Program Components

Complete 45 credit hours prior to advancing to candidacy. Students may add as many electives as they wish as long as the course requirements are met.

2011-2012 PhD. Program Manual | Doctoral Program Educational Plan 

Required Courses include (3 credit hours each):

• SoWo 900 Conceptualizing Social Problems to Inform Interventions
• SoWo 910 Research Methods in Social Interventions
• SoWo 911 Social Statistics and Data Analysis
• SoWo 912 Research Practicum
• SoWo 913 Advanced Research Methods in Social Intervention
• SoWo 914 Measurement in Social Intervention Research
• SoWo 918 Multiple Regression Analysis
• SoWo 919 Qualitative Analysis
• SoWo 940 Development of Social Intervention Models
• SoWo 941 Teaching Seminar/Practicum

      Other requirements:

• 3 courses taken outside the SSW (total of 9 credit hours - 2 of these must be substantive/theory courses)
• 2 advanced methods courses after completing SOWO 918 (6 credit hours - may be taken in SSW or outside)
• Dissertation seminar (follows completion of residency and required courses)

Students, in consultation with their adviser, may select additional courses after the fourth semester that are needed to support their dissertation research.