2018-2019 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Professional Master of Arts in Social Innovation (PMASI)
Requirements for the Master of Arts in Social Innovation
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.
The program core includes 18 credit hours, as follows:
- 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)
- 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)
- Students must complete nine credits of synthesis coursework
- 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
First Year
- 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
Second Year
- 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
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