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EdD, Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities

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The 42-credit EdD in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities prepares you to be a practicing professional, developing a collaborative artistic praxis and the leadership skills needed to shape a range of educational, cultural, and vocational communities of learning. Specializing in drama in education, applied theatre, or theatre for young audiences and play production, you’ll emerge as a practice-led researcher bringing your training to arts professions, schools, and cultural institutions.

Core Course Sequence

You’ll take coursework in both foundational research methods and advanced methods of inquiry. This arts-based research training is complemented by core classes in key content areas, specialization electives, and practicums, selected by advisement and designed to respond to your individual and authentic research interests. The program culminates in a doctoral project, which might include a dramatic work or other arts-based project, an action research project, an internship, or another applied theatre residency in lieu of a research-based dissertation.

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Program Requirements

Course Title Credits
Major Requirements
Common Core
MPAET-GE 2077Meth/Mater of Research in Ed Theatre3
RESCH-GE 2140Approaches/Qualitative Inquiry3
MPADT-GE 2100Introduction to Arts-Based Research3
Content Knowledge
Select six credits by advisement6
Methods of Inquiry
Select three credits by advisement3
Practical Knowledge 1
Select 12 credits by advisement12
Specialization Course Elective 2
Select nine credits by advisement9
Culminating Study
MPAET-GE 3005Doct Proposal Seminar3
Total Credits42
1

The practical knowledge requirement includes graduate-level courses that are designed to broaden students’ access to practical applications of educational theatre methodology. To this end, courses are considered practical when they:

  1. Provide workshop experiences;
  2. Strongly rely on current scholarship from theatre education; and
  3. Have wide applicability to common practices in the students’ specialization and profession.
2

Electives closely related to and supportive of the student’s area of specialization: drama in education, applied theatre, or theatre for young audiences and play production.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites in theatre form competence are required, especially in theatre history, dramatic literature, acting and directing, and drama criticism. Applicants who have not taken courses in these area at the undergraduate or master’s level must take them before fulfilling the Specialization Course Electives requirement, even if it means that more than 42 credits are required to complete this EdD program. Additional courses in theatre form in excess of those required for this degree may be selected by advisement.

Candidacy, Culminating Study, Maintaining Matriculation

A total of 42 credits beyond the master’s degree (depending on the student’s previous academic background) is required for the EdD degree. Doctoral students must complete a minimum of 36 credits in residence beyond the master’s degree. A candidacy examination is given to determine if students have reached competency.

As a culminating study, students design and conduct a practitioner-based study under the direction of doctoral program faculty, developing a project drawn from one or more of the program’s specializations. The culminating study requires a formal proposal and approval by doctoral faculty. Three full-time faculty members are required to serve on doctoral students’ culminating study committee.

Upon completion of coursework, students must register in MPAIA-GE 3400 Performing Arts Research Collegium each semester in order to maintain matriculation.

Plan of Study Grid
1st Semester/TermCredits
MPAET-GE 2077 Meth/Mater of Research in Ed Theatre 3
RESCH-GE 2140 Approaches/Qualitative Inquiry 3
Content Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits12
2nd Semester/Term
MPADT-GE 2100 Introduction to Arts-Based Research 3
Content Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits12
3rd Semester/Term
Methods of Inquiry (Selected By Advisement) 3
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 6
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits12
4th Semester/Term
MPAET-GE 3005 Doct Proposal Seminar 3
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
 Total Credits42

Following completion of the required coursework for the PhD, students are expected to maintain active status at New York University by enrolling in a research/writing course or a Maintain Matriculation (MAINT-GE 4747) course.  All non-course requirements must be fulfilled prior to degree conferral, although the specific timing of completion may vary from student-to-student.

Plan of Study Grid
1st Semester/TermCredits
MPAET-GE 2077 Meth/Mater of Research in Ed Theatre 3
Content Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
2nd Semester/Term
RESCH-GE 2140 Approaches/Qualitative Inquiry 3
Content Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
3rd Semester/Term
MPADT-GE 2100 Introduction to Arts-Based Research 3
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
4th Semester/Term
Methods of Inquiry (Selected By Advisement) 3
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
5th Semester/Term
MPAET-GE 3005 Doct Proposal Seminar 3
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
6th Semester/Term
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 6
 Credits6
7th Semester/Term
Practical Knowledge (Selected By Advisement) 3
Specialization Course Electives (Selected By Advisement) 3
 Credits6
 Total Credits42

Following completion of the required coursework for the PhD, students are expected to maintain active status at New York University by enrolling in a research/writing course or a Maintain Matriculation (MAINT-GE 4747) course.  All non-course requirements must be fulfilled prior to degree conferral, although the specific timing of completion may vary from student-to-student.

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