53 courses with the subject LDSL, 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.
LDSL 704Values & Ethics for the Leader & the Organization (6) Includes an on-campus residency period within
the first three weeks of the semester to assist in strengthening relationships with other students and the university staff and faculty, as the student begins to explore and define values and ethics for the leader and the organization. Students work through a progression of topics from defining values to identifying a base of values to learning about how leaders and followers acquire values and how leaders infuse values into the organization. Students explore Scripture as it relates to values and the leader’s behavior that emerges from these values. LDSL 705 Organizational Structure/Systems/Environment (6) Since structure follows strategy, this course builds on LDSL 704 to examine various forms of organizational structure and how these forms allow certain strategies to be more or less successful relative to the organization’s external environment. Students explore organizational systems including components, processes, and interactions, as well as technology and its role as a help or substitute for leadership. This course teaches how leaders and followers can work together to create configurations of strategy, structure, technology, and leadership styles that have the greatest likelihood of success in accomplishing the organization’s goals while transforming the people of the organization, both followers and outside constituents, to higher levels of satisfaction and performance.
LDSL 706Global Strategic Leadership (6) Provides an understanding of global issues; cross-cultural concepts
focusing on people groups, values, cultures, and how to build teams of diverse people while respecting local values; and maintaining unity of focus and accomplishment. Students conduct regional assessments, as well as comparative cultural studies of different ethnic people groups from around the world. Course focuses on how to adapt an organization’s best practices to local customs and culture, as well as understand and respect diversity.
LDSL 709Leadership Succession & Leadership Development (6) This last course of the program is the capstone
course building on the entire program as it explores the “what” and the “how” of leadership succession, development, and renewal. Students delve into: (a) new insights about how to apply Scripture to organizational leadership, (b) organizational lifecycles, and (c) new avenues for leadership development – spiritual, mental, and physical. In addition to course outcomes, a final outcome of this course is an integrative paper that allows students to tie together all nine courses. This paper takes the place of comprehensive exams in traditional Ph.D. programs, thus there is significant emphasis on the thoroughness and depth of the paper. LDSL 710 Organizational Strategy & Design (3) Relationships between organizational strategy and design/structure in contexts of culture, communication, technology, and leadership cultures. LDSL 711 Strategic Foresight (3) Strategic leaders’ future orientation as they assess emerging changes in an organization’s external environment, market diversities, competitive complexities, resource changes, socio-political shifts, and across technological discontinuities.
LDSL 720Applied Exegetical Studies (3) Reading and understanding the sacred texts of the Bible, foundational
methodologies of applied biblical exegesis, and the use of simplified socio-rhetorical criticism. LDSL 722 Leaders and Followers (3) Strategic leadership as it explores the insights and tools of followers in effective partnership with leaders. This course contains the first of two required residencies.
LDSL 726Human Resource Development (3) Fundamental principles and practices of managing and developing
human resources from a senior leadership perspective. Consideration from biblical and theological perspectives. LDSL 727 Global Leadership (3) Understanding of global issues and the significance of global leadership competencies. Perquisites: LDSL 710, 718, 720, 722, 728, and 732. Cross-listed with BPHD 705 & DBA 705
LDSL 728Leadership Theory & Communications (3) An overview of leadership and communication theory to
enhance leadership and communication application and scholarship. LDSL 730 Leadership Analytics (3) Effective decision-making, using data, analysis, and systematic reasoning to improve efficiency, risk-management, and profits. Cross-listed with BPHD 706 & DBA 706. LDSL 731 Consulting Principles (3) Principles of consulting that undergird effective organizational change. Examines the knowledge base of the consulting profession focusing on the relationship between theory and practice. LDSL 732 Creativity & Innovation (3) The roles of creativity and innovation in organizations as components for building vibrant transformational entities.
LDSL 729Advanced Coaching Models (6) Students explore coaching models and different coaching assessments
through the use of case study and advanced coaching skill-building. In addition to course outcomes, a final outcome of this course is an integrative paper that allows students to combine their coaching knowledge with the core courses in this program. LDSL 730 Leadership Analytics (3) Effective decision-making, using data, analysis, and systematic reasoning to improve efficiency, risk-management, and profits.
LDSL 734Learning Organizations (3) Theoretical and practical underpinnings of various types of learning
environments. LDSL 735 Design Thinking (3) Development of practical alternate solutions to a specific problem, fully using individual and group capabilities as well as ideas from employees, customers, vendors, and the general public.
