Jul 30, 2025  
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IECD-700 Comprehensive Essay

4 semester credits


The Comprehensive Assessment Essay (CAE) is a literature review around a topic related to the student’s dissertation. The student will provide an in-depth written analysis of scholarly sources, including those received in IECD coursework. The student should demonstrate a scholarly argument about their research question using critical analysis of both theory and methodology. Students will be asked to demonstrate doctoral competencies in critical reading, writing, and synthesis of scholarly literatures.

 
Pre-requisites: 52 credits from courses with prefixes of either IECD or PSY
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Credit/No Credit Only
Learning Outcome(s):

  1. Demonstrate mastery of university level competencies (DEI, critical thinking, scholarly writing).
  2. Situate their area of interest within a broader literature.
  3. Draw from multiple literatures to create a persuasive and comprehensive argument.
  4. Demonstrate an integrative understanding of student’s preferred theoretical orientation and its research base.
  5. Summarize the points of foundational and critical scholars in their areas of interest.



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