Master of Arts in Adult, Professional and Community Education with Workplace, Community and Continuing Education Concentration

Program Overview: Offered Fully Online

A minimum 36 credit hour program leading to a Master of Arts degree with a major in Adult, Professional and Community Education. This program is designed to provide the expertise and experience to supervise adult education programs in a variety of settings such as public schools, colleges and universities, community-based organizations and agencies, and workplaces of all kinds. Required coursework emphasizes adult learning and development; program administration and leadership, including needs assessment, design, implementation, management, and evaluation; research methodology; teaching adults; and multicultural perspectives in postsecondary and adult education.

Who is the program for?

The program educates scholar-practitioners for diverse roles as teachers, staff developers, evaluators, and administrators. Graduates are found in government agencies, corporations, colleges and universities, the military, and community organizations including libraries, museums, parks, schools, workforce development foundations, NGOs, social services, religious organizations, adult literacy, adult basic education  and ESL programs.

Programs providing education and training for adults in settings including:

• College and universities
• Government agencies
• Business and industry
• Community-based organizations and agencies
• Religious organizations
• The Armed services
• Correctional facilities
• Human resource development
• Workforce development
• Employee training and development
• Business and industry
• Organizational learning and development
• Museums 
• and many more!
   

Why Choose Texas State?

The Master of Arts in Adult Education program aims to prepare graduate students to teach and lead effectively in a way that provides graduates with tools to:

• Assess educational and related needs
• Design, implement, manage, and evaluate programs and services to effectively address those needs
• Structure participatory programs involving collaboration, development, and ownership of educational ends and means by the learners themselves
• Understand, analyze, and relate pertinent theories to practice.
• Design and conduct practical research aimed at enhancing effectiveness of educational programs
• Model excellence in learning and leadership as well as in personal, professional, and community networking and development, so that Adult Education program participants can meet their educational and related needs and goals; aspire to excellence in lifelong learning, critical thinking, and creative problem solving; and improve the quality of their lives. 

The faculty members in this program have 20+ years of experience training ESL/EFL instructors in the United States and abroad. They publish ground-breaking research, establishing the connection between theory and practice relevant for researchers and practitioners. Their research has been published in top-tier journals such as Journal of Studies in International Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, Adult Learning, and New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.

Required courses include:

Workplace, Community, and Continuing Education (WCCE) Concentration Plan

These courses are offered fully online.