Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Course

This course is designed for professionals working in a range of human service and corporate sector organisations who wish to gain an all-purpose qualification in organisational leadership.

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that students will have:

• gained knowledge and understanding of recent research and/or professional developments related to their program of study
• completed assignment tasks which demonstrate the ability to engage at an advanced academic level with topics relating to the specific unit being studied
• acquired 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 the thesis option)
• acquired skills in the research methodologies appropriate to their field of interest (for students aspiring to undertake studies at doctoral level).

Students are required to successfully complete core units and one of the following three options:

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

Option 1

Students complete:

• four core units
• an appropriate 12-point research unit selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
• any 12-point elective units selected from the units offered within the education postgraduate coursework studies programs

Option 2

Students complete:

• four core units
• an appropriate 12-point research unit selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
• EDF6010 Professional project A or EDF6020 Professional project B (8000 words) (12 points)

Option 3

Students complete:

• three core units
• an appropriate 12-point research unit selected from the faculty suite of research methodology units
• EDF6031 Masters thesis part 1, and EDF6032 Masters thesis part 2 (16,000 words) (totalling 24 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.

Core units

• EDF6821 Power, authority and decision-making
• EDF6822 Leadership and organisation
• EDF6823 Management and change
• EDF6828 Resource management

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)

Students who choose not to complete the full program may be eligible to exit with a Postgraduate Certificate in Organisational Leadership or a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership after consultation with the course adviser.

Master in Organisational Leadership