| The Master of Arts in Leadership, Wisdom and Resilience (MA) program is a master’s degree program intended to prepare students to apply education theories, concepts, principles and approaches for roles as professionals and community leaders to build sustainable communities. Students will learn academic and technical skills, as well as ethical insights into the complex interplay of social, economic and environmental problems in the world to help them analyze and understand sustainability challenges at local, regional and global levels and scales to propose innovative social, technical and institutional solutions. The program will draw upon the wide international experience of the faculty of AUSN, as well as their multidisciplinary qualifications. Students will take half their credits in compulsory courses, half their credits in elective and optional courses and 6 credits of required supervised thesis work to complete the degree program. Mission To promote the ethical reasoning of all peoples, by providing essential competent graduate education, knowledge, skills, research, service, creative and analytical critical thinking ability, and leadership to those graduate students who are dedicated to enhancing the sustainability of all global communities. | Download the full program pdf file to read more |
| Curriculum | |
| To complete the Masters of Arts in Leadership, Wisdom and Resilience (MA) program, students must satisfy the MA course curriculum, which requires a minimum of 32 semester credit hours. The MA program can be completed by either full-time or part-time study, and accordingly, can be completed within one to two years of study (480 clock hours of instruction). |
| Compulsory Courses (19 credit hours) Applied Research Seminar (2 credit hours) Bioethics and Values Education (3 credit hours) Disaster Resilience (3 credit hours) Global Public Health and Peace (2 credit hours) Indigenous Traditions and Bioethics (3 credit hours) Master’s Thesis and Public Defense (6 credit hours) | Follow the link to view some example video lectures from many of these courses. , |
| Elective Courses (select at least 13 credit hours) Ability Studies (3 credit hours) Conflict Resolution, Peace-making and Justice in Global Understanding (3 credit hours) Core Concepts in Bioethics and Cultural Frameworks (3 credit hours) Developmental and Educational Psychology (3 credit hours) Environmental Ethics (3 credit hours) Ethics of Science and Technology (3 credit hours) Human Research Subject Protection (3 credit hours) International Development and Sustainability (3 credit hours) Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Health Care (3 credit hours) Leadership, Wisdom and Resilience Research Seminar 1 (3 credit hours) Leadership, Wisdom and Resilience Research Seminar 2 (3 credit hours) Public Health Law, Ethics and Policy Analysis (3 credit hours) Social Psychology (3 credit hours) Sustainability Science (3 credit hours) | |
| Required Core Competencies and the Syllabus of Courses are provided in the course description linked pdf file (AUSN-MA-Description). Further information on Admissions, Scholarships, other Degrees, dissertation titles, the Modality of the Lectures, Credit Transfer, and general information are provided on this website and in the Catalog. Inquiries to provost@ausovereignnations.org |
| Featured alumni from this program | |
| Dr. Ryo Takahashi, Professor, Sendai University, Japan Man: A Study on the Philosophical Edification of Zanshin in Bushido Context of Future |