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Master's in Human Resource Development

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Curriculum

The MS in Human Resource Development program is 45 credit hours consisting of 39 credits of coursework and a 6-credit capstone course that includes a co-op assignment and results in the submission of a professional portfolio. Students will be required to complete thirteen 10-week courses, including 9 core courses (27 credit hours), 4 concentration courses (12 credit hours), and 1 capstone course (6 credit hours). Full-time students (those taking two courses per term) will be able to complete the program in 12-15 months.

Core Courses — 27 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits 

3 credits

3 credits 

3 credits

3 credits

Concentration Areas — 12 credits

HRD in Business Settings : The following courses in the graduate Business curriculum are highly recommended. Any substitution must be approved by the faculty advisor:

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

HRD in Educational Settings: The following courses in the graduate Education curriculum are highly recommended. Any substitution must be approved by the faculty advisor: 

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

HRD in Global Settings: The following courses in the graduate curriculum for Global and International Education are highly recommended. Any substitution must be approved by the faculty advisor: 

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

3 credits

Co-Op — 6 credits

Required Capstone Course for MS in Human Resource Development 

6 credits

Course Descriptions

EHRD 500 - Foundations of Human Resource Development 

Introduces HRD as a professional field of practice, places HRD within the context of the contemporary workplace, presents theories, paradigms, and issues in the field; introduces the concept of a learning organization and the HRD practitioner as a change agent.

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EDHE 600 - Human and Organizational Performance 

Strategies for attaining continuous success in academic marketplace are examined including concept development activities and role of professional development in attaining faculty and administrative performance to sustain these strategies.

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EDUC 505 - Instructional Systems Design 

This course explores and offers in-depth analysis of relevant theories relating to contemporary application of Instructional Systems Design. The purpose is to provide the student with theoretical, experimental and critical perspectives on instructional design as it is applied in a number of educational venues.

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EDUC 536 - Distance Learning 

The course explores pedagogical issues in distance learning. Readings are integrated with hands-on use of the tools used to create distance learning programs.

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EHRD 650 - Learning Leadership in Organizations 

Examinations of cyclical continuum beginning with individual learning, extending through work unit and corporate learning activities, and resulting in organizational success indicators. Students will explore structures for promoting and sharing learning, such as the corporate "university," systems theory, career development and other techniques employed by learning leaders. The course will illumine leadership attributes of the chief learning officer and methodologies for inspiring an organizational culture of leadership.

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EDHE 660 - Principles of Adult Education 

This course explores in-depth analysis of relevant theories relating to contemporary application of adult learner materials and methods. Many adult education theories and practices are explored to provide the participants with a broad understanding of andragogy (the art and science of teaching adults) and how it related to their field.

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EDUC 533 - Virtual Learning

Examines the inpact of distance learning and multimedia technologies on the educational systems of teachers, administrators, librarians, and other professionals in schools responsibility for technology and professional development. Online discussion groups, video conferencing, and Web-based instruction will be used to form a virtual learning community.

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EDUC 804 - Study of Educational Organizations and Programs

Covers the differences between evaluation and other disciplines; how to design an evaluation framework to work with; transformations in evaluation; new methodological approaches, including performance measurement; and issues that evaluators must deal with.

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EHRD 600 - Consulting/ Leadership Coaching 

Prepares students to be effective consultants and coaches for management. Covers diagnostic and intervention strategies, interpersonal communications, negotiation/mediation skills, ethics, and measurements.

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ORGB 625 - Leadership and Professional Development 

This course helps students develop knowledge and skills to enhance their professional development and to become effective leaders. Students will understand trends in contemporary organizations, enhance their self-awareness, and refine their interpersonal skills, and apply these skills to improve their work effectiveness.

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MGMT 780 - Strategic Management 

Provides an integrative study of the functions and responsibilities of top management and the strategies that affect the character and success of the total enterprise. Uses case studies and assigned readings to develop the viewpoint of top management charged with responsibility for the enterprise as a whole. 

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FIN 601 - Corporate Financial Management 

The analysis of corporate investment and financing decisions, including capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management.

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ORGB 631 - Leading Effective Organizations 

Prepares students to make informed decisions as leaders in common institutional and environmental contexts. The focus of the contingency-based perspective of this course is to help leaders understand how best to motivate and coordinate employees and to control outcomes in a manner that ensures they fulfill strategic objectives.

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EDAM 502 - Resource Management, Allocation, and Entrepreneurship 

Students learn to find, use and allocate needed resources for their schools, communities, and organizations from experienced business and school leaders. Management and monitoring technology tools for optimum effective use of resources and how to gain entrepreneurship skills for expanding opportunities to gain new resources will be explored.

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EDAM 528 - Resource Methodology for Action Research 

Provides rationale, theoretical constructs and methodology for conducting Action Research within a school and/or classroom setting. Significant practical applications for other school practitioners.

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EDAM 524 - Mentoring and Collaborative Leadership 

Research and experience on mentoring as a critical need in sustaining new teachers, creating renewal for experienced teachers, and building leadership capacity across the staff will be the focus of this course. Specific skills and concepts for effective mentoring/coaching of others and collaborative leadership will be examined. The importance of establishing learning communities in schools will be emphasized with a student?s plan for induction within context of supportive school practices.

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EDHE 606 - Higher Education Career Development 

Provides understanding of career patterns of faculty, deans, vice presidents, provosts, and presidents while exploring academic employment markets of these professions. Traditional career paths, diverse points of entry in Higher Education and career development of faculty are explored as well as administrative roles of managing academic units, decision making and change implementation.

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EDGI 500 - Introduction to Global, International and Comparative Education 

Exploration and Analysis of international and comparative education. Comparative method serves as the framework to understand comparative analysis. Theories of the state serves as the framework to understand global theories of education across cultures.

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EDGI 510 - Culture, Society and Education in Comparison 

Exploration of global education through concepts of culture, cultural relativism and ethnocentrism from a comparative perpective.

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EDGI 532 - International Organizations in International Education 

Examine current international organizations, foreign assistance and their influence on educational policy. Both public and private organizations will be explored.

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EDGI 534 - Conflict Resolution in the International Context 

Examination of conceptual underpinnings of peace and conflict resolution and the paradigmatic models of conflict resolution currently practiced, as well as the substantive enquiry into a variety of approaches to building peace at local, national and global levels.

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EHRD 715 - Capstone: Co-Op with Portfolio 

The School of Education has partnered with the Steinbright Career Development Center to produce an innovative co-op experience for online students. Several options are available to accommodate the various needs of working students. Students are required to participate in a part-time co-op that lasts no less than two quarters (20 weeks). The co-op is structured to provide students with real-life, hands on experience in the field of human resource development. At the end of the co-op, students are required to submit a portfolio, including a current resume, samples of projects completed in the co-op position, samples of presentations and studies completed in the HRD program related to the co-op position, etc. This experiential component is especially valuable for HRD practitioners – both those already working in the field and those who want to move into it.

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