EDR 707 Leadership Research Seminar
Prerequisite: EDR 700. This course provides students opportunity to demonstrate clear understanding of the interrelated nature of the experiences from the educational leadership courses in their doctoral program through critical discourse on contemporary issues. The seminar series will serve as experimental ground for creating a scholarly community among doctoral students while they explore communication essentials, such as evaluating research articles, writing academic pieces including abstracts and literature reviews, and examining effective presentation skills. The final product of the seminar is the completion of the Qualifying Paper, a substantial critical analysis of the theoretical and empirical literature related to educational leadership, which may or may not be related to the student's dissertation topic.