Learn to Make Just & Lasting Change
Learn how to make-a-difference in your community. You don’t need to leave your job or family. Learn to use what you already have to reach where your community wants to go.
Join a university where the world is your classroom. In a world where the challenges grow ever larger, learn to grow local answers. Future Generations University graduates have improved where they live and work for a quarter century.
This is the future of higher education, flexible, relevant, and fitting your need. To get a Master’s degree, Future.Edu allows you to spread out your learning across the time you have—from 20 months, or even four years. The Master’s degree becomes affordable, and scholarships are available also.
You get the convenience of an online degree with challenging face-to-face interactive learning.
- This begins in our electronic-connected world classroom,
- At the same time, you apply lessons with the people and place where you live—and connect with classmates around the world.
- You can participate in educational trips, and study at some of the best community development sites around the world.
- The world is your classroom—locally as you apply the lessons and globally as you learn world best practice.
Future Generations is highly selective—but if you’re admitted, you join others working for local change around the world in 40 countries. Skills you learn will empower communities to build from their successes and forge partnerships. They will change their behaviors. As an individual, you will create just and lasting change for many.
Join a new universe of learning from the world, around the world.
How This Program Works
Assignments in all courses directly connect to improving your existing work. For example, if you’re learning about grant proposals, the assignment is not just to draft a practice proposal; your professor will aid you to create an actual proposal. The support continues to graduation where you will have implemented numerous successful efforts in real life contexts. Then after graduation, you enter Future Generations Global Network where you receive lifelong professional support.
Interactive online learning is a core element of our program. Course materials and learning modules are delivered right from the University’s online instructional platforms. Moodle LMS facilitates the sharing of resources, submission of assignments, and asynchronous communication, while Mahara ePortfolio provides a multi-media environment for students to professionally showcase what they’ve accomplished as their education here progresses. Regularly scheduled classes are held via Zoom video conferencing. With our blended learning curriculum, you really can have it all!
To further support the applied nature of the degree, students have the opportunity to join up to 5 optional residential experiences throughout their course of study. Residentials are supplemental, credit-bearing courses that range between 1-3 weeks and provide students with an opportunity for immersive, hands-on learning and a collaborative educational experience. Typical activities while on the trip include visits to NGOs, both large and small, participation in cultural activities, and on-site learning from various professional organizations. Past Residentials have been based in The Philippines, India, Kenya, Haiti, and throughout the United States, to name just a few.
Future Generations University has world expertise instructional and research faculty. All are actively engaged in their respective fields, making them the perfect individuals to lead students through our multi-sectoral learning process, as they themselves are living it. Their knowledge and experiences are current, innovative, and real-world tested. You’ll be learning from those who both do AND teach.
For more information on our faculty page, visit our : Faculty Directory
Upon graduating, students join the Future Generations Center for Research and Practice.(www.future.org) This global network is comprised of other alumni, practitioners and organizations of all sectors, as well as global partners. The Center encourages life-long learning by providing educational resources, grant support, and opportunity for collaboration amongst its members.
Experience a World of Learning
Future Generations University's unique MA in Applied Community Development blends distance learning with immersive experiences all over the world.
Choose Your Path to Success
The Future Generations MA in Applied Community Change is the only one in the world of its kind—just like you. Choose a specialization and build your skills and knowledge while working towards what matters most to you.
Pursuing a more non-traditional path? You don’t have to seek the full degree in order to take our courses. Try one as a “taster” to get a feel for the program, or take as many as you want just for your own enrichment. The choice is yours!
Future Generations University has developed programs to fit your life, no matter the direction you’re headed. Special certificate & diploma opportunities connect to ideas and techniques you can use to achieve your professional or educational goals. Chose the subject areas that are most relevant to your professional and personal purposes.
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