Master of Arts in Leadership

Purpose

To equip Christian professionals with leadership competence through enhanced commitment, capability and practical effectiveness in specialty areas.

Perspective

The programme is intended to be intensely practical with an emphasis on developing leadership skills applicable to the student's place of work. To ensure that participants learn leadership skills relevant to their needs and those of their organization, adult learning principles and requirements are implemented. These include: balancing lecture with problem solving exercises, a learning format that accommodates personal styles and rates of progress, extensive interactive assignments and solving practical problems.

Goals

  • Develop a personal value-based biblical foundation for critical and moral evaluation of society, the church and organizational change.
  • Develop a personal philosophy of servant leadership modeled on the life of Jesus Christ.
  • Understand leadership and its personal and corporate challenges in a world of shared power and multiple organizational levels.
  • Appreciate leadership as the establishment of mission and vision that is expressed through service
  • Acquire skills in the formation, direction, motivation and evaluation of individual and team activities
  • Ensure better organization performance targets through strategic planning and commitment to financial accountability
  • Apply leadership principles in the work place

Curriculum

The MAL is a 27-month programme, which consists of 33 credits, including 6 core courses, 5 specialized online stream courses and completion of a major research paper.

Core courses

  1. Leadership foundations
  2. Visioning and strategic leadership
  3. Financial accountability and leadership
  4. Team building and conflict management
  5. Leadership values and ethics
  6. Research and writting

Specialized on line stream courses

  1. Business and Entrepreneurship
    • Leadership across cultures
    • Leadership and change
    • Mission
    • Marketing and quality
    • Organizational behavior
    • Management knowledge systems

  2. Christian ministry
    • Communicating with a post modern culture
    • Leadership across cultures
    • Theology of Christian leadership
    • Leadership and change
    • Leadership and spiritual formation

  3. Education
    • Legal, political and social issues
    • Instructional leadership and dynamics of change
    • Leadership issues in educational organizations
    • Developing educational programmes
    • Instructional leadership and supervision

Sequence of courses (subject to minor changes)

Course noted in the shaded areas are done through cohort study (two or three week sessions). The rest of the courses are offered on-line.

Qualifications

To be admitted to the programme applicants must possess a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, with a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) or its equivalent. Also, applicants must have significant work experience (normally three years).

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