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Department of Educational Administration

Education Policy PhD

Course Syllabi

You may examine recent syllabi for courses required of Education Policy students as well as for courses often elected by students in the program. Remember that courses and syllabi change. You may also wish to examine the MSU Schedule of Courses to see when classes are intended to be available.

Required Core Courses:

EAD944 Social Context of Education
EAD947 Comparative International Education Policy, Paine
EAD942
Economic Analysis in Education Policy Making, Chudgar
EAD943 Politics of Education, Jacobson

Required Inquiry and Research Methods Courses:

CEP930 Educational Inquiry, Chudgar and Weiland
EAD946A Regression Analysis for Education Policy, Chudgar
EAD946B Econometric Analysis for Education Policy
One 3 credit Qualitative Research Methods Course
One 3 credit Advanced Research Methods Course (could include CEP933 below)
EAD/TE995 Research Practicum (no syllabus, independent work)

Required Concentration Course:

EAD949 Advanced Seminar in Education Policy (this course will be a rotating topics course and can be taken more than once provided the topics are different)
Plus 9 additional disciplinary or policy studies credits (3 classes) in a concentration area, determined with student's Guidance Committee, to provide compentence in a specialized area of research

Common Elective, Pre-Requisite, or Advanced Research Methods Courses:

TE923 Comparative Perspectives on Teaching, Curriculum, and Teacher Education, Paine
CEP935 Advanced Topics in Multivariate Analysis, Konstantopoulos
CEP934 Multivariate Data Analysis I, Houang and Schmidt
TE962 Teachers and Teaching in Urban Contexts, Flennaugh
EAD901 Urban Education: A Historical Overview, Venzant
EAD948 Advanced Economics of Education
EAD991C Special Topics in Education Policy
CEP932 Quantitative Methods in Educational Research I, Maier
CEP933 Quantitative Methods in Educational Research II, Konstantopoulos