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Click on the name of an online public services master degree program to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the program by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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M.A. in Government |
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Regent University |
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The Robertson School of Government pursues the highest academic excellence. Distinguished faculty, skilled practitioners and rigorous academics, combined with a biblical foundation, form the framework that prepares students to transform governments and governmental organizations. The program is specifically designed for bright and dedicated persons who sense a calling into professions in and related to government - both domestically and internationally. Principled leadership in government is an absolute necessity for the health
and prosperity of our nation. The opportunities that exist today are among some of the most exciting and challenging in our history.
Students are united with academicians, government officials, politicians and policymakers to nurture and promote their interest in public service. Students learn to balance theory with action - to be thinkers as well as implementers, to be passionate about their ideals and to be compassionate toward the people they serve. They gain the knowledge needed to influence and negotiate policy change, manage strategic political campaigns or apply political theory within a solid ethical and moral structure. |
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Master of Arts in Emergency and Disaster Management |
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American Public University |
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The Emergency and Disaster Management degree is designed to provide students with graduate level knowledge and associated critical thinking/decision making involved in planning, management, relief, and recovery for, in, and from public crises. As a core of study, students will be exposed to the history, theory, planning, management, response, relief, recovery, economics, and specific cases associated with public emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes. Included in the curriculum are natural, technical, and human-induced crises. In addition to the core of study, students have the opportunity to focus their interests in topical areas of homeland security, public health, fire management, crisis management, or emergency management. |
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Master of Arts in Global Engagement |
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Public Services |
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American Public University |
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The Master of Arts in Global Engagement degree, and any courses designated “GE,” are offered as an American Public University degree and courses in partnership with the Institute for Global Engagement. The Master of Arts in Global Engagement and any “GE” courses have a theological underpinning. The degree and the “GE” courses are made available to enhance students’ understanding of issues - among them religion and theology - that influence world events but are sometimes not adequately covered in traditional graduate curricula. American Public University System makes the degree and courses available through the American Public University as voluntary degree and/or course options under other degrees as specified in other respective degree paths. Selecting the Master of Arts in Global Engagement or one of the “GE” courses is acknowledgement by the student that he/she is aware of the religious and theological underpinning of the curriculum. As a matter of policy, the American Public University System does not endorse or espouse any particular theology or religion. |
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Master of Arts in Homeland Security |
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American Public University |
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This degree focuses on an interdisciplinary set of topics in the new graduate discipline of homeland security. The degree is designed to provide broad coverage of the major homeland security threats, organization, and challenges through course study in homeland defense, intelligence and homeland security, terrorism, consequence management, and interagency government issues. It also provides a deep set of course offerings in specific concentration areas that students may select based on their professional, personal, or research interests, to include weapons of mass destruction, crisis management, narcotics as a homeland security issue, international homeland security, general national security, terrorism, security management, intelligence methods, transportation security, information security, emergency management, and public health. |
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Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution |
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American Public University |
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This degree provides the student an opportunity to research, study, and write in the field of international peace and conflict resolution - a high demand field today that involves negotiation, mediation, peacemaking, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, and government/non-government relations, among others. Students in this degree path study, debate, and/or uncover the principles and foundations of peace, conflict theory, conflict analysis and resolution, negotiation strategies and concepts, and factors necessary to build lasting peace. Students have the opportunity to focus their studies in a specific region of the world while also gaining valuable insight into the skills necessary to step into international incidents between countries and among peacemakers to assist in the resolution of difficult problems. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Air Warfare |
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American Public University |
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Air Warfare students study the history, power, strategy, and great leaders of the war in the air. The degree is structured to provide choice among students to pursue courses in areas such as great air battles, space warfare, missiles, strategic and/or tactical air power, and other topics related to the discipline. Most popular among AMU students from the U.S. Air Force, this major is open to any interested military or civilian student who seeks to know more of air philosophy, strategy, tactics, history, and contemporary issues. The degree is applicable in most any profession that requires decision making, complex thought, leadership, written and oral communications, and general intelligence. Graduates of this program typically go on to serve in government or military occupations, teach high school, community college, or four-year college, write articles and/or books, and/or pursue the doctorate in a related field. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - American Revolution |
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American Public University |
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APUS offers one of the nation’s only graduate degrees on the American Revolution. Students in this program study the philosophies, personalities, strategies, leadership, and other factors that led to, influenced, and resulted from the United States of America’s foundation and permanent break from Great Britain. As a major event in the larger sweep of the Enlightenment, the following aspects of the American Revolution are analyzed: principles of colonialism, monarchy, democracy, republic, and “nation-building;” military leadership, strategies and individual soldiers on each side; international diplomacy; economics; and American culture. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Civil War |
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American Public University |
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Oftentimes referred to as the "seminal event" in American history, the Civil War program is designed to study the political, cultural, economic, and military issues related to the war between the states. The degree covers (1) major figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant, (2) obscure figures unknown to the casual observer yet critical to one’s understanding of the war, and (3) minor figures who are rarely provided the coverage deserved of history, such as the common soldier on each side of the conflict. The major campaigns are analyzed through the use of cutting edge texts and AMU professors’ expert analysis. The war itself is viewed in context; the issues leading up to it and resulting from it are critically analyzed. All issues are covered from a studied, academic perspective. Graduates of the program can expect to be on their way to becoming "experts" in the Civil War; several AMU graduates of this program have published books and/or articles related to the war. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Defense Management |
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American Public University |
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The Defense Management curriculum combines general management theory and practice with the particular and sometimes peculiar system of management in the defense industrial base of the United States. Students are provided a great deal of choice in this program; their concentrations range from technical, to general, to program/acquisition management. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Joint Warfare |
