Specially designed for career-motivated adults, the Master of Professional Studies has three powerful benefits that will help you move up in your career...fast.
The MPS curriculum contains three academic components.
A three-hour individualized learning portfolio course which extends throughout a student's entire enrollment period. The portfolio will include submissions which:
Portfolio: Master of Professional Studies provides successful learning strategies, a learning community, and an employer-facing portfolio throughout the Master of Professional Studies degree program. This course section will address: successful online learning strategies, artifact selection to provide evidence demonstrating declared goal accomplishment within the course portfolio, and portfolio development to demonstrate broad knowledge and experiential technique application addressing relevant practical challenges or opportunities. Prerequisite: Enrollment in MPSD.
MPSD 500B - Portfolio: Master of Professional StudiesPortfolio: Master of Professional Studies provides successful learning strategies, a learning community, and an employer-facing portfolio throughout the Master of Professional Studies degree program. This course section will address: utilization of reflective practices to inform continuing professional and personal growth and portfolio development to demonstrate broad knowledge and experiential technique application addressing relevant practical challenges or opportunities. Prerequisite: Enrollment into MPSD; MPSD 500A
MPSD 500C - Portfolio: Master of Professional StudiesPortfolio: Master of Professional Studies provides successful learning strategies, a learning community, and an employer-facing portfolio throughout the Master of Professional Studies degree program. This course section will address: application of successful online learning strategies, utilization of reflective practices to inform continuing professional and personal growth, artifact selection to provide evidence demonstrating declared goal accomplishment within the course portfolio, and portfolio development to demonstrate broad knowledge and experiential technique application addressing relevant practical challenges or opportunities. Prerequisite: Enrollment into MPSD; MPSD 500A; MPSD 500B
Prior Learning Assessment (e.g. graduate transfer credit, ELA, corporate articulations) up to 12 hours of graduate credit may be transferred into the MPS.
Up to 27 graduate credit hours of individually selected course credits which meet student declared goals documented in the student's Individualized Plan of Study (IP). Course selection may include certificate of completions. All pre-requisites for any course selected within an MPS student IP must be met.
Students applying for professional license or certification should verify the University's offerings meet the requirements with the professional organization.
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