DePaul Univ School for New Learning

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  1. bceagles

    bceagles Member

  2. P. Kristian Mose

    P. Kristian Mose New Member

    No, but they've recently hired Prof. Gabriele Strohschen away from Chicago's National-Louis U. to be Director of Graduate Programs. A design-your-own master's degree, done largely via distance learning, is in the works at DePaul: it is her baby. And she is a superb professor. Student-centred, educationally open-minded, hard-working.

    In terms of name-recognition and prestige factor, DePaul would be a fine DL sheepskin, either bachelor or master's level.

    Peter
     
  3. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    This would appear to be a good choice for someone whose interests are somewhere "outside the box." The price, however, seems pretty high and I suppose you'd have to really want the name brand of DePaul to pay that tuition. Please note that when I say "name brand" I mean that I believe this school's name would be recognized across the country (not a small thing IMHO).
    Jack
     
  4. bo79

    bo79 New Member

    This sound like a very interesting program. Do you know when it will be up and running. Can you provide some links where I could learn more about this masters program.

    Thanks
     
  5. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    The link was kindly provided in the original posting. If you follow the link you will discover that the program is already up and running.
    Jack
     
  6. bo79

    bo79 New Member


    I did look at a link ad I checked out the distance learninf section, but all i saw was information on a distance learning bachelors degree not a masters.
     
  7. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    The way I'm reading this website suggests that the DePaul School for New Learning (SNL) offers a number of flexible degree programs for people who want to design their own studies/degree. Some of these SNL degrees are Masters degrees and some are Bachelors degrees. Within this group, the only degrees offered through DL are the Bachelors degree programs. So, SNL offers Masters programs but not through DL.
    Jack
     
  8. P. Kristian Mose

    P. Kristian Mose New Member

    DL version in the works...

    Jack's correct. If you click around, you will find a rather interesting and comprehensive design-your-own Master's degree offered via DePaul's School for New Learning (essentially its return-to-learn adult department). I believe the odd designation is MAAPS (Master of Arts in Applied Professional Studies), akin in name (but less in spirit) to the MAPS degree of Thomas Edison State. It's for someone who has left the undergrad academy long since behind, and now wishes to grow within his profession. The one proviso is that this degree -- and one's profession -- may not overlap precisely with a more customary DePaul grad degree program.

    It's meant to be designed creatively, and you do much of the work on your own, abetted by small seminars of other MAAPS students. Generally takes two years.

    Yes, it's fairly expensive, around twenty thousand US$, as I recall. But DePaul is a fairly big-league school, the largest Catholic university in the US. Certainly far higher in name recognition, and more impressive academically, than National-Louis U where I pursued adult education.

    The distance-learning version of this DePaul master's program is indeed in the works: I have spoken to Prof. Stroschen about it more than once, and know she was hired to get it off the ground. Her hope is that it will be up and running this coming fall, but that I doubt. My guess is September of 2005, unless you just start doing a tutorial and help them invent the program on the fly.

    You can write her as follows, and you are welcome to use my name or mention this board: [email protected]. She's originally from Berlin, Germany, but came to the US with a backpack as a teenager and never left.

    Peter
     
  9. P. Kristian Mose

    P. Kristian Mose New Member

    You heard it here first...

    Just received word that DePaul has officially said yes to putting its MA program in Applied Prof. Studies online, beginning in fall of 2005. They're a conservative, strong-name school, and this is apparently their first new degree approval in some 20 years. So this is big.

    Details have yet to be worked out, but basically the program will be the same as on campus, though probably with a couple of short residencies, and the six liberal learning seminars taught in cohort fashion online, with the other work done independently. (Despite some of you, I remain a partisan of the short-residency educational concept.)

    If you are already involved in some sort of profession, this master's degree is a design-your-own program to take you further. You work closely with a DePaul advisor and a field advisor of your choosing. You can do a summation project or not.

    Web site spells out the degree concept in detail, although it does not yet acknowledge the move to DL. Looks like the program has attracted the middle-management crowd over 20 years more than the creative types -- oh, well -- but I'm still excited about this emerging Chicago Catholic rival to the Lesley/Vermont/Goddard/Antioch master's degree axis.

    http://www.snl.depaul.edu/prospective/maaps_overview.asp
     
  10. P. Kristian Mose

    P. Kristian Mose New Member

    Postscript

    I know MAAPS is a dork-city degree name, but if you click around the website, you will see that DePaul knows this also. The degree is often referred to in shorthand as an MA. Can't blame them.
     

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