Required Courses

Our master of arts (MA) program in student affairs administration in higher education is 30 hours. Seven courses, or 21 hours, are required and the remaining hours come from electives and research.

Required courses include:

• EDHI 600 
  • Introduction to Student Affairs Administration
• EDHI 601 
  • Theories of College Student Development: Higher Education Application
• EDHI 602 
  • The American College Student
• EDHI 690 
  • Seminar in Student Affairs Administration
• EDHI 698
  •  Principles and Practices of Student Affairs Administration
• EDHI 699 
  • Practicum in Student Affairs Administration

Choose one of the following:

• EDHI 610 
  • Issues in Higher Education
• EDHI 613 
  • Administration and Finance in Higher Education
• EDHI 640
  • The Community College

You have many options to satisfy the research requirement:

• THES 698 
  • Thesis
• RES 697 
  • Research paper
• CRPRJ 698
  • Creative project
• EDSTU 650
  •  Ethnographic Research in Education
• EDSTU 660
  •  Introduction to Qualitative Research
• EDSTU 671
  • Evaluation of Educational Programs
• EDPSY 640
  • Methodology of Educational and Psychological Research
• EDPSY 641
  • Statistical Methods in Education and Psychological Research
• EDPSY 646
  • Tests and Measurements
• SOC 600
  • Sociological Inquiry

You’ll also need 3 to 6 hours of electives.