Adult and Continuing Education
Adult education focuses on creating learning opportunities for adult and aging populations. This growing field extends across instruction, curriculum development, counseling, government, and other industries. With a wide range of meaningful opportunities, adult education offers practitioners to pursue careers as instructors, counselors, and administrators and help others pursue lifelong learning.
Learn how to:
- Apply adult learning and development theory to instruction, counseling, and training
- Assess diverse adult learner needs. Use numerous instructional strategies, tools, and practices to meet learner needs
- Apply theory to practices through models and tools for adult education
- Plan, implement, and evaluate adult education instruction, courses, and programs
- Develop inclusive adult education curricula, courses, and programs
- Prepare scholarly research and activities
- Problem solve ethical challenges
Encourage Lifelong Learning
This program focuses on training professionals for both general and specialized careers within adult education, counseling, and training programs. Coursework helps you understand adult learners, along with their motivations and needs. You can also choose to enhance understanding through a specialty:
- Administration and Supervision
- Gerontology
- Family Counseling
Program Requirements
All students admitted to the M.A.T. program become teacher candidates. The department assigns each candidate an advisor to help plan your course schedule throughout your program journey.
Credit hours in this program split between:
- Core requirements
- Specialization courses
Core Courses (18 credits)
| Course | credits | Name |
|---|---|---|
| ADLT 500 | 3 | Foundations of Adult Education |
| ADLT 501 | 3 | The Adult Learner |
| EDUC 705 | 3 | Strategies for Curriculum Development |
| ADLT 503 | 3 | Counseling Adults |
| ADLT 504 | 3 | Practicum |
Specializations
Choose to specialize in a focused area.
Administration and Supervision
This specialty focuses on leadership development for leaders and administrators of adult education, counseling, and training programs. Our students prepare to become administrators, counselors, and educators.
Specialization Courses
| course | credits | name |
|---|---|---|
| EDUC 707 | 3 | Administration of Education Programs |
| EDUC 655 | 3 | Supervision of Instruction |
| ADLT 512 | 3 | Planning, Programming and Budgeting For Education Programs |
| ADLT 513 | 3 | Sociology of Community and Community Development |
| EDUC 582 | Research Methods in Social and Behavioral Sciences (Prerequisite for ADLT 600) | |
| ADLT 600 | 3 |
Seminar in Graduate Research (Taken after 21 credits) |
Gerontology
In this specialty, you learn about the clinical and theoretical aspects as well as the effects of aging. You’ll also learn more about roles that support persons throughout the aging process, like home health providers, and family caregivers. Upon graduation, students will be able to analyze and design government responses to aging.
Specialization Courses
| course | credits | name |
|---|---|---|
| ADLT 530 | 3 | Environment of Aging |
| ADLT 531 | 3 | Nutrition Problems of the Aging |
| ADLT 532 | 3 | Developmental Psychology of Adult Years and Aging |
| ADLT 533 | 3 | Process of Aging |
| EDUC 582 | 3 | Research Methods in Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| ADLT 600 | 3 | Seminar in Graduate Research |
Family Counseling
This is the only specialty that requires a 6-credit practicum experience. Students learn theory and application of family intervention strategies. Additional focus areas include dynamics of family systems theory and marriage counseling, as well as related counseling techniques.
750+ Course Options
The Coppin State University Academic Catalog has a wide variety of skill-building courses designed to inspire and prepare you to be in-demand professionals and transformational leaders.
Graduate Education Programs
School Administration I
Contemporary Educational Leadership
Adult and Continuing Education lives in the Department of Instructional Leadership and Instructional Development in the School of Education within the College of Arts & Sciences, and Education