Master of Social & Community Leadership specialisation in Social and Community Leadership - Taught 180

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To create change for a more equitable and socially-just world, social innovation, leadership, systems thinking and evaluation skills are all crucial.
Our programmes equip students with the understanding and skills to create meaningful change, whether at community-level or centrally through influencing government policy.
We will support you to develop advanced capabilities in project management, programme design, consultation, research, evaluation and implementation, all within a social justice framework.

Courses will examine complex social issues, systems and change processes, the ethical leadership values aligned to social justice, and contemporary approaches to co-design, collaboration, ethical social innovation, evidence-informed programme design, evaluation models and impact measurement.
If you complete a Master of Social and Community Leadership, you will also develop your research skills and complete a thesis project. In this research, you will focus on a need or opportunity in the community or something relevant to your place of work.

Study in this area can lead to jobs in organisational leadership, programme design, policy development, social change, community and health development, consultation, and social innovation and development.
Related jobs include:
- Community and social organisation leader
- Social and community facilitator/advocate
- Social and community educator
- Learning designer
- Community developer and designer
- Programme designer/project manager
- Policy analyst
- Social innovator/consultant

Hybrid

Complete 180 points comprising:

60 points for all Group 1 Compulsory Courses, and
60 points for all Group 2 Compulsory Courses, and
60 points from Elective Courses

Group 1 Compulsory Courses

Complete 60 points for ALL of the following:

SOCCLEAD 703 - Leadership, Ethics, Systems (30 points)

SOCCLEAD 706 - Innovation, Design, Evaluation (30 points)

Group 2 Compulsory Courses

Complete 60 points for ALL of the following:

SOCCLEAD 707 - Programme Evaluation (30 points)

SOCCLEAD 708 - Enacting Social Change (30 points)

Elective Courses

Complete exactly 60 points from the following:

DIGIHLTH 701 - Principles of Digital Health (15 points)

DIGIHLTH 705 - Digital Health Design and Evaluation (15 points)

EDUC 709 - Re-claiming Pasifika Education (30 points)

EDUC 716 - Education and Diversity (30 points)

EDUC 732 - Culturally Sustaining Leadership (30 points)

EDUC 737 - Special Topic: Arts in Communities (30 points)

EDCURRIC 721 - Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools (30 points)

EDCURRIC 730 - Special  Topic: Gender, Sexuality and Education (30 points)

EDCURRIC 731 - Special Topic: Island Futures: Pacific youth wellbeing and education (30 points)

EDPROF 702 - Curriculum Design in Practice (30 points)

EDUCSW 700 - Research Methodologies (30 points)

HLTHMGT 721 - Health Management (15 points)

MAORI 743 - Tōrangapū / Issues in Māori Politics and Policy (30 points)

PACIFIC 700 - The Pacific: Interdisciplinary Studies (30 points)

PACIFIC 712 - Pacific Indigenous Thought (30 points)

PACIFIC 714 - Pacific Research Methodologies and Practices (30 points)

PACIFIC 716 - The Pacific: Interdisciplinary Studies (15 points)

POLICY 701 - Policy Analysis and Evaluation (15 points)

POPLHLTH 700 - Community Health Development (15 points)

POPLHLTH 715 - Global Public Health (15 points)

POPLHLTH 718 - Health and Public Policy (15 points)

POPLHLTH 719 - Health Economics (15 points)

POPLHLTH 720 - Cost Effectiveness Evaluation (15 points)

POPLHLTH 722 - Organisation of Health Systems (15 points)

POPLHLTH 725 - Environmental Health (15 points)

POPLHLTH 726 - Health Protection (15 points)

POPLHLTH 733 - Health Promotion Theory and Models (15 points)

POPLHLTH 734 - Health Promotion Strategies (15 points)

POPLHLTH 735 - Mental Health Development: Theory and Principles (15 points)

POPLHLTH 736 - Mental Health Promotion (15 points)

POPLHLTH 739 - Pacific Health (15 points)

PROFSUPV 700 - The Practice of Professional Supervision (30 points)

PROFSUPV 701 - Advanced Approaches in Professional Supervision (30 points)

PROFSUPV 712 - Critical Approaches in Reflective Supervision (30 points)

PROFSUPV 714 - Managing and Developing People in Human Services (30 points)

PROFSUPV 715 - Practice Teaching and Learning (30 points)

PROFSUPV 716 - Group Supervision (30 points)

REGDEV 702 - Regional Regeneration and Wellbeing (15 points)

SOCCHFAM 700 - Domestic Violence: Challenges and Responses (30 points)

SOCCHFAM 734 - Issues in Child Welfare and Protection (30 points)

SOCHLTH 700 - Health, Social Justice and Social Work (30 points)

SOCHLTH 732 - Working with Grief and Loss (15 points)

SOCWORK 702 - Social Work with Older People (30 points)

Up to 60 points may be substituted from other 700 level courses approved by the Programme Director.