Academic Track Structure 9 courses = 36 credit hours,
practical training = 18 credit hours
Ph. D. thesis = 36 credit hours
ABOUT THE ACADEMIC TRACK
The academic track seeks to form educational faculties, develop the ability to research and consider modern issues and theories in the field of curricula and teaching methods, and develop modern curricula and teaching methods, based on the Qur’an, the Sunnah of the Prophet, and the opinions of former Muslim scholars.
Developing the student’s behavioral and practical skills necessary for communication with society, in order to discover the problems of curricula and teaching methods used and the existence of means to address them.Vision
Towards an educational academic education that transcends the scientific capabilities of the learners, and enables them to in-depth and the ability to research in the field of curricula and teaching methods in the field of specialization.
Mission
Preparing students to advance in the learning of educational sciences, and to delve into knowledge, in particular, of curricula and teaching methods in the field of specialization.
Objectives
- Qualifying graduates in teaching methods in the field of specialization, equipped with the necessary and advanced research skills in the field of various educational sciences and strategies, and educational leadership and management skills according to educational methodologies and theories.
- Providing graduates with the necessary expertise to become an effective educator and a successful member of the teaching staff
- Graduating researchers who are able to link the teachings of contemporary human sciences with the teachings of the Islamic religion, by benefiting from the contributions of early Muslims in this field.
- Develop the skill of creativity, logical and analytical thinking, objective criticism, and the ability to solve problems.
- Creating an enjoyable educational experience that keeps pace with the speed of educational technological changes in the modern world, which affect the contemporary educator and make him able to help others, and then play his role as caliph on earth.
- Providing important intellectual scientific contributions in the field of teaching humanities, as well as providing innovative solutions to daily problems in this field.
- Applying the teachings of the Qur’an in solving the contemporary methodological problems of Muslims in teaching human sciences.
- Explain and apply a set of methods used and compare them with the methods frequently used in teaching humanities in solving the current methodological problems of Muslims in this field.
- The acquisition and use of knowledge and the contribution of former Muslim teachers in dealing with strategic methodological issues to improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process.
Identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the internal and external environmental influences on humanities teaching methods in order to develop strategic plans to manage change, innovate new ways and connect teachers’ educational experiences directly with communities, and solve methodological problems around the world.
The First Stage
- The student studies nine courses, distributed as follows:
- √ Six compulsory courses.
- √Three elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for Ph.D. students.
- The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
- The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the abilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
- Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
- If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.
The Second Stage
● The student is assigned a virtual two course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the bachelor’s level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty minutes.
The Thrid Stage
Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a Ph. D. degree in Education and Social Sciences
- Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a Ph.d degree in Education and Social Sciences The student must pass the prescribed academic courses with at least 70%.
- The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
- The student submits a request to the university administration to register a Ph. D. thesis with a suggested topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
- If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
- The research plan includes the importance of the subject and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the methodology of the study and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the division of the study and its sources.
- The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
- The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
- The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
- In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.
Jury discussion and degree awarding
- The minimum period for preparing a Ph. D. thesis is 16 months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is 7 years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and The approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
- The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
- After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submission a full A copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the discipline, for presentation to the council the faculty.
- It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
- The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 grade, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
- The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
- Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.
- The thesis is approved after public discussion by the jury with one of the grades shown in the following table:
Definition Point Grade Excellent 4.00 A+ Excellent 3.75 A Very Good 3.50 B+ Very Good 3.00 B Good 2.50 C+ Average 2.00 C Pass on probation 1.50 D+ Pass on probation 1.00 D Fail 0.00 F
- The following grades are not taken into account for the semester or cumulative GPA.
Thesis or project in progress : DP Incomplete : I In progress : IP Registration has been suspended : L The grade has not been decided : NGR Did not take the final exam. : NP Transferred course. : T Withdraw from the course. : W The course covers two semesters, the degree is given at the end of the spring or summer semester. : YR There are no credit hours. : NC One credit hour taken as a private student. The credit hours and the degree do not count towards the degree : ND Re-submitted course, only the last grade is used in calculating the GPA. : R Credit taken as a special student. Credit hours and grade counted towards a degree. : S Credits
Before the 2016-2017 fall semester 1 credit point is equivalent to 1 semester lecture hour. In the 2016 – 2017 fall semester the University introduced the ECTS – European Credit Transfer System.Academic Calendar
International Suleiman University calendar is based on the semester system. Each semester has a duration of 15 weeks including the week of the final exam. The summer semester is 10 weeks long, including the final exam.
Core Courses for General Track
Advanced Studies in Scientific Research Methodology
Course code: DESS101
Course name: Advanced Studies in Scientific Research Methodology
Credit hours: 4.00
This course includes a general review of research methods and their components. It also includes the various research designs that are used in experimental studies conducted in the educational, psychological and social fields. It also introduces the characteristics, uses, and factors threatening their validity. This course deals with the use of well-known statistical software in analyzing educational data, such as SAS, SPSS, AMOS software. This course focuses on data entry and organization, and the use of software to examine and analyze data using advanced descriptive, inferential and correlational statistical methods such as ANOVA in its various forms, one-way and factorial. repeated measures, and analysis of variance (ANCOVA). The course also deals with the main correlational designs, such as simple and multiple regression analysis, and paths analysis.
Curriculum Analysis and Design
Course code: DECT101
Course name: Curriculum Analysis and Design
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of analysis (its meaning, philosophy, types, the difference between it and criticism and between it and evaluation). Analysis in education (its purpose and functions). Curriculum analysis and curriculum design (concept and budget). Curriculum analysis (its place in curriculum studies, its objectives, methods and tools, plans, judges and problems), and training applications.
