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1 8/18/10 1 Program of Study for PhD in Education, Health Education 2010 (for individuals admitted Fall 2010 and later) College of Education & Human Services Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Health Education program participates in the Doctoral of Philosophy in Education with a concentration in health education. The PhD has the following requirements: Graduate School Requirements (a minimum of 24 dissertation hours); Successful completion of EDUC 510, EDUC 511 or EDUC 512, EdPsych 505, EAHE 587, and one additional research course; Successful completion of the Residency and the Preliminary Examination; Successful completion of a doctoral defense; Eight core courses in health education; Additional requirements required by one s doctoral committee The PhD is a research degree that is tailored to meet the needs of the student. Based on professional expectations and university requirements, the PhD in Education in Health Education requires a minimum of 73 hours. Effective for the 2010 Summer/Fall Cohorts, the requirements have changed from previous cohorts. Be careful when comparing notes with previous students (or students who have entered prior to Fall 2010) they have differing requirements. Individual programs of study are developed by each doctoral student with their dissertation chairperson and approved by all members of the dissertation committee. The student should select a doctoral committee as soon as possible after they have some familiarity with the research interests of the faculty and some ideas about their potential research area. Selection of dissertation committee members is recommended by the end of their second semester OR before completion of 20 credit hours. In the interim, students admitted to the doctoral program will be assigned a temporary faculty advisor. Application Applicants for the PhD degree must have a minimal overall grade point average for all preceding graduate work of 3.25 (based on 4.0). Application for admission should include: 1. Completion and submission of the Graduate School admission application. This form is available on-line at Click the PhD application link. You will note two important items: A Review List link (to guide you through the application process) and the Graduate School/Program Application link. Follow the steps in the Review Link. 2. Submission of official transcripts for all previous undergraduate and graduate work. 3. A GRE score must be submitted. GREs results taken within 5 years of application are acceptable.

2 8/18/10 2 Application for graduate assistantships is contingent on individuals being accepted into the program. The completion of forms ( and submission of all materials needs to be submitted no later than April 1. All specified application materials must be submitted directly to the Director of Graduate Studies, Health Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL For further information, call (618) or send an to [email protected]. For questions regarding assistantships, please contact the chair of the department at [email protected]. Admission Process Acceptance into the doctoral program in health education will be primarily based on grade point average (GPA) of graduate coursework, GRE scores, responses to departmental application questions, recommendations from three professionals, and experience in health education or related fields. Undergraduate coursework will also be closely monitored. Students with limited professional preparation in health education may be required to take selected prerequisite courses as a condition of admission. Effective Fall, 2010, the PhD in Health Education will only accept 10 PhD students. Those found acceptable, but not within the top ten, will be placed on a waiting list. Should one of these ten individuals decide to not attend, the first on the waiting list will be contacted. The deadline for Fall admission is the third Friday in January. There is a possibility of a last chance review on or around April 1. However it should be noted that those found acceptable will be placed on the waiting list (as described above), with their ranking based on their overall evaluation score. Again, should somebody decide not to attend the next individual on the waiting list will be contacted. All students admitted are expected to attend the program PhD orientation. This is typically held the Friday before Fall semester classes start. More information will be forthcoming in your acceptance letter. Once admitted, please bookmark This web page will also contain various materials you ll need throughout your doctoral experience. Included on this form will be announcements, prospecti and dissertations that you can download, as well as various forms required.

