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EIME Program Requirements

The EIME program is designed to provide students with a balance between depth and breadth and between theory and practice. The program consists of six interrelated components that provide a common core as well as choice and flexibility to accommodate the needs and interests of individual students.  

A set of required core courses

Designed to help students:

a.     better understand the nature, limits, and sources of human inquiry and knowledge

b.     become proficient in planning, conducting, and interpreting the findings of educational research and inquiry methods

Content-area Focus

A requirement that each student develop a content-area focus in one of four cross-disciplinary specialty areas taught within the David O. McKay School of Education.

Additional elective courses

Designed to help students acquire:

a.      a deeper understanding of the foundations of education

b.      expertise in selecting and using appropriate inquiry methods and analytical tools

A community of inquiry

Established to foster the dispositions students need to acquire to become contributing professionals as educational researchers, program evaluators, policy analysts, assessment specialists, and/or professors.

Mentored internships and apprenticeship opportunities

  A means of acquiring practical experience in the conduct of inquiry. 

A capstone experience

In completing a dissertation that involves practical experience in designing, conducting, and reporting the results of an inquiry study.