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Location

Education Tower, Room 940

Faculty number

(403) 220-4728

Fax

(403) 282-3005

E-mail address

gder@ucalgary.ca

Web page URL

http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/gder

Applications for this program are not being accepted for 2007-2008. Interested prospective students are encouraged to review the "Workplace and Adult Learning" specialization in the Master of Education program in the Graduate Division of Educational Research.

The Faculty of Education offers graduate work leading to the Master of Continuing Education (MCE), with a choice of two specializations: Workplace Learning, or Leadership and Development.

In addition to Faculty requirements, the program requires the following:

(a)Minimum of three years of relevant work experience following an undergraduate degree;

(b)Submission of a dossier including a description of career experience, and a statement of rationale describing career goals and the relevance of the MCE program to those goals.

In exceptional circumstances, consideration may be given to the admission of a student without a completed baccalaureate degree. The minimum conditions to be met are:

(a)Completion of approximately 600 hours of graded and professionally evaluated learning at Certificate or Diploma level;

(b)Normally, six years of relevant and progressively responsible experience in adult education or supervision;

(c)Evidence of individual, substantive, sustained written work. This can include manuals, training videos, and other published works. The writing should be research-based and provide some form of analysis. If possible, the work should be graded, or professionally evaluated.

Applications for this program are not being accepted for 2007-2008. Interested prospective students are encouraged to review the "Workplace and Adult Learning" specialization in the Master of Education program in the Graduate Division of Educational Research.

The applicant must make advanced credit requests as part of the admission process. Credit will not be given for course work taken as part of another completed degree/diploma or for courses taken to bring the grade point average to a required level for admission.

Twelve half-courses will be required. Five of these will be program core courses, three will be specialization core courses, two will constitute the final project, and two will be approved electives.

Program Core Courses

Continuing Education 601 - Adults as Learners

Continuing Education 603 - Facilitating Individual Learning in the Workplace

Continuing Education 605 - Facilitating Development Projects

Continuing Education 607 - Theory of Groups

Continuing Education 609 - Research Methods

Specialization Core Courses for Workplace Learning

Continuing Education 613 - Learning, the Workplace and Society

Continuing Education 617 - Program Planning and Evaluation

Continuing Education 619 - Organizational Change and Learning

Specialization Core Courses for Leadership and Development

Continuing Education 621 - Leadership in Organizations

Continuing Education 623 - Foundations of Human Resource Management

Continuing Education 625 - Leadership Development

Examples of Elective Courses

Continuing Education 641 - Facilitating On-Line Learning

Continuing Education 643 - Career Development in Organizational Settings

Continuing Education 645 - Multicultural Issues in Adult Education

Continuing Education 647 - Evaluation in Organizations

Continuing Education 649 - Management Learning

Continuing Education 653 - Strategic Human Resource Management

Continuing Education 657 - Independent Study

Master's Project

Continuing Education 693/695 - Project I, II

Doctoral

Continuing Education 702 - Doctoral Seminar on Workplace Learning

The Master's Project constitutes an integration of research, theory and practice. The student's supervisor must approve a project proposal in advance. Normally, this project will be designed to improve workplace learning or leadership. The final written project report will include the purpose of the project, the means by which research, theory and practice were integrated, the sequential project study/action methods, presentation of results, analysis and discussions, and implications and recommendations for workplace learning or leadership.

Not applicable

Typical completion time is three years, with a minimum of two years and a maximum completion time of six years.

Students are assigned an interim advisor when entering the program and must have an approved supervisor immediately following their second Spring or Summer Institute.

The project and course work will be the subject of the final oral comprehensive examination.

Not applicable

None

Financial assistance may be available to qualified students. For information on awards see the Awards and Financial Assistance section of this calendar. Students applying for scholarships must submit their application by February 1.

A program fee of $ 3,600 will be charged for each of Years 1 and 2. Each subsequent year the program fee will be $1,200. These program fees are in addition to the normal tuition fees charged for each course taken.

To participate in the program, it is necessary to have access to a computer running Windows or a Macintosh Plus (or higher), in addition to a modem (14,400 bps or higher).

Faculty members and their research interests can be found at

http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/research/academic/homepages.html.