TESOL Residential Session
Doctor of Education in TESOL (Ed.D.) Course Schedule
Real-time online classes are 90 minutes; the first hour is led by the professor and the final half-hour is for student-led discussion. All times are California/Pacific Time. Please note the schedule is subject to change.
Ed.D. TESOL REQUIRED 4-DAY RESIDENTIAL SESSIONS
Ed.D. TESOL students are required to attend two 4-day residential sessions during their program. Each year, an annual residential session will be held in California or other locations around the world on occasion. Details regarding the 2025 residential session are forthcoming.
| Term | Course | Real-time Online Class time (Fridays CA time) |
| Term 1: January 2 - March 3, 2025 |
EDU 700 Instructed Second Language Acquisition EDU 702 Individual Learner Differences in Language Learning and Teaching EDU 732 Dissertation Proposal Writing EDU 733 Dissertation |
TBA |
| Term 2: March 10 - May 12, 2025 |
EDU 721 Language Teacher Education EDU 711 Technology and Language Education EDU 704 Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers EDU 733 Dissertation |
TBA |
| Term 3: May 19 - July 21, 2025 |
EDU 720 ELT Leadership and Management EDU 712 ELT Materials Development EDU 731 Quantitative Research Methods EDU 733 Dissertation |
TBA |
| Term 4: July 28 - September 28, 2025 |
EDU 732 Dissertation Proposal Writing EDU 710 Curriculum Design EDU 733 Dissertation |
TBA |
| Term 5: October 6 - December 7, 2025 |
EDU 701 Interlanguage Pragmatics EDU 733 Dissertation |
TBA |
All online class times are California/Pacific Time. Please note that California observes Daylight Savings Time each year from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
Comprehensive Exams are scheduled according to student need. Students who fail the Comprehensive Exam will be enrolled in a Study Term and assigned a professor to mentor them through the process of studying and synthesizing their coursework. They will pay the standard tuition and records fee for this support and to re-sit the exam.
PLEASE NOTE: Failure to take a required course when one is offered may prevent a student from completing his/her program in the allotted time, as all course work must be completed before a student will be allowed to advance to the dissertation phase of the program. Schedules are subject to change.