Students pursuing the Master of Science in Leadership are required to take a total of 12 courses as follows:

  • 3 foundation courses - 12 Credits
  • 1 capstone course - 4 Credits
  • 8 major courses - 32 Credits

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Foundation Curriculum - 12 Credits
Students are required to take 3 foundation courses as follows:

- MBA5001 Organization Behavior and Communication

This course addresses the issues of motivation, leadership, and communications. Included are negotiation, conflict resolution, and team–building.

Prerequisite(s): None
Credits: 4

- LEA5100 Leadership, Organization Theory and Change

Leading organization–wide structural and cultural change is a significant challenge facing today's organizations. This course will explore the nature of these changes, the basis for their adoption, and both the management and leadership of organizational change in the 21st century, including issues of managing growth, resistance to change, intervention phases, crisis management, inter– and intra–group conflict/power.

Prerequisite(s): None
Credits: 4

- LEA5125 Leadership Ethics, Culture, and Politics

This course compares and contrasts the disciplines of leadership and management with an emphasis on fostering organization culture and personal ethics. Topics may include historical and contemporary leadership and management theories, current leadership research and the practice of leadership and management across a wide variety of organizational contexts.

Prerequisite(s): None
Credits: 4


Capstone Course - 4 Credits
Students are required to take 1 capstone course as follows:

- LEA6999 Strategic Leadership and Implementation

This course explores the methods of providing leadership in a firm, or a significant division thereof in an internationally competitive environment. Students will develop an understanding of the way in which general mangers integrate leadership and strategy today’s market economy.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation and core courses
Credits: 4


Major Curriculum - 32 Credits

Personal Leadership

- LEA5140 Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
This course explores a variety of leadership approaches, with a special emphasis on leading with emotional intelligence. Topics include the roles and functions of messages and messaging activities, empathy and self-awareness, and emotional intelligence used in the practice and outcomes of leadership.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- LEA6150 Coaching and Professional Development

This course explores the theories and applications of coaching and professional development by a leader with individuals on his/her staff. Topics may include coaching strategies employed across a variety of situational contexts, organizational and professional development requirements, and contemporary approaches for professional development employed by leaders.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- LEA6180 Strategic Negotiations

This course explores the theories and applications of single and multiparty negotiations in a wide variety of organizational contexts. Topics may include the exploration of negotiation as an art and science, consideration of negotiating behaviors and characteristics, and strategies to achieve negotiation success for the stakeholders involved.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

Organizational Leadership

- LEA5130 Team Building and Group Dynamics

This course focuses on the theories and applications of team building and group dynamics, with an emphasis on leadership opportunities in small and large groups.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- MBA6501 Strategic Human Resources Management

This course explores human resources from a strategic perspective to help an organization achieve its goals. Topics may include investments in human resources, workforce demographic trends, theories of human re-source management, workforce training and development, workforce utilization and assessment, and performance management systems.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- MBA6505 Organizational Development and Change Management

This course explores the theoretical grounding and practical approaches necessary to effectively diagnose organizational problems, develop intervention approaches, and implement organizational solutions. Topics may include entering and contracting, organizational diagnostic models, organizational surveys, change impediments, managing the change process, organizational/interpersonal/group interventions, and evaluation approaches.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- LEA6175 International Leadership

This course examines international issues and challenges the leaders face. Topics may include historical and contemporary perspectives of international leadership and the influence of international cultures and politics on the practice and outcomes of leadership.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of the MSL foundation courses

Credits: 4

- LEA6185 International Negotiations

This course continues to develop applications of single and multiparty negotiations in international organizational contexts. Topics may include advanced role playing among different stakeholders, impact of culture and political differences, and coalition building strategies.

Prerequisite(s): LEA6180

Credits: 4

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