To provide a Christ-centered innovative, challenging, and field-based doctoral program enabling organizational leadership students to become accomplished in current knowledge, best practices, research, self-directed learning, and teaching.
The College of Graduate Studies offers advanced graduate education for students seeking academic positions in research and teaching at leading universities, leadership opportunities in business, hospital and health care executives, faith based leaders, and research foundations. The program is designed for the working adults who have the intellectual capacity for advanced study, who thrive on the challenge of self-directed learning, who desire to master the discipline of organizational leadership, and those who purpose to contribute to Indiana Wesleyan University's mission to raise up Servant Leaders as World Changers.
The College of Graduate Studies offers the dynamic combination of an integrated and seamless lock-step curriculum and technologically advanced facilities. At the very heart of these resources are the faculty and coursework grounded in theory and practice and leading organizational learning, change, and innovation. Our advanced graduate faculty is committed to critical inquiry, excellent teaching, and responsiveness to students. The curriculum reflects current knowledge and best practice and enables the students to meet the rigorous challenges of doctoral studies in a Christ-centered culture.
The desire of the faculty and administration of the College of Graduate Studies in general and the faculty and administration of the Ed.D. degree in particular is to present a degree program that prepares students to be Christian Leaders in their world, and from that perspective to initiate significant change for Christ. We value the integration of Christian principles of faith and practice into both academic and work settings. We have developed our university mission statement to reflect this desire and this value, and the mission of the College of Graduate Studies and that of the Ed.D. degree support and extend the broader university mission. For that reason, all classes will include a component of faith integration, either through the basic nature of the course or via specific course objectives. It is our hope that this curricular exposure to faith integration will be the beginning of personal growth and develop in that area by each student in the program.
This is a selective program and there is no guaranteed admittance even though applicants meet all the admissions requirements. The requirements for admission to the program include:*
*The Admissions Selection Committee retains the right to waive admission requirements for special circumstances.
APPLICATION PROCESS REQUIREMENTS:
The goal is to admit highly qualified students, with clear career objectives, who choose to enter the doctoral program after obtaining a master's degree. To apply for admission to the doctoral program, the applicant must complete the following steps:
Formal Application Essay.
This essay is an essential aspect of the admission process and will be carefully assessed in order to make an informed decision regarding your acceptance into the Ed.D. program. Please follow the guidelines carefully addressing each question. The essay will be assessed in regard to:
Essay Questions.
ADMISSIONS SELECTION PROCESS
The admissions selection process is as follows:
Students may transfer up to 9 hours of post-masters credit from a college or university accredited by a regional accrediting body or the Association for Biblical Higher Education provided a grade of "B" or higher was earned in a post-masters course meeting the following criteria of the transcript audit:
Ed-U-Flex Attendance Policy. All doctoral courses are a blend of live and interactive online discussions (Ed-U-Flex). Students are expected to attend all live sessions and substantively engage in all interactive online discussions, tests, quizzes, and prescribed learning activities.
Live Class Sessions. Live classes are held on Saturdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and meet on the first, third, and seventh Saturdays of the fall, winter, and spring terms. Students are expected to be in attendance when class begins, and remain the entire session. A student may be allowed one (1) absence per course. Students need to contact the faculty member regarding make up-work. The criteria for full participation attendance points will be determined by the professor.
Online Attendance. Attendance is determined by participating in weekly discussions. Failure to participate in at least one designated discussion during the workshop it is assigned will constitute an absence for that workshop. Participating in discussion does not guarantee full participation attendance points. The criteria for full participation attendance points will be determined by the course professor. A student may be allowed one (1) participation absence per course. Students need to contact the faculty member regarding make-up work.
Excessive Absences. If a student exceeds the allowed absences and does not contact the Office of Student Services to officially withdraw before the last class session, the professor is directed to issue the grade of "F".
