The courses are taught by an interdisciplinary faculty from these three professional schools. In the third year students engage in implementing their dissertation research beginning with a dissertation seminar. While the above curriculum plan is recommended, students may, with the approval of their advisors, modify the curriculum to better achieve their educational objectives. The curriculum is designed for advanced, working practitioners. Classes, which meet once a week, are scheduled in the late afternoon and evening.
Students generally enroll in two classes per term with the exception of a two-semester residency.
However, because several courses are focused on completion of individual projects, and are therefore tutorial in nature, a three-course semester may be arranged with flexibility and attention to a student's professional time constraints. Genuine effort is made to recognize individual student's scheduling needs. The sample curriculum discussed above and graphically displayed in the the sample doctoral course of study below has been designed as a guide. Students who follow the model plan have the potential to complete course work in three years and all degree requirements in approximately four years. Students have a total of eight years to finish the degree from the time of initial matriculation in the program.