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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Dr. Nanaawawu M. Adeoye received her DNP in Nursing Practice at Gannon University in November 2020 and obtained her MBA at McNeese State University in 2017.
Dr. Adeoye is a Family Nurse Practitioner, and a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who currently works on the in-hospital psychiatry consult team at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has served in this role since August 2021.
Prior to her current position, she worked as a hospitalist with Apogee physicians at Bayhealth Hospital in Delaware from September 2017. While at Bayhealth, she worked as an Internal medicine consult with TeamHealth Delaware from 2019 on part-time. Her teaching experience includes working as a part-time clinical faculty since 2020 at Spring Arbor University, as well as being a Support Nursing Clinical Facilitator at Louisiana Christian University in 2013.
Dr. Adeoye is currently licensed as a Nurse practitioner in Texas, Connecticut, Minnesota, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and as a Registered Nurse in Hawaii. She is a member of American Nurses Association, Beta Gamma Sigma, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and American Association of Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Adeoye is a Part-Time Contributing Faculty with Walden University.
DNP, Gannon University
Post-master's Certificate, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
MBA, McNeese State University
MSN, McNeese State University
BSN, Louisiana Christian University (Louisiana College)
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