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Curriculum Overview

These courses provide an interdisciplinary perspective and are designed by faculty members from across the Pitt School of Education.

  • Foundations Courses (12 credits) equip you with the knowledge and competencies to develop as a leader and scholar-practitioner through topics such as today’s educational landscape, equity and justice, policy, and change.
  • Practitioner Inquiry Courses (12 credits) introduce and develop your expertise in tools for improvement in complex systems. Within these courses, you also will develop your plans for your third-year Dissertation in Practice.

The scholarly practice project addresses a problem or dilemma directly related to your academic and professional fields.

These courses will help you develop specialized knowledge in your major.

This course helps you to review, and synthesize relevant scholarship that supports their focus on addressing a problem of practice.

This course guides you through the process of developing a comprehensive dissertation overview document.

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