GES432 - Christian Leadership in a Secular World
Course Description
Update.
Course Texts
1. The Serving Leader, Jennings and Stahl-Wert, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2003. ISBN 1-57675-265-8 (SLJ)
2. Spiritual Leadership, Blackaby, Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2001.
ISBN 0-8054-1845-8 (SLB)
3. A Leadership Book of your Choosing.
Course Objectives:
- Students will examine “Leadership” in order to personalize and integrate various approaches to leadership as part of a process of formulating a personal ethic.
- Students will examine and evaluate choices of leadership in the light of their Christian values, education and personal experience.
- Students will explore alternate views of leadership that define and guide choice making.
- Students will develop personal strategies that lead to decisions in leadership in the face of uncertainty and social pressures.
- Students will effectively communicate their positions in both writing and orally through papers, presentations and discussion.
- To raise issues which challenge the Christian who occupies a position of leadership in society.