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This course focuses on the leader as a transforming agent of change. Students will learn to understand the dynamics of personal and organizational change and how to best serve others through the change process. This course explores various change models while focusing on the servant organizational culture as the best foundation for effective change. Prerequisite: LDR-200.

This course explores the leader's relationship to self and the unique demands of authenticity and character to leadership. Students will be guided to see that authentic leaders are open and accountable to others, are willing to learn from others and maintain the highest integrity and ethics. Prerequisite: LDR-200.

This course is an introduction to the scope and nature of leading self and others through conflict. Students will learn about their personal communication and conflict styles, will be introduced to biblical principles and prominent theories on conflict, as well as various techniques of managing conflict (with a focus on conflict coaching, negotiation, and mediation). Students will develop skills reflecting sensitivity to intercultural and diverse population contexts and needs. In addition, students will explore concepts of nonviolent social change. Students will have opportunity to develop and practice skills through in-class experiential activities, assignments, and observational coaching/evaluation.

In this course students will be asked to focus on a particular field of leadership (political, organizational, community, educational, etc.) and interact together around current issues in that field with an emphasis on ethical issues and how to be a change agent within that leadership area. Prerequisite: LDR-200. This course is designed to be taken later in the program when most, if not all, leadership courses have been taken.

This course is designed for students who are interested in undergraduate collaborative research, conference presentations, new topic explorations, and publications in the field of leadership studies. Current topics are chosen for leadership scholarship discussions either hosted by the department of Leadership Studies or by national and/or international visits. Students through peer or faculty collaborations will engage in field research, cross-cultural contexts assessment, conference attendance and presentations. Students will explore current topic or issues in leadership studies relevant to their needs and the mission of the Leadership Studies program. The instructor will develop a specific course description based on the chosen topic in leadership.

In this course students will conduct an individual field project providing leadership to a community improvement project that they identify and implement through mobilizing others. Students will utilize the learning gained from the leadership major and put that learning into action in a true service-learning design. This course is available to students who are majoring in Leadership and have completed most, if not all, the other leadership courses.

In this course students will conduct an individual field project providing leadership to a community improvement project that they identify and implement through mobilizing others. Students will utilize the learning gained from the leadership major and put that learning into action in a true service-learning design. This course is available to students who are majoring in Leadership and have completed most, if not all, the other leadership courses.

In this course students will be asked to focus on a particular field of leadership (political, organizational, community, educational, etc.) and interact together around current issues in that field with an emphasis on ethical issues and how to be a change agent within that leadership area. Prerequisite: LDR-200. This course is designed to be taken later in the program when most, if not all, leadership courses have been taken.