Soka University Information Table

Soka University Information Table
Wednesday, April 8th 2015
11-1pm
Jacks Corner

Come talk to a representative from graduate admissions to learn more!

Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Societal Change

Soka University of America’s Master of Arts program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change is a two-year full-time program designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge and skills to become transformational leaders in any field where education plays a central role. “This program,” declares Program Director John Heffron, Ph.D., “opens a door to students worldwide who seek to understand the principles of humanistic education and their application
to solving the pressing problems of our global society.”

Internship Opportunity
The program features a subsidized, non-credit bearing summer-long research internship to shadow administrators, analyze organizational dynamics and evaluate curriculum.

Scholarships
Merit scholarships are available to qualified domestic and international students up to the cost of tuition.

Pedagogical Methods
Regular semester-long courses – lecture, group work, discussion, library research, etc. These courses are taught in a more-or-less traditional graduate seminar format in which students read and discuss both common and individual readings, pursue a research project under the direction of a professor/mentor, and provide regular progress-reports to the class as a whole for commentary and input.

EDU 501 Educational Leadership and Societal Change: A Comparative Perspective and EDU 502 Ethnographies of School Administration are both taught in a three-week block period. Students take these courses exclusively; they meet for a required three hours per day in what is essentially a workshop/colloquium consisting of lecture, student presentation, writing-intensive group discussion, and case study development. EDU 512 Leadership and Societal Change: Invited Speakers Series also takes place in the block and is designed to expose students to former and current senior teachers, administrators, research scientists, and other individuals with a proven record of leadership in the reform of schools and society. Students work with a master change agent to develop their own reform models, testing these models against real problems and controversies in the world of education, especially as they affect the larger society.
EDU 520 MA Thesis – independent research combined with library and field research