WALTER G. SECADA
305-284-2102
Office: Max Orovitz Building, 333A
The EDD program in the Applied Learning Sciences will provide people across a broad array of fields with the intellectual tools to (re)think about how they interact with subordinates, trainees, mentees, and students as learners and to (re)think their own roles as being that of a designer and teacher where they design, implement, and evaluate the impacts of learning environments for their students.
The program’s three specific foci, which students are expected to integrate in a culminating applied project, are:
The 45-credit post-Master’s EDD in Applied Learning Sciences prepares students for careers that require expertise in multiple facets of human learning.
Admission to all graduate-degree concentrations in the School of Education and Human Development is based on the recommendation of the faculty. Admissions decisions are based on faculty review of the following general requirements that apply to all Graduate Programs in the School as well as specific documents listed under each concentration. In addition to the factors listed as general requirements for all applications to the SEHD’s graduate programs, consideration for admission to the Ed.D. program will include the following: All international applications must provide additional information and meet additional requirements as required by the UM Graduate School and the Office of International Student and Scholar Services. For an appropriate link to these requirements, please visit the Graduate School website. Once an applicant has been admitted to graduate study, that individual should meet with the faculty advisor who was appointed to serve in that capacity and whose name appears in the admissions letter. This advisor will help the student enroll in courses that are appropriate to the program; to develop and to refine a Program of Study that must be on file in the Office of Graduate Studies by the end of the first academic year of enrollment. The School of Education and Human Development follows the Graduate School’s Honor Code. All students are required to review the Graduate Student Honor Code and the School of Education and Human Development’s Handbook of Policies and Procedures for Graduate Students and submit the signed Acknowledgement of Receipt located on page 3 by the end of their first semester of enrollment.Applicants must:
provide a personal statement that addresses the mission and purpose of the program being applied to;Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
International Applications
Admission Decision
Honor Code/Handbook of Policies and Procedures
Nam Ju Kim Graduate Studies Office
Assistant Professor,
Department of Teaching and Learning
305 284 3774
Max Orovitz, 310-A
nxk366@miami.eduFor Application Process Questions, contact:
soegradadmissions@miami.edu