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[1] Graduate Courses in Community Organization and Leadership Development (COAL)
8361 LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL CHANGE INQUIRY The first course in the Leadership and Change concentration introduces the student to the scholar-practitioner model and to the fields of leadership, social change, and academic research. Students will engage critical thinking and critical reading to analyze literature and develop their skills as academic researchers and writers. They will survey leadership across multiple sectors and develop an understanding for how research can be leveraged to address social issues and change. They will adopt and develop the dispositions necessary for doctoral students conducting research and inquiry into relevant change issues.
8363 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP APPROACHES This course provides students a survey of leadership theories from the leader-centric to the collective. Students will explore how leadership theories guide and inform practice and research inquiry committed to human and community capabilities and empowerment. Discussion topics include trait, behavioral, human resource, and collective leadership theories; wicked problems/adaptive challenges, human capabilities approach, human and community functioning, locus of control, and empowerment.
8365 LEADER IDENTITY AND EXPERTISE DEVELOPMENT Leadership Identity and Expertise Development explores theories and research related to leader and leadership development. The course emphasizes the inter- and intrapersonal attributes/factors that cultivate leader identity orientation, claiming, and granting and the influence of experience and context on leader and leadership identity and expertise development.
8367 COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES In this course, students will be introduced to a transformative leadership philosophy required for navigating “volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity” (VUCA) quandaries and leading and investigating resilience within communities. Students will explore agile leadership: the roles of mindfulness–cultivating mental agility; inquiring mindsets–inviting creativity through broader and deeper perspectives; inclusivity–generating collective genius and impact through collective leadership. Other discussion topics include agility leadership, “zooming in and out,” deep listening, humble inquiry, social networks, eco-structural leadership.
8369 LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT In this course, students encounter the theory and practice of analyzing, evaluating and developing change in leadership and organizations in multiple contexts. Students will conduct an organizational analysis to target a challenge or growth opportunity. Using current literature, change models and development theory, students will complete a leadership development project and implement another in a selected organization to affect transformational change. Projects are integrated into a final presentation for publication or conference proceedings.
8370 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP This course surveys the emergence of philanthrocapitalism, social ventures, enterprises, and social entrepreneurship as approaches to addressing challenging social, economic, and environmental problems. In this course, students act as change agents from business, community, education, and non-profit organizations and learn how cooperative and networked leadership is leveraged. The students will explore how to create socially responsive organizations, education programs, businesses, non-government agencies, using entrepreneurial mindsets to meet challenging social issues.
8372 GENERATIVE LEADERSHIP: INNOVATION AND VALUE-CREATION The future of leadership and organizations lies in the ability to break from dominant paradigms and past successes to reimagine, reinvent, and originate new solutions and paths forward. In this course, students will learn of the systems that support innovation; cultures that breed creativity; leadership that empowers, mobilizes, and generates new possibilities; processes that unlock potential and research that discovers new approaches to wicked problems. The course extends beyond the theory and practice of leading change (COAL 8369) through the development and practice of generative leadership. Students will encounter self-leadership, imaginative mindsets, creative cultures, and tailor principles and processes of innovation in a unique application for a final project.