Doctoral Program

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Doctoral programs include a major field or area of concentration and, frequently, one or more cognate fields. Cognate fields are defined as a minimum of 6 semester hours of graduate coursework in a given area outside the student's major field. The department of Theory and Practice in Teacher education offers the following majors, concentrations, and specializations.

Education Major
Concentrations and Specializations:

Literacy Studies
__ ESL Education
__ Reading

Special Education

Teacher Education

__ Early Childhood Education

__ Elementary Education
__ English Education
__ Mathematics Education
__ Science Education
__ Social Science Education

General information about the doctoral degree