Leadership | Master of Science: Global Strategic Leadership
The Master of Science in Global Strategic Leadership (GSL) is an online degree program that seeks to aid established professionals in varying fields navigate a world of grand challenges and wicked problems through a lens of transdisciplinarity. This degree is aimed at providing mid-career professionals with practical leadership skills needed to solve complex, interconnected problems within their organization and beyond.
By integrating global strategic leadership into existing skill sets, this program seeks to establish a growing population of researchers and problem solvers within the current workforce. The program currently offers two concentration areas (Leadership in Health Administration & Information Technology Policy Administration) to develop in-demand leadership skills to those within our program to enhance the current workforce and create more globally aware citizens.
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| Core | ||
| LDRS 650G | Principles of Organizational Leadership | 3 |
| LDRS 802 | Organizational Systems, Change, and Leadership | 3 |
| LDRS 805 | Organizational Inquiry | 3 |
| LDRS 807 | Leadership in Teams and Collaborative Environments | 3 |
| LDRS 815 | Transdisciplinary Leadership in Context | 3 |
| LDRS 820 under development/Approved Course | 3 | |
| Concentration Core | ||
| Choose one of the following options: | 12 | |
| Public Policy, Law, Ethics in Telecommunications and Law of Cyberspace and Global Telecommunications Policy and Management of Information Security | ||
| Public Health and Global Health and Legal Issues in Health Care and Administration in Health Care | ||
| Directed Electives | ||
| Any graduate course in HHP, INF, or LDRS not meeting another requirement | 3 | |
| Culminating Experience | ||
| LDRS 895 | Research Project in Organizational Leadership | 3 |
| Total Hours | 36 | |
Graduate School Graduation Requirements
All Graduate degrees1 require:
- Maintain a C or higher in all coursework.
- Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. (Refer to program)
- A minimum of 30-75 hours of Graduate course work. (Refer to program)
- Comprehensive Examination or equivalent assessment is required. (Master of Liberal Studies requires a Comprehensive Examination and Concentration Exam)
- Degree completion within 8 years.
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Refer to degree program for any additional requirements.
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | |
| LDRS 650 | Principles of Organizational Leadership | 3 |
| LDRS 815 | Transdisciplinary Leadership in Context | 3 |
| POLS 805 | Global Challenges | 3 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Spring | ||
| LDRS 802 | Organizational Systems, Change, and Leadership | 3 |
| INF 610 | Public Policy, Law, Ethics in Telecommunications | 3 |
| LDRS 807 | Leadership in Teams and Collaborative Environments | 3 |
| MIS 602 | Information Systems Design and Development | 3 |
| Hours | 12 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| LDRS 820 - New Course under review | 3 | |
| INF 603 | Big Data Analytics | 3 |
| INF 650 | Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction | 3 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Spring | ||
| LDRS 895 | Research Project in Organizational Leadership | 3 |
| Directed Electives | 3 | |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Total Hours | 36 | |