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.
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Jeanne L. Connors, Ph.D., obtained a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education. She was born in Hillsboro, Wisconsin, was married for 13 years, and has three children, two daughters and a son, as well as four granddaughters. She currently lives in the Shawano, Wisconsin, area, close by the northern pine woods.
HLTH 9001-7 - Dissertation
PUBH 8050 - Glob Hleth & Issues in Disease
PUBH 8900 - Research Forum Companion
PUBH 9000-9 - Public Health Dissertation
PUBH 9001-9 - Dissertation
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madson
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bernard L. Turner Award, Walden, 2015
Bernard L. Turner Award, Walden University, 2003
Connors, J. (1989). Quality Control in an American Corporation: An ethnography from the inside. Crosscurrents
Connors, J., Romberg, T. A. (1991). Middle Management and Quality Control: Strategies for Obstructionist. Human Organization
Connors, J. L., Donnellan, A. M. (1995). Walk in beauty: Western perspectives on disabilities and Navajo family/cultural resilience.
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