2020-2021 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Professional Master of Arts in Social Innovation (PMASI)
Requirements for the PMASI
The M.A. degree consists of a minimum of 36 credit hours of coursework. Students must meet with an advisor upon entry into the program to develop a program of study.
Core Courses
Requires 18 credits, including:
- PA 660 - Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector: History and Ethics (3 credits)
- SI 600 - Cultures of Social Innovation (3 credits)
- SI 610 - Research Methods for Social Inquiry (3 credits)
- SI 620 - Case Studies in Social Innovation (3 credits)
- SI 630 - Engaging Diversity through Social Innovation (3 credits)
- SI 650 - Place and Environmental Justice (3 credits)
Students must select nine credits from application courses (relevant to project):
- EDF 633 - Race, Class, and Language (3 credits)
- EDF 635 - Survey of Urban Education (3 credits)
- EDF 675 - Cultural and Educational Foundations of Ecological Issues (3 credits)
- EDF 676 - Introduction to Place-Based Education (3 credits)
- EDL 700 - Educational Leadership and Change (3 credits)
- EDL 705 - Organizational Behavior, Ethics and Decision-Making (3 credits)
- EDL 715 - Data-Based Decision-Making and Technology (3 credits)
- MGT 672 - Creativity and Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- PA 661 - Nonprofit Management: Practices (3 credits)
- PA 662 - Nonprofit Financial Management (3 credits)
- PA 663 - Nonprofit Organizations, Advocacy and Public Policy (3 credits)
- PA 667 - Fund Development (3 credits)
- SW 600 - Cultural Competency for Social Work (3 credits)
- SW 631 - Social Work: U.S. Community-Based Service Learning (3 credits)
- SW 660 - Grant Writing and Resource Development (3 credits)
- SW 676 - Community and Social Planning (3 credits)
Synthesis Courses
Requires nine credits, including:
- SI 661 - Social Innovation Internship (1 to 6 credits)
- SI 690 - Social Innovation Research Design (3 credits)
- SI 693 - Master's Project in Social Innovation (1 to 3 credits)
Suggested Order of Coursework
Year One
- SI 600 - Cultures of Social Innovation (3 credits)
- SI 610 - Research Methods for Social Inquiry (3 credits)
- SI 620 - Case Studies in Social Innovation (3 credits)
- PA 660 - Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector: History and Ethics (3 credits)
- SI 661 - Social Innovation Internship (1 to 6 credits)
- Program elective
Year Two
- SI 630 - Engaging Diversity through Social Innovation (3 credits)
- SI 650 - Place and Environmental Justice (3 credits)
- SI 690 - Social Innovation Research Design (3 credits)
- SI 693 - Master's Project in Social Innovation (1 to 3 credits)
- Program elective
- Program elective