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Semester

Courses

Summer II and III

LEAD 261 | Design Thinking for Social Impact | 3 Units

Design thinking is an iterative problem-solving process of discovery, ideation, and prototyping. The process can be used to address all kinds of creative challenges. This course will focus on equipping students with design thinking skills, as they apply to leadership and social impact issues. (10 weeks)

LEAD 260 | How to Change the World | 3 Units

Examines ideas and concepts around society, socialization and what it means to be social change agents. Focuses on the development, continuity and changes in social institutions, culture and society and their impact on how we fit into society, how we view ourselves as individuals and how we create change. (10 weeks)

LEAD 220 | Creativity and Ideation | 3 Units

Engages students in creativity and ideation. Students develop creativity skills and ideation processes to create ideas that will be launched later in the program. (5 weeks)

Fall

LEAD 200 | Exercising Leadership | 3 Units

Provides knowledge and skills to lead, motivate, and coordinate diverse individuals toward attaining shared goals. Includes study of leadership in organizational and community-based contexts, with an emphasis on development of personal leadership competencies. (Term A, 8 weeks) 

LEAD 256 | Change in Complex Systems | 3 Units

Immerses students in innovation and change methodologies while working with clients in transforming teams, groups, and organizations. (Term B, 8 weeks)

LEAD 210 | Leadership and Inquiry | 3 Units

Engages students in cycles of inquiry to gain deeper understanding of the issues that impact their organization and how that informs their leadership identity. Through these inquiry cycles, students reflect on how actions and decisions influence an organization and its people. Students use these reflective practices to build self-awareness about their on-going leadership growth and development. (Term A and B, 16 weeks)

Spring 

LEAD 201 | The Ethical Leader | 3 Units

Enables students to understand ethics, leadership, and the relationship between leadership ethics and their personal and professional lives. This course attempts to raise awareness surrounding these legal, moral and ethical challenges, create a sensitivity to the implications of leadership decisions so you can make the most effective decision possible, equip you with tools and strategies for managing your own and others' ethical behavior, and encourage you to critically evaluate the decisions of others. (Term A, 8 weeks) 

LEAD 252 | Coaching for Organizational Contexts | 2 Units

Development of skills and knowledge to partner with others in their professional development, with the aim of helping people reach their goals and enhance performance through exploration of ideas and dialogue. Focus on theory, research and applied techniques to facilitate an evidence-based coaching process. (Term B, 8 weeks)

LEAD 221 | Facilitation of Projects and Initiatives | 3 Units

Provides knowledge and skills related to group facilitation with focus on facilitating projects and initiatives of all types. Emphasis will be on facilitative leadership, tools, techniques, processes, and knowledge for helping teams succeed. (Term A and B, 16 weeks)

Summer I and II

LEAD 296L | Integrative Capstone in Innovative Leadership | 3 Units

Provides the culminating experience of the program, including leadership-related fieldwork project to apply innovation skills through integration of research, theory, and practice. (10 weeks)

LEAD 262 | Understanding Social Impact & Change | 3 Units

Provides a foundation of the concepts, themes, vocabulary, and theories related to social impact and social change. Gives students opportunities to explore various community and professional practices to expand awareness of social impact issues and the role of power, privilege, and identity in their understanding.(10 weeks)

Total Units Required for Graduation: 32 MA