2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Professional Master of Arts in Social Innovation
Requirements
The social innovation (SI) program requires 36 total hours of coursework, which includes the following.
Core Courses (18 credits)
All SI students are required to complete:
- 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)
Social Innovation Program Description
Visit gvsu.edu/acad/social-innovation-ma.htm to learn more.