Additional Admission Requirements
Candidates will be required to (a) meet the general admissions
requirements of the UCI Graduate Division and (b) be recommended for admission by the Program's Joint Graduate Admissions Committee, composed of program faculty from UCI, CSULA, CSULB, and CPP appointed by the program's Joint Executive Committee. Selection of candidates for admission will be made by the Joint Admissions Committee on the basis of such standards of excellence and criteria as the following:Note: There will be no foreign language requirement as a criterion for admission. Students whose research plans require second language skills, for example, based on interviews with English language learners and their family members, will be advised to develop those skills before beginning dissertation research.
The proposed Ed.D. degree requires completion of 80 quarter units (48 CSU units and 32 UCI units) as described in (i) through (iv) below.
(i)Content Core 16 CSU units (24 units are taken at UCI)
a. EDAD 601 Seminar: Organizational Theory, Planning and Application (4)
b. EDAD 603 Seminar: Philosophy and Ethics of Educational Leadership (4)
c. EDAD 605 Seminar: History of Educational Innovations and Current Educational Reform Movements (4)
d. EDAD 607 Seminar: Issues in Educational Policy and Reform (4)
(ii) Research Core 12 CSU units (8 units are taken at UCI)
a. EDFN 600A Seminar: Field Research Study I (4)
b. EDFN 600B Seminar: Field Research Study II (4)
c. EDFN 602 Seminar: Applications to Education of Social and Psychological Methods (4)
(iii) Elective courses (20 units): (Prior approval of adviser is
required)a. A research course or directed reading specific to the methods required for the Dissertation (4 units)
b. 4 elective courses (16 units)
(iv) Dissertation (12 units)
a. EDAD 699 Doctoral Dissertation (12).