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3.00 Credits
The ability to innovate and adapt in a world of constant change is key to any nation's thriving and competitive advantage in the twenty-first century global marketplace. Moreover, innovation is essential in all sectors: private, public, nonprofit, education, and military. Evidence suggests that leadership is a key factor in enabling people to innovate. This course deepens student understanding of how both effective leadership and management are required to conceive and realize innovations of many types, including new products, work processes, technologies, and social relationships.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop a cross-cultural awareness and competency for students who currently work or will work with people from other cultures or in multi-cultural settings. Using theoretical frameworks, students will examine their own culture, compare it with other cultures, and develop strategies for working successfully in multi-cultural situations. Emphasis will be on developing intercultural understanding, leadership, and problem solving skills when working with people from other cultures. Emphasis will be also placed on the importance of communication skills and how cultural style may impact perception, effective communication, and ultimately work performance. Other specific related issues will be discussed with varying degree of coverage, including developing skills to lead diverse employees, coaching/mentoring, and managing change.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide an examination of the complex, controversial, and sometimes disturbing issues involved in the provision of international assistance to impoverished countries. Interventions from governments, corporations and non-profit organizations ranging from the Peace Corps to the World Bank will be explored as students learn about different approaches to international development. The course will include extensive discussion of the positive and negative impacts that these interventions have upon less-developed countries, as well as the ethical issues and questions that are fundamental to international development overall.
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3.00 Credits
What is organizational health? This course looks at the role that leaders play in creating and sustaining positive workplaces that promote human flourishing. Students begin by considering basic issues in worker safety and conflict prevention, then move to the cultivation of employee civility, employee engagement, and pro-social behavior. Additional topics may include: valuing diversity and nurturing community, humane personnel practices, organizational justice, servant leadership, and spirituality in the workplace.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of leadership in sports and the keys to success and techniques for business development using sports marketing. The course will reference leadership traits of sports industry leaders necessary to building a winning team, along with sporting issues and their impact on sports leadership.
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3.00 Credits
In the first part of the leadership core sequence, students learn, practice and demonstrate competence in: listening; asking for, receiving, and giving feedback; understanding self and others; social identity and group dynamics; identifying strengths; and principles of positive change. In addition, students focus on critical thinking, effective written communication, and information literacy in leadership studies. Students will identify key contexts for and elements of their own leadership practice, and they will articulate a plan for their development as a leader.
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3.00 Credits
In the second part of the leadership core sequence, students learn, practice, and demonstrate competence in: sense-making and meaning-making; basic concepts in organizing and change; social and emotional intelligence; influence strategies and using self as an instrument of change; understanding and valuing difference; ethical reasoning; basic conflict resolution; and communicating for collaboration. In addition, students will learn basic frameworks and approaches to problem solving and responsible decision making. Students will identify, plan, complete and reflect on at least one project related to their own growth as a leader. Prerequisite: The Practice of Leadership I
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3.00 Credits
A study of gender in its historical, psychological, social, and economic dimensions. In particular an examination of the idea that gender is socially constructed. The issue of how gender roles operate in contemporary America will be discussed.
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