LDRS 501 Foundations of Personal Leadership Development (3)
This course encourages students to become aware of, understand, and accept themselves and others as whole persons with potential. It provides an opportunity to develop one's personal philosophy of wellness related to the body, mind and spirit; recognize the concepts and diversity of wellness; and incorporate one's philosophy and knowledge as a wellness agent within organizational and leadership roles to facilitate wholeness in others.
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LDRS 510 Creative and Collaborative Leadership (3)
This course enables students to integrate the concepts of personality, leadership, and creativity; investigate collaborative leadership; identify and apply creativity and preferred leadership styles; and explore the effects leadership styles can have on given organizational communities.
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LDRS 516 Mentoring and Developing Leaders for the Future (3)
This course enables students to integrate the concepts of personality, leadership, and creativity; investigate collaborative leadership; identify and apply creativity and preferred leadership styles; and explore the effects leadership styles can have on given organizational communities.
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LDRS 520 Understanding Vocation in a Changing World (3)
This course focuses on understanding one's true overarching vocation in life as it connects to the purposes of God in this world to steward the earth and its peoples. One's vocation then influences what one does with his/her life. The concepts of career are continually changing, but work/life planning continues to be important personally and professionally Students have the opportunity to use various self-assessment tools and diagnostic instruments to evaluate their own working history, interests, skills, values and career anchors. Students also learn to design career programs for organizational settings.
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LDRS 529 Ethics in a Changing Organizational Environment (3)
This course raises the student's moral recognition level, provides a process for making moral decisions in an organizational context, and considers ethical problems according to Christian principles. Moreover, this course explores the role of ethics in the study of leadership on both the personal and theoretical levels.
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LDRS 534 Leader as an Agent of Change (3)
The leadership role is one of the most important roles in the group structure. The course begins with an examination of some of the defining problems regarding leadership and continues with a study of different leadership styles and the contexts in which each style is most effective.
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LDRS 542 Leading Across Cultures (3)
Many courses provide knowledge of the cultural differences that exist in nations, organizations, and communities. Sometimes the knowledge of the differences becomes a barrier: preventing many leaders from being active and effective. It is one thing knowing cultural differences, it is another thing to develop the skills to harness the differences to stay in business. The course introduces an ethno-leadership theory, a model, with a how-to approach for leading across cultures. It is designed to investigate leadership values underlying national, organizational and community behaviors that are crucial to effective leadership in a given context.
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LDRS 552 Adult Development (3)
This course provides an examination of selected theories of adult development in the context of organizational leadership. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the developmental issues that individuals confront in the workplace are analyzed and accessed from a theoretical perspective, and programs and approaches to address these issues are designed. Relevant tools for assessment and evaluation of individuals, groups, and organizations are introduced.
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LDRS 561 Group and Conflict Issues in Leadership (3)
This course helps the student understand small-group behavior. It uses experience-based methods, case studies, reading material, and simulation. The course examines role behavior, group dynamics, conflict control, leadership, and group development. It also addresses motivation and problem solving as essential elements of organizational behavior.
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LDRS 563 Counseling and Coaching Skills for Leaders (3)
This course includes an introduction to and overview of various theoretical approaches to the helping relationship and an examination of helping techniques (with culturally diverse populations) and coaching roles. Behavior development and change as an interpersonal process is addressed. Practice in role-playing situations involving various helping and human relations skills is included.
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LDRS 571 Instructional Design and
Training Strategies for Leaders (3)
Leaders are exposed to a dual study of theory and research pertaining to human learning and the design of effective learning experiences and environments. Needs analysis, specification of objectives, program design, implementation and evaluation, theory-to-practice dysfunctions, and explorations of contextual variables in relationship to organizations are addressed.
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LDRS 574 Servant Leadership (3)
This course explores biblical, historical, and contemporary theories, models, and perspectives of leadership and how they relate to issues of power, authority, manipulation, influence, persuasion, and motivation; leadership effectiveness skills in the areas of understanding organizational culture, group process, communication, and conflict resolution; leadership efficiency focusing on visioning, goal setting, self-management, understanding of leadership styles, preferences, and the learning process; and leadership empowerment and the stewardship of human resources. The objective of the course is to encourage the-discovery and utilization of one's leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes as one influences others wherever one lives, works, and serves, with an emphasis on servant-leadership values. Offered concurrently as an undergraduate and graduate course.
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LDRS 591 Organizational Behavior and Development (3)
Students undertake an investigation of the effective functioning of individuals and pups within organizational cultures. Emphasis is on applying conceptual knowledge to major organizational challenges and issues such as productivity, motivation, conflict, decision making, job stress and satisfaction, task accomplishment and accountability, and leadership and organizational development and change.
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LDRS 592 Program Evaluation Research Methods (3)
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts, principles and methods of evaluation and research in leadership settings, focusing on the evaluation of a specific program. It addresses problem identification, research design, instrument development, data collection techniques, fundamental statistical tests, and interpretation of findings. Redesign of the program as a result of the evaluation may lead to development of the capstone project.
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LDRS 595 Capstone Project in Leadership (3 or 6)
Field research enables learners to identify, develop, and study an area of interest. The study involves problem analysis and a literature review; the development, testing, and evaluation of a new idea, program, concept, etc.; and the submission of a summary of the process for publication or presentation. The project provides an opportunity to utilize the learning and skills acquired in the graduate program.
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LDRS 597 Current Issues in Leadership (1 or 3)
Current topics are chosen for discussion, research, and decision making relevant to the College of Student Main and Leadership Studies programs.
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LDRS 599 Independent Study: Readings in Leadership Studies (3)
The independent study vehicle allows students and their sponsoring faculty members to pursue approved investigations beyond regular course offerings.
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