Requirements

Doctoral candidates must complete a minimum of 75 semester hours including:

• 23 hours of core coursework.
• 28 hours of specialized coursework (includes electives).
• 15 hours of dissertation coursework leading to an approved dissertation.

Course listings for core, specialized, and dissertation course work are provided below.

Requirements

Core Course Work (8 courses, 23 credit hours)

• EAF 508 – Applied Educational Research or EAF 509 – Research Design in Education
• EAF 510 – Research Methods/Stats in Education II
• EAF 415 – Qualitative Research
• SED 501 – Doctoral-Level Scholarship
• SED 502 – Legal & Policy Issues Affecting Special Education Program Administration
• SED 512 – Single Subject Design Research
• SED 513 – Program Evaluation in Special Education
• SED 540 – Contemporary Topics & Issues in Special Education

Specialty Course Work

Note: [28 credit hours total = 8 courses (22 credit hours) plus 6 credit hours of elective course work]

• SED 514 – Personnel Preparation in Special Education
• SED 515 – Seminar in Special Education Research
• SED 522 – Grant Writing in Education
• SED 579 – Advanced Technological Applications in Special Education
• SED 591 – Doctoral Comprehensive Examination
• SED 594 – Proposal Development in Special Education
• SED 598a01 – Professional Practice in Teacher Preparation
• SED 598a02 – Professional Practice in Special Education Research

(6 credit hours of elective course work is also required; elective course work is based on individual student interest)

Dissertation (15 credit hours)

SED 599 – Dissertation Research

Descriptions for all graduate courses offered through the Department of Special Education are available in Course Finder