The Learning Plan reflects students previous academic accomplishments and competencies as well as their current personal, professional and academic goals and objectives. The Learning Plan also includes an outline of a participatory action research project that the student expects to pursue as a dissertation.
Credit is granted in each knowledge area through the assessment of student competence.
An elective knowledge area is available for students to declare as an area of specialization. Regardless of the topic chosen, students are expected to frame their specialization within the context of leadership and systems change. This requirement provides an opportunity to integrate the relevant theories in six knowledge areas. In addition to completing the required number of knowledge area assessments, all students complete an action-oriented dissertation that demonstrates critical research skills and represents original research and imaginative inquiry. A WASC accredited graduate school.