Duration
2 years
Starting Date
August and January
Tuition Fee
$624 per credit
Location
Online
About the Program
The field of extension education focuses on “extending” university knowledge and resources to communities throughout the state. Extension offices serve as a community-based education hub where extension educators learn about their local community needs and help develop education programs to address them. Common initiatives focus on:
- Nutrition
- Food systems education
- Family consumer sciences
- Agriculture
- Horticulture
- Youth development
- Volunteer development
- Economics
- Natural resource management
Career
Extension practitioners throughout the world often work for government agencies. In the United States, many extension agents (sometimes called county agents, or extension educators) work at land-grant universities in cooperative extension service programs.
If you work in a nonprofit, government, or extension organization, this Master of Extension Education at Colorado State University can advance your education career in a variety of fields, including:
- Agricultural extension
- Community development
- Environmental education
- Human development
- Natural resources
- Range science
Courses Included
- American Agricultural Values and Ideology
- Agricultural and Extension Teaching
- Internship in Extension
- Evaluation and Applied Research in Extension
- Principles of Cooperative Extension
- Delivery of Cooperative Extension Programs