Program Overview

Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration Workforce Leadership and Development Master's

Program Overview

The Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration Workforce Leadership and Development Master's program is designed to provide students with valuable skills in leadership, project management, organizational design, and entrepreneurship. This concentration emphasizes skill in leadership, project management, organizational design, and entrepreneurship to help students build upon their workplace-related abilities.

Program Details

• Program Type: Master of Science (M.S.)
• Format: Online, Hybrid
• Estimated Time to Complete: 2 years
• Credit Hours: 30

Program Description

The Workforce Leadership and Development concentration provides valuable skills for employees at all levels in an organization (manager, team leader, leader, executive) and provides effective techniques to manage change, launch new products, and lead through disrupted technologies. Students with this skillset will be prepared for management-level positions in organizations looking to improve performance and enhance growth.

Marketable Skills

• Work independently across two or more disciplines
• Teamwork
• Function across organizational silos through discipline integration
• Synthesize information and results
• Write in a professional and coherent manner

Program Highlights

• The program allows students to take classes in person at our Frisco or Denton campuses, or complete it 100% online.
• Our online master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies is ranked a Top 25 Program in the Nation by MyDegreeGuide.com.
• Through UNT’s Interdisciplinary Studies program, students will learn to sift through information and produce a body of work that synthesizes multiple perspectives, arriving at a more comprehensive understanding of the important issues.
• The interdisciplinary studies program offers students a high degree of flexibility in designing a program of study that cuts across disciplinary boundaries.

Courses

• Technology Entrepreneurship (3 hrs): Study of entrepreneurial concepts, standards, practices, and creative processes adopted by high-performing entrepreneurial enterprises with an emphasis on technology and innovation.
• Project Management (3 hrs): Explores the project life-cycle of defining, planning, executing and delivery. Students learn and apply the processes and methods of project planning, management and evaluation through a simulation activity.
• Distributed Leadership (3 hrs): Provides an overview of the primary evolutionary trends in leadership for students to gain an understanding of what leadership is and how it is relevant for today’s workplace.
• Organizational Development & Technology Change (3 hrs): Study of organization development theories, models and practices. Emphasis on learning as an organization development intervention. Examines the role of technology in organization development, learning and the change process.