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American Public University |
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This degree is the study of modern joint warfare operations, leadership, and management. Focusing on the military opportunities, changes, and challenges wrought since the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, students will learn of the theory, practice, planning, implementation, command and control, and overarching military philosophy that pervades today’s joint military environment. Going beyond the specific joint military community, students will also research the military’s ability to interact with other elements of national and international power, to include other militaries, non-military public agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Students have the opportunity to focus their studies in one of four distinct areas related to joint, interagency, and/or government/non-government operations: joint warfare operations, national military affairs, homeland security studies, and peacekeeping operations. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Land Warfare |
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American Public University |
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The Land Warfare major possesses the most extensive number of course offerings. Students are provided the opportunity to focus their efforts in one of two concentrations: U.S. or World land warfare. In addition to the concentration, a wide range of historical, strategy/tactics, and contemporary courses cover the leading personalities, campaigns, and issues faced in warfighting from classical through modern times. In a major that possesses "something for everyone," students may focus their course work on (1) great events in time, such as ancient warfare or World War II, (2) great leaders, through a variety of courses ranging from Napoleon to Patton, (3) institutional courses focused on the history and dynamics surrounding the Marine Corps, Army, Navy, and foreign military organizations, or (4) other combinations of courses leading to a unique concentration. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Military Leadership |
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American Public University |
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The Military Leadership major is designed for students who seek an understanding of the principles, theory, and practices of leadership from an historical perspective. This program provides students with the opportunity to focus on valuable leadership lessons learned under military, civil-military, and government settings and conditions. With critical analytical thinking skills, students can apply the classic strategies, tactics, and teachings of the great military philosophers and leaders that are still relevant in modern times. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict |
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American Public University |
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The Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict major is designed to provide both serving special operations personnel and other interested students with detailed study, research, analysis, and insight into the specialized missions and forces that have influenced international events as an arm of national policy in oftentimes high-risk, politically sensitive environments. Students will not only address the flexible and precise special operations missions (to include unconventional warfare, direct action, special reconnaissance, foreign international defense, combating terrorism, psychological operations, civil affairs, counterproliferation of weapons, information operations, among others), but they will also gain understanding of the contextual issues that lead to and result from such missions. The student will study amongst peers in a core curriculum and then branch off in a selected area of personal special operations or low intensity conflict interest that includes National Security, Special Operations, Insurgency/Revolution, Peacekeeping, Terrorism, Information/Intelligence, or one of six different regional area choices. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - Unconventional Warfare |
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American Public University |
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This degree is designed to study the threats and use of Unconventional Warfare; it includes historical and contemporary coverage of the discipline across a range of topical areas. Those topics include, but are not limited to, terrorism, unconventional warfare, revolution, insurgency and counterinsurgency, peacekeeping, and weapons of mass destruction.Students are afforded a great degree of choice among the courses taken towards the degree objectives in order to provide knowledge most relevant to issues faced by the student in the professional world or material most suited to higher academic interests. Of interest to many students in this program is the opportunity to earn Certificates with the United Nations en route to completing certain AMU Unconventional Warfare courses. Other students from the special operations community find the AMU Challenge Examinations related to the Special Forces Detachment Officer Qualification Course of interest; these courses enable the student to complete one or two major courses while reading and writing from a condensed course list. |
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Master of Arts in Military Studies - World War II Studies |
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American Public University |
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Students in the World War II program study the history, politics, leaders, strategies, and campaigns under which the 20th Century's, (and some would argue, the modern world's), seminal events unfolded. The World War II student takes a core curriculum of study that includes study of the major political and military leaders of both Allied and Axis powers, as well as study of the war's major theaters. Students then have the opportunity to pursue courses of particular interest to them, which include study of major and lesser campaigns and battles, the Holocaust, military strategy and leadership, and World War II political and military institutions. |
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Master of Arts in National Security Studies |
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American Public University |
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The Master of Arts in National Security Studies provides an integrated study of political, geographic, social, economic, technological, and other factors that threaten a state’s national interests. The program is tailored for civilian and military students desiring security-related careers as action-officers, analysts or policy-makers in public or private defense and intelligence organizations involved in the international, regional, or homeland security arenas. Program graduates are prepared for mid-level and senior careers in defense, intelligence, and security organizations and to proceed to advance educational programs (Ph.Ds, war colleges, etc.) in defense and security studies or international relations. |
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Master of Arts in Transportation Management |
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American Public University |
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The University System offers a graduate degree in Transportation Management for (1) serving military transportation logisticians, transportation personnel, or related specialists (2) government or corporate civilians involved in the transportation industry on a local, regional, national, or global scale, and (3) individuals interested in joining the transportation industry who might lack professional expertise in the field. This program is running in partnership with USMMA GMATS. |
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Master of Business Administration - Public Administration |
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Northcentral University |
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Managers possessing the wide range of skills in public administration are meeting the challenges in government management at the local, state and federal levels. For practicing public administrators as well as those seeking entry into public administration, this specialization focuses on acquiring the administrative knowledge and skills in such diverse areas as budgeting, government relations, personnel policies, politics, and urban planning. |
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Master of Military Studies in Naval Warfare |
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American Public University |
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The Master of Military Studies in Naval Warfare degree is designed to emphasize historical, geo-strategic, and tactical issues associated with war at and below sea level. Through leading naval philosophers, strategists, leaders, and texts, Naval Warfare is analyzed for its crucial role in the maintenance of national security and geopolitical stability. Graduates of this program typically go on to serve in government or military occupations, write articles and/or books, and/or pursue the doctorate in a related field. |
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Master of Nonprofit Management |
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Regis University |
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The MNM degree is a 36 credit hour, twelve course program designed to develop and enhance the management and leadership capabilities of professionals in the nonprofit sector. |
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