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This course is the first in a collection of four Mission-Driven Leadership Labs. These leadership labs facilitate experiential learning within a local church, non-profit, or other organizational context, particularly one that is faithbased or faith-leaning in perspective. Lab 1 gives special attention to Mission-Driven Self-Leadership as participants examine their unique calling, gifting, strengths, opportunities, and self-development patterns as a foundation for lifelong learning, growth, and contribution to the benefit of organizations and communities. Using the course topics and resources as a guide, the student will work with a site mentor to develop a learning contract with specific outcomes, artifacts, and demonstrated skills. Leadership Labs are not pre-requisite restricted.

This course will lead students to develop an understanding of their unique design as a key to discovering their life purpose and calling. Students will then explore how to work with this uniqueness in maximizing their college experience and life beyond college. A major focus of this course concentrates on the discovery of one's God-given strengths, passions and life experiences as a basis for this calling. Students are then led to understand how education, work, and other relationships in life are best understood and developed from this life calling perspective. Cannot take if earned credit in LDR-150.

This course focuses on students developing an understanding of the concept of life calling and the discovery of one's God-given design as a basis for this calling. Students then are led to understand how work and individual leadership is best understood from the life calling perspective. Students will evaluate values, spiritual gifts, interests, abilities, personality traits, and experience. Students will combine each component in an in-depth self-assessment paper, and will integrate this into a life and leadership plan. Additional fees required.

The Leadership Studies major, as an interdisciplinary study program, must be studied in the context of another major. This seminar introduces how the curriculum of the Leadership Studies major, developed around a three-dimensional conceptual model exploring of leading, following, and organizational context, will enable students to design their own study plans for a double major by integrating the curriculum of the Leadership Studies major with another major. The seminar will also guide students on how to articulate a servant-minded paradigm of leading and following from biblical-theological and research-findings perspectives. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and disposition to prepare them to meet the academic standards expected in the first and second year of the Leadership Studies program.

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