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William Woods University offers the online BSBA. This degree is designed to further the ideals and values of ethics, self-liberation, and lifelong education that will prepare you for entrepreneurial leadership in the business community, whether you are working for someone else or running your own company. Students may choose to pursue an Entrepreneurial Management Concentration or a Leadership Concentration.

The business curriculum includes the following topics:

• fundamentals of business administration
• entrepreneurial management
• non-profit management
• customer service
• leadership
• ethics

Prepare for a position as an executive or top-level leader in an organization with this online master's in organizational leadership.  The curriculum features a more human-centered approach than is found in a traditional MBA.  Courses prioritize meaning, values, and vision to help reach an employee’s fullest potential.  Learn to analyze and apply organizational leadership theories to handle real leadership challenges, such as organizational inefficiencies, corporate culture issues, and dormant productivity.  The rigorous coursework will teach you how to help organizations grow, evolve, and adapt to an ever-changing, globalized world through effective leadership practices, policies, and systems.  

Choose one of these concentrations:

• Global Leadership
• Organizational Development
• Organizational Management
• Strategic Innovation and Change

The online MBA from William Woods University prepares students to go beyond the traditional business knowledge and skills and to develop new skills that are in demand.  The rigorous curriculum offers real-world relevance and a strong theoretical background with an emphasis on practice, putting theory to work.  Courses provide skills in leadership, financial competency, organizational theory, information systems, and decision-making, among others.  You will find new ways to lead and create solutions in a world with constrained resources, environmental challenges, and competitive global markets.  Graduates are leaders who are driven to pursue growth in a diverse, dynamic, and demanding business climate; they are willing and able to take calculated risks and build smart, agile teams that deliver results.

• Introduction to Global Business
• Business Strategies
• Statistics and Research Methods
• Management in Cross-Cultural Contexts
• Financial Decisions

• Financial Decisions
• Marketing Decisions
• Management Systems
• Business Planning and Design
• Integrated Studies in Business Administration
• Applied Case Project for Small Business

You can train to lead athletics programs with the Master of Education in Athletics Activities Administration from William Woods. This online sports management master’s program provides for initial certification with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

Students gain the skills to work in athletics from middle school to collegiate settings. The online sports management graduate program imparts such skills and best practices as:

• Sports law
• Facilities management
• Public relations and marketing
• Recruiting athletes, officials, and coaches

You can learn to fight cyberattacks with the Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity from William Woods University. The online cybersecurity degree covers such topics as:

• Systems analysis
• Network security
• Encryption techniques
• Cybercrime and information warfare

Through the online cybersecurity bachelor’s degree program, you specifically study the areas tested in the CompTIA Security+ cyber certification. Graduates have a myriad of career choices in this field in need of qualified professionals.

You can prepare for good-paying occupations with the Bachelor of Science in Paralegal Studies from William Woods University. The online paralegal degree explores such topics as:

• Civil practice
• Ethics and the law office
• Evidence and fact-gathering
• Administrative and federal procedure

Through the online paralegal bachelor’s degree program, you experience a student-centered education with courses offered in shortened terms. Graduates gain the knowledge and skills from their online studies to pass the national legal assistants’ and paralegal certifications.

If you seek an education based on real-world relevance, look no further than the Education Specialist in Curriculum Leadership. This online curriculum and instruction graduate degree prepares you to master the changing processes of education.

Offering courses in 8-week increments, the online curriculum and instruction graduate program appeals to teachers, curriculum directors, instructional coaches, and principals. Your online courses cover such topics as:

• Curriculum auditing and mapping
• Using statistical procedures
• Advanced school law for teachers
• Application of learning frameworks

You can train for district-level leadership with the Education Specialist in Educational Leadership from William Woods. This online education administration graduate program provides expertise in such areas as:

• Educational policies
• Human resources
• Management
• Finance

Through the knowledge offered in this online education administration graduate program, you prepare to be recommended for superintendency certification. All students participate in an extensive field experience to broaden their knowledge of leadership in school districts.

You can stay up-to-date on educational trends with the Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction from William Woods. The online curriculum and instruction master’s program prepares educators to do the following:

• Design curriculum
• Stay relevant in the field
• Prepare for national board certification

Missouri has many William Woods alumni in leadership positions within education, providing extensive networking opportunities for graduates of this online curriculum and instruction graduate program. With rigorous coursework and practical experiences, you can be assured of advancing your expertise and your career.

You can gain expertise in reading and literacy with the Master of Education in Reading Instruction from William Woods. This online reading and literacy master’s program appeals to current K-12 teachers. 

Students of this online reading and literacy graduate program gain the knowledge and skills to be literacy experts. Graduates achieve the following:

• Understand the acquisition of language
• Current issues in reading and writing
• Theoretical models of literacy
• Analysis and intervention of reading disabilities

You can train to build bright futures with the Master of Education in STEM. This online STEM education master’s program prepares you to teach tomorrow’s leaders—researchers, innovators, and educators.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, the online STEM education graduate program integrates the four disciplines within STEM. The Next Generation Science Standards guides your education to address such principles as:

• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Developing and using models
• Engaging in arguments from evidence
• Using mathematics and computational thinking

You can master new media skills and join the technology revolution with the Master of Education in Teaching & Technology from William Woods. This online instructional design master’s program improves achievement in both the classroom and corporate training.

Unlike the vast majority of master’s degrees, this online instructional design master’s program does not require you to have a bachelor’s degree. Talk about streamlining your education! In school settings, you can use your degree in instructional technology. In the corporate realm, your skills allow you to achieve such goals as:

• Meet sales goals
• Improve your professional development
• Work as a multimedia specialist
• Enhance your business training

• Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
• Human Resource Management in Healthcare
• Ethics in Healthcare
• Management and Leadership
• Legal Environment of Business, Government and Society
• Managerial Ethics

Help healthcare transition into the modern world with the online master’s in healthcare administration.  Through real-world experiences and practical coursework students gain the knowledge and skills needed to build and support healthcare organizations and communities.  Courses focus on the healthcare industry as they examine such topics as:

• Ethics
• Technology
• Human resources management
• Finance
• Law

Prepare for a leadership position by studying management roles and functions and the keys to effective leadership strategies.

The online nature of this degree ensures students can study when and where it is convenient.  Communicate and collaborate through weekly forum discussions with your peers and faculty.

You can transition from equestrian to an equestrian educator with the Master of Education in Equestrian Education from William Woods. This online animal science master’s program covers best practices in instruction, pedagogy, and classroom management.

Building on the university’s nationally recognized equestrian program for undergraduates, the online animal science graduate program imparts essential skills such as:

• Curriculum construction
• Theories of teaching and learning
• Instructional design for equestrian education
• Equestrian program development and management

Registered Nurses can complete their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree through the online RN to BSN program from William Woods University. Coursework refines students’ practical and interpersonal skills so they can provide the highest quality care to their patients and communities.

Through this online BSN, students expand their ability to think critically and analyze research, practice community and population health nursing, and increase their leadership potential. The program emphasizes the specialty skills related to rural health and mental health. Graduates of this program will also be well prepared for master’s programs in advanced practice nursing or nursing education.

Nurses in this program will complete courses in:

• Health assessment
• Ethical and legal issues in nursing
• Nursing informatics
• Individual and family assessment