About the Program
Doctor of Education
Degree Requirements
Doctor of Education (90 points)
The Program in English Education at Teachers College offers three distinct programs in doctoral work. The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) is designed to prepare future teacher educators and candidates who are interested in leadership roles in English Education as curriculum coordinators, department chairs, and other roles that demand intimate knowledge of the field. The program offers intensive study in the history of English Education as a field, theoretical and pedagogical debates in the teaching and learning literacies, curriculum theorizing, and research traditions in the field.
Doctor of Education in the College Teaching of English (90 points)
Doctor of Education in the College Teaching of English (Ed.D.C.T.) is designed to prepare candidates for positions as college and university English instructors, researchers, administrators of writing centers, and directors of college writing programs. The Ed.D.C.T. degree program, structured to develop the depth and breadth in candidates’ knowledge of teaching college English, provides a rigorous background in relevant theoretical debates in writing (i.e., basic writing; first-year composition; composition theory/pedagogy; writing assessments; writing and technology; the place of literature in the teaching of writing) and language (i.e., English as a second language; multilingualism and speech communities; language and cultural/political identities; international and transnational perspectives on language).
