Graduate coursework is more a community of learners, rather than just a teacher-student relationship. Graduate students are assumed to have reached an intellectual maturity that puts them at a place where the role of the instructor is different. In graduate coursework, we assume that students are involved in local, state, and national leadership issues. The master's program emphasizes effective positive social change. It emphasizes the issues in education and advocacy, so that students will be leaders for positive change on a local, state, and national level.
Graduate students give careful consideration to research, information, and bibliographic references.
The skills of knowledge navigation are increasingly important in the years ahead, and graduate students know how to find the knowledge they need. Graduate learning is not just remembering information, it is constructing knowledge. The community of learners open new insights and create new knowledge in the field. The capstone is the final work submitted by a graduate student. The capstone is also meant to be practical and useful.