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3.00 Credits
Leaders have pondered ethical dilemmas since before the days of Ancient Greece. Today, people continue to reflect on challenges to personal and organizational integrity, moral decision-making, and standardizing behavior through a common set of rules. Students discuss parameters set by great leaders and philosophers of the past and challenge many long-standing beliefs that govern modern thinking about ethics and integrity. They explore situations that, while appearing relatively simple, led to the professional demise of leaders and public disrespect for organizations. They draw on their own beliefs and experiences to debate how and why certain decisions are made. Students explore contemporary issues such as abortion, gun control, and political influence. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Organizations and communities expect their leaders to act ethically and develop, promote, and follow the rules by which all the members of their organization are to operate. Leaders cannot exist by merely clinging to established rules. Through readings and discussion of philosophy, history, organizational behavior, and commonly held beliefs, students assess behaviors and processes that inhibit the highest standards of ethics. Students focus on the concept of dissent and the importance of listening to dissenters. They scrutinize various forms of behavior and decision making to distinguish complaint, cynicism, protest, and dissatisfaction from wrongdoing. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Team building varies among organizations and units within organizations. The need for a team may be short-term or permanent. Regardless of the circumstance, the ability to develop and nurture productive, outcome-oriented teams is a primary responsibility of all leaders. Causing people to realize and achieve their potential as individuals and members of a team may seem, at times, like an all-consuming task. Students draw on their own experience and current workgroup to assess the stages of team development, solve problems that emerge within their team, gain consensus, motivate the group, and evaluate and convey success. Through readings, cases, and team projects, students identify and foster the positive capabilities of individuals, to benefit the entire team. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Power and influence are important means to accomplishing a defined end, whether it is a product or service. When power and influence are applied properly, positive outcomes result. When they are abused, organizations and people are confined and success is restrained. Students scrutinize various sources of power and the social, economic, and cultural conditions that create them. They call upon their own experiences to discuss individual, group, and organizational power. Students investigate historic events in which people of great power quickly became powerless and those of modest influence grew to become world leaders. Through readings, class discussion, and group projects, they probe their own “sphere of influence” and how it may be tapped to achieve desired goals. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Public safety leaders are faced with particularly challenging issues today. Many of these issues are rooted in history written during the decade of the 1960s. Students will gain a greater understanding of and new insights into many contemporary issues by studying the past within a context rich in political science, justice, and professionalism concepts. Having a thorough understanding of the 1960s and its issues will enhance leadership abilities to better guide organizations through continuing struggles with racial equality, women's rights, war, counterculture, rebellion, loss of innocence, mistrust of authority, cultural change, misuse of government authority, and student activism. Students successfully completing this course will be able to immediately apply learned knowledge and skills in their current positions. Improved analytical and creativity skills gained through the course will assist them with future performance in higher leadership positions. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Failure to understand, conduct, and apply research weakens organizations and fosters an environment in which progress is stifled. Vendor-driven, consultant-driven, and academic-driven research are weak substitutes for agency-driven research. Students review research in several disciplines and appraise the sources of data and other information for reliability. They apply research methods to gaining new and better understanding of their community, organization, and work unit. They employ specific research methods, such as surveys, focus groups, and quantitative analysis to aid in developing ideas, solving problems, and critically evaluating programs. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
Effective problem solving requires more than off-the-shelf approaches and “how to” processes. People look to their leaders to think and act creatively when faced with complex problems and critical issues. Creative thinking – like analytical, strategic, and other types of thought – can be learned and nurtured. Through discussion, class projects, and exercises, students identify and overcome obstacles to creative thinking, cultivate their own creative thought process, and learn how to encourage creative thinking in others. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
The “quality movement” changed the way government, business, and nonprofit organizations accomplish their mission. There are important lessons to be learned from the successes, failures, national and international experiments, and best practices that have emerged from efforts to achieve “total quality.” Students dissect enduring theories and principles such as Deming’s theory of profound knowledge and Juran’s approach to continuous quality improvement. With examples drawn from the public and private sectors, they discuss and debate organizational renewal and the steps required to improve and sustain organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Notes: This course is only available to students enrolled in Division of Public Safety Leadership programs.
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3.00 Credits
To introduce engineering ideas, thoughts, and problem-solving to potential engineering syudents. The course is intented to establish the framework within which engineers typically operate. Registration Requirement: Algebra II with Trig.
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3.00 Credits
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