EdD in Educational Leadship

Degree Requirements

The Ed.D. in Educational Leadership can be completed in three years. Students with a sixth year degree from Sacred Heart University will be exempt from two electives in year two and students with post-masters credits from an accredited institution will be evaluated for course exemption on a case by case basis.

Year 1 - 24 credits

 

• RCR 700 Reading & Responding to Education Research - Fall 
• RCR 701 Writing for Academic Purposes - Fall
• RCR 705 Qualitative Research Methods - Fall 
• RCR 703 Grant Writing - Spring 
• EDD 710 Academic Leadership I: Social Justice for Educational Leaders - Spring 
• RCR 702 Quantitative Research Methods - Spring 
• RCR 704 Mixed Methods - Summer I
• EDD 711 Academic Leadership II: Moral & Ethical Leadership in Education - Summer I

 

Year 2 - 27 credits

 

• EDD 704 SEL Foundations of Social & Emotional Learning - Fall
• EDD 705 SEL Pedagogy & Practice - Fall 
• EDD 706 Foundations of SEL Leadership -Fall
• EDD 708 Trauma Sensitive Classrooms, Practices and Resilience - Spring 
• EDD 709 Creating a Trauma-Sensitive School - Spring 
• Elective I - Spring 
• EDD 700 Dissertation Seminar 1 -Summer I
• Elective II - Summer I
• EDD 707 Strategies for SEL Leadership - Summer I

 

Year 3 - 9 credits

• EDD 701 Dissertation Seminar 2 - Fall
• EDD 702 Dissertation Seminar 3 - Fall
• EDD 703 Dissertation Seminar 4 - Spring