Master of Arts for Teachers and Trainers

Core Courses
Whatever the focus of the candidate's area of specialization, all Alverno Master of Arts candidates complete a carefully structured set of core courses. In these courses the learners develop a solid theoretical base in frameworks related to development, learning, inquiry and change. The candidates explore issues or questions in their own practice and make a presentation of their inquiry to professional peers and their faculty.

Required Core Courses:

Education and Human Development 1: Understanding the Learner (3 cr)
Education and Human Development 2: The Scholarship of Teaching (3 cr)
Educational Inquiry: Research in Action (3 cr)
The Learning Organization and Social Change* (3 cr)
Practicum* (3 cr)

* In the Administrative Leadership program, two practicum specific to administrative leadership replace these two courses. In the Reading program, a practicum specific to reading replaces this practicum.

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