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Concentrations and Curriculum

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The MAOL program offers in-depth application of skills in a concentration of your choice, making the degree highly customizable on an individual basis. Available concentrations include:

General program format

As part of mastering core leadership skills, you take required courses and classes in one or more concentration areas. You augment that with elective courses.

Courses are designed for working adults who have a minimum of two years professional experience. Typically, eight to 10 hours of work per week is required outside of class.

Capstone experiences

Coursework is topped off with a Leadership Thesis or Leadership Action Project. For the thesis (6 total credits), you conduct original research and an extensive review of literature related to your topic. If you opt for an action project (3 total credits), you work on solving a current leadership issue, problem or need.

Recent projects and theses include:

  • Effective Team Building for Virtual Groups
  • The Role of Leadership in Managing Culture in Rapidly Growing Organizations
  • The Incorporation of Children’s Voices: A Family Mediation Dilemma
  • Extraversion and Introversion and their Different Leadership Practices
  • Electronic Health Records: Best Practices for Adoption
  • The Business Case for Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Conflict in Nonprofit Teams
  • An Analysis of Three Workforce Trends and How a Manufacturing Company Should Respond