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PS-Leadership Program | |
PSLP 5300 | Foundations of Leadership (3) |
Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces students to various styles and theories of leadership. Through self-assessment and guided inquiry, students examine and create their own unique style of leadership. Students will develop approaches to adapt and modify leadership styles to various situations and individual personalities to influence organizational outcomes. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 |
PSLP 5310 | Strategic Leadership (3) |
Focuses on strategic planning and foresight. Uses case studies to explore the challenging role of leaders in different organizational settings and how leaders can strategize for successful outcomes | |
PSLP 5320 | Organizational Leadership (3) |
Focuses on the challenging role of leaders in today's complex organizations. Identifies ways to adapt the organizational structures, policies, and management workforce to enhance competitive advantage. Topics include change management, organizational dynamics, and crisis management. Upon completion of the course students will be able to assess risk, perform root cause analysis, and employ effective decision-making processes. | |
PSLP 5330 | Communication and Team Development (3) |
Offered Spring 2025 | Prepares today's leaders for success in communication skills with diverse audiences as well as effective team building and management. Communication topics address technical and non-technical audiences using presentations, interpersonal skills, and writing skills. Team development instruction focuses on managing teams, identifying and understanding the leadership role, the importance of shared leadership, and team decision making. |
PSLP 5340 | Financial Management for Leaders (3) |
Offered Spring 2025 | Examines how value is measured, created, and maximized. Beginning with an introduction to accounting, instruction covers the fundamentals of measuring and reporting revenue, costs, cash flow, assets, liabilities, and equity. Explores the financial decisions that management must make, including break-even analysis, budgeting, investment in assets, and funding with debt equity. |
PSLP 5500 | Contemporary Issues in Leadership (3) |
Offered Spring 2025 | Provides a multidisciplinary perspective on cross-sector societal, technological, economic, and/or global trends, possibilities, and/or disruptions. Students analyze real-world challenges and implications for leadership in the context of their own career and/or study area, particularly within public administration, human resources, project management, procurement and contracts management, cybersecurity management, public safety, and/or others. |