The Master's Degree in Applied Technology program offers three courses of study under the following titles:

The Master's Degree in Applied Technology program at Chestnut Hill College offers three courses of study under the following titles:
• Specialization in Education and Technology
• Specialization in Instructional Design
• Specialization in Leadership and Technology

Program Specializations
The specializations focus on domains of inquiry in which emerging technologies revolutionize cultures, contexts, and structures. Among the fields undergoing transformation are education with its related disciplines, and organizational structures with their wide spectrum of corporations, institutions, businesses, and real and virtual community groups. It is in response to these changing milieus that the Applied Technology program has set up three (3) areas of focus for its master's degree program. The specializations are grouped into two clusters:

Education focuses on instructional use of technology for the achievement of curricular goals, including the Education and Technology Specialization.
Transformational focuses on research and analysis of changing contexts encompassing the Instructional Design and the Leadership and Technology Specializations.

In keeping with the integrity of the program there are constants throughout the applications. All specializations require that students attain a certain level of sophistication in the following areas of study:

• Use of appropriate technology as a tool in achieving professional goals
• Analysis of current theories specific to the disciplines of the specialization
• Evaluation of the effects of technology on cultures, contexts, and structures

To ascertain that students have the required background for a specialization, certain core courses can be found throughout the specializations as designated below:

Common core courses, required for all specializations
Specialization core, required for a specific specialization
Transformational core, required for both the Instructional Design and the Leadership and Technology Specializations.

In addition, each specialization has a specified minimum number of electives and designated prerequisites.

Program Requirements
The Master of Science in Applied Technology degree is awarded to the candidate upon the satisfactory fulfillment of the general requirements, required of students in all specializations of the program, and the specialization requirements of the candidate's selected field of application.

Candidates for the degree in Applied Technology must fulfill the following requirements for the awarding of the degree:
• Completion of the required course work for the specialization.
• Attainment of the required number of credits for the specialization.
• Acceptance of the student's thesis by the department.

Completion of Course Work
Students are required to take all prerequisites unless waived by the department. They complete the common core, specializations core, and electives as designated for their field of specialization. If students have completed all requirements for specialization but still lack the required number of credits, they select electives to complete the required number. The number of electives depends on a candidate's entry level into the program and area of specialization.

Program Prerequisite
All students matriculating into the Applied Technology program are expected to have a certain facility in using technology that includes simple operations of a computer, familiarity with applications software programs, message board communications, and the ability to use the Internet.

Common Core
To introduce and explicate the themes describe above, certain courses are required of students in all specializations and each specializations has, in addition, its own core. Core courses in certain specializations offer an alternate to the common core. In most cases this alternate stems from specific requirements for professional development or the seminar.

Specialization Core
In addition to the program prerequisite, students take all prerequisites listed for their specialization unless waived by the department. These prerequisites differ for the specializations accord to the Applied Technology program's expectations of a student's background for a given specialization.

While the common core courses are required of all degree candidates, the specializations have been designed with specific populations in mind. Candidates for the Master of Science in Applied Technology degree, in keeping with their experiences and career objectives, choose the program level which best corresponds to their stated goals. All three specializations support a holistic approach to: problem solving, applications of current learning theories in dynamic contexts, a studied immersion of technology, an emphasis on the development of the facilitative leadership, and openness to emerging organizational structures. Instructors in the program, cognizant of the participants' varied backgrounds and interests, respect students' personal and professional goals in determining appropriate projects and research papers.

Elective Courses
The actual number of electives varies in the specializations and will vary among students within a specialization. Students coming into the program with an enriched background in one or more of the content areas may apply to have certain required courses waived. Each waived course is replaced by an elective. An exception can be made to this regulation with the approval of the student's advisor. In certain cases the advisor may give approval to a student to take a prerequisite for credit application toward a degree or certificate program.

Students may select courses listed under Applied Technology Course Descriptions as their elective(s), subject to the approval of their advisor.

Required Number of Credit Hours
The Applied Technology Program offers two program directions:

Educational and Transformational. Educational, with a focus on the role of technology in the classroom, requires thirty-six (36) credits for completion. Students in this strand are generally certified teachers and so come into the program with a strong background in curriculum and instructional theory and practice.
The Transformational, on the other hand, including the Instructional Design and Leadership and Technology Specializations, requires forty-two (42) credits for completion. The additional credits for these applications provide course work in the foundations of the related disciplines as well as in technology.

