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 better 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
enhance 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 of Christian leadership; (2) vision-casting and execution skills; (3)
an increased ability to use human resources, including the recruitment,
motivation, and management of volunteers; (4) an understanding of how power
works 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 2009. 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, theological instruction, biweekly ASC
meetings, and 27 class hours in seminar format on leadership topics, including
theological reflection and the theology of leadership, meeting 3-6p.m. 10/16,
10/30, 11/13 Fall quarter.
REQUIRED READING: Students will be required to read a minimum of 1200 pages in
at least five different books from an extensive leadership bibliography and in
the course reader. One book is to be chosen in each of the following
categories. NB: An example for each category is provided below, but an
extensive bibliography is available in the syllabus.