Strategic Leadership
Master of Science in Strategic Leadership (30 credits)
Program Director: James Eric Siburt, Ph.D.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, remote delivery, and relevant curriculum, including timely topics such as critical problem solving, power and influence, and political and environmental leadership, Immaculata University’s Online Master of Science in Strategic Leadership will prepare you to lead people with courage and confidence in any industry, organization, or company. The Master of Science in Strategic Leadership program provides leadership courses that incorporate evidence-based practices to help you lead the changes necessary for people and organizations to thrive.
Program outcomes include:
- Identify and develop critical problem-solving skills to mitigate the impact of internal and external schemes that affect organizations.
- Develop an awareness that leadership is the ethical and respectful application of power within a specific cultural context.
- Recognize and value the unique nature and complexity of the leader-follower relationship.
- Learn to exercise various practices for negotiation and consensus building in the strategic mitigation of conflict.
- Develop a perspective of power as a complex symbolic system of communication inherent in all relationships.
- Practice global-minded and socially responsible decision making in light of contemporary environmental and political issues.
Required Courses (30 Credits)
| GEN 502 | Methods of Research | (3) |
| LDR 600 | Foundations of Leadership | (3) |
| LDR 603 | Organizational Ethics | (3) |
| LDR 604 | Theories of Change | (3) |
| LDR 605 | Politics of Leading | (3) |
| LDR 610 | Sustainability Leadership | (3) |
| LDR 615 | Leading Digital Citizens | (3) |
| LDR 621 | Strategic and Critical Problem Solving | (3) |
| LDR 630 | Leading Across Cultures | (3) |
| LDR 640 | Power and Influence | (3) |
| LDR 635 | Leadership Comprehensive | (0) |
Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership (12 credits)
Upon completion of the certificate program, students will be able to:
- Identify and develop critical problem-solving skills to mitigate the impact of internal and external schemes that affect organizations.
- Recognize and value the unique nature and complexity of the leader-follower relationship.
- Develop an awareness that leadership is the ethical and respectful application of power within a specific cultural context.
Required Courses
| LDR 600 | Foundations of Leadership | (3) |
| LDR 604 | Theories of Change | (3) |
| LDR 621 | Strategic and Critical Problem Solving | (3) |
| Elective | LDR course per advisement | (3) |