University of the Sunshine Coast

Master of Education (Educational Leadership)

A master’s degree designed to extend your knowledge of educational issues, deepen your professional expertise, providing skills needed to create a research-informed future for the education sector.

In this program you will:

• Work under USC’s highly trained staff to translate your ideas into a research project
• Specialize in Steiner Education, Educational Leadership, Education Research, or Advanced Education Studies
• Have the flexibility to study online or on campus, with online learning materials designed to integrate into your busy lifestyle

Educational Leadership units

For a specialization in Educational Leadership, students must successfully complete 4 courses:

Required courses (3)

• EDU700 - Professional Learning

This course provides opportunities for you to reflect on yourself as a learner/leader of learning and consider adult learning/leadership in today's world. You will engage with ideas/theories/concepts about adult learning and use these as a lens for understanding your learning context, experiences, goals, questions, interests, and ways of knowing.

• MGT701 - Leading and Managing Organisations

For organizations, leadership is associated with enhanced attraction, retention & commitment of higher-performing staff. Individually, leadership abilities are related to career progress, in addition to higher levels of fulfillment and productivity.

• MGT702 - Understanding and Managing Organisational Behaviour

This course will help you gain insights into the behavior of yourself and others in organizations. You will explore behavior in organizations across a range of different dimensions including personality, perception, motivation, team dynamics, conflict, decision-making, and leadership.

PLUS, select 1 course from:

• BUS702 - Economics for Managers

This course aims to provide you with a systematic overview of economics as a foundation study in business, covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, and introducing international economics. Business managers need to be aware of the economic environment in which they work, and the impact this environment has on their decision-making.

• BUS704 - Finance and Accounting for Managers

This course deals with some important aspects of financial management of companies. Topics include time value of money, risk and return, project evaluation techniques, capital structure, sources of finance, analysis of financial reports and financial statements, company performance measurement, and the role of accounting in managerial decision making.

• MGT703 - Strategy, Governance and Ethics

Managers must understand how to identify trends in an organization's external and internal environment. To do this, managers at all levels must be able to think critically and ethically so that strategies effectively address stakeholder' priorities.

• MGT730 - Innovation by Design

Digital disruption is the reality for many global enterprises, raising the question: How can human-centered innovation address the changing needs of business and society? To be competitive requires a keen understanding of the principles underlying creativity and innovation.

• MKG701 - Marketing in a Global Environment

Effective marketing is a cornerstone for business success. Whether you need to undertake marketing for, or manage the marketers of, your business this course will open your eyes to the customer-centric perspective and how to develop your business’s enduring value proposition.

• PRM701 - Project Management Principles

This course focuses on building the knowledge and practical skills necessary to manage projects in organizations. The course provides information on how project management can drive efficiency and innovation in projects management across a range of situations.