
Doctorate of Education
Doctorate of Education
Creating Scholar Leaders in Education
College of Education
Location: Lincoln, Omaha
Degree Type: Graduate
Doane University's Doctorate of Education (EdD) prepares scholar leaders by developing the highly specialized knowledge and skills required of modern educational leaders. This practitioner's degree has an added focus on research and its applications.
EdD graduates develop the capacity to make an impact in their professional and personal roles in the communities they serve. Graduates gain expertise, knowledge, skills and disposition to continuously engage in issues of policy, program and practice. This degree is for anyone seeking a degree as a capstone of their preparation to be an educational leader.
Program Requirements
Doane's EdD includes 57 hours of post-graduate level coursework, seminars and stand-alone courses, culminating in a dissertation. The 30 core hours of EdD coursework are in a sequenced cadre format, similar to the Education Specialist program. We recommended your 27 post-master's specialization courses be complete before beginning core classes, but arrangements may be made for this coursework to be taken concurrently with core courses. If taken before the completion of the original master's degree, we do not count elective coursework.

Courses
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EdD Core:
EDU 905 - Professional Learning Community I (3)
EDU 915 - Professional Learning Community II (3)
EDU 925 - Professional Learning Community III (3)
EDU 945 - Qualitative Research Design (3)
EDU 950 - Quantitative Research Design (3)
EDU 935 - Advanced Mixed Methodology Research (3) or
EDU 946 - Advanced Qualitative Research (3) or
EDU 951 - Advanced Quantitative Research (3)
Leadership Emphasis:
ESD 705 - Issues in Leadership (3)
ESD 710 - School Districts as Organizations (3)
ESD 715 - School-Community Communications (3)
ESD 725 - Politics and Policy Leadership (3)
ESD 820 - Leading and Responding to Change (3)
ESD 910 - Ethics of Leadership (3)
Electives: 9 credit hours at the 600 level or beyond
Community & Cultures Emphasis:
ECC 705 - Introduction to Culture and Community (3)
ECC 710 - Systems as Organizations (3)
ECC 730 - Policy & Political Leadership (3)
ECC 790 - Immersion Preparation (0)
ECC 795 - Immersion Experience (3)
ECC 820 - Leading & Responding to Change (3)
Electives: 9 credit hours
ECC 922 - Geographic History of Education (3)
ECC 930 - Culture and Curriculum (3)
ECC 933 - Creating Partnerships (3)
ECC 998 - Independent Study in URG (3)
EDU 930 - Survey Methodology (3)
EDU 955 - Academic and Professional Writing (3)
or other 600+ level graduate courses
Community & Culture Certificate: 21 credit hours
ECC 705 - Introduction to Culture and Community (3)
ECC 710 - Systems as Organizations (3)
ECC 820 - Leading & Responding to Change (3)
ECC 922 - Geographic History of Education (3)
ECC 930 - Culture and Curriculum (3)
Faculty & Staff
Cate Sommervold
Associate Professor
Doctorate of Education (EdD)
Doug Christensen
Professor of Practice
Master of Education (EdL)
Marilyn Johnson Farr
Professor
Education
Tim Frey
Dean of College of Education
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