In EDST 630: Transformative Learning for Social Change, we will specifically examine theories of transformative education within the field of adult education—particularly theories that are meant to catalyze social transformation as well as individual change.

MAIS 602: Doing Interdisciplinary Research is the core methods course in the MA-IS Program that will ensure students understand and are able to employ the methods required to carry out and complete interdisciplinary research.

MAIS 602: Doing Interdisciplinary Research is the core methods course in the MA-IS Program that will ensure students understand and are able to employ the methods required to carry out and complete interdisciplinary research.

This course delves into the underlying intellectual traditions of community studies and introduces you to the realities of community practice. The central idea of the course is that planning for action, particularly action resulting in community change, is something to be desired in a society that values rationality.

”This course is designed to think about the art of thinking together in our present historical moment at the dawn of the new millennium.“

Topics to consider: democracy in our business and community organizations, the elements of democratic communication (conversation), ways to speak and act intelligently as designers of just learning organizations.

The goal of MAIS 700: Capstone Course will be to guide students in a reflective process on the integrated and interdisciplinary pathways of their studies in the MA-IS Program. This reflective process will culminate in the writing of a final essay that focuses the principles of interdisciplinary study on a topic of the student’s choice, a topic of primary interest and importance to the student in which they test, evaluate, and demonstrate the effectiveness of integrative, interdisciplinary thinking and methods.