HIS 395 Internship Leadership (LDR) Supervised experience in research or applied programs related to history. LDR 210 Leadership Foundations Prerequisite: Instructor approval and This interdisciplinary course explores the sophomore standing. (1-3 s.h.) nature and character of leadership as a shared human experience throughout HIS 400 History Colloquium history. Leadership will be examined A capstone experience drawing on skills through the humanities, social sciences and and understanding developed throughout theology with the goal of understanding the undergraduate history program. how leadership has and continues to Students will be expected to produce a influence the development of human major research paper based substantially society. Prerequisites: LAR 111 and THE on original research and present it to faculty 140-240 (3 s.h.) or at an undergraduate conference by end of the academic year. History majors will LDR 260 Leadership Dynamics be required to take two semesters of the Classical and contemporary theories, course. Prerequisite: at least six credits models, practices of leadership will be of 300-level coursework in history and explored within formal organization sophomore standing. (1 s.h.) settings including business, professionals, education, government, not-for-profit and HIS 405 The Global Cold War non-governmental agencies. Students will In this course, students will learn identify the role of theory in leadership in international connotations of global understanding the dynamic influence of political and economic changes after leadership in organizations and analyze 1945. Particular topics represent the most the strength, weaknesses and areas of significant moments of the Cold War, which opportunity for improving contemporary are crucial in order to understand the recent thinking about leadership. Students will international political, economic, and identify their own leadership strengths military global constellation. Prerequisite: and weaknesses and create a personal Sophomore Standing. (3 s.h.) leadership development plan. (3 s.h.) HIS 411 Christianity in America See course description for THE 411 in Theology section. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. HIS 412 The United States West The westward expansion of the nation and the influences of the frontier on American development. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. (3 s.h.) HIS 414 The Reformation A survey of the European Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its constituent movements (the German, Swiss, Radical, English and Catholic Reformations). Successive offerings of the course will focus upon a different figure or movement each time offered. Prerequisite: THE 303 or HIS 101 or instructor approval and sophomore standing. (3 s.h.) HIS 425 Digital Humanities See ENG 425 course description. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. HIS 491, 492 Independent Study Individual study for majors. Prerequisite: Instructor approval. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. (1-3 s.h.)
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behavior as well as the human spirit. Servant leadership is explored and offered as a way of thinking about and living leadership. Prerequisite: LDR 320 (3 s.h.) LDR 460 Leadership Portfolio The leadership portfolio is the culminating course in the leadership minor that synthesizes coursework and individual student learning about leadership. As part of the portfolio students will develop a personal philosophy of leadership that includes a statement of their servant leadership purpose, a code of ethics for living their servant leadership and a plan for further developing their abilities as servant leaders. Prerequisite: LDR 410 (1 s.h.)
Liberal Arts (LAR) The courses in Liberal Arts are designed to support a variety of major programs or to become part of an Interdisciplinary program. LAR 111 Writing and Intellectual Traditions I The first semester of the liberal arts core sequence on ideas and writing. The course is designed to provide students with instruction and practice in writing. Additionally the course seeks to cultivate student understanding of the meaning and value of a liberal arts education in the Christian tradition through the critical examination of ideas, themes, and texts that have influenced Western culture. An important component of the learning experience is the learning community established among students and instructors. (3 s.h.)
LDR 320 Leadership for Innovation and Transformation This course explores and examines leadership as a catalyst for innovation and transformation in diverse organization and social contexts. Theories, concepts and practices and processes of leadership that foster successful innovation and transformational change are examined in relation to social and economic shifts that have changed the course of history. Ethical change process methods will be applied to LAR112 Writing and Intellectual Traditions II a contemporary issue. (3 s.h.) The second semester of the liberal arts LDR 395 Leadership Internship core sequence on ideas and writing. The Internship for students minoring in course continues the examination of the leadership. The internship is intended liberal arts in the Christian tradition and for students to develop and apply their the cultivation of a learning community leadership ability in a leadership role within among students and instructors. The an organization or engagement with a writing component is centered on the community project. (1-3 s.h.) development of research sensibilities and skills essential to the student's subsequent LDR 410 Spiritual and Ethical research writing within their chosen Challenges of Leadership majors. Prerequisite: LAR111 (3 s.h.) This course focuses on understanding the ethical and spiritual responsibilities LAR 210 University Honors Seminar and consequences of leadership and the This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the impact of the use and abuse of power nature of the academic adventure. A variety and influence on ethical decision making, of readings, lectures and presentations will individual, group and organization address historical dilemmas of the human
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