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Monday, April 15, 2024
Volume 110 Issue 8
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Mastering Education: Cameron University graduate degrees Brittney Payette Managing Editor
Cameron offers master’s degrees in Business, Psychology and Education. Department of Business Chair and Assistant Dean Dr. Krystal Brue said that within the business department, there are two master’s degrees offered — a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL). Brue said the MBA offered at Cameron is designed for working professionals or recent graduates who want a competitive advantage. “This degree provides students with course content in a variety of business disciplines, including finance, accounting, marketing and management,” she said. “MBA students benefit from connecting concepts to current business issues and expanding their business knowledge, exposure, and expertise.” Brue said the MSOL is a versatile degree that is especially helpful for those who want to start or continue working in government agencies or nonprofits. “CU's MSOL has helped students find the value and marketability of a degree that focuses on leadership and management from a business perspective,” she said. “(Also,) Our graduates have mentioned that they like how MBA and MSOL faculty care about student learning.” Professor and Interim Chair of the Psychology Department, Dr. Mary Dzindolet, said that the Psychology Department at Cameron offers two master's degrees: the Master of Science in Behavioral Sciences (MSBS) and the Master of Arts in Mental Health (MAMH). The MSBS has one track, the general psychology track. The MAMH has two tracks: the counseling track and the marriage and family track. Dzindolet said that one of the requirements for admission into one of the master’s programs is to have a bachelor’s degree. “We want to encourage people — don’t feel like you have to be a Psychology major to earn one of these degrees,” she said. Dzindolet said there are some classes that are required for all of the master’s programs in the Psychology Department such as Psychopathology, Human Development, Research Methods, etc. She said that the MAMH counseling track gives the students all the academic requirements to become a licensed professional counselor in Oklahoma, and the MAMH Marital and Family Counseling track provides students with all the
academic requirements to become a Licensed There are some microcredentials scholarships Marital and Family Counselor in Oklahoma. embedded into courses and we do have some “The counseling track also has an embedded graduate tuition waivers to help offset the cost.” certificate for Alcohol and Drug Counseling There are some similarities and differences (LADC),” she said. “That certificate gives between the masters degrees offered by the someone all of the academic requirements to Education Department. become a LADC in the state of Oklahoma.” “The Masters of Education in Reading requires The MSBS General Psychology track has 11 that the person has a 3.0 undergrad GPA and holds courses. a valid teaching certificate,” Garrett said. “There “You can finish it full-time in two summers, a is no years of experience requirement with that.” fall and a spring (semester),” she said. “It’s real The Masters of Science in Educational fast.” Leadership also requires a GPA of 3.0 and a valid Cameron also has the Psychology Clinic, where teaching certificate and students must have one students can get clinical experience seeing actual year of teaching experience. patients. The therapy provided there is completely The Masters of Education in Education free for the community. The Oklahoma Board of requires that the candidate have a 3.0 GPA and Behavioral Health requires that hold a teaching certificate or students receive 300 hours of have passed their Oklahoma clinical experience. “We have that CPC General Education Test (OGET) “Our CPC is a huge and Oklahoma Subject Area Test where you know advantage for Cameron (OSAT.) you’re going to have students,” Dzindolet said. “We People with an undergraduate have that CPC where you know GPA less than 3.0 can be good people giving you’re going to have good conditionally admitted to the you good training … program. people giving you good training There are no words to … There are no words to say There are some how powerful that is.” commonalities between the say how powerful She said that both the different master’s in education that is.” educational and clinical programs. -Mary Dzindolet experience that students receive “All of our programs require from Cameron will help them be Professor and Interim some sort of research course,” prepared to see clients alone. Department Chair she said. “They all have to “You have the tools to be a take that. Not necessarily the great therapist or counselor,” she same course. It depends on said. “It’s up to you to continue the program that you’re in. All developing, but we give you the best foundation the master’s degrees consist of 11 classes, so 33 you can have, and a lot of that is from the CPC.” credits all together to obtain a master’s.” Dzindolet said that jobs in the mental health Garrett said that field placements are offered sector are desperately needed. in all of the department’s masters programs “One of the missions of the Department of to provide students with a quality learning Psychology is to improve the mental health of the experience. people in the community,” she said. “Opening the “We have partnerships with schools,” Garrett CPC meant that people in the community who said. “The field placements are embedded into can’t afford mental healthcare have a place to go the courses, and so usually the field placement for free, and that’s huge. will somehow align with the course requirement Department of Education Chair Stacie Garrett … each class that they have a field placement said that Cameron’s Education Department has (for) will have a minimum of field hours. It varies three master’s degrees: Master of Education in depending on the course and on the program.” Education, Master of Education in Reading, and For more information about admission into a Master of Science in Educational Leadership. master’s degree program at Cameron, email the “We understand that finances and the cost Office of the Registrar at registrar@cameron.edu. of graduate school is typically the number one For more information about the Psychology concern and barrier that keeps people from being Department, email marydz@cameron.edu able to fulfill that graduate level of learning,” she For more information about the Education said. “There are incentives. For example, there is Department email sgarrett@cameron.edu. For a teach grant that is out there that can offer up a more information about the Business Department, significant amount of money for reimbursement. email graduate@cameron.edu.
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