Students who miss a course due to unavoidable circumstances must arrange for a temporary leave of absence with the Office of Student Services prior to the beginning of the course. Students needing to withdraw while in a course may do so by arrangement with the Office of Student Services prior the end of the course, but the regular refund and academic withdrawal policies apply.
Residency for the doctoral program is satisfied by living on campus during three Summer Residency Institutes. These institutes are seven days in length and begin on a Saturday and go through the following Friday. Students are expected to be in attendance all seven days of each institute and are not allowed an absence from required workshops, events, or class sessions that are scheduled during the Institute. The Summer Residency Institutes are normally attended during three consecutive years. However, in unusual circumstances a student may be given permission by the department chair to skip a year and attend the Institute another year. In no circumstances will a student be allowed more than four years to complete their residency.
At the end of coursework, a comprehensive examination will be administered to each student in the Ed.D. program. This exam will be designed to determine:
The exam will be constructed to cover the major domains of the program and will be administered by a committee of three Organizational Leadership faculty. After evaluation, an oral defense of the exam is required.
If the student successfully defends his/her doctoral comprehensive examination, he/she then moves on to the dissertation phase of the program. If the student does not successfully defend all or part of his/her comprehensive examination, his/her doctoral advisory committee will decide the next steps for the student to follow, which may include, but not be limited to: a re-write of some or all of the doctoral comprehensive examination; a subsequent defense of all or part of the comprehensive examination; a research project to substantiate or enhance some particular parts of the examination. The details of the comprehensive examination procedures and policies will be distributed to students upon completion of their coursework.
To fulfill graduation requirements students must have completed all of the following:
"Plagiarism results when a writer fails to document a source so that the words and ideas of someone else are presented as the writer's own work" (Harris, 2003, p. 298). It is plagiarism when a professor finds that the student has intentionally or unintentionally used unacceptably close wording or sentences without citing the author or source of their work. Plagiarism may result in an "F" for the course and withdrawal from the program.
Individuals enrolled in the Ed.D. program are regarded as members of the academic community of Indiana Wesleyan University and are held responsible for conducting themselves in conformity with the standards of conduct for adult learners. Continued enrollment in any program in the College of Graduate Studies is at all times subject to review of the student's academic record and of the student's actions with regard to observance of University rules and regulations.
The student must achieve a GPA of 3.0 by the end of the third term in order to continue in the program and cannot have a grade of less than a "B-" in any course. Students will become academically ineligible to continue enrollment when any of the following are received in course work of the Ed. D. program of study: (1) grade point average (GPA) drops below 3.0 after the first three terms of the program; (2) the required 3.25 GPA for graduation is not achieved within the first 27 credit hours of the program.
A student who is dismissed for academic reasons will be eligible to reapply for admission on a provisional basis after two terms or the equivalent, but only upon the recommendation of the major department head and with the approval of the Dean of The College of Graduate Studies.
Students who fall below the required 3.25 GPA at any point in their program of study will be placed on academic probation and given a determined amount of time to raise the GPA to the required level. The amount of time given will be decided by a committee consisting of the student's advisor, the program Chairperson, a representative of the Records Office, and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies.
Students who do not follow the courses in the designated sequence, or who withdraw from a course, must undergo advising before being allowed to register for another course. The student's advisor will submit the reenrollment form to the department chair for approval. The student may then be registered for another course by Student Services.
IWU reserves the right to deny enrollment of any student, even though the student has met the minimum grade point average required, if it is apparent from the student's academic record of required courses that the student will not be able to meet the graduation requirements.
Students needing to officially withdraw from a course will be required to contact the Office of Student Services. Tuition will be reimbursed according to the following schedule:
Graduate students having earned a Specialist degree (e.g., Educational Administration, Counseling, Psychology, and so forth) may appeal in writing, to the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, for a transcript audit to transfer up to nine additional hours (18 maximum). The letter of appeal, requesting more than nine hours of transfer credit, should clearly explain and justify the request. The letter of appeal should be supported with a dossier showing clear and convincing alignment with the course of studies and having met the criteria set forth in the policy and items 1 through 5 above.
