10)**  
 iI. DISSERTATION REQUIREMENTS (30 credits)
Course Title Credits
SPED 80199 Dissertation I*** 30
TOTAL 63


*Suggested seminar topics: Introduction SPED academia; Contemporary Issues in SPED; Discourse and Dialogue in Disability Studies.
**Must be approved by and registered with a specific faculty member and approved by advisory committee.
***Each doctoral candidate, upon admission to candidacy, must register for SPED 80199 Dissertation I for a total of 30 hours. It is expected that a doctoral candidate will continuously register for Dissertation I, and thereafter SPED 80299 Dissertation II, each semester, including summer, until all requirements for the degree have been met.