Master of Arts in Administration

Core Curriculum (15 hours)

ADMN 6360 Management Concepts and Issues
ADMN 6375 Strategic Planning and Policy
ORGD 6320 Organizational Behavior and Learning
ORGD 6355 Organizational Change
PMBA 6309 Applied Human Resource Management

Choose a Concentration (12 hours)

The area of concentration can be selected from any discipline, except Business, which has a limit of 4 courses allowed in an MAA program. The graduate advisor and the Dean of the School within which the area of concentration resides must approve student concentrations.

Applied Administration
Healthcare Administration
Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Capstone (3 hours)

ORGD 63CS Capstone

The MAA in Applied Administration is designed to offer a program of study that allows students to personalize their degrees in order to gain the knowledge and skills required of their career fields. This concentration also allows students to avoid duplication of previous coursework, training or experience by permitting them to select courses from up to two of the MAA related disciplines listed below.

12 hours of required coursework from the MAA disciplines

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The Healthcare Administration concentration provides you with unique expertise in health services management that will prepare you to serve in a variety of healthcare organizations to include those in hospital, group practice, health insurance and other clinical and administrative settings.

12 hours of required courses:

HCAD 6305 Healthcare Finance I
HCAD 6330 Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Health Law)
HCAD 6340 Quality and Continuous Improvement in Healthcare Organizations
HCAD 6360 Managing Healthcare Organizations

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology is the science of human behavior as it relates to the well-being of people in organizations. Graduates will apply psychological principles and research methods to the workplace with the goal of improving productivity, health and the quality of work life. Additionally, they may design new ways to increase productivity, improve personnel selection or enhance job satisfaction. They are prepared for positions as human resource specialists, helping organizations with staffing, training, and employee development. They may provide employers with testing and other valid selection methods in their hiring and promotion processes. Some individuals may secure employment as management consultants in areas such as quality management, strategic planning or organizational change.

12 hours of required courses:

PSYC 6335 Personnel Psychology
PSYC 6345 Workplace Motivation
PSYC 6360 Diversity in Organizations
PSYC 6373 Assessment and Testing in the Workplace

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Society for Human Resource Management

The Industrial and Organizational Psychology concentration has been acknowledged by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for its full alignment with SHRM's HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates. The HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates were developed by SHRM to define the minimum human resources content areas that should be studied by HR students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Student Eligibility

Students who are enrolled in their final year of an undergraduate or graduate degree program at a college or university that has been approved by SHRM's Academic Initiatives staff as being aligned to SHRM’s curriculum guidelines are eligible to sit for the SHRM-CP exam. Students must also have accumulated at least 500 hours of an internship or practical HR experience and must be in good standing with their school. See a current listing of approved schools at shrm.org/academics/programdirectory. The SPS Office of Professional Development has also been SHRM certified to offer the SHRM Essentials course and the SHRM Exam Prep course.