Courses & Schedule

Courses | Schedule

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Courses

Course instruction is 100% online, allowing students great flexibility in scheduling their learning. Course requirements include a time each week when students participate in synchronous online group sessions live synchronous online class sessions. Students are part of a cohort and enroll in one course per 10-week term, in addition to completing an applied integrative capstone project (HRE 495). This schedule allows students in the cohort to complete their degrees in two years. However, the degree may be completed at a slower pace if arranged with the online programs coordinator.

The 36 credit hours required for the Master of Education degree are earned through successful completion of eight, 4-hour courses and a two-part capstone course (2 hrs each).

**Please note: The syllabi presented are examples posted to illustrate the typical content outline and course requirements. At the beginning of this class, students will receive a current syllabus which may differ from the example.

1. HRE 400: Principles of Human Resource Education (4 hrs)

Study of the basic concepts and practices of education for and about work: its philosophical foundations and historical development, mission and goals, structure and function, curricular areas of emphasis, learner audiences served and settings in which programs are conducted, and issues and trends affecting program change.

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2. HRE 411: Instructional Design (4 hrs)

This course provides instruction and practice in the selection, organization, and preparation of content for instructional programs in business and technical settings. The course provides students with a theoretical orientation to instructional design as well as the opportunity to experience the instructional design process as it applies to business and technical settings through the development of instructional materials.

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3. HRE 495 I: Research in Organizations and Institutions (2 hours)

Provides a general orientation to research and an integrating framework for related approaches and methods included in the core HRE Online courses. In the core courses, research-based processes, methods, and concepts enhance and expand on this initial model, providing the student with a systematic approach to design, development, delivery, and evaluation of interventions and organizational/institutional performance.

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4. HRE 472: Learning Technologies (4 hrs)

This course aims to develop learners' skills in identifying, selecting, and justifying the implementation of learning technologies in the overall learning environment design process. The course requires learners to align learning theories, introductory instructional system design models, existing learning technologies, and the learning environment design blueprint together in order to solve organizational problems (for example, lagging performance). Learners will experiment and evaluate a variety of learning technologies such as screen capture tools, online games and simulations, test development tools, etc. Learners will actively engage in learning activities and discussions with their instructor and classmates. Learners are expected to produce presentable final deliverables for the final design portfolio.

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5. EPS 500: History of Work and Educational Policy (4 hrs)

The purpose of this course is to look at the changing conditions of work today, in both a contemporary and historical context, and how education can and cannot - and should and should not - respond to these changes. Students in this course will look at the past, present, and future of the US economy and society, in relation to new conceptions of employment, education, and job training. This larger context of historical and philosophical questions will provide a better context for understanding exactly what these changes are, and what they might portend.

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6. EPSY 407: Adult Learning and Development (4 hrs)

Theory of, and research on, adult learning and development; includes societal context, performance, physiology and health, personality, and learning; and considers stability and change during young adulthood, middle age, and old age.

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7. HRE 530: Organization Development (4 hrs)

This course introduces students to the field of organization development (OD), an area of practice and research in Human Resource Development. OD is concerned with creating, managing, and sustaining system-wide change in organization using education and social knowledge and practices to improve organizational, group, and individual performance. This course will introduce students to the history, philosophies, theories, techniques, and applications of OD. Alternating between OD case studies and OD theory, students will be exposed to the dominant models of OD application and major streams of research in the field. The course is organized around the Action Research model with its seven stages of start-up, entry, assessment and feedback, action planning, intervention, evaluation, and separation/adoption.

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8. HRE 585: Program Evaluation (4 hrs)

This introductory course to evaluation examines models and methods of evaluating programs, processes, and products in education, business, healthcare, the military, non-profit and government organizations. Particular emphasis is given to topics of formative and summative evaluation, frameworks for program evaluation, quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, communicating and reporting evaluation findings, and the ethics and standards of evaluation practice. The underlying philosophy of the course is that evaluation can be the catalyst for organizational learning, especially when initiated by those in training and organization development positions.

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9. HRE 532: Strategic Human Resource Development (4 hrs)

The purpose of this course is to assist the course participants to develop an understanding of the Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD) field; its planning, development, problems, issues, potential contributions and limitations; its research and knowledge base; its purposes, strategies and needs; analysis of concepts, principles and programs involved in planning nonemployee development, employee development, education and training and evaluation processes of HRD practices.

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10. HRE 495 II: Capstone Project (2 hours)

Students are required to complete an integrative capstone activity or project (critical or conceptual research paper, product, internship, or action research project).

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Schedule

HRD Cohort 17
Courses Begin : January 2011
Application Deadline: November 1, 2010

HRD Cohort 18
Courses Begin : July 2011
Application Deadline: March 1, 2011

Please see the Current Students page for the most up to date course offerings.

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