2021-2022 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Professional Master of Arts in Social Innovation
Requirements
The SI Program requires 36 total hours of coursework. This includes:
Core Courses (18 credits)
All social innovation students are required to complete the following courses:
- PNH 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)
Application Courses (9 credits)
Students choose three courses from the following list of electives for a total of nine credits:
- 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)
- PNH 661 - Nonprofit Management: Practices (3 credits)
- PNH 662 - Nonprofit Financial Management (3 credits)
- PNH 663 - Nonprofit Organizations, Advocacy and Public Policy (3 credits)
- PNH 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 (9 credits)
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)