EdD 901 - Leadership Theories and Academic Writing and Research
Central to this course is acquiring skills such as leadership competencies and learning current and historical leadership styles and strategies. Through reading, discussion and brief inventories, students recognize and analyze leadership theories and their practical application and assess personal leadership characteristics and behaviors to lead to students’ growth as leaders. Students also evaluate and discuss leadership case studies that promote critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. In addition, this course assists in preparing students for EdD Leadership program success through their acquisition of academic writing and presentation skills and by introducing scholarship as an approach to learning and as an academic product with practical applications. Students are introduced to American Psychological Association (APA) style, a program requirement for written assignments. They learn how to conduct database research; critique empirical articles, books and other pertinent material; and construct an academic literature review. Students also analyze a case study to identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s).
(6 credits)
EdD 902 - Systems Theory and Leadership
This course focuses on the interdisciplinary study of systems and on the systemic thinking that 21st-century leaders must adopt to lead effectively in a diverse world and global economy. Students learn how the current emphasis on the interdependence of individuals, groups, structures and processes contrasts sharply with the 19th- and early 20th-century philosophy that individuals and organizations thrive as independent agents. Students also analyze a case study to identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s).
(6 credits)
EdD 903 - Global Leadership in Local and Transnational Contexts
This course emphasizes how systemic analysis of organizations and systemic issues studied in EdD 902 apply to the inextricable connection between local, regional, national and international issues and events. Students focus on organizations and places as perpetually constructed and reconstructed processes, just as students learn to identify global concerns in local contexts. In addition, students identify leaders’ responsibilities to respond practically and locally to such global, power-related issues as justice and inequality, and they gain experience in how and when to apply diverse leadership styles and strategies. By studying corporate sustainability initiatives, including the United Nations Global Compact, as well as responsible global business models, students create business models that promote positive social change. Students also analyze a case study to identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s).
(6 credits)
EdD 904 - Leading Innovative and Creative Change Across the Organization and Within the Community
This course examines effective, ethical, creative and transformative ways of implementing organizational and community change. The student learns how a leader can drive and shape an organization to embrace, foster and promote individual and collective innovation. Further, the student explores skills and strategies to systematize operations and to confirm digital access and appropriate infrastructure for an organization to thrive in a global marketplace. In addition, through written and other forms of assessment, the student demonstrates accountability in the mindful use and application of transformative processes, just as the student learns strategic planning, the importance of team building and the significance of creating partnerships. Students also analyze a case study to identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s).
(6 credits)
EdD 905 - Ethical Leadership
This course promotes a global understanding of the philosophical and civic traditions of leadership as the ethical construct of diverse practices in myriad organizations, institutions and societies. The student gains greater awareness of the cultural contradictions that influence contemporary organizations, especially in U.S. society, and learns to identify Western views of morality, as well as ethical business practices, in a competitive and diverse world marketplace. This course also focuses on ethical, mindful and legal decision-making based on compliance, regulations and customs in a global marketplace, and the student demonstrates his or her learning via written assessments, oral presentations and other appropriate means of evaluation. This course moves away from the traditional construct of leadership as the manifestation of a single role and instead explores the more substantive concept of leaders’ relationships to internal and external constituents, as well as to cultural mores and constraints. In this course, students also enroll in and complete the required research ethics online course and must pass the assessment related to the course. Students must pass the quiz to pass EdD 905. Students also analyze a case study to identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s).
(6 credits)
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EdD 906 - Creating Cultural Awareness and Appreciating Cultural Differences in Diverse, Global Organizations and in Intercultural Communication
Leaders in diverse, global organizations must develop an increasingly sophisticated awareness and understanding of cultural differences, just as leaders must advance their own and others’ communication abilities to appreciate and negotiate intercultural variances among organizational constituents and in international exchanges. This course focuses on identifying and transcending the complexities inherent in conducting intercultural communication between diverse individuals, institutions and nations. Students also analyze a case study in which they identify and articulate the underlying leadership problem(s). (6 credits)
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EdD 907 - Identifying and Analyzing Organizational Issues
Students analyze actual local and global issues and organizational problems to identify underlying leadership issues, as well as to develop research protocols and arguments focused on helping to resolve those issues. Students are challenged to think critically to construct cogent analyses based on their knowledge of leadership theories and systems theory, as well as on their understanding of place as a process. By the conclusion of the course, students identify a preliminary capstone project topic that meets the capstone project requirements outlined in the Spalding University EdD Leadership Handbook and in the Spalding University Catalog.
(6 credits)
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EdD 908 - Research Methodology and Problem Solving
The purpose of this course is to educate doctoral-level students in the use of the scientific approach in research and to ensure informed decision-making grounded in empirical research. By critiquing research studies, students develop the knowledge, skills and aptitudes that characterize the disciplined researcher who conducts and applies qualitative, quantitative and/or mixed-method studies. This course challenges students to think systematically-yet-creatively about inquiry and about how inquiry aligns with an organization’s foundational design and performance-improvement principles. Research Methodology and Problem Solving also promotes inquiry that informs the ways in which leaders conceive, develop, implement and evaluate interventions (programs, products, systems and aids) to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
(6 credits)
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EdD 920C1 - Leadership Capstone I
In this course, students who have received unconditional approval from Spalding University’s Research Ethics Committee to conduct research for their capstone project, and who also have received approval from the organization(s), will conduct research, collect, group, treat, interpret and analyze data to identify major themes and inform future organizational practice.
(6 credits)
EdD 921C2 - Leadership Capstone II
In this course, students complete their data analysis and write, as well as revise as necessary, a scholarly article to be submitted first to the Spalding University EdD Capstone Project Committee and then to a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in the field of leadership or in another discipline. During the face-to-face component of the class, students present the capstone leadership project in final written form and defend their research, analysis and recommendation in an oral presentation accompanied by digital media. During the defense, students provide answers to the research questions posed in the study, link the findings to relevant research, discuss implications of the findings, indicate strengths and limitations of the study and make recommendations for future research.
(6 credits)
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