Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight

The Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight (MSF) exists to help fulfill Regent University's mission to "Develop Globally Competent, Christ-Centered Leaders, Who Make a Difference in the World." The primary world we prepare our graduates for is the world of work, to empower them to help their organization navigate the turbulence waters of the 21st century and create the global enterprises of tomorrow. The MSF expresses this mission and evaluates its program outcome in five ways:

1. MSF students will be able to design an environmental scanning system, enabling an organization's strategic leaders to track patterns of systemic change across trends, events and issues
   
   
2. MSF students will be able to create a baseline forecast of trends for an organization which contains alternative futures, uncertainties, and wildcards relating to the next decade.
   
   
3. MSF students will be able to lead a departmental team to develop strategic plans, which includes mission, vision, and goals, appropriately matched to the near-term competitive, customer and industry environment.
   
   
4. MSF students will be able to lead a scenario learning process for a leadership team that tests their strategy against a range of possible future developments.
   
   
5. MSF students will be able to present their professional specialization, foresight practices, and their Christian faith in appropriate media such as, but not limited to a career portfolio, popular press articles, lectures, and conferences.