3 8/18/10 3 Course Requirements: (the minimum hours for the PhD in Education, Health Education is 73 hours past the masters) Foundations of Education: 6 hours EDUC Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Education. This seminar is required of all new students enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Education, to be taken at or near the beginning of their studies. The seminar serves as an introduction to doctoral studies and doctoral-level scholarship in Education. It will emphasize each student s development as a critically reflective scholar and address the attitudes, assumptions and practices that underlie scholarly inquiry in the Education field. ONE of the following two: EDUC Doctoral Seminar in Philosophical and Cultural Foundations of Education. This seminar is one of two course options required for all students pursuing a doctoral degree in the College of Education and Human Services. The primary objectives are to aid in the development of the Doctoral student s own nature and reflective theory of education; to help students pursue their scholarly activities in relation to the whole field of education; and to make the student aware of the resources of scholarship in other disciplines which might be said to be foundational to education. Prerequisite: admission to the Ph.D. program in education and EDUC 510. EDUC Doctoral Seminar in Behavioral and Cognitive Foundations of Education. This seminar is one of two course options required for all students pursuing a doctoral degree in the College of Education and Human Services. The primary objectives are to aid the student in describing the attitudes, assumptions and practices which underlie empirical inquiry; to help the student to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the various types of research in terms of methodology employed; and to aid the student in identifying and refining a research question and constructing a research design appropriate to answer the research question. Prerequisite: admission to the Ph.D. program in education and EDUC 510. Research Tools: 9-10 hours The following courses are required for ALL students: ED Psych 505-3: Introduction to Quantitative Research EAHE Introduction to Qualitative Research In addition to the above two, students must also take at LEAST one more cross-disciplinary research methods course (3-4 credit hours). This decision is in consultation with your advisor/doctoral committee. A listing of those courses can be found in the PhD Policies found at A 2.75 or higher overall GPA for the three courses is required. The PhD is a research degree and you will be strongly advised to go beyond the minimum requirement listed above.

4 8/18/10 4 Dissertation Hours: 24 hours Dissertation: Students must take 24 hours of HED 600. Note: one can register for no more than 6 hours until they ve been admitted to candidacy (passed preliminary exams). Once admitted to candidacy, students can enroll for the remaining 18 hours. Health Education Core Courses: 25 hours The following Health Education Courses are required: HED 533a-4 HED 533b-4 HED HED HED HED HED HED Foundations of Health Education I Foundations of Health Education II Community Organization Curriculum Development & Program Planning Current Issues in Health Education Health Behavior Research & Evaluation in Health Education Seminar (to be taken twice for a total of 2 hours) Students can petition for substitution of certain courses if they have had such courses at the graduate level (i.e., masters). The students doctoral committee makes the final decision. The committee will need a copy of the syllabus from the course that one completed at the other institution. Additional Graduate Coursework: 9 hours To be selected in collaboration with your doctoral advisor/committee. Health Education faculty strongly advise having a sexuality course and a drug use/abuse course in your academic preparation. If you have not had either of those courses, you will be strongly encouraged to take HED or HED for the sexuality topic or HED for the drug use/abuse. Those courses could count among the additional graduate hours. Doctoral/Dissertation Committee The Doctoral/Dissertation Committee consists of five faculty with graduate level status. When you are admitted you are assigned a temporary advisor. That temporary advisor is to assist you the first semester you are here on campus. You are expected to meet with faculty throughout the first semester and select your permanent chair/advisor. NOTE: DO NOT feel obligated to have your temporary advisor serve as your permanent advisor. It is strongly encouraged that you identify your permanent chair, and the remaining faculty, no later than 20 hours into your program of study. Only those faculty who have chair authorization by the graduate school can serve as your chair/advisor. Basically, those are individuals who are Associate Professor or Professors in health education.

5 8/18/10 5 As of Fall, 2010, Health Education faculty who can chair/direct doctoral committees are: Stephen Brown, PhD Joyce Fetro, PhD Mark Kittleson, PhD Roberta Ogletree, HSD Kathleen Welshimer, PhD In addition to your advisor/chair, you must have on your committee: Two additional health education faculty o In addition to the above health education faculty, Dr. Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, Dr. Peggy Wilken, Dr. Paul Sarvela can serve on committees. Emeriti faculty include Dr. David Birch, Dr. Dale Ritzel and Dr. Judy Drolet. One faculty member outside PhD in Education program who is involved with a PhD program outside of Health Education o Examples include faculty from Rehabilitation Institute, Psychology, Sociology, etc. This could also include a faculty member from another institution (although this would require approval from the graduate school). One faculty member who has graduate faculty status o This could include faculty who are teaching in PhD programs OR it could also include graduate faculty in other programs/colleges such as College of Applied Sciences and Arts, Social Work, Kinesiology, Recreation. This could also include a faculty member from another institution (although this would require approval from the graduate school). Note: The Graduate School only permits ONE adjunct faculty member per committee. The graduate school considers the following ADJUNCT: 1) An Emeriti faculty member; 2) An SIU faculty/staff member who does not have graduate status (who must be approved by the graduate school); 3) A faculty member from another institution. Upon completing the committee form (found at click the PhD forms link), you must complete the program of study form. That form must be signed by you, your committee chair, and the remainder of your committee. The signed form must then be submitted to the Dean of the College of Education & Human Services. Sequence of Health Education Courses For full-time doctoral students, it is strongly advised that courses be taken in the following sequence: Year 1 Fall - HED 533a & HED 525 Year 2 Fall - HED 510, HED 500 & HED 533b Year 3 Fall-HED 597(1 hour) Year 1 Spring - HED 515 & HED 526 Year 2 Spring - HED 597(1 hour)

