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Master's Program Information
The Master's of Science in Education degree with a major in Adult Education / Human Resource Development is designed for persons entering or advancing in positions associated with learning in education, business, industry, government, and other public and private sector organizations. The program is targeted to college graduates pursuing a career in the AHRD field, experienced AHRD professionals who want to expand their skills and enhance their career potential, and working managers and professionals in leadership roles where skills in developing and leading people have become critical to their organization's success. A major strength of the program is that it allows individuals to tailor their programs to individual career needs and objectives.
We strive for our learners to achieve the following objectives for teaching, learning and human performance improvement:
- To understand and apply systems theory, analytic systems, principles of adult development, learning theory, leadership theory and current trends
- To understand business, industry, educational and other organizational settings.
- To identify, understand and build effective organizational relationships that support teaching, learning and performance improvement appropriate to the context.
- To organize, manage and evaluate teaching, learning, and performance improvement efforts.
- To analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate appropriate curriculum for individual, team, organizational, social learning and performance improvements.
- To facilitate and lead team-based learning, planning, organizing and evaluating appropriate to the context.
- To be aware of and apply appropriate technologies.
- To recognize and respond responsibly to issues of diversity and ethics.
- To demonstrate the ability to articulate and forecast the vision and role fro teaching, learning and performance improvement appropriate to the context.
- To interpret and conduct research.