(for students admitted after 3/1/12)

Ph.D. in Education Program of Study

Program plan for Sara Montiel

1. Core Course (3)

EDUC 800 (3) Ways of Knowing – Spring 2014

2. Research Methods (15)

EDRS 810 (3) Problems and Methods in Education Research – Fall 2014
EDRS 811 (3) Quantitative Methods in Educational Research – Fall 2015
EDRS 812 (3) Qualitative Methods in Educational Research – Fall 2016

Electives:

EDRS 821 (3) Advanced Applications of Quantitative Methods – Spring 2016

EDRS 824 (3) Mixed Methods Research – Fall 2019

3. Professional Specialization (24): Higher Education

1. CTCH 821 (3) History of Higher Education in the United States – Spring 2014
2. CTCH 792 (3) Substitution – Access and Social Justice in Higher Education -
Summer 2016
3. HE 710 (3) Substitution – Leadership in Higher Education – Spring 2017

Electives:

4. CTCH 792 (3) Beyond GI Joe: Continuing College Student – Summer 2011
5. CTCH 622 (3) Organization/Administration in Higher Ed – Fall 2011
6. CTCH 626 (3) Assessment in Higher Education – Fall 2012
7. CTCH 644 (3) Student Service in Higher Education – Spring 2013
8. CTCH 624 (3) Finance/Fiscal Management in Higher Ed – Fall 2013

*Professional specialization may include (as one of the 8 courses):

EDUC 994 (3) Advanced Internship in Education

4. Secondary Emphasis (12): Educational Psychology

1. EDEP 551 (3) Principles of Learner Motivation – Spring 2009

2. EDEP 652 (3) Process of Learning and Development – Fall 2009
3. EDEP 798 (3) Factors for EIP Success – Spring 2011
4. EDEP 821 (3) Sociocultural Processes in Learning, Instruction, and Motivation – Spring 2018

5. Dissertation (12)

EDUC 998 (3) Doctoral Dissertation Proposal

EDUC 999 (9) Doctoral Dissertation Research

11/10/2015
 (for students admitted after 3/1/12)

Ph.D. in Education Program of Study

PROPOSED DATE FOR COMPREHENSIVE PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT:

01/23/2020

PROGRAM RATIONALE (please review the Program Guidelines for directions):

I continue to pursue the doctoral degree in education while specializing in higher education with a secondary
emphasis in educational psychology. Once I completed my second portfolio, only one class remained to complete
my coursework – EDRS 824: Mixed Methods Research. I successfully completed this course in the fall 2019
semester.

The EDRS 824: Mixed Methods Research course was an ideal course to take to complete my doctoral coursework
for several reasons. First, this methodology course, and the assignments that ensued, obligated me to concentrate
on the methods I may employ in my dissertation and directly addressed some of the lingering items from my
portfolio II defense. Secondly, the subject of mixed methods allowed me to methodologically and conceptually
synthesize what I learned in my previous doctoral-level research quantitative and qualitative methods courses.
Lastly, the EDRS 824 course required that I seriously consider how I would go about developing a mixed methods
study and develop a proposal that found useful for the preparation of portfolio III as well as laying the groundwork
for the dissertation.

While I could not enroll in EDUC 998: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal simultaneously with EDRS 812, as I had
planned (I must successfully complete Portfolio III before enrollment in EDUC 998), I do plan to take the proposal
class during the spring 2020 semester upon successful completion of portfolio III.

Following the recommendations from my portfolio II defense, in summer of 2019 I sat in on Dr. Wendi Manuel-
Scott’s undergraduate summer course, Representations of Race. In this class, I obtained some of the literature,
terms, and more nuanced implications of concepts I had little familiarity with, such as race as a social construction
and originations of stereotypes and their long-term impacts. Although I could not attend every class due to work
conflicts, I attended as often as I could and read the course materials. I found the readings and class discussions
particularly valuable in obtaining a deeper historical context of the ethnic and racialized representations of various
populations. Most relevant to the theoretical foundations (i.e., Critical Race Theory) I look to employ in my
research, I found the topics on the construction of whiteness and the result of the western and white hegemony
particularly useful and applicable to my topic.

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Chair, Date Student Date
Doctoral Advising Committee

______________________________________ ______________________________________
Member, Date Margret Hjalmarson, Director Date
Doctoral Advising Committee Ph.D. in Education Program
(minor area representative)

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Member, Date
Doctoral Advising Committee
11/10/2015