MPA in Educational Administration

The UM-Flint WebPlus Weekend/Online Program in Educational Administration is designed to provide a high-quality experience to full-time, working educators. A unique blend of face-to-face interaction and convenient online coursework provides the concepts and tools needed for successful K-12 administration. Monthly Saturday visits on the Flint campus are combined with coursework that you can do from the convenience of your own computer connected to the Internet. In addition, a clinical experience is organized in your current school setting.

After completion of the two-year, 39-credit hour program, students are awarded a Master of Public Administration from the University of Michigan's nationally-recognized Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.

Education Specialist (EdS)

The Education Specialist degree is a post-Master's program designed to prepare in-service teachers and educational leaders to assume greater professional roles in their building and/or in administration and supervision. The emphasis of the program is applied learning and preparation for executive leadership assignments.

The program includes 30 credit hours over 18 months in a co-hort structure. The format is a blend of online class-work, coupled with on-campus classes one Saturday per month.

Two concentrations are available in the EdS program: Curriculum and Instruction or Educational Leadership.

Master of Arts in Administration

The Master of Arts in Arts Administration is intended to address the needs of individuals wishing to prepare for roles as leaders in designing, implementing, and managing art activities.

The program will provide you with leadership and other advanced skills in a wide range of areas such as artistic traditions and aesthetic styles, grant writing, personnel policies, fiscal management, and marketing.

A set of core courses with specializations in visual arts (museum, galleries) and performance (music, theatre, and dance) compose the curriculum. Your core courses will focus on areas that are essential for all arts administrators while the specialized courses will enable you to examine in greater depth your select areas of study.

Master of Science (MS) in Biology

The MS in Biology provides an advanced degree for students who have undergraduate degrees in biology or a related life science. The program is offered for working biologists in various professions including educators teaching science at the secondary level.

The primary goals of the program are to offer broad, expanded training, as well as detailed, advanced training in biology and a complete research experience for post-baccalaureate students.

The program accommodates the part-time student with courses offered at convenient times to meet the demanding schedule of the working professional.

Master of Science (MS) in Chemistry/Biochemistry

The Master of Science in Chemistry or Biochemistry has been designed to provide students with the education and research experiences that are necessary to be fully prepared for a successful career in the chemical sciences.

Entry-level industrial or governmental positions are routinely requiring an MS degree combined with a background in performing independent research. The program requires students to perform research and defend a thesis, thus ensuring students have the needed experience.

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science and Information Systems

The MS in Computer and Information Systems program is designed primarily for working professionals wishing to improve their skills and knowledge in computer and information technology-related fields as well as those interested in pursuing a career in this field. These may include teachers seeking a Master's degree to fulfill advance degree requirements.

The associated curriculum has been designed with significant flexibility, yet with rigor. Our program offers a truly unique and exciting educational experience through our newly developed multi-media cyber classroom, which captures the entire classroom experience and allows each student to tailor their education from a virtual, completely online learning experience to a completely in-class, on-campus experience. The program offers two concentrations: a Computer Science concentration and an Information Systems concentration, as well as a preparatory Fast Track to allow students from various backgrounds to quickly prepare themselves for the program.

Master of Arts (MA) in English

The Master of Arts in English degree has a flexible curriculum and is offered as a part-time program, with classes in a variety of traditional, online and mixed-mode formats with meetings during evening hours and weekends. It is designed to provide convenience and flexibility to working professionals.

The program is intended to provide a post-baccalaureate educational opportunity for people who are interested in pursuing advanced study in English. Students may choose to elect a concentration in American Literature, British Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistics and Language or Pedagogy in English.

Master of Liberal Studies (MLS)

The Master of Liberal Studies degree is offered through the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. It offers concentrations in American Culture, and Theatre and Community. The MLS program is designed to:

Engage students in a critical, multidisciplinary examination of contemporary American Culture/Theatre and Community.

Encourage students to explore and critique issues important to American thought and culture, such as race, gender, equality, politics, religion and popular culture.

Help students learn research methods and techniques and apply them in a thesis or research/creative project that critically examines an issue beyond the scope of individual courses and when possible, encourages meaningful engagement in the community.

Set students' experiences in a meaningful context by offering a series of prescribed core courses which are enriched by student choices from a series of elective courses.

The MLS degree is especially designed for the part-time student.

MA in Social Sciences

The MA in Social Sciences is designed to engage students in critical, multi-disciplinary exploration of human societies across the globe. Students explore social, historical, cultural, political, and economic themes, using both theoretical approaches and concrete case studies. Students take a core set of four social science classes, as well as a set of four classes from one of three tracks: U.S. History and Politics, Global Studies, or Gender Studies. In addition to the core and track-oriented classes, each student will take a three-credit-hour capstone course and three credit hours of cognates from an approved list of courses. It may be possible with consent of an advisor to customize the program track courses to meet the needs of the student.

Other features of the MA in Social Sciences:

• 30 semester graduate credit hours
• Part-time curriculum
• Evening courses once per week at 5:30 p.m. or later; some courses partially online
• Program appropriate for people seeking increased knowledge in areas of social sciences, including teachers seeking to meet professional development requirements*
• Program designed to assist students in developing critical reading, research, and writing skills in social science

*This program may be used to meet the 18 hour continuing education/professional development requirement for teachers to progress from a Provisional Certificate to a Professional Certificate, or to meet the 6 credit hour requirement for Professional Certificate renewal.