Organizational Development & Change, PhD

Human & Organizational Development Programs

Organizational Development & Change, PhD

The PhD degree in Organizational Development & Change requires completion of the following: • New Student Orientation (NSO) and Learning Plan • Interdisciplinary foundations and leadership courses • Organizational Development & Change emphasis courses • Advanced research studies, including a Portfolio Review and Comprehensive Assessment • Elective coursework • Dissertation

A master's degree is awarded automatically upon completion of the following 40 credits: HOD-699, 801-803OD, 805-807, 810, 822, and 8 additional elective credits.

Students have the option to fulfill elective requirements choosing not just from HOD [course prefix] electives but from any of the general electives offered in the IECD program and/or the Leadership for Change program.

OD&C students may structure their elective choices to fulfill an optional OD&C concentration in one of the following: • Evidence Based Coaching • Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice • Media, Technology, & Innovation • Organization Development • Sustainability Leadership

Or one of these concentrations as listed below: • Community College Leadership for Change • Creative Longevity & Wisdom • Dual Language • Leadership of Higher Education Systems • Reflective Practice/Supervision • Somatics, Phenomenology and Communicative Leadership

Required Coursework

Effective date: 09/01/2018

Required Foundations (26 credits)

• HOD-699 Foundations of Doctoral Study 4 semester credits • HOD-801 Doctoral Competencies Seminar 2 semester credits • HOD-802 Foundations of Inquiry 4 semester credits • HOD-803OD Practicum in Organization & Systems Change 4 semester credits • HOD-805 Foundations of Organization Studies 4 semester credits

• HOD-806 Systems Approaches to Leadership, Organizations, and Society 4 semester credits • HOD-807 Social & Ecological Justice 4 semester credits

Organizational Development and Change course

• HOD-822 Organization Development and Change 4 semester credits

Required Advanced (14 credits)

• HOD-810 Portfolio Review 2 semester credits • HOD-881 Qualitative Research Methods 4 semester credits • HOD-882 Quantitative Research Methods 4 semester credits • HOD-891 ODC Comprehensive Assessment 4 semester credits

Electives (24 credits)

Choose any additional 24 credits from HD or OD&C degree emphasis area courses, HD/OD&C concentration courses listed below, or any general electives with the course prefix of ELC, HOD, or IECD. • HOD-804 Human Development 4 semester credits • HOD-811 Advanced Human Development 4 semester credits • HOD-812 Human Learning and Motivation 4 semester credits • HOD-814 Gendered Identities 4 semester credits • HOD-815 Transformative Learning 4 semester credits • HOD-816 Post Traumatic Growth 4 semester credits • HOD-820 Advanced Organization Studies 4 semester credits • HOD-821 Organization Development Practicum 4 semester credits • HOD-823 Leadership Theories and Methods 4 semester credits • HOD-824 Social Psychology 4 semester credits • HOD-825 Public Policy and Public Action 4 semester credits • HOD-826 Social Change 4 semester credits • HOD-829 Praxis II 4 semester credits • HOD-830 Creativity and Innovation in Organization Design 4 semester credits • HOD-831 Structural Inequality and Diversity 4 semester credits • HOD-832 Advanced Systems 4 semester credits • HOD-833 Global Systems 4 semester credits • HOD-834 Group Dynamics and Team Learning 4 semester credits • HOD-835 Intervention Theories and Methods 4 semester credits • HOD-836 Culture, Technology, and Social Change in the Digital Age 4 semester credits • HOD-837 Ethnography and Crossing Borders 4 semester credits • HOD-838 Media, Technology and Disruptive Innovation 4 semester credits • HOD-840 Inclusive Leadership: Transforming Self and Systems 4 semester credits • HOD-841 Mindful Leadership 4 semester credits • HOD-843 Ecological Studies 4 semester credits • HOD-844 Leadership for Social and Ecological Sustainability 4 semester credits • HOD-845 Social and Ecological Sustainability: Theory and Practice 4 semester credits • HOD-846 Intervening in Systems 4 semester credits • HOD-847 Theoretical Foundations of Evidence Based Coaching 4 semester credits • HOD-848 Organizational and Leadership Coaching 4 semester credits

• HOD-849 Evidence Based Coaching Praxis 4 semester credits • HOD-850 Creative Longevity and Wisdom 4 semester credits • HOD-851 Comparative Wisdom Traditions 4 semester credits • HOD-852 Spiritual Psychology 4 semester credits • HOD-853 Spiritual Practice and Social Justice 4 semester credits • HOD-854 Somatics in Human and Organization Development 4 semester credits • HOD-856 Writing Phenomenology 4 semester credits • HOD-857 Adult Development 4 semester credits • HOD-859 Communications Theory and Practice 4 semester credits • HOD-860 Advanced Topics 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-861 Advanced Specialization Studies 4 semester credits • HOD-883AO Advanced Research Methodologies: Appreciative Organizations 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883AR Advanced Research Methodologies: Action Research 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883AS Advanced Research Methodologies: Applied Somatics 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883CH Advanced Research Methodologies: Methodologies for Studying Change 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883CP Advanced Research Methodologies: Critical Participatory Action Research 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883EH Advanced Research Methodologies: Ethnography 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883GT Advanced Research Methodologies: Grounded Theory 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883LR Advanced Research Methodologies: Liberatory Research 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883NI Advanced Research Methodologies: Narrative Inquiry 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883PG Advanced Research Methodologies: Phenomenography and Variation 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883PH Advanced Research Methodologies: Phenomenology 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883QA Advanced Research Methodologies: Advanced Qualitative Methods 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883ST Advanced Research Methodologies: Advanced Quantitative Methods 2 or 4 semester credits • HOD-883WC Advanced Research Methodologies: World Cafe 2 or 4 semester credits

Dissertation (16 credits)

• HOD-893 ODC Dissertation Seminar 4 semester credits • HOD-896 Dissertation Pilot Study 2 semester credits • HOD-897 Dissertation in Progress 0 semester credits • RES-IRB IRB Approval for Dissertation 0 semester credits • HOD-PA Dissertation Proposal Approval 0 semester credits • HOD-898 Final Oral Review of Dissertation 0 semester credits • HOD-899 Dissertation Completion 10 semester credits

Total Semester Credits: 84