Counseling and Human Development Services

College Student Affairs Administration PhD

Program Curriculum

Prerequisites

Students should have successfully completed courses that covered the content of the following University of Georgia courses:

ECHD 7940	Research Methods
ECHD 7400	Foundations of College Student Affairs Administration
ECHD 7420	Theories of College Student Development
ECHD 7430	College Student Ecology (or The College Student)
ECHD 7440	Administration in College Student Affairs
ECHD 7840	Internship in Student Affairs
ECHD 7060	Cross Cultural Counseling (or any diversity training course)
ERSH 6300	Descriptive Statistics
ECHI 8300	Law and Higher Education

College Student Affairs Administration Doctoral Core:

ECHD 9400	Seminar in Student Affairs Administration
ECHD 9420	Advanced Theories of College Student Development
ECHD 9480	The College Student
ECHD 9410	Organizational Development, Policy Development and Consultation
ECHD 9430	Environmental and Facilities Management
ECHD 9450	Administrative Practices in Student Affairs
ECHD 9470	Academic Student Affairs
ECHD 9460	Student Affairs Administration Capstone (2 semester hours taken during last fall in program)
ECHD 8990	Research Seminar in Counseling and Human Development Services (taken each semester: part-time students 1 hour/full-time students 3 hours)
ECHD 9490	College Student Outcomes Assessment & Accreditation

Research and Evaluation Core:

ERSH 8310	Applied Analysis of Variance
ERSH 8320	Applied Correlation and Regression Methods in Education
QUAL 8400	Qualitative Research in Education
ECHD 9000	Doctoral Research (part-time 3 hours once, 1-2 hours thereafter/full-time 3 hours each semester until prelim defense)
ECHD 9300	Dissertation (12 hours minimum required)

Specialty (at least 9 semester hours)

Scope and content of specialty is proposed by the student and approved by his or her Major Professor and Advisory Committee. Unless a compelling reason can be given related to career plans, students will declare a specialty in one of the following:

Administration and Management
Teaching and Pedagogy
Outcomes Assessment, Program Evaluation, and Student Needs Assessment
Qualitative Research

Supervised Practice

ECHD 9830

Administrative Internship in Student Affairs Administration

ECHD 9850

Teaching Internship in Student Affairs Administration

* All students must complete at least 3-6 hours of internship. Student with 5 or more years of full-time post post-masters professional work experience in student affairs at the time of admission to the program are only required to complete a 3 hour teaching or research internship. Students with less than 5 years of full-time post-masters professional work experience in student affairs at the time of admission must also complete a 3 hour administrative internship.