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Amy Washburn, Interim Chair
les.appstate.edu

Educational Leadership, Ed.D.
edl.appstate.edu

Vachel Miller, Program Director 
millervw@appstate.edu

The Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership fosters the development of educators who embrace just and sustainable practices. We support and nurture a wide variety of research methodologies that enhance collaborative learning to create positive individual, social, cultural and institutional change. We consistently engage in a critical analysis of biases including race, gender, poverty, and all other identities that shape our lives. Across a variety of disciplines, our inclusive and challenging program inspires a diversity of critical thought and unique transformative experiences.

Programs

• Educational Leadership - Educational Administration Concentration, EdD
• Educational Leadership - Higher Education Concentration, EdD
• Educational Leadership - Instructional Technology Leadership, EdD
• Educational Leadership - Interdisciplinary Studies Concentration, EdD
• Educational Leadership - Literacy in Exceptionalities Concentration, EdD

• Educational Leadership - Educational Administration, EdD and Educational Administration, EdS
• Educational Leadership - Higher Education Concentration, EdD and Higher Education - Community College & University Leadership Concentration, EdS

Courses

• EDL 7011 - Theoretical Frameworks for Social Inquiry & Practice I (3)
• EDL 7012 - Theoretical Frameworks for Social Inquiry & Practice II (3)
• EDL 7020 - Organizational and Systems Analysis (3)
• EDL 7025 - Leadership in Theory and Practice (3)
• EDL 7027 - Leadership for Organizational Innovation (3)
• EDL 7032 - Educational Leadership Policy Seminar (3)
• EDL 7035 - Curriculum History, Theory and Practice in Educational Organizations (3)
• EDL 7040 - Educational Organizations and Technology (3)
• EDL 7050 - School Finance and Business Administration (3)
• EDL 7065 - Writing for the Scholarly Educator (3)
• EDL 7099 - Professional Seminar (1)
• EDL 7500 - Independent Study (1-3)
• EDL 7530-7549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
• EDL 7550 - Sustainable Educational Leadership (3)
• EDL 7900 - Internship (3-6)
• EDL 7989 - Doctoral Research (1-9)
• EDL 7999 - Dissertation (1-9)

• FDN 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)
• FDN 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
• FDN 5800 - History of American Education (3)
• FDN 5801 - Education of the Culturally Diverse (3) [DL]
• FDN 5810 - Education in Appalachian America (3) [DL]
• FDN 5840 - Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education (3)
• FDN 5861 - History of Postsecondary Education in America (3)
• FDN 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)
• FDN 5999 - Thesis (3-4)
• FDN 6500 - Independent Study (1-4)
• FDN 6530-6549. - Selected Topics (1-4)
• FDN 6600 - Historical Survey of Reading Education (3)

• RES 5000 - Research Methods (3)
• RES 5040 - Teacher as Researcher (3) [CL]
• RES 5060 - Qualitative Research Traditions (3)
• RES 5070 - School-Based Evaluation and School Improvement Planning (3)
• RES 5080 - Data-Driven School Leadership (3)
• RES 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)
• RES 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
• RES 5560 - Classroom Assessment (3)
• RES 5600 - Educational Statistics (3) [DL]
• RES 6000 - Advanced Research Methods, Design and Application (3)
• RES 6530-6549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
• RES 7110 - Survey of Research Methodologies in Education (3)
• RES 7115 - Mixed Methods Research in Education (3)
• RES 7120 - Instrument Design and Measurement (3)
• RES 7130 - Multivariate Statistics (3)
• RES 7160 - Qualitative Research Traditions in Education (3)
• RES 7165 - Quantitative Research Methods in Education (3)
• RES 7170 - Program Evaluation (3)
• RES 7175 - Quantitative Data Analysis for Educational Leaders (3)
• RES 7180 - Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis (3)
• RES 7190 - Dissertation Proposal Seminar (3)
• RES 7210 - Qualitative Interviewing (3)
• RES 7215 - Qualitative Document and Archival Research (3)
• RES 7230 - Feminist and Intersectional Research Methodologies (3)
• RES 7235 - Critical and Institutional Ethnography (3)
• RES 7240 - Decolonizing Educational Research (3)
• RES 7250 - Postqualitative Research (3)
• RES 7260 - Writing and Representing Qualitative Research (3)
• RES 7310 - Action Research in Education (3)
• RES 7530-7549 - Selected Topics (1-4)

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