View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
PhD completion program courses help you return to doctoral work, match with an advisor, and stay on track to finishing your dissertation.
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Academic degrees include a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook followed by an MA in General Psychology from Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), an MPhil in Psychology from The Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, and a PhD in Psychology - Learning Processes from the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. Graduate level clinical experience includes Mt. Sinai University Hospital in NYC and North Shore University Hospital in NY. Further, credentials include a Certification in School Psychology in NY, and Board Certification as a Human Services Practitioner. Teaching and research experience consists of undergraduate and graduate level courses taught for over 20 years at several different universities, several presentations at professional psychology conferences such as the Eastern Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and World Congress of Psychiatry, and senior and co-authorship in professional psychology journals such as Perceptions and Psychophysics, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and Behavioural Processes. Roles at Walden include teaching, serving as dissertation chair and committee member, and as University Research Reviewer.
PSYC 9000 - Dissertation
PSYC 8781 - Psychopathology from a Clinical Perspective
PSYC 8342 - Psychotherapy Interventions I
CPSY 6728 - Substance Abuse Counseling
PSYC 8341 - Psychological Assessment – Cognitive
PSYC 8871 - Practicum
PSYC 8304, 6305 - Statistics I
PSYC 8241 - Human Motivation
PSYC 8723 - Multicultural Counseling
PSYC 8211 - Contemporary Issues Psyc
SBSF 8501, 8502 - Introduction to Statistics and Applied Research Methods
CPSY 6700, 6800, 6900 - Masters Practicum
PSYC 6315 - Tests and Measurement
PSY 6225 - Biopsychology
FPSY 6720 - Abnormal Behavior
PSYC 8316 - Tests and Measurement
MA, CUNY at Queens College
MPhil, Graduate Center of CUNY
PhD, The City University of New York
CUNY Tuition Schlarship, Graduate Center of CUNY, 1992
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, CUNY at Queens College, 1990
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, , 1990
Professional Staff Congress of CUNY Tuition Schola, , 1992
Psychology Fellowship, Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, 1999
Psychology Fellowship: Professional Staff Congress, , 1999
University Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Center of CUNY, 1992
University Graduate Fellowship: The Graduate Center, , 1992
Kladopoulos, C., Hemmes, N. H., Brown, B. L. (2004). Prospective timing under dual-task paradigms: Attentional and contextual-change mechanisms. Behavioural Processes
Pomaville, F. M., Kladopoulos, C. (2013). The effects of behavioral speech therapy on speech sound production with adults who have cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Kladopoulos, C., McComas, J. (2001). The effects of form training on foul shooting performance in members of a women's NCAA college basketball team. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Kladopoulos, C., Brown, B. L., Hemmes, N. H., abeza de Vaca, S. (1998). The start-stop procedure: Reproduction of temporal intervals by human subjects. Perception and Psychophysics
Hemmes, N. S., Brown, B. L., Kladopoulos, C. (2003). Time perception with and without a concurrent non-temporal task. Perception & Psychophysics
Ateno, P., Sarakoff, R. A., Hemmes, N. A., Brown, B. L., Kladopoulos, C. (1997). Subjective time estimates in the presence of a concurrent nontemporal task.
Sarakoff, R. A., Brown, B. L., Hemmes, N. S., Cabeza , D., e Vaca, S., Kladopoulos, C. D., Ateno, P., Kladopoulos, C. (1997). Varying the location of a concurrent nontemporal task during a reproduction trial: Effects on subjective time estimates.
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