Supports and guides students in the development of their dissertation proposal. Committee members support students in working on their introduction, literature review, and data collection plan for their dissertation. Students write and pass a methodology-related qualifying examination. Prerequisite or concurrent: 714. Graded CR/NC.

Supports and guides students in the development of their dissertation proposal. Students will develop their Research Question(s), complete IRB training, form a dissertation committee, and write and pass a content-related qualifying examination. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite or concurrent: 714.

The process of closing gaps between constituent groups in decision making is explored. Zero sum and positive sum negotiation strategies are explored, including small normal form games. Using this theoretical foundation, students learn practical negotiation skills and apply them in simulated situations requiring competence and finesse.

Ethical leadership requires understanding the role of values in leadership. This course explores values such as contemplation, hospitality, honesty, service, trust, and vocation in leadership contexts. Students will consider practical implications and their meaningful connection to professional settings. Four-day residency in La Crosse required.

This course focuses on organizational learning and humility, emphasizing the sincere quest for truth that motivates experimentation and natural improvement that comes from committed obedience to revealed truth.

This course explores structures of power and oppression that shape our diverse world. It considers what we can individually and collectively do to make our organizations more inclusive spaces and how leadership principles from different cultural communities can support the work of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

This course uses the lens of Critical Theory to ask fundamental questions about the relationship between power and leadership, the nature of leadership itself, and the ethical challenges posed to people in positions of authority. Students will explore these challenges and expose the extent to which these challenges can and cannot be rectified.

This course is a seminar course focused on influential and recent research and primary texts in the humanities relevant to the theory and practice of leadership. Students will explore works from disciplines such as Philosophy, Religion, History, and The Arts that inform the study of leadership. Students will complete an annotated bibliography.

This seminar course focuses on influential and recent research in the social sciences relevant to the theory and practice of leadership. Students will explore scholarship from disciplines such as Psychology, Sociology, Management, Anthropology, Political Science, and Economics that inform the study of leadership. Two-day residency in La Crosse required.

This course introduces epistemologies, processes, and ethics of data generation and analysis used in qualitative and participatory research methodologies. Students will practice research skills. Prerequisite: 712.