Students desiring a certificate in Advanced Leadership Studies must:
DOL-710 |
Advanced Leadership Theory |
3 |
DOL-720 |
Critical Inquiry |
3 |
DOL-730 |
Leadership and Personal Development |
3 |
DOL-740 |
Organizational Theory and Research |
3 |
DOL-750 |
Change, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
3 |
DOL-800 |
Human Development and Organizational Learning |
3 |
DOL-830 |
Global Perspectives on Leadership |
3 |
Students receiving the certificate in Advanced Leadership Studies would not participate in graduation, but would not be precluded from applying the same credits earned for the certificate toward the Ed.D. degree.
The dissertation will be a field-based, practice-centered inquiry that attests to the student's understanding of the field and ability to conduct scholarly inquiry about an issue related to the improvement of leadership practices and performance in organizations from which other leaders can benefit. The inquiry might be research on an existing or predicted problem arising from organizational practice, research on a personnel problem, an analysis of some aspect of the organizational learning processes, an analysis of some aspect of the culture of the organization, and so forth.
Students may conduct qualitative or quantitative research, culture evaluation, needs assessment, or any other type of research which meets the approval of their Dissertation Committee. The dissertation is expected to meet the highest standards of scholarship and inquiry, and should demonstrate doctoral level composition and format. The writer should identify the problem and its significance, outline the background and literature that informs the problem, and collect and analyze data. This should result in a written document detailing findings, implications, and recommendations for future policy, governance, and/or practice.
Dissertation Requirements: Minimum of 12 semester hours.
The Organizational Leadership major is a 60 semester hour program. The dissertation courses include a minimum of 12 hours.
Every Organizational Leadership student will be required to write and defend a dissertation. The Organizational Leadership course of studies emphasizes the development of theory-in-use research and skills with a practitioner focus. A doctoral research study addresses a problem of practice, where the focus is upon the integration of knowledge or its application. A variety of research methods may be used, resulting in a number of alternative forms of scholarly study, such as an organizational improvement study, a culture evaluation study, a governance and policy analysis study, or a problem resolution study. A dissertation generates or confirms knowledge and expanded capacity while linking theory-in-use to current best practice. The process of scholarship, research, and leadership utilizes a variety of research methods, including empirical, interpretive, or critical. All doctoral research studies and dissertations will result in a substantial written document.
Three (3) credit hours of dissertation prospectus and proposal preparation in one hour segments are required during year two. This enables the graduate students to integrate course work, field-based action learning, and organizational improvement initiatives into the research design of their dissertation. Nine (9) credit hours of dissertation credit are required during year three. Graduate students not defending their dissertation during the summer following the third year will be expected to maintain continuous enrollment and pay a dissertation continuation one hour tuition fee for each subsequent term until the dissertation is defended and approved.
Prospectus
A 1–2 page dissertation prospectus must be submitted with the Nomination of Doctoral Committee form. This prospectus should include a clear and convincing statement of the questions to be addressed in the study, an outline of the design of the study, the research methods to be used, and a discussion of the contribution of the study to organizational leadership theory and/or to practice. The prospectus should play an important role in the selection of a Dissertation Committee. This document allows prospective members to decide whether to participate in the study, based on the area of focus and the integrity of the prospectus. It is generally unwise for faculty members to make a commitment to serve on a student's Dissertation Committee before a written prospectus is presented for examination.
Dissertation Proposal
After submitting the prospectus students are next required to submit a dissertation proposal, a document that is considerably more detailed than the prospectus. The proposal should contain the following elements: a statement of purpose, rationale, literature review, research questions, proposed procedures, the source of data, methods of data collection, methods of data analysis or data reduction, and the contribution of the study to organizational leadership theory and/or to practice. Students will be advised by their Dissertation Committee to write a draft of the first three chapters of the dissertation (i.e., introduction of purpose and rationale, literature review, and methodology) as their research proposal.
