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Rehabilitation Research
Course work: Students must complete 15 credits of course work in research methods and statistics course approved; which may include some of the following courses: Courses can be chosen from any College but should be chosen with input from the major professor and approved by the student’s supervisory committee.
AGG 6830 Grant Writing (2 credits) This course is designed for students to learn how to prepare and submit grants for research funding. It is recommended that this course be taken no sooner than the fourth semester of study.
Students must take an introductory statistics course at the graduate level and can choose a number of options, designed to teach students basic nonparametric and parametric statistics. These are four of several possible courses:
- CLP 6527 and CLP 6528 Research Design and Statistics (6 credits – fall and spring)
- STA 6126 and STA 6127 Statistical Methods in Social Research I and II (6 credits - fall)
- EDF 6401 Educational Statistics (3 credits - Summer A)
- EDF 6403 Quantitative Research Methods in Education (6 credits)
Students are required to take an Epidemiology Course PHC 6717 Theory and Methods in Public Health Disability Research (2 credits – Summer B)
The courses listed below reflect progressive involvement is actual research working with your major professor.
- RSD 6905 Independent Work (1 - 12 credits)
- RSD 6910 Rehabilitation Science Theory and Application I (3 credits)
- RSD 7979 Advanced Rehabilitation Research (1 - 12 credits)
- RSD 7980 Doctoral Dissertation (1 - 15 credits)
A student must enroll for at least 32 semester hours of research application.