14 courses with the subject LEA, 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.
LEA 201Ethics ()3
This course will concentrate on the foundational sources in biblical ethics and examine the moral significance of major biblical events and themes. In addition to the listed textbooks, this course will rely on the Holy Scripture to demonstrate how these foundational sources and themes guide ethical understanding concretely by examining the law, its relevance today, and on more pressing ethical issues of the day (e.g. ecology, immigration, and poverty, among others).
This course will examine leadership from the model of Jesus as leader with a goal of understanding and being able to implement transformational Christian Leadership. The student will explore relevant issues of leadership in Scripture including vision development, strategic leadership and the leader as a seer as well as a seeker. This class will also include an examination of biblical change and its relationship to leadership.
This course will compare and contrast mentoring and coaching. Throughout the course the student will learn good and bad practices of both methods. The student will identify mentoring and coaching in practical life examples and case studies.
Introduction to Ministry Operations is a foundational course designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the practical aspects of ministry work. This course will explore the various operational components involved in running a ministry, including leadership, administration, communication, and strategic planning. Students will gain practical skills and knowledge that will equip
LEA 310Introduction to Organizational Leadership ()3
This class will introduce the student to leadership theory and practice. The course will include studying various leadership theories and approaches to assist the student to identify their own leadership strengths and weaknesses. In addition, this course will explore leadership ethics and learning organizations to prepare the student for diverse leadership roles.
This course is an overview and the application of servant leadership. In this course the student will learn the underlying theological, psychological, and sociological principles and assumptions of servant leadership. Then the student will learn to apply the construct of servant leadership in practical situations. Exploration of these concepts will occur in theoretical as well as practical manners to assist the student in discovery and application.
This class is designed to define global diversity and culture, as well as assist the student to develop global proficiencies. This will include learning how to communicate cross-culturally, work on global teams, manage cross-cultural conflict, and problem solve in global organizations. This course will focus on how to develop oneself as a global leader, and additionally how to develop an organization’s global competence.
This course will focus on collaboration and innovation, which will include studying collaborative teams, previous innovative ideas, and the challenges and potential of teams. The student will study previous innovations, as well as create and develop a project about one their own innovative ideas and collaboratively expand these concepts further with the class.
In this course the student explores how leadership and culture are intertwined, and examines how leaders are entrepreneurs and architects of culture and how culture influences what kind of leadership is possible. The leader's responsibility for culture change will also be examined along with different levels of analysis in group culture.
Social Entrepreneurship will be examined in this class, including its definition and history as well as its function in the global society. The student will explore the challenges, the processes, and the influences of Social Entrepreneurship and develop a plan to start a Social Entrepreneurship project.