Dissertation Committee and Proposal
Doctoral students will be enrolled in DOL-900A: Dissertation Prospectus (1 hour). Students are expected to write the 2-4 page prospectus. Given the prospectus students will then select a Dissertation Chair.
Once the chair has approved the prospectus the student, in consultation with the Chair, will begin writing the 8-12 page Dissertation Prospectus. Given the prospectus the Chair and student will select the other two committee members.. The Dissertation Committee will be composed of three persons: a chairperson (a full time IWU faculty member approved by the faculty of the DOL program), one faculty member with expertise in the field of study, and one with expertise in statistics, research, and dissertation development. All committee members must have an earned doctorate.
Upon final approval of the prospectus and committee the student will submit the prospectus and the names of the committee members to the Doctoral Studies Committee for final approval. The student in consultation with the chair and committee will then commence writing the proposal. The Dissertation Committee will examine the suitability of the proposal and the student's ability to carry out the research and writing before signing the approval sheet and sending it and the proposal to the Doctoral Studies Committee.
Degree Completion Limits
The Ed.D. program is designed as a lock-step curriculum, which is to be completed in twenty-seven (27) months, plus the dissertation. The time limit for the dissertation is 4 years from the point of commencing DOL-900A – Dissertation Prospectus. Any exceptions to this policy must be made via a written petition presented and approved by the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, and filed in the Office of the College of Graduate Studies.
Dissertation Continuation
Doctoral students not completing the dissertation by the end of the 4th term of the 3rd year will be required to maintain continuous enrollment. They will be required to enroll in a one-hour Dissertation Continuation course with the university each successive term until the dissertation is successfully defended. Students will pay the one hour tuition fee and a $25 per term resource fee to maintain continuous enrollment.
Candidate Status
Doctoral students will attain candidacy status upon successful (1) completion of all course work, (2) written and oral defense of the Comprehensive Exam, and (3) completion and committee approval of the dissertation proposal.
DOL-610 Knowledge and Skills for Grant Writing 3
This course will provide students with the knowledge to pursue grants effectively, and will introduce techniques that will complement the grant writing process. At the end of this course, successful students should have an understanding of the grants process and should be able to write and submit a grant.
DOL-710 Advanced Leadership Theory 3
This course presents the key foundational concepts essential to an understanding of leadership. The paradigm of servant leadership will be considered within a thorough study of the historical and theoretical models of leadership. Leadership will be defined and should be understood within the context of action and function and then expanded into the specific context of organizational life. Learners should discover their unique giftedness to lead and serve and should actively build their leadership understanding and competencies.
DOL-720 Critical Inquiry 3
This course focuses on expanding the foundation skills required of conceptualizing qualitative inquiry and engaging in the scholarship of discovery. Students explore the human process of asking questions and discovering answers, and seeking solutions to organizational issues. Students learn to construct theory and test hypotheses. Students begin to identify possible topics for dissertation research and an approach to data collection.
DOL-730 Leadership and Personal Development 3
This course explores the leader's relationship to self and the unique demands of authenticity and character to leadership. Students will explore their unique life calling and assess their personal leadership practice and potential. The nature of people will be explored in an attempt to understand the human condition with its implications for motivation, learning and leading. Since leaders lead out of who they are, each student should reflect on their spiritual nature and explore the darker shadow sides of people that end up creating deep hindrances to effective leadership. This course will build off of and serve as continuation of Advanced Leadership Theory.
DOL-740 Organizational Theory and Research 3
An organization is a structured social system consisting of groups and individuals working together to meet some agreed-upon objectives. Organizational behavior is the field that seeks knowledge of behavior in organizational settings by systematically studying individual, group, and organizational processes. This course is a critical examination of macro-organizational theory and micro-organizational behavior in various cultural settings. The literature provides a necessary foundation for understanding the social construction of meaning from a Christian servant-leader worldview. It views the application of quantitative and qualitative research methods in a variety of research designs to organizational issues. This provides the student the requisite foundation for doing interpretive research.
