Master of Science in Organizational Leadership
Lead Faculty:
Dr. Julia L. Buchanan
The mission of the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL) program is to prepare diverse nontraditional learners to become effective, change-oriented leaders in an international society. The program uses distinctive and challenging curriculum that integrates theory with practice, university with community, personal success with ethical service to others, and information technology with creativity, empathy, and democracy.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Distinguish between multiple approaches for exercising leadership to promote innovation and confront complex issues within organizations.
- Interpret organizational dynamics, group dynamics and engage in systems thinking in order to promote the development of a learning organization capable of innovation, adaptation, and orchestrating conflict.
- Evaluate ethical issues and aid organizational members in creating ethical culture appropriate to the organizational and global environment that supports operating in environments of diversity, uncertainty and unpredictability.
- Distinguish between the functions of authority, power, the practice of leadership, and utilize frameworks that serve organizational purposes.
- Implement effective use of emerging technology, presentation skills and communication both in face-to-face and virtual environments.
- Utilize dialogue and other forms of inquiry with groups and teams in order to create collective problem solving and strategic plans.
- Create frameworks to determine how decisions made might impact ethical culture, support sustainability practices and consider global awareness.
- Identify quality scholarship and research and demonstrate the potential application of emerging leadership theory and knowledge to real world scenarios and simulations.
- Integrate knowledge and skills from multiple disciplines in order to utilize critical thinking, synthesize information, manage conflict, and create collective problem solving capacity.
Requirements
(12 courses; 54 quarter units)
To receive a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership, students must complete at least 54 quarter units of graduate work. A total of 13.5 quarter units of graduate credit may be granted for equivalent graduate work completed at another institution, as it applies to this degree and provided the units were not used in earning another advanced degree. Refer to the section on graduate admission procedures for specific information regarding application and evaluation.
Core Requirements
(10 courses; 45 quarter units)
Each student must complete two graduate courses from the School of Business and Management to meet the electives requirement.
Core Requisite(s):
Program Electives
(2 courses; 9 quarter units)
Each student must complete two graduate courses from the School of Business and Management to meet the electives requirement.
