{"id":41,"date":"2010-11-10T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/cob-graduate\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:57:02","slug":"doctoral-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/ph-d-program-in-business\/doctoral-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Doctoral Curriculum<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The doctoral curriculum consists of 60 to 66 semester hours of course work, which includes: 18 to 24 semester hours in the area of concentration, 6 to 9 semester hours in a supporting field, 12 semester hours of research methods, 3 semester hours of teaching methods, and 21 semester hours of dissertation research.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\"><strong>Types of Courses<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><strong>Number of Semester Hours<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\">Research Core Requirements ( 4 courses)<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\">12 credit hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\">Major Field Requirements ( 6 to 8 courses)<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\">18 to 24 credit hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\">Minor\/Supporting Field Requirement (2 or 3 courses)<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\">6 to 9 credit hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\">Teaching Methods (1 course)<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\">3 credit hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\">Dissertation Research Requirement<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\">21 credit hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"420\"><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><strong>60 to 66 credit hours<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Following satisfactory completion of the course work requirements, each student must pass a comprehensive examination in his\/her concentration and successfully defend a dissertation proposal and a final dissertation in front of the dissertation committee and the department\u2019s faculty.\u00a0 Students are awarded the Ph.D. degree after successful completion of the doctoral curriculum and all other university requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral Curriculum The doctoral curriculum consists of 60 to 66 semester hours of course work, which includes: 18 to 24 semester hours in the area of concentration, 6 to 9 semester hours in a supporting field, 12 semester hours of research methods, 3 semester hours of teaching methods, and 21 semester hours of dissertation research. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/businessgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}