Harrison Middleton University

DOCTOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE PROGRAM COURSEWORK AND
APPLIED PROJECT

*EDU 701 - The Great Conversation: The Cornerstone Course* (required)**		4 Credit Hours
	This first course for the Doctor of Education degree program is specially designed to guide the student through the process of designing his her program of study. Students are introduced to the interpretive process used at the university by learning how to write effective higher order evaluative questions which prepares students for the in-depth discussions that follow in this course and throughout their studies in the doctoral program. Students learn how to best utilize Encyclopedia Britannica's 60-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World in order to get the most out of their doctoral studies research. Finally, students choose the additional coursework and begin the preliminary work towards planning the appropriate legal research in preparation for designing the applied project.
Education Topics EDU 720-1: The means and ends of education (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Cervantes, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Swift, Smith, Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, James, Freud, Dewey, Whitehead, Veblen, Levi-Strauss This course explores the following subtopics: 1a. The ideal of the educated person Authors: Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Cervantes, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Swift, Smith, Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, William James, Freud, Dewey, Whitehead, Veblen, and Levi-Strauss 1b. The education of women Authors: Erasmus, Moliere, Tocqueville, Eliot, George, Twain, Ibsen, Dewey, Whitehead, and Huizinga 1c. The disadvantages of being educated Authors: Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Augustine, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Swift, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Boswell, and Goethe
EDU 720-2: The kinds of education: physical, moral, liberal, professional, liberal (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Augustine, Calvin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Barth, Weber, Shaw
EDU 720-3: The training of the body and the cultivation of bodily skills: gymnastics, Manual work (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Plotinus, Virgil, Plutarch, Rabelais, Montaigne, Swift, Rousseau, Gibbon, Hegel, Darwin, James, Veblen, Proust
EDU 720-4: The formation of a good character: virtue, a right will: The cultivation of aesthetic taste (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Aurelius, Plotinus, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Bacon, Milton, Moliere, Montesquieu, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Tocqueville, Dickens, Darwin, Dostoevsky, James, Freud, Whitehead, Veblen, Proust This course explores the following subtopics: 4a. The possibility and limits of moral education: knowledge and virtue Authors: Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Aurelius, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Locke, Rousseau, Gibbon, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Darwin, Tolstoy, James, Freud, Veblen 4b. The influence of the family in moral training Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Aurelius, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Chaucer, Montaigne, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, Diderot, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Twain, Dostoevsky, Freud 4c. The role of the state in moral education: law, custom, public opinion Authors: Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Bacon, Milton, Locke, Swift, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith Gibbon, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Tocqueville, Darwin, Freud 4d. The effects upon character of poetry, music, and other arts: the role of History and examples Authors: Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Aurelius, Plotinus, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Bacon, Descartes, Milton, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Rousseau, Smith, Gibbon, Kant Boswell, Hegel, Nietzsche, Tocqueville, Huizinga, Cather
EDU 720-5: The improvement of the mind by teaching and learning (required)		4 Credit Hours
	This course includes the following subtopics: 5a. The profession of teaching: the relation of teacher and student Authors: Homer, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Plutarch, Tacitus, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Rabelais, Erasmus, Montaigne, Bacon, Milton, Smith, Mill, Boswell, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dewey, Veblen, Weber, Levi-Strauss 5b. The means and methods of teaching Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquinas, Rabelais, Montaigne, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Swift, Kant, Boswell, Hegel, Goethe, Dickens, James, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Weber, Levi-Strauss 5c. The nature of learning: its several modes Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Moliere, Locke, Kant, Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Hegel, Nietzsche, Twain, James, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Waddington, Veblen, Weber 5d. The order of learning: the organization of the curriculum Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachus, Epictetus, Ptolemy, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Smith, Kant, Boswell, Tocqueville, Goethe, Eliot, Dostoevsky, James, Dewey, Whitehead Veblen, Weber, Levi-Strauss 5e. The emotional aspects of learning: pleasure, desire, interest Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Lucretius, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Harvey, Spinoza, Pascal, Locke, Rousseau, Boswell, Goethe, James, Dewey, Whitehead, Hardy 5f. Learning apart from teachers and books: the role of experience Authors: Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Moliere, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Mill, Dickens, James, Dewey, Plank, Veblen, Levi-Strauss
EDU 720-6: The acquisition of techniques: preparation for the vocations, Arts and professions (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Plutarch, Rabelais, Moliere, Smith, Gibbon, Kant, Mill, Tocqueville, Goethe, Austen, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Dewey, Whitehead, Veblen, Tawney, Weber
EDU 720-8: Education and the state (required)		4 Credit Hours
	This course explores the following subtopics: 8a. The educational responsibility of the family and the state Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Aquinas, Hobbes, Montaigne, Swift, Rousseau, Smith, Gibbon, Hegel, Tocqueville, Marx, and Weber 8b. The economic support of educational institutions Authors: Bacon, Swift, Smith, Gibbon, Mill, Boswell, Hegel, and Veblen 8c. The political regulation and censorship of education Authors: Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Tacitus, Augustine, Hobbes, Cervantes, Bacon, Milton, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Gibbon, Mill, Boswell, and Hegel 8d. The training of the prince, the statesman, the citizen, the proletariat aristocratic and democratic theories of education Authors: Apocrypha, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Bacon, Rousseau, Smith, Gibbon, Federalist, Mill, Hegel, Tocqueville, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Orwell
Additional Coursework Student designs 3 four-credit hour courses choosing courses on topics in education and on related topics, for example: SSC 711 Citizen, SSC 712 Constitution, SSC 716 Democracy or SSC 746 Law, NSC 752 Mathematics, NSC 783 Science.		12 Credit Hours
	Authors: Selected authors from the Great Books of the Western World Each complete Topic of a Great Idea studied at the graduate level is equivalent to 4 credit hours of course work. Each complete Volume of the Great Books studied at the graduate level is equivalent to 4 credit hours of course work.
Education Topics EDU 720-9: Historical and biographical observations concerning the institutions and practices of education (required)		4 Credit Hours
	Authors: Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Aurelius Plutarch, Augustine, Hobbes, Rabelais, Erasmus, Montaigne, Cervantes, Bacon, Descartes, Milton, Moliere, Swift, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith, Gibbon, Mill, Boswell, Hegel, Tocqueville, Goethe, Eliot, Dewey, Whitehead, Hardy, Veblen, Weber Huizinga, Levi-Strauss, and Joyce
Applied Project Preparation EDU 702 Legal Research and Scholarly Legal Article		4 Credit Hours
	Part one of this course prepares students to conduct comprehensive research on educational laws, both federal and state regulations, laws, and rules for state in which he or she resides. Students participate in a series of discussions over the reading assignments and complete a workshop on research methods. The second part of the course gives students guidance for reporting the findings of the research in a scholarly legal article. In all fields of scientific and creative endeavor, scholars write articles and books, generate research proposals and design and implement applied projects. The document students write for the Doctor of Education degree program will be published by Harrison Middleton University. Adherence to a set of guidelines is a necessary prerequisite to the typical review and analysis that leads to publication or public display. Students participate in a Series of discussions on the reading assignments which detail the instructions for writing the scholarly legal article. After successfully completing part one and part two of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the necessary skills needed for conducting, analyzing, and reporting the results of their legal research.
Doctoral Capstone Course		8 Credit Hours
	The doctoral applied project must be based on a substantial and sustained research project and constitutes a significant contribution to knowledge in the student's discipline. Students design an applied project by investigating a problem or issue identified during their course of study.
Total:		60 Credit Hours