Concentrations
Human Services Administration |
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About the Concentration
The doctor of education with a concentration in human services administration is designed specifically for practicing human services professionals working with individuals across the life span, families, communities, and/or organizations. This program will help practitioners develop leadership skills, becoming proactive, ethical agents of change in systems and organizations that affect quality of life, through self-reflection and analysis, and best practices through practical application. Those skills and practices can then be used to solve real problems in the workplace. The doctoral program inhuman services administration focuses on developing practitioners that can respond to current issues and trends in human service settings, as well as predict, prepare for, advocate for, and shape the future of services for the benefit of diverse populations of stakeholders.
Who Should Apply
- practicing human services professionals in schools, hospitals, universities, skilled nursing facilities, private practice, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, not-for-profit organizations, or government agencies
- individuals with master's degrees who wish to obtain a doctoral degree and increase their knowledge and skills in human services administration and leadership
Requirements
Admission Requirements
- For Admission Requirement, Attendance Requirements, and Dissertation Services requirements information, please click here
Program Completion Requirements
- Satisfactory completion of both attendance requirements
- DSO 8000 - Doctoral Studies Orientation
- FSC 8000 - Summer Conference (Conference on Global Leadership, Learning and Research)
- Satisfactory completion of all required courses
- Students must complete EDD 9200 prior to enrolling in EDD 9300. Students must complete EDD 9300 prior to enrolling in EDD 9100.
- Students must complete EDD 9300 prior to enrolling in ARC 8917. Students must complete ARC 8912 prior to enrolling in ARC 8918.
- successful completion of an applied dissertation
- cumulative maintained grade point average of 3.0 or higher
- completed application for degree: http://www.nova.edu/cwis/registrar/instructions.html
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