Barry offers a living and learning community that values a diversity of perspectives and life experiences. That’s why at Barry, an education is far more than classrooms and tests; learning comes from everything around you.(about barry)
With our Catholic liberal arts heritage and over 100 degree programs, including nursing and marine biology, from bachelors through PhDs, we've got your options covered. Focus on arts and sciences, business, education, social work, communication, nursing, medical sciences, theology, or law. Take things further with personalized research and experiential learning opportunities, on and off-campus. Enhance your prospects with hands-on internships at some of the country's top organizations.
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At Barry University, you will experience a small community atmosphere where you can always rely on our administrators and faculty for advice, encouragement and personal attention. We take great pride in giving individual attention from the very beginning. You can start building a personal relationship with one of our admissions counselors who will help answer any questions, and guide you through the entire admissions and enrollment process.
We are committed to providing programs and services that are guided by Barry University's rich educational mission and intended to enhance your Barry experience. Through partnerships with others in the university community, we aim to create experiences that will help transform you into leaders for a just and humane world.
We are an NCAA Division II school and a member of the Sunshine State Conference with 12 varsity teams, including men's baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis; and women's basketball, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. So far, we've won 24 NCAA championships, had 338 All-Americans, 413 Scholar All-Americans, and nine NCAA "Women of the Year" finalists, the most of any Division II school. Not bad at all, but we're going for more.
Barry offers a living and learning community that values a diversity of perspectives and life experiences. That’s why at Barry, an education is far more than classrooms and tests; learning comes from everything around you.(Academics)
To complete the Doctor of Education in Transformational School Leadership, students must complete the following 18 courses (60 credits).
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Describes theories of leadership, studies the relationship between leadership style and organizational change, and examines the implementation process of a leader's vision.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course provides ethical frameworks and components in leadership experiences in both education systems and public service organizations. It provides opportunities to interpret, apply, and evaluate theoretical frameworks, resources for choices, and impacts of decisions.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Uses team building, group dynamics, and interpersonal sensitivity to motivate and inspire individuals and groups to work toward common goals.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Explores organizational theories and development from a leadership perspective with a focus on change within organizations, groups, and individuals.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Provides opportunities to apply a systematic planning process, examine approaches to policy development and program implementation, and analyze evaluation procedures.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Examines the process to identify problems and how to achieve solutions consistent with an organization’s vision; uses critical thinking and analytic reasoning as problem and policy framing skills for continued renewal.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Examines the political aspects of schooling. Students will become familiar with community power structures, the local electoral process, how boards of education function, how the school interacts with community pressures and needs, who is best and least well-served and why.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Studies psychological and organizational paradigms associated with learning of a collective whole. Examines the implications and challenges for learning brought about by the changing nature of work and global competition. Focuses on processes and procedures for achieving organizational learning through information distribution and interpretation, making meaning and organizational memory.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This seminar is designed to provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate a clear understanding of the interrelated nature of the experiences within the program through critical discourse and projects which explore contemporary issues as they relate to leadership.
Duration: 14 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
A critical analysis of philosophy of science and epistemology as applicable to theory development in the human science disciplines.
Duration: 14 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Examines advanced competencies to conceptualize, design, execute, analyze, report, and publish quantitative research that delivers new and useful knowledge. Balances its presentations of research theory and computer tools with applications to real world problems. Prerequisite: HSE 703.
Duration: 14 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
A critical analysis of qualitative methods of inquiry for the human sciences to facilitate the understanding of the aims, processes, and outcomes of these methods. Prerequisite: HSE 703.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Analyzes current teaching methods and strategies at the community college and university level. This course will explore topics such as adult learning (andragogy), societal issues dealing with gender, race, racism, cultural factors and their impact on teaching at the collegiate level. The course covers a variety of teaching and learning styles and gives the student an opportunity to participate in classroom teaching.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Explores the leadership and administrative roles in the implementation and management of information technology within a professional organization.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
This course will explore the social, cultural, and philosophical forces that impact upon schools in the urban setting and is intended to provide doctoral students with continued in depth grounding in related areas of knowledge. Issues endemic to the student in the urban setting, as well as the context of the surrounding community will also be explored. Approaches for teachers and school leaders working in these settings will be emphasized, through an interdisciplinary approach using philosophy and sociology as applied to pedagogy and leadership.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine the steps in the grant writing process, explore potential funding sources, and write a grant for procuring curriculum resources.
Duration: 14 weeks | Credit Hours: 6
This is the first of two capstone courses that together will provide a field-based action learning opportunity to develop meaningful solutions. Similar to the dissertation, the Capstone Project should be a demonstration of the student's ability to perform disciplined inquiry in accordance with traditional standards for doctoral performance.
*NOTE: In the proposed program of study, the credits for ADL 798 (Dissertation Seminar) and ADL 799 (Dissertation) will increase from 3 credits to 6 credits each. The credits will be distributed by Touch Points and will be placed at intervals during the program of study.
Duration: 14 weeks | Credit Hours: 6
This is the second of two capstone courses that together will provide a field-based action learning opportunity to analyze problems of practice using multiple frames to develop meaningful solutions. Similar to the dissertation, the Capstone Project should be a demonstration of the student's ability to perform disciplined inquiry in accordance with traditional standards for doctoral performance.
*NOTE: In the proposed program of study, the credits for ADL 798 (Dissertation Seminar) and ADL 799 (Dissertation) will increase from 3 credits to 6 credits each. The credits will be distributed by Touch Points and will be placed at intervals during the program of study.
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