DESCRIPTION: Student leaders at Fuller Theological Seminary fulfill a vital role in the mission of the seminary. Their efforts provide extracurricular and co-curricular learning opportunities for the student body. This course provides a structure for reflection and learning over the year that they serve on the student council, with the objectives listed below.

SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: This course enables student leaders to expand existing leadership skills, to build an understanding of leadership that will enhance their abilities to serve and lead in the future, and to gain an understanding of how leadership functions within a Christian organization.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This course is designed to enable student leaders on Fuller's All-Seminary Council to develop (1) a theology, philosophy, and framework for leadership; (2) vision and execution skills; (3) an increased ability to work with others, including the recruitment, motivation, and management of volunteers; (4) an understanding of leadership, relationships and culture within an organization and how to work within that structure to accomplish results; (5) an ability to examine other leaders to determine what makes them effective; (6) an ability to analyze leadership structures through research and use the results to accomplish change.

COURSE FORMAT: Students will register for this course for three consecutive quarters, beginning in Fall 2010. The Fall and Winter quarters will be registered for zero credits and taken pass/fail; Spring quarter will be registered for four units of credit and taken for a grade based on work over the three quarters. [Students may choose to take the third quarter P/F also, provided that their program allows that option.] Over the three quarters, students will participate in a retreat, biweekly ASC meetings, and 27 class hours in seminar format on leadership topics, including theological reflection and the theology of leadership, meeting 9:00 am to noon the second Friday of each month beginning in October. (NB. December and June class will meet the first Friday).

REQUIRED READING: Students will be required to read a minimum of 1200 pages as follows:

Adams, Richard. Watership Down. Avon, 1975.

Block. Peter. The Answer to How? Is Yes. Berrett-Koehler, 2001.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. "The Nazi Rise to Power," in No Rusty Swords, pp. 190-204. Harper & Row, 1965.

De Pree, Max. Leadership Is an Art. Doubleday, 1987.

Goleman, Daniel, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. Primal Leadership. Harvard Business School, 2002.

Heifetz Ronal, and Marty Linsky. Leadership on the Line. Harvard Business School, 2002.

Wright, Walter. Relational Leadership. 2nd ed. Paternoster, 2009.

1. Reading of assigned materials, with a one-page summary of each book (15%)

2. Analytical summary (5 pp.) of the leadership skills of Hazel (10%)

3. Participation in ASC leadership and seminars (15%)

4. Submission of three-page quarterly reports reflecting on progress against objectives, personally and as a team (20%)

5. Final paper (15+ pp.), reflecting on the leadership experience (25%)

6. Final summary of year's activities (5 pp.), with recommendations to successor (15%)