2019-2020 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.
The program core includes 18 credit hours, as follows:
- PA 660 - Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector: History and Ethics Credits: 3
- SI 600 - Cultures of Social Innovation Credits: 3
- SI 610 - Research Methods for Social Inquiry Credits: 3
- SI 620 - Case Studies in Social Innovation Credits: 3
- SI 630 - Engaging Diversity through Social Innovation Credits: 3
- SI 650 - Place and Environmental Justice Credits: 3
Students must select nine credits from application courses (relevant to project)
- MGT 672 - Creativity and Social Entrepreneurship Credits: 3
- PA 661 - Nonprofit Management: Practices Credits: 3
- PA 662 - Nonprofit Financial Management Credits: 3
- PA 663 - Nonprofit Organizations, Advocacy and Public Policy Credits: 3
- PA 667 - Fund Development Credits: 3
- SW 600 - Cultural Competency for Social Work Credits: 3
- SW 631 - Social Work: U.S. Community-Based Service Learning Credits: 3
- SW 660 - Grant Writing and Resource Development Credits: 3
- SW 676 - Community and Social Planning Credits: 3
- Students must complete nine credits of synthesis coursework
- SI 661 - Social Innovation Internship Credits: 1 to 6
- SI 690 - Social Innovation Research Design Credits: 3
- SI 693 - Master's Project in Social Innovation Credits: 1 to 3
Suggested Order of Coursework
First Year
- SI 600 - Cultures of Social Innovation Credits: 3
- SI 610 - Research Methods for Social Inquiry Credits: 3
- SI 620 - Case Studies in Social Innovation Credits: 3
- PA 660 - Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector: History and Ethics Credits: 3
- SI 661 - Social Innovation Internship Credits: 1 to 6
- Program elective
Second Year
- SI 630 - Engaging Diversity through Social Innovation Credits: 3
- SI 650 - Place and Environmental Justice Credits: 3
- SI 690 - Social Innovation Research Design Credits: 3
- SI 693 - Master's Project in Social Innovation Credits: 1 to 3
- Program elective
- Program elective
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