DISSERTATION PROPOSAL WRITING IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY ANALYSIS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and develop organizing, planning, and writing strategies for a dissertation proposal and other academic research. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop and refine research questions for a proposed research project. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate relevant conceptual and/or theoretical frameworks and apply them to the research proposal. Audience: Graduate 4. Present the significance and relevance of a research problem. Audience: Graduate 5. Select, critically review, and synthesize appropriate past research, including prevalent research themes, comparisons of methodology, and limitations or gaps. Audience: Graduate 6. Justify why the planned research method, collection, and analysis are appropriate for the proposed research question and conceptual framework. Audience: Graduate 7. Review writing for appropriate academic language, style and grammar Audience: Graduate 8. Develop the skills to build a rigorous, well-written dissertation proposal Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and develop organizing, planning, and writing strategies for a dissertation proposal and other academic research. Audience: Graduate 2. Develop and refine research questions for a proposed research project. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate relevant conceptual and/or theoretical frameworks and apply them to the research proposal. Audience: Graduate 4. Present the significance and relevance of a research problem. Audience: Graduate 5. Select, critically review, and synthesize appropriate past research, including prevalent research themes, comparisons of methodology, and limitations or gaps. Audience: Graduate 6. Justify why the planned research method, collection, and analysis are appropriate for the proposed research question and conceptual framework. Audience: Graduate 7. Review writing for appropriate academic language, style and grammar Audience: Graduate 8. Develop the skills to build a rigorous, well-written dissertation proposal Audience: Graduate