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Program Curriculum
The MEd program is a 36-hour program comprised of 11 courses. You may take one additional course to the higher education curriculum and attend an additional one-week residency to earn ACU's Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution.
The following courses are required for graduation from the higher education program:
Foundations of Higher Education
A comprehensive introduction to American higher education, including its historical development, structure, roles and diverse characteristics. A special focus will be placed on the interplay of Christian faith with the historical development of American higher education.
Higher Education Resource Management
A comprehensive introduction to managing resources in a higher education setting. A special emphasis is placed on budgeting and financial planning.
Research and Assessment in Higher Education
This course examines a variety of scientific methods that provide the foundation for research in higher education settings. Research processes will be examined in stages from problem formulation to data collection and analysis. The course will focus on how research problems are formulated, how hypotheses or research questions are derived, the specific designs that researchers may use in addressing given research topics, approaches data collection and analysis and evaluating the research of others. The course will also focus on appropriate assessment techniques in the higher education setting.
Legal and Ethical Issues in Higher Education
Provides an examination of the major legal and ethical issues confronting contemporary higher education professionals. Emphasis is placed on federal regulations and mandates, constitutional issues, tort liability, contractual relationships, distinctions between public and private sector institutions of higher education and ethical standards for professionals in higher education.
Principles and Practice of Negotiation and Mediation
Comprehensive study of the conceptual and interpersonal skills required to engage in effective negotiation and to serve as a mediator. Emphasis is placed on development of interest-based negotiation and mediation skills with strategies assisting parties in the creation of opportunities for agreement.
Conflict Theory and Communication
Designed to prepare professionals for the field of conflict resolution. Provides advanced opportunities to analyze case studies, critique basic assumptions of conflict theories and role-play appropriate behavior in conflict scenarios.
Managing Conflict in the Workplace
Designed to prepare professionals for conflict resolution in the work environment. Provides opportunities to develop skills in identifying the signs and root causes of friction, anger, violence and conflict in the work environment. Analysis of case studies provides the framework for understanding sources of organizational conflict.
Introduction to Student Services
An introduction to and overview of the field of college student affairs is offered with emphasis upon its historical and philosophical foundations, its basic documents and its primary objectives within American colleges and universities. Students will survey and analyze the typical programs and services which the college student affairs field delivers within American colleges and universities.
College Students and Student Development Theory
A comprehensive introduction to the holistic development of college students and the history, application and practice of student development theory within the context of American higher education.
Spiritual Development in College Students
Provides students with a comprehensive introduction to spiritual development. Includes the history and principles of Christian spiritual formation as well as a broad range of historical and philosophical approaches to spirituality.
Internship with Embedded Capstone Experience
The internship provides students with an ongoing opportunity to apply what they are learning to actual professional experience. A Capstone Experience is embedded in the Internship and is the culminating academic event for all higher education master's degree students. To meet the comprehensive requirements of the Internship, students participate in the Capstone Experience during the last semester of their degree. The Capstone Experience exhibition is created by students to demonstrate their scholarship throughout the academic program, their satisfactory completion of the Internship and their mastery of program learning outcomes. The Internship with the embedded Capstone Experience is assessed on a pass / pass with revisions / fail basis.
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