Fast Facts

Facts
  • Program Mode: Online
  • Program Format: Cohort
  • Program Duration: 2 years
  • Financial Aid available
  • No GRE Required

Priority Deadline

Priority Deadline
March 18, 2025
Final application Deadline:
June 3, 2025
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About This Program

This online master's program prepares you for a career leading diverse organizations and communities. Designed for working adults, the program emphasizes contemporary social theory – with a focus on social justice – and features hands-on workshops and assignments. In courses with other working professionals, you’ll learn how to: Lead diversity initiatives in communities, organizations, and agencies Help communities identify their core needs Strategically plan major goals and initiatives ... Write grant proposals and spearhead fundraising campaigns Coordinate programs and manage relations with community partners Research complex issues and recommend evidence-based solutions Courses focus on organizational leadership models, social justice in diverse communities, conflict resolution, research methods, community partnerships, and communication management.

Job Outlook: Public Sector

CSUN ranks 3rd as a talent provider for occupations like Social and Community Service Managers, Chief Executives, General and Operations Managers, Legislators, Administrative Services Managers, and Managers, all other in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Anaheim.

Job Outlook: Social Services

CSUN ranks 1st as a talent provider for occupations like Social and Community Service Managers; Marriage and Family Therapists; Counselors, all other; Child, Family, and School Social Workers; Healthcare Social Workers; Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers; Social Workers, all other; and Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Anaheim.

What do DCDL graduates do?

In your courses, you’ll develop the leadership skills to help organizations and communities identify their needs, manage conflicts, and enact socially just practices and policies. As you hone your leadership abilities, you’ll also examine modern systems of power, giving you the context to understand current social, political, and historical inequities. This strong theoretical and historical knowledge, which you’ll build throughout the program, is necessary to make informed and effective leadership decisions. Equipped with the program's leadership framework, you can enter the field with the utmost confidence and move forward with the important work to come: disrupting unjust power dynamics and helping communities fulfill their self-defined goals.

Meet your Faculty from Tseng College

Brian Rice
Marcella De Veaux
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Journalism
Brian Rice
Alicia Ivonne Estrada
Ph.D
Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies
Brian Rice
Steven M. Graves
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Brian Rice
Santosh Khadka
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English
Brian Rice
Karen Morgaine
Ph.D. Social Work
Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology
Brian Rice
Daniel Omos
PhD.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Brian Rice
Roland Palencia
MA
Instructor
Brian Rice
Zeynep Toker
Ph.D.
Professor and Graduate Adviser, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

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