The Nture and Philosophy of Science
Course code: DECT102
Course Name: The Nture and Philosophy of Science
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to provide students with concepts, skills, values and applications in the following areas: Science is its concept, nature and fields. The nature of scientific knowledge. The structure of science (facts, concepts, principles, laws, theories) and their relationship to each other. Philosophy of Science. theory of knowledge. Scholars’ theory of philosophy. Logic and its relationship to understanding science and its philosophy. The relationship of science with philosophy. The importance of philosophy in building and interpreting human knowledge. Scientific research methods, characteristics of scientific thinking and their role in reaching scientific facts, concepts and principles, science’s view of contemporary problems and its role in solving them, history of science and philosophy.
Advanced Psychostatistics and its Applications
Course code: DECT103
Course name: Advanced Psychostatistics and its Applications
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to study the most important statistical concepts and methods related to statistical estimation, its characteristics and designs working in the analysis of variance and non-parametric treatments of all kinds, and the use of that in psychological and educational sciences, while introducing the student to the image in which these results appear through practical application on the computer on one of the famous packages such as SPSS
Advanced Studies in Educational Supervision
Course code: DECT104
Course name: Advanced Studies in Educational Supervision
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of educational supervision, its operational and theoretical foundations, educational supervision as a profession, the stages of development and the reality of educational supervision, the tasks of educational supervision / such as helping the teacher, professional development, the development of curricula, in addition to other issues that overlap with the previous vocabulary such as: the obstacles of educational supervision and how to deal with them, Can we dispense with supervision or replace it with other methods of supervision?
Contemporary Issues in Curricula and Teaching Methods
Course code: DECT106
Course name: Contemporary Issues in Curricula and Teaching Methods
Credit hours: 4.00
The importance of studying contemporary issues and problems facing the curricula and teaching, discussing the most important contemporary issues and problems in the curricula locally, regionally and internationally, standing on some contemporary problems, issues and experiences in the curricula and how they were addressed, comparing the size of certain problems in the curricula locally with their counterparts in other countries, In order to propose some solutions to those problems and issues.
Curriculum and Thought Development
Course code: DECT107
Course name: Curriculum and Thought Development
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of thinking, its definitions and characteristics, types of thinking, its processes, levels and skills, strategies and methods for learning and developing thinking criteria, applications of teaching thinking through school curricula, programs and local and international experiences for developing thinking, obstacles to thinking development, difficulties in learning and teaching thinking, the role of school curricula in developing thinking, thinking And intelligence and creativity, the psychological foundations of thought processes.
Elective Courses for General Track
Recent Trends in Curricula and Teaching
Course code: DECT151
Course name: Recent Trends in Curricula and Teaching
Credit hours: 4.00
The importance of studying recent trends, applications and experiences in curricula and teaching, the factors that contributed to the emergence and development of these trends and modern experiences, discussing a number of experiences, trends and applications and studying their impact on our curricula present and in the future, the most important suggestions and recommendations based on in-depth studies of these trends and applications.
Computer Applications in the Curriculum
Course code: DECT152
Course name: Computer Applications in the Curriculum
Credit hours: 4.00
Providing students with the knowledge and concepts related to computer applications in the curriculum, providing students with the skills of using computer applications in teaching.
Educational Competencies for the Educational Leader
Course code: DECT153
Course Name: Educational Competencies for the Educational Leader
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to introduce students to the emergence of the competencies movement in the field of education, its justifications and development, and to provide them with the philosophical and psychological foundations on which the competencies movement in the field of education was based, with a focus on the concept of competencies, their types, and their importance in the process of evaluating and developing workers in the education solution and identifying the skills and qualities that must be available in an educational leader. And how to measure it, and specifically its impact on improving the teaching and learning processes, and providing students with the most important educational competencies necessary for the teacher, the technical and administrative educational supervisor, and the school principal, and training them on self-evaluation of their educational competence and ways to develop them to serve the goals and purposes of education.
Global Education in Social Studies
Course code: DECT154
Course name: Global Education in Social Studies
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of global education The relevance of global education to social studies Methods of teaching global education in social studies curricula Comparison between Arabic and foreign literature with regard to global education
Embryological Curricula and Studies in their Design
Course code: DECT155
Course Name: Embryological Curricula and Studies in their Design
Credit hours: 4.00
Concepts of the foreign curriculum, its elements, implementation, design, evaluation, development, and related ideas and perceptions.
Islamic Educational Theory
Course code: DECT156
Course Name: Islamic Educational Theory
Credit hours: 4.00
The concept of theory in general and the concept of Islamic theory in the curriculum, the concept of theory in the natural, behavioral and educational sciences, the relationship of Islamic education theory with theories of other sciences, dimensions of Islamic education theory, namely: fundamentalist dimensions, teleological dimensions, cognitive scientific dimensions, temporal dimensions, spatial dimensions, dimensions of educational responsibility Dimensions of the Islamic perception of the universe, life and man, dimensions of the Islamic personality, historical dimensions, dimensions of the teacher and the learner. Second: The characteristics of the theory and the foundations of its construction. Third: The steps of building the theory. Fourth: Comparing the Islamic theory with some strange theories and the difference between them.
Welcome to Institute of Postgraduate Studies
Degree: Ph. D. DegreeTrack code: PHD101ESStudy method: Distance LearningCredit hour: 90How long it takes: Full time: 3 years Part time: 6 years Limit time: 10 years