6 8/18/10 6 Advancement to Candidacy Students may petition to take their preliminary examination after they ve completed all required courses (Education Foundations, Research Tools, Health Education core). Upon passing the comprehensive examination, students can complete paperwork to be admitted to candidacy. Prior to this admittance, only six of the dissertation hours will count toward the required 24. Once admitted to candidacy, students have five calendar years to complete their degree requirements. In addition, once admitted to candidacy, students can propose their research project (prospectus). Upon approval, students can collect their data and then defend their study (doctoral defense). The preliminary examination is a three part written examination. It is held during the fifth week of the semester during Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Students must pass all three sections to be considered passing their preliminary examination. Students who fail two parts are considered to have failed the entire exam. If a student fails any, or all parts, they will be required to retake those sections again. Students have three attempts to pass the entire examination. If unable to pass all three parts after the third attempt, they will be dropped from the program. The prelims will take place over two days. Day 1, 9:00 am to Noon History, Philosophy, Ethics Day 1, 1:00 pm to 4:00 Program Planning/ Community Organization/ Models and Theories Day 2, 9:00 am to Noon Research and Evaluation Prospectus/Defense/HED 597 PhD students are required to take HED 597 AFTER successful completion of HED 533b HED 597 is a one credit course at this printing you ll also need to take it a second time in the following summer or fall). Thus, students will take their first HED 597 in the spring following HED 533b. In that first semester, students will physically meet for a period of several weeks to review, discuss, and analyze different components of a successful dissertation. After completion of those meetings, students are then required to read and attend a minimum of 6 prospectus/defenses before they graduate. Note that students must also take HED 597 for a second time (both are taken for 1 credit), but there is no class meeting requirements. All prospectus/defenses can be downloaded at Note that all prospectus/defenses MUST be posted a minimum of 2 weeks prior to their selected date.

7 8/18/10 7 Deadline for Graduation Deadlines to attend graduation are posted each semester. Typically, the deadline to attend graduation is approximately one month prior to graduation. The Graduate School requires that all materials must be turned in by that deadline. The Graduate School posts specific guidelines for dissertations. Go to for specific instructions. The PhD in Health Education accepts either APA or AMA citation. Students must keep in consideration that the Dean of the College of Education & Human Services must sign off on your paper. The dean will require a minimum of one week to read and sign off on the paper. Please keep this in mind as you are preparing to meet the Graduation deadlines. Finally, one must complete the Graduation Application no later than the second Friday of the semester (first Friday for summer). One can download the form by going to Note that you need to complete this form just once. If you do not complete the requirements for the particular semester you are in the Graduate School rolls the application over to the next semester. Graduation ceremonies take place at the end of Summer, Fall, and Spring Semesters. Retention Any doctoral candidate with a grade point average of less than 3.25 after 16 semester hours of doctoral work will not be allowed to continue in the program or be readmitted at a later date. Continuing Enrollment If a student completes 24 dissertation hours but has yet to finished their dissertation, they must register for one credit hour in HED 601: Continuing Enrollment, for each subsequent semester until graduation. Summer enrollment is not required, UNLESS the candidate is graduating during the summer term. If you do not register for HED 601 you will automatically be registered by the graduate school. Note, due to bursar requirements, if your bursar bill is over $500, the Graduate School is not permitted to register you automatically. However, once your bursar bill goes below $500 you ll be required to register for HED 601 of previous semesters that you have missed. Twitter It is strongly recommended that all PhD students obtain a Twitter account ( and follow SIUPHD. This is the mechanism that will alert PhD students to news regarding the program. Information such as prospecti, defenses, awards/scholarship deadlines, jobs may be included. One can configure their Twitter account to allow such messages to be sent to one s cell phone. For more information, as well as tutorials on how to obtain and configure your Twitter account, go to