Completion of Thesis
In addition to meeting criteria for course work and the completion of the required number of credits, each student designs, conducts and completes a qualitative research project as the final requirement for graduation. The thesis is normally completed in the seminar class. It is judged as complete when it has been defended among one's peers, presented in its final form to colleagues and presented to the department written in scholarly format. A student who has not completed the thesis during the seminar semester registers for thesis guidance each semester until its completion. The study cannot be held in abeyance for more than two years.

EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIZATION

The Education and Technology Specialization is designed for the teacher eager to develop the technical skills and conceptual framework necessary for the appropriate use of technology as a tool in the learning environment. The candidate for this specialization emerges from the program with newly developed leadership skills, expertise in the state-of-the-art technologies in the classroom and an understanding of the role technology can play in transforming the classroom into a learning community characterized by applications of constructivist and other emergent theories affecting the culture, context and structure of classrooms today.

Throughout their coursework, students are encouraged to develop their potential as grass-roots leaders by conducting workshops, delivering papers at professional meetings, publishing, and directing ethnographic research projects in their classroom or other professional environments.

Degree Requirements
Candidates for the degree with an Education and Technology Specialization complete thirty-six (36) credit hours of course work and the course requirements as listen below:

Course Requirements
Common Core(18 credit hours)

GRAT	541	Video Communications
• Select one (1) of the following
GRAT	645	Introduction to On-Line Learning
GRAT	646	On-Line Learning: Program Design
GRAT	699	Image Processing in Multimedia Design
• Select one (1) of the following
GRAT	734	Interactive Learning Environments
GRAT	736	Motivation: A Technology Perspective
GRAT	738	Organizational Problem Solving
GRAT	771	Research Methods
GRAT	791	Seminar in Applied Technology

Education and Technology Core - (15 credit hours)

GRAT	548	PC Technology, Operating Systems and Advanced Applications
GRAT	593	Web Communication
• Select one (1) of the following
GRAT	651	Restructured Learning Environments
GRAT	654	Introduction to the Principles of Instructional Design
GRAT	661	Introduction to Studio TV
GRAT	775	Technology: Agent of Change

Electives - (3 credit hours)
Students in the Education and Technology Specialization select a minimum of one (1) elective course.

Prerequisite
No course prerequisites for this specialization. See program prerequisites above.

TRANSFORMATIONAL SPECIALIZATIONS
The Transformational Specializations are offered under two programs of study: Instructional Design and Leadership and Technology. They are designed for the person involved in technology who perceives current and impending cultural changes brought about by that technology. They respond to the need for programs that offer teaching or training in high-tech applications in the context of changing environments. Finally, they prepare the degree candidate to plan, implement, evaluate and trouble-shoot such programs.

Degree Requirements
Students complete a total of forty-two (42) credits as designed for the specializations listed under transformational applications. Unless waived by the department, they are required to complete all the courses listed under common core, transformational core, transformational core, specialization core, elective requirements, and prerequisite courses.

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SPECIALIZATION
This specialization offers the academic and technology resources for the student committed to maximizing the potential of online and web technologies. It offers the candidate for this specialization state-of-the-art tools and professional guidance for researching and developing interactive constructivist environments for education, training, and business. It prepares the student to assume a leadership role in planning and managing the online communications within the organization and to all its constituencies.

Course Requirements
Common Core - (18 credit hours)

GRAT	541	Video Communications
GRAT	646	On-Line Program Design
GRAT	699	Image Processing in Multimedia Design
• Select one (1) of the following:
GRAT	734	Interactive Learning Environments
GRAT	736	Intrinsic Motivation: A Technology Perspective
GRAT	738	Organizational Problem Solving
GRAT	771	Research Methods
GRAT	791	Seminar in Applied Technology

Transformational Core -(9 credit hours)

GRAT	654	Introduction to the Principles of Instructional Design
GRAT	661	Introduction to Studio TV
GRAT	700	Technology Integration in Multimedia Development

Instructional Design Core - (9 credit hours)
Applied Instructional Design

• Select two (2) of the following:
GRAT	708	Video Production
GRAT	720	Advanced Multimedia
• Select one (1) of the following:
GRAT	750	Transformational Environments: Analysis and Evaluation (GIC)
GRAT	781	Selected Topics (GIC)

Elective Requirements
Students in this specialization are required to select a minimum of two (2) electives.

Prerequisite Courses
Students in this specialization are required to take the following prerequisites unless waived by the department. Courses will be waived on the basis of academic credential or administrative verification of work experience.

GRAT	548	PC Technology, Operating Systems, and Advanced Applications
GRAT	593	Web Connections