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This course explores the key relationships between leaders and followers with a focus on mutual learning, mutual influence, and mutual empowerment that enable them to value and develop each other. Students will learn about leadership and followership types and how the leader-follower dyad works in organizational setting. Students will also explore historical models of leadership and followership styles across cultural, philosophical and faith traditions. Prerequisite: LDR-200.

The course examines the ethical challenges for leaders within the current pluralistic, global context. Key concepts include the variety of ethical systems and decision-making models that leaders will need to navigate for thinking and acting in ways that demonstrate respect for all organizational stakeholders while achieving organizational goals. An important focus of the course will be considering a biblical perspective on what makes a Christian leader. Prerequisites: LDR-220, LDR-260

This course helps prepare upper division students of any major to transition into the workforce following graduation. The course focuses on preparing for a life of leadership after college by understanding how to develop life skills that will allow them to integrate their unique life calling into work environments and career interests. Four broad areas will be addressed: 1) Job Search, 2) Professional Development, 3) Personal Financial and Time Management, and 4) Lifelong Leadership and Learning. Students will prepare a personal portfolio and develop a strategic life and leadership plan.

The course examines the follower element of a leadership system. Students will analyze the interdependent nature of leading and following. Important concepts include the follower as role not personal characteristic of the follower and the need for engaged and courageous followers to facilitate the success of the leader and organization's goals. Prerequisites: LDR-220, LDR-260

This course provides a supervised practical leadership experience in a professional work environment. Students will provide leadership under the mentorship of a more experienced leader to develop and reinforce learning from the Leadership program. Prerequisites: LDR-200 and advisor approval. Instructor consent may be required.

Leaders are in a privileged position to effect a transformation of perspectives on race, ethnicity, lifestyle, and understanding, etc. This course gives participants the opportunity to explore this potential, and, through life experiences and current literature, to assess their personal leadership styles and attitudes toward diversity. For administrators, managers, trainers, and leaders in any context, the goal will be to develop well-articulated positions and strategies for shaping a just response to issues surrounding leadership and diversity.

This course allows a student to assist in ongoing research projects being conducted through the Servant Leadership Research Center at IWU. Students will conduct a literature review in a specific leadership research area while being actively involved in a research project. Prerequisites: LDR-200 and advisor approval.

This course explores the leadership of teams. Students will learn how to build community among the people they lead by building relationships, working collaboratively and valuing differences. Students will also learn to view work and results from the perspective of partnership as opposed to competitive individualism. Students will learn to respect the unique contribution of diverse individuals who make up teams and organizations. Prerequisite: LDR-200.

This course introduces biblical-theological and anthropological foundations of leadership and development (a Trinitarian model) grounded in the Scriptures and theological traditions of Trinitarian theology, Christological Anthropology, and Pneumatology. The New Testament model of Christ-like leadership and development is discussed. A special attention is given to (a) the role of the Triune God, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, in followership and leadership making and (b) current challenges of leadership development are addressed in light of Christ's "discipling the twelve," a universally applicable and cross-culturally relevant model for developing Christ-like followers and leader.

The course introduces the broad topic of organizational behavior. Key concepts include the various levels of analysis through which an organization can be viewed, including individual, group, and organizational levels. Additionally, the student will examine important constructs such as power and influence, culture, technology, and systems that affect all levels of analysis. Prerequisites: LDR-220, LDR-260

The course examines the psychological mechanisms affecting the attitudes and actions of leaders and followers. Within that context, a central focus of the course is how leaders influence motivation and behaviors of followers to enhance performance while understanding how to lead in more effective, ethical, and humane ways. Prerequisites: LDR-305, LDR-320, LDR-365

The Leadership Studies major, as an interdisciplinary study program, must be studied in the context of another major. This seminar enables students to continuously improve their own study plans for a double major by integrating the curriculum of Leadership Studies major with another major. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and disposition to prepare them to meet the academic standards of the Leadership Studies program. Prerequisites: LDR-180 and LDR-280.

The course examines the formation and function of teams to improve organizational performance. Key concepts include factors for designing teams and supporting effective teamwork by understanding group dynamics and the variety of contexts in which teams operate in the global environment. The course will also focus on leadership styles and models for team effectiveness. Prerequisites: LDR-305, LDR-320, LDR-365

This course introduces the nature of organizational leadership, classical and contemporary theories of organizations, organizational types, development, communication, and strategies. Students explore topics and issues relating to human resource theory, structural organization theory, organizational culture theory, theories of organizations and environments, learning organizations, and the dynamics of organizational communication. Through individual and group activities, students learn about organizational ethics, effective organizational culture, shared organizational vision, and value-based strategic planning.

This course provides a supervised, practical experience in a professional work environment. Students will demonstrate advanced-level leadership knowledge and skills related to their degree program within the work environment. Departmental permission required.