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Coursework Requirements: Doctorate of Education

These requirements apply to all students admitted into the Instructional Technology program for Fall 2000 and after.

IMPORTANT! Please meet with your advisor prior to registering for courses. Your advisor will assist you in creating a doctoral degree plan.

College of Education Core Courses (21 hours):

Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations:
Select one course (3 hours) from:
CUST 8360: Comparative Education
CUST 8370: Origins of Modern Educational Thought
CUST 8372: History and Philosophy of Modern Education
CUST 8378: Current Issues in Education
CUST 8380: Philosophy of Education

Psychological Foundations:
Select one course (3 hours) from:
EPSY 8333: Theories of Human Development
EPSY 8340: Basic Learning Theories
EPSY 8342: Seminar in Learning Theory
EPSY 8350: Educational Psychology
EPSY 8352: Social Psychological Processes

Research Courses:
Required (6 hours)
EDRS 8380: Research Methods in Education I
EDRS 8381: Research Methods in Education II

Select three additonal research courses (9 hours) from:
Ethnographic Methods
CUIN 6365 Teacher as Researcher
CUST 8361 Cultural Analysis and Educational Research
EDRS 8383 Action Research
SAER 8320 Ethnographic Methods in Educational Research

Survey Methods
SAER 8321 Survey Methods in Educational Research

Field Methods
SAER 7381 Field Methods in Educational Research

Measurement
EPSY 8300 Advanced Educational and Psychological Measurement
EPSY 8301 Measurement of Attitudes in Educational Research
EPSY 8323 Factor Analysis Methods in Educational Research
EPSY 8327 Measuring Change and Analyzing Repeated-Measures Experimental Designs

Experimental Design
EPSY 8325 Design of Educational Experiments
EPSY 8321 Linear Models in Educational Research

Statistics
EDRS 8382 Statistical Analyses in Educational Research
EPSY 8322 Statistical Methods in Educational Research
EPSY 8326 Nonparametric and Distribution-Free Statistics in Educational Research
EPSY 8324 Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research

Program Evaluation
SAER 8370 Program Evaluation

Curriculum and Instruction Department

Core Courses (12 hours):

CUIN 8360: Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction
CUIN 8345: Doctoral Residency Seminar
CUIN 8393: Advanced Internship& Practicum
(Please see page 7 of the Doctoral Handbook for more information about types of internships)
CUIN 8398: Special Problems

C&I Course (3 hours): CUIN 6373: Instructional Design

IT Program Courses: (24 hours)
See the IT Course Descriptions for more information on each course and the IT Courses by Semester for a projection of semesters in which courses are likely to be taught.

Select three (3) courses (9 hours) from Theoretical Foundations courses:
CUIN 7328: Information Technology and Teacher Education
CUIN 7345: Instructional Design Theory
CUIN 7347: Seminar in Instructional Technology
CUIN 7356: Issues in Distance Education
CUIN 8352: Advanced Seminar in Instructional Technology

Select three (3) courses (9 hours) from Technology Foundations courses
CUIN 7317: The Visual Representation of Information
CUIN 7321: Advanced Telecomputing Applications in Education
CUIN 7327: Collaborative Design of Multimedia Materials
(must be taken sequentially with CUIN 7357)
CUIN 7357: Collaborative Development of Multimedia Materials *
(must be taken sequentially with CUIN 7327)
CUIN 7330: Project-Based Web Design and Development
CUIN 7376 - Design of Online Educational Resources II

Select two (2) courses (6 hours) from Electives chosen with the consent of your advisor.  Electives may include but are not limited to:
CUIN 6345: Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
CUIN 6373: Instructional Design
CUIN 7308: Educational Uses of Computer Mediated Communication
CUIN 7316: Electronic Document Design and Development
CUIN 7346: Instructional Applications of Interactive Video
CUIN 7358: Educational Uses of Digital Photography and Digital Storytelling
(may be offered as part of a linked pair of courses)

Dissertation Hours (minimum 6 hours):

A minimum of 6 dissertation hours must be taken. Normally, this would be CUIN 8399 taken in two semesters (6 total hours) or CUIN 8699. These courses are taken under your dissertation chair. Please note that most students take more than 6 hours of dissertation credit.

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