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The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in the Student Services section of this Web site.
Coursework Requirements
Admission Qualifications
Supplementary material – applicant: one- to two-page paper outlining applicant’s research interests in education; resume, including GRE scores and any awards received
Supplementary material – applicant’s primary program: letter of reference from a faculty member in the applicant’s PhD program that speaks to the applicant’s academic promise and the centrality of education to the applicant’s research interests
Graduate academic field: Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics; School of Education and Social Policy: Learning Sciences, Human Development and Social Policy
All admssion materials should be submitted directly to the directors of the program.
Coursework Requirements
Courses
Statistics (4 courses)
Required: two courses, of which
One course in longitudinal methods, from among those listed below
HDSP 463 Regression Analysis for Human Development Research
(Topic: Longitudinal Methods)
SOCIOL 402 Event History Analysis
HDSP 451 Special Topics (Topic: Hierarchical Linear Models)
One fundamental statistics course, from those listed below
PSYCH 450 Fundamentals of Statistics
PSYCH 453 Linear Models: Correlation and Regression
SOCIOL 401-1 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods I
STAT 330-1 Applied Statistics for Research I
One intermediate statistics course, from those listed below
HDSP 463 Regression Analysis for Human Development Research
(Topic: Applied Regression for Education Research)
LRN SCI 463 Topics in Research Methods
(Topic: Applied Regression for Education Research)
SOCIOL 401-2 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods II
STAT 330-2 Applied Statistics for Research II
Evaluation (3 courses)
SOCIOL 476 Topics in Sociological Analysis (Topic: Theories of Evaluation)
One of the following two courses:
PSYCH 405 Psychometric Theory
SOCIOL 404 Designs for Descriptive Causal Research in Field Settings
One of the following three courses:
ANTHRO 389 Ethnographic Methods and Analysis
HDSP 432 Field Methods and Social Policy
SOCIOL 403 Field Methods
Learning and Cognition (2 courses)
One of the following courses:
LRN SCI 401 Cognition and Learning
LRN SCI 403 Learning in Context: Cognitive Science Foundations
of the Learning Sciences
PSYCH 462 Cognitive Development
One of the following courses
Psych 467 Culture, Language and Cognition
Psych 466 Analogy and Similarity
Development (1 course)
One of the following courses:
HDSP 402 Child Development
HDSP 403 Adolescent Development
HDSP 404 Adult Development and Aging
HDSP 451 Special Topics (Topic: Nature/Nurture Revisited: Effects of
Experience on Biology)
Education Policy (3 courses)
ECON 341 Economics of Education
LRN SCI 451 Topics in Learning Sciences (Topic: Analyzing Educational Policy)
HDSP 427 Social Opportunity and Educational Policy
Total Required Units: 13
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