M.S. Instructional Design & Technology Requirements

Program-Specific Admission Requirements

  • Statement of Goals – Submit a typed essay discussing your professional goals and aspirations, including how your current skills along with advanced study of educational leadership will aid you in the attainment of these goals.
  • Essay – One essay, no more than 800 words from among the three possible topics below:
    • Summarize the leadership activities in which you have been involved in recent years and explain how these experiences reflect your vision of and capacity for leadership.
    • Please identify a problem or challenge in a school, school-related organization, or your professional life generally and write an analysis in which you assess the issue(s), describe effective strategies for addressing the issue(s), and make clear the implications for the exercise of effective leadership in the situation.
    • Please describe a problem of educational policy decision –making, policy content, or policy implementation, and explain how a deeper understanding of policy or the policy process could improve the situation.
Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology

Admission Requirements

The applicant must meet the School of Graduate Studies’ current minimum general admission requirements as published in the graduate catalog.

  1. An overall undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 or a junior/senior year grade point average of 3.00 for the Master of Education and Master of Science degrees, and for the certificate programs.
  2. A 3.5 or better grade point average for all graduate work.
  3. Satisfy the School of Graduate Studies’ English Language Proficiency requirements as published in the graduate catalog.
  4. Two essay questions as part of the application process.

Provisional admission may be considered for students whose academic performance does not meet these criteria. Whether such consideration is given will depend on the circumstances and the judgment of the admissions faculty.

Degree Requirements

Students seeking the MS degree at the University of North Dakota must satisfy all general requirements set forth by the School of Graduate Studies as well as particular requirements set forth by the IDT program.

  1. At least one-half of the credits must be at or above the 500 level.
  2. A maximum of one-fourth of the credit hours required for the degree may be transferred from another institution.
Required Courses
Core coursework in IDT 9
Additional coursework in IDT area of emphasis9
Foundations coursework in education or psychology3
Scholarly tools/research 6
Electives3
Internship2
Scholarly project or thesis2-4
Total (34-non-thesis or 36- thesis)

The IDT degree options are based on the same set of program components:

  1. Program core component: New courses presenting IDT content.
  2. Research component: Development of research skills.
  3. Foundations component: Fundamental background in psychology.
  4. Area of Emphasis in IDT: Opportunity for area or skill specialization within IDT.

The IDT course requirements are organized within a major, foundations area, research/scholarly tools area, and area of emphasis. The major consists of the IDT core and the area of emphasis in IDT. Students in the MS degree program will be required to complete 18 credit hours of coursework in IDT subject matter. This requirement includes:

Core Coursework
IDT 500Survey of Instructional Design3
IDT 520Instructional Systems Analysis and Design3
IDT 525Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Instructional Materials3
Area of Emphasis
Select three of the following:9
IDT 550
Theories and Models of Instructional Design
IDT 590
Special Topics in Instructional Design and Technology
IDT 591
Readings in Instructional Design and Technology
IDT 592
Research in Instructional Design and Technology (MS must take scholarly tool, does not count toward cognate)
IDT 593
Directed Studies in Instructional Design and Technology
K-12 Emphasis
IDT 510
Technology-Based Instruction: Applications and Methods
IDT 540
Digital Media and the Internet in Schools
Corporate Emphasis
IDT 560
Instructional Design Consulting
IDT 570
Human Performance Technology
Computer- and Web-Based Instruction
IDT 530
Introduction to Computer-Based Instruction
IDT 535
Advanced Computer-Based Instructional Development
IDT 545
Instructional Simulations and Games
IDT 580
Introduction to Web-Based Instruction
Foundations
Any EFR Foundations course 3
Scholarly Tools
EFR 509Introduction to Applied Educational Research3
IDT 592Research in Instructional Design and Technology1-3
Internship
IDT 584Internship in Instructional Design and Technology2-4
Thesis/Scholarly Project
Select one of the following:2-4
IDT 997
Independent Study
IDT 995
Scholarly Project
IDT 998
Thesis
Total Credits29-35

The requirements on this page are pulled from UND’s academic catalog and may not reflect future terms. Updates are published annually in April.

Graduate Admissions Requirements

In addition to meeting these program requirements, you must also meet the UND School of Graduate Studies admissions requirements to apply for this program.

Graduate Requirements

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