Executive Masters in Leadership

Bookmark and Share

Course Schedule

Georgetown University’s Executive Master's in Leadership (EML) program course schedule is designed to suit the needs of working professionals.

In addition to regular coursework, all students participate in three intensive off-campus  residencies including a one-week global residency.

Due to absence from work on alternating Fridays and during residencies, students are required to secure a letter of support from their employer.

The curriculum trajectory for Georgetown’s EML program is as follows:

Spring 2010:

  • Opening Residency: The Challenges of Leadership: Knowing, Being, and Doing
  • Models of Leadership
  • Developing a Personal Leadership Plan
  • Judgment Under Uncertainty: Psychological and Social Influences
  • Agenda-Selling, Strategies, and Techniques for Effective Communication and Persuasion

Summer 2010:

  • Negotiation: Managing Conflict and Differences
  • Trust and Community Building: Developing Human and Social Capital
  • Coalitions and Alliances
  • Professional Development and Networking
  • Global Residency: South Africa
  • Ethical Issues in Decision Making
  • Negotiating Complex, Dynamic, and Multi-Cultural Environments

Fall 2010:

  • Imagination and Creativity: Envisioning the Future
  • Strategic Management: A Framework for Analysis and Action
  • Critical Conversations: Dealing with Difficult Issues
  • Organizational Performance and Measurement
  • Financial Insights for Effective Organizational Governance
  • Human Resource Management: Policy and Practice
  • Leading Change: From Idea to Implementation
  • Strategic Management II

Spring 2011:

  • Unleashing the Leader Within and Professional Development and Networking
  • Organizational Development and Culture
  • Leading (and Managing) in a Crisis
  • Power and Influence: Managing the Politics of Relationships
  • Living a Life of Moral Leadership: Contemplation and Action
  • Closing Residency