8 8/18/10 8 Annual Doctoral Survey All PhD students are required to complete the annual PhD survey. Such survey is typically available in April/May of each year and is due by June 30 th of that year. The survey can be obtained on-line at (you ll also be notified by Twitter when it s available). Failure to complete such survey may lead to being dropped from the program. Forms There are a series of forms (found at that you will need to become familiar with. Such forms include: Committee Form: to be completed before you complete 20 hours of coursework. This identifies your committee. This form can be redone should you change committee members. Program of Study: to be complete AFTER you have complete the Committee Form. Identifies all courses you are taking. Must have all committee members sign form. Admission to Candidacy Form: After you have passed your preliminary examination, your advisor will complete this form. Pre-Prospectus Approval Form: his form must be signed by the chair and all committee members at least 14 days prior to the prospectus. It indicates that the committee member has received a copy and gives permission for the student to have their prospectus. All signed copies must be given to the Departmental Graduate Director 14 days prior to one's prospectus. PhD Prospectus Announcement: This form is used to announce to the department, college, and graduate students of an upcoming prospectus. This is filled out by the Departmental Graduate Director after receiving the Prospectus Permission to Schedule Form. Prospectus Approval Form: This form is filled out by the student and/or chair prior to prospectus. Committee members sign the form if the student has had a successful prospectus. Turn signed copies to the Departmental Graduate Director, who will then forward it to the appropriate channels. Permission to Schedule Dissertation Form: Use this form to schedule a defense. It is to be completed the chair of the student's committee and given to the Departmental Graduate Director. Timeline: One month prior to defense. Pre-Dissertation Presentation Approval Form: This form must be signed by the chair and all committee members at least 14 days prior to the defense. It indicates that the committee member has received a copy and gives permission for the student to have their defense. All signed copies must be given to the Departmental Graduate Director 14 days prior to one's defense.

9 8/18/10 9 Ph.D. Oral Announcement: This form is used to announce to the department, college, and graduate students of an upcoming defense. This is filled out by the Departmental Graduate Director after receiving the Permission to Schedule Dissertation Form. Timeline: 14 days prior to defense. Ph.D. Oral Defense: This form should be prepared ahead of the defense and be given to the chair of the committee at the beginning of the defense. This will be placed in the front of the thesis after the final changes have been made. The chair of the committee keeps these forms until the final changes are made. Dissertation Evaluation Form (one copy for each committee member): This form is to be prepared prior to the defense. Include all pertinent information (name, faculty evaluator, date, etc.). Please provide these completed forms to your chair prior to your defense. Chairs--all completed forms should be turned into the Departmental Graduate Director immediately after the defense. Graduate School Graduation Form: Student who plan to graduate in a particular semester are required to complete this form and turn it into the graduate school. Note...if graduation does NOT occur in that semester, the application will roll-over to the next semester until graduation requirements have been met. Timeline: Due in the Graduate School by end of 2nd week of semester.

10 8/18/10 10 Graduate Status Health Education Faculty College of Education and Human Services Brown, Stephen L., Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2001; Stress management, mental health, adolescent health behavior, worksite wellness. Fetro, Joyce V. Professor and Chair, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1987; Professional preparation, curriculum development, program planning, death education, substance use prevention, youth development, program evaluation, research design, marketing and advocacy program administration/management. Kittleson, Mark J., Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D., University of Akron, 1986; AIDS, program planning, stress management, research design, vital statistics, teaching strategies, technology. Ogletree, Roberta J., Professor, H.S.D., Indiana University, 1991; School and college health education, foundations of health education, curriculum development, women's health, human sexuality education, professional preparation, health issues and aging. Ratnapradipa, Dhitinut Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 2001; Environmental health, epidemiology, global health. Welshimer, Kathleen J., Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990; Community organizing, women's and children's health, health psychology, community assessment and planning. Wilken, Peggy, Clinical Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1995; First aid and advanced first aid concepts, environmental health, sexuality, international health, emotional health, and aging. Additional Faculty with Health Education Appointment: Birch, David A. Professor Emeritus, PhD., Penn State University, 1987; Currently faculty member at East Carolina University. (retired) Drolet, Judy C. Professor Emerita, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1982; Human sexuality, sexuality education, mental health, professional preparation, foundations of health education. (retired) Sarvela, Paul D., Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1984; Vice President of Academy Affairs, SIU. Program evaluation, community health and epidemiology, needs assessment and strategic planning. Ritzel, Dale O., Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1966; Injury control, occupational health and safety, child safety, computer applications, research design, the Internet, and traffic safety. (retired)