MA in Global
Leadership Online Cohort Course
ML 530: Winter
2009
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ML530: LIFELONG DEVELOPMENT
(4 units).
J. Robert Clinton, Professor of
Leadership
DESCRIPTION:
This course explores
the nature of Christian leadership development. Leadership emergence theory is
a grounded theory derived from the comparative study of many life histories of
biblical, historical, and contemporary leaders.
The development of a leader takes a lifetime.
God processes or shapes a leader in terms of leadership character, leadership
skills, and leadership values. The processes that God uses can be studied,
categorized, and characterized. They can be integrated around a time-line of a
leader which shows development from the big picture, the lifetime perspective.
Patterns can be observed as God develops a person over a lifetime. These
variables—that is, the large umbrella concepts of the course, processing, time,
and patterns of response—form the backbone of the course. Emphasis in this
course is upon recognition of values and lessons learned in God's processing as
well as integration of them along a time-line.
Many individual concepts flowing from these
variables such as various process items, the unique time-line, boundaries,
giftedness development pattern, and many, many more are examined, all with a
view toward understanding one's own shaping. The thrust of this course involves
learning perspectives that will aid life-long development.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon
the successful completion of the course, students will have:
·
The
ability to analyze any leader’s life using leadership emergence theory concepts
·
Constructed
a case study involving the following elements:
-A unique timeline with additional information
on it (response patterns, etc.);
-Listing of process items;
-A narrative capsule (personal history);
-Social base inventory;
-Analysis of 3 key process items;
-Analysis of one major boundary;
-Giftedness analysis;
-Analysis of one pattern
-Destiny processing analysis and a life
purpose paragraph
·
Familiarity
with numerous leadership emergence concepts including: process items, response
patterns, time-line definitions as seen by use in a written case study and
exercises turned in daily
COURSE FORMAT:
The class will be conducted on the Internet
using a 10-week lesson program aligned with Fuller’s academic calendar. Each
week students and the instructor will interact with the material through
journaling, threaded discussions and live Internet “chats”. The sessions
include a time of spiritual formation and question/answer times, as well as
further input on life-long development concepts. There will also be small group
activities to apply the concepts.
REQUIRED
·
ML530
Reader Articles (available in course document sharing)
·
ML530 Case Study Reader (available in course document sharing)
·
Clinton,
J. Robert. The Making of a Leader.
·
Clinton,
J. Robert. Leadership Emergence Theory.
·
Trebesch, Shelley. Isolation.
RECOMMENDED
·
Choice
of One:
Samuel.
Barnabas.
Joshua.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1.
Weekly
Threaded Discussions (10%)
2.
3.
Weekly
exercises from Leadership Emergence Theory and articles designed
for analysis of a student’s own life (20%)
4.
A
case study on the student's own life using leadership emergence theory concepts
to prompt analysis. This case study will be completed by the end of the ninth
week (40%).
PREREQUISITES: This course is only
available to those who are accepted into the MA in Global Leadership.
RELATIONSHIP
TO CURRICULUM: A
required course for the Cohort portion of the MA in Global Leadership. NO AUDITORS.
FINAL
EXAMINATION: No
written examination. In the final week students will share Online the results
of the class on their lives.
Updated October 2009
This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to
modification