Human Resource Development Online Graduate Certificate Program

Provides hands-on opportunities to apply innovative learning theories, curriculum design, and student development concepts.

Program Summary | Tuition, Fees, & Financial Aid | Courses & Schedule | How to Apply

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Program Summary

The 16 credit-hour, four-course Human Resource Development Graduate Certificate program at the University of Illinois is designed for the working professional looking to increase their skill set of core HRD competencies. This curriculum provides learners with current trends accompanied with facilitation skills, and can be tailored to specific professional development needs.

An HRD Graduate Certificate will be awarded after completion of 16 credit hours (four 4-hour courses). This certificate can be completed in one year.

A bachelor's degree is required for this certificate program. You will need to provide official transcripts from any community college or university you have attended. "Issued to Student" copies are not considered official.

Please see the Certificate section of the Prospective Students page for additional information!

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Tuition

The tuition rate for 2011-2012 is $2,344 (USD) for each four-hour course and $1,172 for two-hour courses. This rate includes both tuition and fees. Reading materials are not included in this amount. The tuition rate is the same for in-state, out-of-state, and international students. The cost for future courses is subject to moderate changes in accordance with the actions of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Financial aid is not available for participants in the HRD certificate program.

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Courses & Schedule

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.  Each course is 10 weeks long. This schedule allows students to complete a graduate certificate in one year. However, the certificate may be completed at a slower pace.

This customizable certificate requires the following course be taken at the earliest opportunity upon commencement of the program:

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.

Download a sample syllabus for the course. (PDF)

The remaining three courses can be selected from the following options:

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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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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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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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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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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Courses begin in January, April, July, and October!

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