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Master in Organisational Leadership

Course code: 3703 ~ Course abbreviation: MOrgLead ~ Total credit points required: 72 ~ 18 months full-time, 3 years part-time ~ Managing faculty: Education

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Multimode (Clayton)

Off-shore (Singapore, Hong Kong)

Course description

This course is designed for professionals working in a range of human service and corporate sector organisations who prefer being associated with an organisational qualification rather than an educational one upon graduation.

Course Objectives

The objectives of the Master in Organisational Leadership are to provide students with the skills necessary to be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of recent research and/or professional developments related to their program of study; engage and interact with students from diverse professional backgrounds; get access to, and use, relevant library information services; complete assignment tasks which demonstrate the ability to engage at an advanced academic level with topics relating to the specific unit being studied; demonstrate the ability to undertake a major and original piece of work set in a scholarly context and presented according to faculty guidelines (for students undertaking a thesis); acquire skills in the research methodologies appropriate to their field of interest (for students aspiring to undertake studies at doctoral level).

Course structure

Students are required to successfully complete 72 points, comprising one of the following three options:

  • six units - option one
  • five units plus EDF6010/EDF6020 Professional project (8000 words) - option two
  • four units plus a research thesis (16,000 words) - option three.

Course requirements

Option 1

Research core unit
  • An appropriate 12-point research unit will be selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
Core units
Elective units
  • Any 12-point units selected from the units offered within the education postgraduate coursework studies programs.

Option 2

Research core unit
  • An appropriate 12-point research unit will be selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
Core units
  • EDF6821 Power, authority and decision-making (12 points)
  • EDF6822 Leadership and organisation (12 points)
  • EDF6823 Management and change (12 points)
  • EDF6828 Resource management (12 points)
Professional project
  • EDF6010 or EDF6020 Professional project (A) or (B) (8000 words) (12 points)

Option 3

Research core unit
  • An appropriate 12-point research unit will be selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
Core Units

Any three units chosen from:

  • EDF6821 Power, authority and decision-making (12 points)
  • EDF6822 Leadership and organisation (12 points)
  • EDF6823 Management and change (12 points)
  • EDF6828 Resource management (12 points)
Research thesis
  • EDF6031 Masters thesis part 1, and EDF6032 Masters thesis part 2 (16,000 words) (totalling 24 points)
Research methodology units
  • EDF6005 Reading, interpreting and communicating research (12 points)
  • EDF6006 Introduction to quantitative research methods (12 points)
  • EDF6007 Qualitative approaches to research (12 points)
  • EDF6008 Working with theory in research (12 points)
  • EDF6009 Special topic in research (12 points)
  • EDF6012 Specific focus in research A (6 points)
  • EDF6013 Specific focus in research B (6 points)
Research thesis

The research core unit is a corequisite for the research thesis. It may be taken concurrently with the research thesis or completed prior to the commencement of the research thesis.

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9905 2819 or visit http://www.education.monash.edu.au.

Course adviser

Dr Nicholas Allix