Degree Requirements (60 Post Masters Hours)

The Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction stresses the importance of core and diverse curriculum issues and prepares comprehensive curriculum practitioners for university professorships, district-level curriculum administration, and school-level instructional and leadership positions. Students must complete either a concentration in Curriculum Studies or Education Technology.

The Curriculum Studies concentration emphasizes concerns for equity and social justice, self-knowledge, cultural issues, and human growth and development through a praxiological (theory/practice) approach to diversity education. The Educational Technology concentration stresses the importance of developing and utilizing educational technology in curriculum.

The program provides an in-depth understanding of the history, concepts, current techniques, strategies, and issues of diversity in school, institutional, and community settings and facilitates self-reflection for engaging in diversity education as well as integrating core technology skills needed for specialists and consultants.

1. Total hours required:

60 hours beyond the master’s degree, the last 30 of which must be completed no more than eight years prior to graduation. A minimum of 39 hours must be earned in the Ed.D. program at the University of South Carolina.

2. Qualifying examination:

Written exam.

3. Program of Study:

The student’s program advisory committee will evaluate previous course work and experiences and recommend appropriate courses to ensure that at the completion of the program the student can demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions typically developed in the following course work:

4. Comprehensive Examination:

Written examination and Oral examination