Curriculum
The MS in Human Resource Development program is 45 credit hours consisting of 39 credits of coursework and two capstone courses that includes a co-op assignment and results in the submission of a professional portfolio, totaling 6 credits. Students will be required to complete thirteen 10-week courses, including 9 core courses (27 credit hours), 4 concentration courses (12 credit hours), and 2 capstone courses (6 credit hours).
NOTE - for co-op/capstone course: If you are currently employed, you may use your work at your current place of employment to fulfull this requirement, but typically you must go above and beyond your current job function.
Concentration Areas — 12 credits
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HRD in Business Settings : The following courses in the graduate Business curriculum are highly recommended. Any substitution must be approved by the faculty advisor:
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HRD in Educational Settings: The following courses in the graduate Education curriculum are highly recommended. Any substitution must be approved by the faculty advisor:
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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:
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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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EDLT 537 - Technologies for Performance Support
This course focuses on online performance support systems, job aids, and assessment tools for e-portfolios, authentic assessments, and data collection to meet performance requirements in education and business. Students will have experience in designing embedded interventions for information help, procedural support, feedback and tracking goals, and develop their own e-portfolio.
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EDLT 536 - Learning Sciences and Instructional Design
The learning sciences and learning by doing bring about a new instructional design emphasis on how the learning technologies provide scaffolding for collaborative learning and reasoning. Students will learn innovative learning techniques and develop an experiential learning design such as, problem-based learning, goal-based scenarios, role-plays, mini-games and simulations.
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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 532 - Designing Virtual Communities for Staff Development: Non-Field Experience
This course examines the impact of distance learning and multimedia technologies on human resource supervisors, trainers and other professionals who are responsible for implementing technology integration and professional development. Several models of online learning communities will be examined and researched.
There is no field experience component in this course. It should be taken as an alternative to EDUC 533: Designing Virtual Communities for Staff Development (which does contain a field experience in educational settings).
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EDUC 533 - Designing Virtual Communities for Staff Development
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.
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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BUSN 501 - Measuring and Maximizing Financial Performance
This course if an introduction to the concepts of financial accounting and financial management. The content of this course includes preparation and analysis of financial statements. Also covered are the time value of money, risk and return, and corporate financing choices.
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BUSN 502 - Essentials of Economics
Topics in macroeconomics and microeconomics, including market equilibrium, monetary and fiscal policy, profit maximization, and market future.
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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.
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 715/716 - 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. NOTE - for co-op/capstone course: If you are currently employed, you may yse your work at your current place of employment to fulfull this requirement, but typically you must go above and beyond your current job function.
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