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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews theoretical and applied aspects of teamwork and shared leadership practices. Focus is on development of teams that share leadership responsibility in an interdependent effort to achieve a mutually defined goal. Emphasis is given to the application of conflict resolution and negotiations methodologies. Through individual and group activities students will practice a variety of team building and team performance evaluation methods.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines change as a focused leadership activity designed to bring about specific conditions, to redirect action, or to implement a particular process, product, or system. It focuses on purposeful, planned, and consciously directed change and transition. Through case studies, individual and group exercises, students are introduced to tools and techniques for engaging people at all levels of the organization in successful and lasting transition and transformation. Must be completed before beginning Phase II.
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3.00 Credits
Critical thinking means the ability to evaluate the assumptions, evidence, and inferences of what one reads and hears, and includes the ability to present ideas, original or otherwise in a sound, logical, and thorough manner. This course is designed to teach the skills necessary for critical thinking. Among such skills are self-awareness, reflection, listening for reasons, recognizing common logical fallacies, and communicating both thoughts and feelings clearly. Must be taken in the first term.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to teach students how to integrate intuition with logical thought to improve the quality of their decision making, to increase their own creativity and the creativity of those with whom they work, and to facilitate innovation within their organizations. Creativity and innovation are structured processes that can be learned. Various theories, principles and techniques are explored toward the goal of practical application.
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3.00 Credits
This course enables students to bring together learning from the leadership and ethics courses taken to this point in the curriculum and apply them to contemporary organizational issues. Students conduct an action research activity in which they work with a local organization (for profit or non-profit) to assist that organization in the examination of an issue related to leadership and/or ethics. Taken at the beginning of the fifth term.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines foundational ethical tenets throughout history as well as ethical decision making models. Theory is mixed with contemporary examples of the ethical challenges of leadership. Students are challenged to consider how ethical philosophy applies to their personal leadership situations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is focused on both building individual ethical competency and understanding the organizational system as an ethical agent. Students consider the leader's role in the ethical organization from the perspective of the individual leader, group dynamics, organizational theory and social/environmental issues. Students are challenged to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines including philosophy, psychology, communication, religion, organizational theory, systems thinking and global studies. The course aims to link the leader's behavior as an individual to the actions and accountabilities of the organization in society.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help classroom teachers to broaden their technology skills and to integrate technology into their teaching. Research, theory, and principles of instruction will be explored in the context of the classroom teaching experience emphasizing the learning potential of technology as a medium for teaching and learning.
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3.00 Credits
Design and development of an action research proposal focused upon a question or problem specific to the student's actual practice in the educational setting for the purpose of improving social and instructional practice. Human subjects, ethics of educational research, and research protocols are examined. Prerequisite: Academic advisor approval and completion of all courses preceding.
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3.00 Credits
Capstone seminar designed to guide the student through the implementation of the research proposal developed in Action Research I. Research phases include the collection of data, analysis, writing and presentation of the research study proposed in Action Research I. Prerequisite: Academic advisor approval and successful completion of Research in Education and Action Research I.
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