EDL 9850: Serving Diverse Populations in Education

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to collaborate with various educational partners and to explore equitable solutions to current educational challenges. Students will integrate theory and practice as they relate to educational issues of equality, access, and diversity by exploring the various needs for diverse populations and actively engaging in research through case studies of traditionally marginalized populations. Further, this course is grounded in and develops a professional knowledge base that integrates both practical and research knowledge. It also links theory with systemic and systematic inquiry and emphasizes the generation, transformation, and transfer of professional knowledge to practice.