LDSL 738Leadership Consulting Strategies (6) Introduction to leadership consulting and the socio-economic
contexts within which consulting takes place, exploring the critical role the consultant plays as an applied leadership practitioner and solutions provider, examining the varied functions consultants fulfill within contemporary organizations in an increasingly global environment, considering consulting options, and developing plans for operating values-based consulting practices. LDSL 739 Consulting & Strategic Change (6) The role of the consultant as a strategic change agent, with emphasis on the need within a global marketplace for cultural awareness and sensitivity to change, linking a philosophy of consulting to knowledge development and strategic management, and developing a capacity to consult with larger organizations on issues of strategic, global concern.
LDSL 741System Dynamics (3) Systems thinking by strategic leaders to map complexity in an organization’s
transactional and macro environments through the identification of variables, stock and flows, links and loops. LDSL 743 Social Change (3) Theories for the appearance and direction of social order, conflict and action throughout history. LDSL 744 Issues Management (3) Organizations’ creation of anticipatory management systems to identify, track and remediate policy issues expected to emerge beyond the present planning cycle.
DSL with a concentration in Strategic Leadership (9 credit hours choose 3 of 4) The Strategic Leadership concentration provides an emphasis on those concepts that have the greatest impact on leading and shaping the organization. The following coursework provides a synthesis of dynamic leadership theories, methodologies, and concepts that are vital to leading and transforming an organization and having a positive impact on the current work environment.
LDSL 753Organizational Initiatives (3) Leadership coaching as an organizational initiative
LDSL 754 Advanced Coaching (3) Applies developed coaching skills externally in a 360-leadership coaching assessment and engagement. Implements coaching skills, use of assessment and coaching plans in a leader-to-leader human capital assignment.
DSL with a concentration in Servant Leadership (9 credit hours choose 3 of 4) The concentration in Servant Leadership provides an emphasis on concepts that focus on theories, models, social issues, biblical foundations, and the experiential aspects of servant leadership.
LDSL 755Leadership Coaching Overview (3) Comprehensive professional coaching overview. Engaging global
leaders who develop leaders, teams, and organizations. Sets the foundation for understanding the strategic and ever- growing necessity of leadership coaching through the exploration of coaching history, theory, models, competencies, and assessments to optimize performance outcomes. LDSL 756 Leadership Coaching Applied (3) Coaching business tools developed and implemented. Applies individual skills, coaching, models and assessments. Coaching competencies are accelerated via multiple channels of practice and structured feedback. Prerequisite LDSL 755
DSL with a concentration in Servant Leadership (9 credit hours choose 3 of 4) The concentration in Servant Leadership provides an emphasis on concepts that focus on theories, models, social issues, biblical foundations, and the experiential aspects of servant leadership.
LDSL 772Servant Leadership & Social Issues (3) Seeks a thoughtful engagement of how Servant Leadership works
in a contemporary world regarding issues such as social movements, social corporate responsibility, justice & humanity. Cross-listed with SVNT 602. LDSL 773 Biblical Perspectives & Servant Leadership (3) Studies the biblical foundations, perspectives, and examples of Servant Leadership contained in Scripture with a focus on current application. Cross-listed with SVNT 603. LDSL 774 Servant Leadership & the Experiential (3) Examines the practice of Servant Leadership with focus on a deep understanding that moves toward the knowledge of how Servant Leadership works by encouraging student engagement. LDSL 791 Healthcare: Issues, Trends & Forecasting (3) Examines current issues and trends in healthcare on a level that provides a solid grasp on driving issues, as well as prompts the ability to understand, plan and effectively forecast. LDSL 792 Healthcare: Self Leading & Professionalism (3) Studies the concepts of self-leadership and professionalism in the healthcare context, providing the understanding and imperative for both.
DSL with a concentration in Strategic Foresight (9 credit hours choose) The Strategic Foresight concentration prepares students to lead those initiatives that require a futures perspective.
LDSL 793Healthcare: Team Leadership & Engagement (3) Seeks foundational understanding of how team
leadership and engagement uniquely operate in the healthcare context. LDSL 794 Healthcare: Theory & Practice (3) Engages existing leadership theories and models within the context of healthcare seeking deep examination and practical implementation.
DSL with a concentration in Human Resource Development (9 credit hours choose 3 of 4) The concentration in Human Resource Development combines with core DSL courses to explore current issues and trends in the human resource functions in private- and public-sector organizational settings. Theories and models and the construction and implementation of HRD practices and procedures from individual, group and team perspectives will be explored.
* The following courses must be completed before students will be able to participate in LDSL 727 and their second residency: BUS 600/UNIV LIB, LDSL 718, 720, 722, 728, 710 and 732. Student Academic Advising will work with each student to develop their degree plan accordingly.
