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 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 will provide an overview of the research process. Students will identify potential research topics and explore quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The course will culminate in a literature review. Prerequisite: 724 or 725.

Students will explore data analysis tools, including bivariate and multivariate statistics and data reduction tools and will craft a draft dissertation proposal. Prerequisite: 712.

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.

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.