DOL-750 Change, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship 3
The purpose of this course is to understand how to use organizational diagnosis and strategic planning to help organizational leaders transform their organizations from their present state to a desired improved future state that allows organizations and their members to grow and develop to their full potential. Students should learn about change processes, innovation, entrepreneurship, barriers to change, and successful structures and strategies aimed at improving the total organization, groups, and individuals.
DOL-760A Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-A 2
The internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace.
DOL-760B Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-B 2
The internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace. Prerequisite: DOL-760A
DOL-760C Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-C 2
The internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace. Prerequisite: DOL-760B
DOL-800 Human Development and Organizational Learning 3
The design of this course is to explore the theories of human development in relation to training and development where learning application is vital to the improvement processes for the individual, units, and the organization. Students will adapt and integrate human development, systems thinking, and current best practices for building a high performing learning organization. Micro leadership theory with a Christian view of human development and organizational learning will be included in this study.
DOL-810 Statistical Research Design 3
This course will concentrate on the practice of statistics and applied research methods as tools for learning about the world. Methods useful for the analysis of experimental data are emphasized, and specific topics include one and two sample tests and confidence intervals for means and medians, descriptive statistics, one-way and two-way ANOVA, goodness-of-fit tests, categorical data analysis and regression analysis. Students should critically evaluate data, produce graphical and numerical summaries, apply standard statistical interference procedures, and draw logical conclusions from analyses.
DOL-820 Advanced Research Design 3
This course will explore the theory and practice of advanced research. Students should develop a high level understanding of the components of research necessary to produce a doctoral dissertation. The course will include problem definition, evaluation of appropriate methodologies, research design, reliability, and ethical considerations.
DOL-830 Global Perspectives on Leadership 3
This course will explore the theory and practice of International Leadership. Students will examine current literature about cross cultural leadership and the conceptual foundations on which it is based. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding globalization and its impact on how leadership is exercised in today's world. Students should also learn how to access information in this area, apply it to their professions and share it with their colleagues.
DOL-840 Ethics and Leadership 3
This course is designed to explore the legal and ethical issues faced by today's leaders. With the Christian worldview as the backdrop, this course will challenge students to develop moral leadership as they confront ethical and legal issues.
DOL-850 Governance, Negotiation and Partnering 3
This course examines the leadership roles and strategies of fiduciary, sociopolitical, ethical and legal responsibility of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Governance, partnerships, and negotiation issues using current research, case studies, and site-based inquiry will be explored. Topics include how market infrastructure (contracts, partnerships, alliances, regulations, policies, law, intellectual property) affects governance. Students will explore the significant roles that boards play in organizations, gain an understanding of the complex political environment in which organizations operate, evaluate simple partnership agreements, and become familiar with resources utilized in the governance of organizations.
