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.
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
Develop the skills and confidence you need to tackle complex managerial challenges, contribute new knowledge, or teach at the graduate level.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence needed for complex managerial challenges and research with Walden’s ACBSP-accredited PhD program.
Discover career opportunities in your area that match your interests.
Claire Robb received her MPH in Epidemiology and her PhD in Aging Studies from the University of South Florida in 2003. After completing a NCI post-doctoral fellowship with the Senior Adult Oncology Program at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, in 2006, she joined the University of Georgia as an assistant professor in the College of Public Health where she developed and taught Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology and Epidemiology of Aging at the graduate level, and Disease Detectives, a basic introduction to epidemiology for undergraduates. She also was named a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar for her research with older cancer patients. In 2012, she became an associate professor at Georgia Southern University where she taught the MPH core epidemiology course in both traditional class settings and online, as well as Epidemiologic Methods and Social Epidemiology at the doctoral level. She has published her research in numerous professional journals, as well as presenting at professional conferences. After returning to Florida to be closer to her family, in October, 2018, she accepted a position as a contributing faculty member in the College of Health Sciences at Walden University.
PhD, University of South Florida
MPH, University of South Florida
Shah, G., Badana, A., Robb, C., Livingood, W. C. (2016). Cross-Jurisdictional Resource Sharing in Changing Public Health Landscape: Contributory Factors and Theoretical Explanations.
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