Management (M.S.)
with special emphasis on Organizational Leadership
Degree Requirements 33 SH
Term I
| MGT542 |
Leadership Theory & Practice |
3 |
| MGT543 |
Assessment of Leadership in Organizations |
3 |
| |
(MGT548 practicum begins) |
| MGT544 |
Effective Problem Solving & Decision Making |
3 |
Term II
| MGT549 |
Organizational Communication |
3 |
| MGT551 |
Leadership & High Performance Teams |
3 |
| MGT548 |
Practicum in Leadership Development |
3 |
| |
(MGT552 practicum begins) |
| MGT545 |
Organizational Analysis |
3 |
Term III
| MGT546 |
Organizational Design & Innovation |
3 |
| MGT553 |
Strategic Leadership in Organizations |
3 |
| MGT552 |
Practicum in Proposal Development for Organizational Improvement |
3 |
| MGT547 |
Ethical Practices of Leaders |
3 |
Specialty Area Concentrations
The MSM is designed with the flexibility to meet the specialized needs of organizational clients by allowing for concentrations in specialty areas such as Health Care Management, Human Resources Management, Human Resources Development, Information Technology, Public Administration, Law Firm Management, or Hospitality Sector Management. Such specialty concentrations may be offered as cohort groups are recruited to satisfy a specific need within a market or within a specific client organization (for example, a management concentration developed for the U.S. Customs Service). Need may be determined by an analysis of a local market and/or through corporate or organizational contacts.
Concentrations require the completion of 9 to 15 semester hours of course work within the concentration specialty area. (If a concentration is 9 or 12 semester hours, the remaining credits will come from courses the non-core MSM courses.) Concentrations may include a combination of any of the following: existing catalog courses, courses developed specifically for the specialty area, and/or courses offered as MGT495: Special Topics, which are relevant to the specialty area. However, all MSM students are required to complete the six program core courses: MGT542, MGT543, MGT544, MGT545, MGT546, and MGT547.
M.S. in Management Transfer Credit Policy
In addition to the College level transfer credit requirements described above, the following specific Program level rules apply to MSM applicants who desire to transfer credit:
Master of Science in Management applicants may petition prior to the start of their program to have up to a total of 9 semester hours of transfer credit applied toward their MSM degree. Students transferring credit equivalent to a current MSM course may only receive up to as much credit as that course is assigned in the current MSM Program (i.e., 3 SH). Students may elect (but are not required) to attend class (without tuition or audit charges) with their group for a refresher on substituted or waived courses; however, they must pay for the course texts. Transfer credit will not be approved for the six core courses in the MSM Program.
Regular Transfer Credit (9 SH maximum)
Regular transfer credit will be approved for courses which are deemed to be equivalent to up to three of the five non-core MSM courses:
| MGT548 |
Practicum in Leadership Development |
| MGT552 |
Practicum in Proposal Development for Organizational Improvement |
| MGT549 |
Organizational Communication |
| MGT551 |
Leadership & High Performance Teams |
| MGT553 |
Strategic Leadership in Organizations |
General Transfer Credit (6 SH maximum)
In addition to credits equivalent to current non-core MSM courses, up to 6 SH of the 9 SH. maximum credits may be transferred in a category called "general transfer credit" as long as they are for course work either from a college or school of business, management, or organizational studies or they are for courses which are demonstrably relevant to managerial leadership. General transfer credit is analogous to having one or two elective courses. CMB program administrators must approve all such transfer credit awards.
The lists below indicate which required MSM Program courses are to be waived in allowance for various numbers of general transfer credits.
If transferring 3 semester hours of "general transfer credit," choose one to waive:
| MGT552 |
Practicum in Proposal Development for Organizational Improvement |
| MGT548 |
Practicum in Leadership Development |
If transferring an additional 3 semester hours (a total of 6) of "general transfer credit," choose one of these courses to waive:
| MGT549 |
Organizational Communication |
| MGT551 |
Leadership & High Performance Teams |
| MGT553 |
Strategic Leadership in Organizations |
