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Overview
The Master of Leadership is designed for experienced professionals and learners wishing to take the next step in their leadership journey. This course will give the student practitioners an opportunity to consolidate their learning, challenge their worldviews and take initiatives to introduce meaningful transformative initiatives to their workplaces and communities. Students will gain practical research experience through the Leadership Research Project that enables them to explore certain organisational or community issues in an in-depth manner and produce a minor research paper.
Students undertake a series of coursework units including a research project unit, integrating critical thinking and engagement with theoretical, religious, and spiritual beliefs with a body of knowledge and lived professional experience. This is done through enquiry-based studies, case studies from leading professionals to address workplace problems and issues, that are expected to lead to the development of practical approaches for change and implementation of projects in their professional context.
Course learning outcomes
Graduates of the Master of Leadership will be able to:
- Investigate, evaluate, and synthesise complex ideas and concepts that may include complex perspectives from religious beliefs, spiritual traditions.
- Integrate advanced knowledge of leadership theories and frameworks that may include perspectives from religious beliefs and spiritual traditions as well as current critical research perspectives to inform leadership practice in complex contexts.
- Communicate complex, coherent, and sustained arguments, leadership ideas, and decisions in various modes to engage Christian and other audiences.
- Critically reflect on and create appropriate responses to theological, religious, social, cultural, ethical and / or sustainability issues from a leadership perspective.
- Initiate and lead in the creation of organisational solutions and / or additions to the body of knowledge in leadership and organisational development and transformation.
Course structure
Students must complete 108 points of core units, 72 points of elective units, and the Capstone unit from the list below.
| Unit Code | Unit Title | Unit Type | Points |
| LE8001Z | Frameworks for Leadership Transformation | Core | 18 |
| LE8002Z | Organisational Transformation | Core | 18 |
| LE8003Z | Community Transformation Project | Core | 18 |
| LE9001Z | Strategic Leadership | Core | 18 |
| LE9002Z | Governance and Financial Literacy | Core | 18 |
| LE9003Z | Ethics, Law, and Professional Practice | Core | 18 |
| LE9004Z | Collaborative Leadership | Elective | 18 |
| LE9005Z | Mentoring and Coaching | Elective | 18 |
| LE9006Z | Building Effective Teams | Elective | 18 |
| LE9007Z | Managing Organisational Behaviours | Elective | 18 |
| LE9008Z | Financial Management | Elective | 18 |
| LE9009Z | Managing Organisational Performance | Elective | 18 |
| LE9900Z | Leadership Research Project | Capstone | 36 |
| Students who have completed LE8001Z, LE8002Z and LE8003Z and one elective unit may exit with a Graduate Certificate in Leadership (Transformational Stream). Students who have completed LE8001Z, LE8002Z, LE8803Z, LE9001Z, and LE9002Z and three other elective units may exit with a Graduate Diploma in Leadership. | |||
Study Mode
Coursework will be delivered in a blended approach including a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning including compulsory online webinars or in-person seminars and intensives, alongside self-directed learning modules.
Duration
The Master of Leadership is offered part-time (only) in 2024 and 2025.
| Minimum duration | 1.5 years |
| Maximum part-time | 5 years |
Pathways to this course
Graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Leadership can progress to the Master of Leadership.
Graduate pathways
Graduates of the Master of Leadership can progress to candidature in the Doctor of Professional Practice.
Admission criteria
The minimum admission requirements for the Master of Leadership are:
- an undergraduate degree and five years’ work experience, including at least three years management experience, or
- the Graduate Certificate in Leadership at the University of Divinity or an equivalent award from a recognised higher education provider.
- International visa-holder students must also have an IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent.
Credit
| Award | Maximum credit | Specific rules |
| Master of Leadership | 72 points |
Fee summary
The Master of Leadership requires the completion of 216 points.
Fees in 2025
Total course cost: $34,200
- Cost per 18 point postgraduate unit: $2,850
- Cost per 36 point postgradate unit: $5,700
Fees are subject to change from year to year. For more information about fees, please visit the Fees page.
