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Healthcare Leadership Concentration

For healthcare managers or those who want to expand their healthcare career to take a leadership role, the MAOL in healthcare leadership equips individuals to respond in this challenging environment.

Through course work in leadership and healthcare management, you collaborate with others from various backgrounds to prepare for cross-functional, interorganizational and interagency situations typically facing today’s healthcare leaders.

Academic plan

The healthcare leadership concentration requires completion of 39 total credits. The 12 required courses account for 30 or 33 of those credits based on whether you choose the action project or the leadership thesis. The remaining six or nine credits are available for MAOL elective courses.

  • ORLD 6200: Ethics and Leadership
  • ORLD 6300: Strategic Communication
  • ORLD 6400: Accounting and Finance Skills for Effective Decision Making
  • ORLD 6600: Research and Analytical Skills for Decision Making
  • ORLD 7410: Healthcare Policy: Ethical, Financial and Quality Issues
  • ORLD 7100: Professional and Organizational Ethics
  • ORLD 7500: Leading Organizational Change
  • ORLD 8901: Research Proposal: Leadership Action Project OR ORLD 8902: Research Proposal: Leadership Thesis
  • ORLD 8980: Leadership Action Project OR ORLD 8990: Leadership Thesis
  • ORLD 8880: Leadership Seminar
  • Three or four elective MAOL courses (9 or 12 credits, based on choice of action project or thesis)

Recommended electives

MAOL faculty recommend you select from the following courses to fulfill the elective requirements:

  • ORLD 6250: Organizations: Social and Political Structures
  • ORLD 6750: Leading Teams and Projects: Tools and Skills
  • ORLD 6800: Managing a Diverse Workforce
  • ORLD 6993: Topics: Power and Leadership
  • ORLD 7400: Marketing Strategically
  • ORLD 8200: Strategic Management

For detailed course descriptions, visit the courses page.