Administrative Leadership Course

Descriptions

LSTD 3613 - Leadership in Organizations
The general purpose of this course is to learn about contemporary thinking regarding leadership in organizations and the applications of these insights for growth as a leader.

LSTD 3623 - Conflict Resolution
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to understand human needs, behavior of self and others. In this course, you will explore how conflict originates, processes by which it escalates, and alternative methods for dealing with it.

LSTD 3633 - Integrated Marketing Communications
This course focuses on innovative strategy planning that helps businesses survive in our increasingly competitive markets; an analysis of the individual consumer as a problem solver who is influenced by psychological variables, social influences, and the purchase situation; the number, size, location, and buying behavior of various types of organizational customers; and logistics activities and how they provide time and place utility to improve value to the customer.

LSTD 3643 - The Changing Marketing Environment
This course is intended to introduce learners to several theories on human motivation which can be applied across several contexts, including both learning and leadership. A common misunderstanding is that leading and managing are one and the same. The main difference between the two is that leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management is focused on maintaining systems and processes. This course will be equally helpful to athletes, students, business men and women, those in the military, as well as individuals in leadership positions. Not all tasks that are required of us are inherently interesting. When this is the case, it may be necessary to find ways to motivate ourselves and others.

LSTD 3653 - Global Strategies
This course focuses on marketing and marketing strategies--specifically pricing and the integrative nature of marketing management.

LSTD 3663 - Ethics in Leadership
This course provides an overview of applied ethics as it relates to leadership situations in organizations. An emphasis will be placed on the individual in the “new workplace,” and students will be encouraged to make connections between the course content or personal lives.

LSTD 3673 - Motivation in Learning and Leadership
This course focuses on innovative strategy planning that helps businesses survive in our increasingly competitive markets, an analysis of the individual consumer as a problem solver who is influenced by psychological variables, social influences, and the purchase situation, the number, size, location, and buying behavior of various types of organizational customers, and logistics activities and how they provide time and place utility to improve value to the customer.

LSTD 4613 - Goal Setting and Attainment
This course introduces students to the importance of establishing goals and the goal attainment process in business and in everyday life. These include perspectives of goal attainment in industry as they apply to production and to overcoming personal challenges.

LSTD 4623 - Corporate Environmental Strategies
This course examines the growing importance of environmental science and technology for business and industry. As government and corporate leaders have become more aware of the Earth’s limits to support a growing population with current technology, interest has grown rapidly in the private sector to better define the role that environmental science and technology can play in the design and development of a sustainable future. In the past decade, for example, the pace of societal, institutional, and technological change has been so rapid in the U.S. and elsewhere that several new academic fields, including Industrial Ecology, have been launched.

LSTD 4633 - Cultural Diversity
Managers, supervisors, training professionals, and educators must be able to effectively recruit, train, manage and promote a culturally diverse work force. However, few have been trained to do so. Throughout his book, Dr. Henderson presents ways to manage and value diversity in the workplace.
According to projected demographic changes in the United States, America's workplace will experience a dramatic change within the next decade. These changes will include increases in women, immigrants, and minorities within the workplace, as well as higher proportions of individuals between the ages of thirty five and fifty four in the working force. This course is designed to promote a better understanding of diversity, as well as prepare you for managing culturally diverse employees.

LSTD 4643 - Quality Initiatives
This course will strive to improve the student's understanding of quality and how it affects the organization as well as their own lives. Each unit will discuss specific tools that can be used in order to build teams and a good workplace environment. The objective for this course is to describe when and how to use check sheets, criteria rating forms, matrix diagrams, affinity diagrams, cause and effect diagrams, pareto charts, process flow charts, histograms, run charts, and control charts.

LSTD 4663 - Non-profit Management
This course will provide an overview of nonprofit management, operations, and leadership as well as the problems and environment unique to the various nonprofit entities functioning in society.

LSTD 4673 - Mediation
This course provides an overview of the history of mediation as well as an introduction to substantive meditation theories and models. The practice of mediation will be introduced by examining its origins in both the court and community-focused movements.

LSTD 4950 - Internship
This course provides the student with an opportunity to gain experience by working with a company or series of companies in an internship conducted via distance methods, primarily via the Internet. The intern will perform tasks such as online research, market research, demographics analysis, analysis of competition and competing brands, trade conditions and financial transactions. The focus will be on the integrated process - from the inception of the idea to the completion of a final report.

LSTD 4953 - Study in Depth
This course is designed to assist you in the completion of your study in depth paper, the capstone experience in the Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program. The course will focus on developing your thesis statement, locating and evaluating references, writing and organizing your paper, and putting your paper into its final form, including the list of references cited. This course is faculty driven with full flexibility for the director of the study in depth to manage the task in accordance with the subject undertaken.