Spring 2016/Fuller Live!
Pasadena and Sacramento
LD500
O’Donnell
LD500: LEADERSHIP (4 Units: 160 hours). Michaela O’Donnell-Long
DESCRIPTION: The course teaches students to engage organizational change in congregations and other organizations. The course will specifically address ways to engage the context within which the organization exists.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The student will (1) demonstrate an understanding of intercultural Christian leadership; (2) reflect theologically about leadership; and (3) describe the implications of this learning for their own contexts.
COURSE FORMAT: This class meets once per week for three hour sessions for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction for lecture and discussion plus 10 hours of directed learning activities for a total of 40 instructional hours.
REQUIRED READING: 859 total number of pages required.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists. Anchor, 2015. ISBN: 110191176X, Pub. Price $7.95 Kindle Pice $1.99 [64 pages]
Barton, Ruth Haley. Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry. IVP, 2008. ISBN: 0830835133, Pub Price 13.96 [100 pages]
Bolman, L. and Deal, T., Reframing Organizations. Jossey-Bass, 2008. ISBN: 978-0787987992, Pub. Price $36.00 [200 pp.].
Catmull, Ed and Amy Wallace. Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Random House, 2014. ISBN: 0812993012 [200 pages]
Heifetz, R. and Linsky, M. Leadership on the Line. HBSP, 2002. ISBN: 978-1578514373, Pub. Price $22.00 [120 pp.].
Selected Articles:
Argyris, C., “Teaching Smart People How to Learn” Harvard Business Review, 1991 [16 pp.].
Collins, J. and Porras, J., “Building Your Company’s Vision,” HBR, 1996 [16 pp.].
Cormode, S., “Multi-Layered Leadership,” Journal of Religious Leadership, 2002 [35 pp.].
Dykstra, C., “Evaluation as Collaborative Inquiry” Initiatives in Religion, 1993 [6 pp.].
Ely, R. and Meyerson, D., “Theories of Gender in Organizations,” Working Paper #8, Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons College , 2000. (www.simmons.edu/som/docs/cgo_wp8_DNC.pdf) [46 pp.].
Heifetz, R., “The Work of Leadership” HBR, 2001 [16 pp.].
O’Donnell-Long, Michaela., “Fostering Space for Creativity in Religious Organizations,” Journal of Religious Leadership, Fall 2015 [13 pp.].
Senge, P., “The Leader’s New Work,” Sloan Management Review, 1990 [17 pp.].
Wuthnow, R., “The Crisis in the Churches,” in Financing American Religion, 1999 [10 pp.].
Selected Videos and Articles on Moodle
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
Classroom Participation: (10%) [30 hours].
Reading/Viewings – 859 pages. (10%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome #1-3]. [50 hours].
Writing – Six integrative papers of two pages each (30%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome 2 & 3]. [40 hours].
Project – Students will create a project that demonstrates understanding and integrates key course themes with their own leadership context (25%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome 1, 2, and 3]. [20 hours].
FINAL Exam – (25%) [This assignment is related to learning outcome 1, 2, and 3]. [20 hours].
PREREQUISITES: IS500, IS501, IS502, and IS503 are highly recommended but not required.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the LDR requirement for the 120 MDiv and 80 MATM Programs (Fall 2015).
FINAL EXAMINATION: Yes, in class.