Ph.D. Degree Requirements
Candidates for the Doctor of Philosophy must meet the general University of Arkansas degree requirements and complete a minimum of 102 semester hours of graduate study approved by the Doctoral Advisory Committee. The program of study (PDF) for the Ph.D. candidate must include the following:
- 33 semester hours or more in an approved master's degree program
- 12 semester hours of Curriculum and Instruction core courses
- 6 required semester hours
- CIED 6013 Curriculum Theory, Development and Evaluation
- CIED 6023 Instructional Theory
- 6 additional semester hours chosen from:
- CIED 6043 Analysis of Teacher Education
- CIED 6053 Curriculum and Instruction: Learner Assessment and Program Evaluation
- CIED 6133 Issues and Trends in Education
- CIED 6603 Multicultural Education
- 6 required semester hours
- 15 semester hours of Inquiry core courses
- 12 required semester hours
- ESRM 6403 Educational Statistics
- CIED 5313 Qualitative Methods in Curriculum and Instruction
- CIED 6443 Mixed Methods Research Design
- ESRM 6413 Experimental Design in Education
- 3 additional semester hours of 5000-6000 Inquiry classes approved by advisory committee
- 12 required semester hours
- 9 semester hours of coursework from student's area of interest in CIED:
- Educational Technology
- English Education
- Gifted and Talented Education
- Literacy
- Math Education
- Science Education
- Social Studies Education
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- 6 semester hours of Research Capstone coursework
- CIED 674V Ph.D. Research Internship
- CIED 6623 Research Methods and Scholarship in Curriculum and Instruction
- 9 -12 semester hours of cognate coursework approved by the advisory committee
- Minimum of 18 semester hours of dissertation credits — students must be continuously enrolled after successful completion of candidacy exam and must be enrolled in at least one dissertation credit during term in which dissertation is defended