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  • 1.00 Credits

    Enables Cohort members to apply the knowledge of the changing society and its effects on the administration of the educational institution, to recognize societal changes and to be able to foster institutional change, and to apply the skills, techniques, and commitment to promote learning and informed change in order to foster excellence.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Enables Cohort members to learn and practice human resource management theory and practical skills, the ability to coordinate and improve the quality of human resources in the educational setting, and the qualities of empathy, commitment, and respect in making decisions and working with others in the educational community.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Enables Cohort members to practice human resource management theory and practical skills, to coordinate and improve the quality of human resources in the educational setting, and to apply the qualities of empathy, commitment, and respect in making decisions and working with others in the educational community.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Provides Cohort members with a working understanding of how research questions are developed and with opportunities to define their own research interests through the generation of research questions.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Provides Cohort members with a working understanding of how Research Questions are developed and with opportunities to define their own research interests through the generation of research questions. Students write a second "talking paper" which analyzes and critiques research studies in a field related to the student's potential dissertation intent and provides a framework for a possible dissertation proposal.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides the Cohort members with an opportunity to reflect on, analyyze, and synthesize the salient knowledge acquired over the previous three years, and the Comprehensive Examinations requires Cohort members to demonstrate, through discussion and presentation of their professional portfolios and practica checklist materials, their readiness to assume increasingly responsible positions of school leadership. Cohort members must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 to be eligible to participate in the Comprehensive examinations. The Comprehensives will include theoretical knowledge, original research, an oral examination relating each Cohort member's practica experiences to the body of knowledge explored in the Strand coursework, and a review of each Cohort member's professional Portfolio. Each segment of the Comprehensive Examinations will be graded on a "Pass-No Pass" basis.
  • 6.00 Credits

    The Fall Semester Dissertation Study provides Cohort members with an opportunity to independently pursue research in an area of the Cohort member's interest, while supported by faculty and practitioner dissertation committee members. Cohort members maintain the responsibility for assembling a Dissertation Committee. The Committee will comprise not less than three members and not more than five members. It is expected that the Committee chair will be a full- time Duquesne faculty member, unless written approval to the contrary is secured from the Program Director. Committees will comprise at least one additional faculty member and one practitioner. Spring Semester. While it is expected that Cohort members will complete dissertations by the end of this Spring Semester and within the four-year Program timeline, individual Cohort members may annually petition the Academic Standing Quality Circle through the Dissertation Committee chair- person for a one-year extension. Such an extension may be granted provided there is sufficient evidence of progress toward dissertation completion. If an extension is granted, the Cohort member will be expected to continue enrollment in 3 to 6 credits of Dissertation Study per semester. In no case will consideration be given to an extension of more than three years i.e., all Cohort members must complete all the program requirements within seven years of entrance to the Program.
  • 3.00 - 6.00 Credits

    The Dissertation Study provides Cohort members with an opportunity to independently pursue research in an area of the Cohort member¿s interest, while supported by dissertation committee members. Cohort members maintain the responsibility for assembling a Dissertation Committee. The Committee will comprise not less than three members and not more than five members. It is expected that the Committee chair will be a full-time Duquesne faculty member, unless written approval to the contrary is secured from the Program Director. Committees will comprise at least one additional faculty member and one practitioner or faculty member.
  • 0.00 Credits

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  • 0.00 Credits

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