DOL-860A Advanced Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-A 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace. Prerequisite: DOL-760C
DOL-860B Advanced Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-B 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace. Prerequisite: DOL-860A
DOL-860C Advanced Seminars and Internship in Organizational Leadership-C 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty serving as coaches, will engage with field-based learning teams in leadership practice, action learning projects, and organizational improvement processes in the workplace. Prerequisite: DOL-860B
DOL-865A Advanced Global Leadership Seminar and Internship-A 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations specifically focusing on global leadership issues. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty, will serve as coaches for leaders in other countries through weekly online phone conversations. These weekly meetings will be complemented by a personal visit for approximately 7-8 days in the country where the mentored leader resides. This visit (which occurs between the second and third terms) will involve the student and leader in the implementation of an organizational change or learning project during this visit. The third term will focus on evaluating the project, summarizing, and concluding the coaching experience. Students will earn six hours of credit in two hour increments. Prerequisite: DOL-760C
DOL-865B Advanced Global Leadership Seminar and Internship-B 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations specifically focusing on global leadership issues. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty, will serve as coaches for leaders in other countries through weekly online phone conversations. These weekly meetings will be complemented by a personal visit for approximately 7-8 days in the country where the mentored leader resides. This visit (which occurs between the second and third terms) will involve the student and leader in the implementation of an organizational change or learning project during this visit. The third term will focus on evaluating the project, summarizing, and concluding the coaching experience. Students will earn six hours of credit in two hour increments. Prerequisite: DOL-865A
DOL-865C Advanced Global Leadership Seminar and Internship-C 2
Year two of the internship will be built upon a seminar-based practicum, in which students are taught by outstanding organizational leaders, interact with those leaders, and discuss current principles, knowledge, and practices being applied in today's organizations specifically focusing on global leadership issues. Interns, in consultation with organizational leadership faculty, will serve as coaches for leaders in other countries through weekly online phone conversations. These weekly meetings will be complemented by a personal visit for approximately 7-8 days in the country where the mentored leader resides. This visit (which occurs between the second and third terms) will involve the student and leader in the implementation of an organizational change or learning project during this visit. The third term will focus on evaluating the project, summarizing, and concluding the coaching experience. Students will earn six hours of credit in two hour increments. Prerequisite: DOL-865B
DOL-870 Financing and Funding the Organization 3
This course is designed to provide a conceptual framework for financial theories on obtaining and managing scarce resources to maximize organizational impact. These theoretical tools provide a base for understanding business environments, alternative methods of organization and financing, use of financial statements as a management tool, valuation methods and approaches to ethical dilemmas from the perspective of an owner or manager. Students should acquire a common level of financial competency and examine a variety of funding sources, including grants. A foundation will be established for future potential financial dissertation topics through a critical review and analysis of current research.
DOL-890 Independent Study Organizational Leadership 1-3
Independent Study in the topics within the subject area of Organizational Leadership.
DOL-900A Dissertation Prospectus-A 1
Students will commence writing the dissertation prospectus. They will select their chairperson and begin the process of developing a 4-5 page dissertation prospectus. Upon chairperson approval of the prospectus the candidate, in consultation with the chairperson, will select the Dissertation Committee and commence the process of writing the proposal. The prospectus should include a clear and convincing statement of the questions to be addressed in the study, an outline of the design of the study, research methods to be used, and a discussion of the contribution of the study to organizational leadership theory and practice. Prerequisite or Co-requisite: DOL-820
DOL-900B Dissertation Prospectus-B 1
Students will form their committee and seek committee approval of the prospectus and consultation for preparing the proposal. The student may begin the preparation of the dissertation proposal. Co-requisite: DOL-900A
DOL-910 Dissertation Proposal 1
Upon chairperson and committee approval of the proposal the candidate, in close consultation with the chairperson, will commence the process of writing chapter one. Upon committee approval of chapter one the student may begin writing subsequent chapters, with the consultation of the chairperson and committee, of the dissertation. The proposal should include a statement of purpose, rationale, a brief literature review, research questions, proposed procedures, the source of data, methods of data collection, methods of data analysis or data reduction, and the contribution of the study to organizational leadership theory and practice. Students will be advised by their dissertation committee to write a draft of the first three chapters of the dissertation (i.e., introduction of purpose and rationale, literature review, and method) as their research proposal. Co-requisite: DOL-900B
DOL-920 Dissertation 3
Research and writing of the dissertation are undertaken during year two commencing with the prospectus and proposal preparation. Candidates will engage in research for and writing of the dissertation. At the completion of the dissertation work, the Dissertation Committee conducts a final oral examination during which the candidate defends the dissertation. Prerequisite: Completion of Comprehensive Exam
DOL-922 Dissertation Continuation 1
After completion of the dissertation courses, students are required to register for Dissertation Continuation each term until the dissertation is satisfactorily completed and defended. Students are expected to retain communication with their dissertation chair and update them on the progress of their dissertation.