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Master of Leadership

Degree Requirements

The Master of Leadership requires 30 credit hours, including 27 hours of course work and a 3-hour capstone class. The 27 hours of course work consists of 15 hours of required core classes and 12 hours of electives. Electives listed below are drawn primarily from Leadership, English, History, Politics, and Business courses. Students may petition the graduate director to have additional courses counted toward their Leadership degree from these programs, or from programs such as Classics, Economics, and Philosophy, or from the Neuhoff School of Ministry (for example, Pastoral Administration). No thesis or foreign language is required.

Course Requirements

Core Courses

LDRS 5320The Craft of Leadership

3
LDRS 5350Story-Telling as a Mode of Thinking

3
LDRS 6320Critical & Strategic Thinking

3
MANA 6307Managing Complex Organizations

3
BUAD 6305The Effective Leader

3

Capstone

LDRS 8350Capstone Experience

3

Electives

HIS 5309

LDRS 5340Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Making

3
LDRS 6310Leading thru Adaptive Challenges

3
LDRS 6360Spiritual Leadership

3
LDRS 6377

LDRS 6378

LDRS 6379

MANA 7395Ethical Dimensions of Leadership

3
MANA 8310Strategic Management

3
BUAD 8310Business and Society

3
HIS 3334Church History I

3
ENG 5313Thomas More

3
ENG 6364Liberty in Literature

3
PHI 5301

POL 6321Lincoln

3
POL 6326The Presidency

3
POL 6381Machiavelli

3
POL 7376Aristotle's Politics

3
PSY 6338Social Psychology

3

LDRS 6377, LDRS 6378, and LDRS 6379: Courses offered according to student interest and faculty availability.