Most of our students are working professionals in the field of education. Therefore, our program is designed to facilitate their needs. The Ed.D. in Curriculum Studies is offered in the format that consists of online courses with some required face-to-face meetings.
These face-to-face meetings are held on the Georgia Southern University campus in Statesboro on the weekends during fall and spring semesters; meeting dates during the summer may be on the weekend or during the week. Most core courses require three or four weekend meetings on Saturdays, although some courses may occasionally require a Sunday meeting. Note: Instructors of core courses work together to coordinate meeting dates so that students satisfy the meeting requirements for two courses on the same weekend. Attendance at on-campus sessions is mandatory. Failure to attend these face-to-face meetings will result in failure or withdrawal from the course. Meeting dates are published well in advance in the online schedule of courses.
The program admits students only once per year, during the summer semester; the deadline for admission into a given summer semester is January 30 of that same year. Upon enrollment, students are encouraged to follow the recommended course sequence posted on the course website. We have organized the course sequence to follow logically and to build a knowledge base in early courses which can be built upon in later courses.