10 courses with the subject OL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
OL 501Leadership: Theories, Practices, and Context3
Students will dissect foundational theories and practices of leadership. This course focuses on strategies for organizational, team, and personal leadership as well as organizational culture so that students will develop a solid framework for understanding and practicing leadership.
This course will provide an in-depth analysis of processes and techniques for conducting research projects and evaluating various programs and initiatives at work. Students will learn effective research and analysis skills fundamental to any leadership role through critical assessment/evaluation of scholarly works.
This course will explore the various aspects of communication in organizations. Students will explore opportunities to develop specific communication skills in interpersonal, group, and public contexts and increase their leadership ability in regards to networks, negotiation, and socialization processes.
This course will focus on the cognitive skills (knowledge of the theories and strategies) and behavioral skills (enacting various strategies) that are necessary for leaders to navigate conflict management. The course includes assessment tools, which will help students gain a greater understanding of their usual conflict management strategy along with its strengths and weaknesses. Using real life case studies, students will explore the theories, practices and issues involved in managing conflict in interpersonal and intergroup settings.
This course combines the theory and application of team development, coaching, and mentoring. Students will gain a theoretical understanding of group development within organizations, the difference between teams and groups, and how to develop high performance teams. Additionally, this course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the potential contribution of mentoring and coaching programs as resources for leadership development. With an understanding of the skills and structures required for both mentoring and coaching programs, students will discern opportunities and design plans for implementing and evaluating programs to develop professional leaders in organizations.
Organizational leadership includes the allocation and distribution of resources as well as an ongoing knowledge of the financial impact of the local, regional and national economies. This course will prepare students to assess the financial health of an organization and apply trends and metrics analysis in shaping future organizational financial needs. Students will review the physical, financial, human, and knowledge capital of the organization to focus on organizational issues which have a financial impact on the organization.
This course will focus on developing necessary strategies and skills to become effective global leaders: including developing consensus within the organization for valuing diversity, relationship building, communicating across cultures, and managing people of different genders, races, and cultures. Issues of stereotype, bias and resistance are examined from both a personal and an organizational perspective with an emphasis on making meaningful contributions to diversity initiatives within organizations, which will prepare students to create mutually beneficial partnerships around the world.
OL 508Organizational Development: Design, Intervention, and Evaluation3
This course will examine the various processes that leaders will need to utilize to help an organization change in today’s rapidly changing global economy. This course will review historical, traditional, and future management planning processes and then examine the planning process from a strategic perspective. This course will equip students with the tools necessary so that they will be able to research and understand the elements contributing to an organization’s unique culture, including basic philosophy, value system, communication patterns and styles, and social roles. Students will learn how to develop an organization by focusing on the design, intervention, and evaluation stages of organizational development.
OL 509Ethics, Integrity, and Social Responsibility3
This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn how ethics, values, ethical models, and reflective processes shape our ethical decision making in a leadership context. The class will utilize classical and contemporary ethical case studies and students will learn how to analyze a situation to arrive at a values-based decision consistent with Scripture.
OL 510Culminating Experience (Internship Project or Paper)3
This course will provide an opportunity for students to apply theory and learning from the MA OL program. By studying workplace scenarios and issues, students explore a vision for continuous improvement in the study of leadership. This Capstone course, which involves the student completing an internship or research project, is intended to be an experiential and theoretical exploration in an area of organizational leadership. Every student will be guided individually by the professor.
