Master Syllabus: MSM 66552

Master Syllabus: MSM 66552

Master Syllabus: MSM 66552

TROYUNIVERSITY
MASTERSYLLABUS
SORRELLCOLLEGE OF BUSINESS

MSM 6655
Advanced Leadership

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Course Description

The course explores advanced concepts and theories related to leadership with special emphasis on leadership as a confluence of factors that interact to produce leader behavior. This course focuses on developing critical thinking and evaluation about leader behaviors.

Course Objective

To develop students as critical thinkers, evaluators, and creators of leader behavior.

Student Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Examine the relationship between leadership and motivation.
  2. Evaluate the relationship between leadership and ethics.
  3. Appraise the relationship between leadership and power.
  4. Propose the relationship between leadership and organizational success.
  5. Formulate the role of leadership in a relentlessly changing world.

Course Prerequisites

BUS 6600 must be taken the first term. MSM 6640 is recommended prior to taking this course.

Specific Course Requirements

This is a research based course. As such, there is a substantial amount of writing within the course. Students in this course will complete multiple discussion boards and a publishable quality paper. All work in this course will be completed in APA style.

Research Component

All work in this course will be based on scholarly or peer-review sources only. Popular or generic work is not acceptable in this course.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc…

Student Engagement

Instructors in this course will add videos, movies, site visits, guest speakers, service learning projects, or other activities designed to engage students in experiential and active learning activities designed to improve skills and the application of knowledge within the business community.

Required Textbooks*

  1. Gini, A. & Green, R. M. (2013). Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
  2. Kellerman, B. (2010). Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and Influence. McGraw Hill: New York.
  3. American Psychological Association (2010 or later). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association: Washington, D. C.

*Most recent edition is required unless otherwise specified.

Supplementary Materials

Course readings as specified by the instructor. Many of the supplements are found in Canvas.

Course Coordinator: Dr. Tish Matuszek

There are no program assessments required for this course.

Note: All assessment data must be completed and submitted point final grades are submitted.

MSM Assessment information link:

Proposed Assessment and Graduate Program SLO’s Covered in Course:

I=Basic or Introductory Level (outcome is introduced)

D=Developing Level (outcome is developed further, reinforced, or practiced)

M=Mastery Level (outcome is mastered)

A = Outcomes assessment evidence is collected.

(Ideally both during the program and just before graduation)

Troy University Faculty Handbook(2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

  1. Course title
  2. Course number + section
  3. Term
  4. Instructor
  5. Prerequisites
  6. Office hours
  7. Class days, times
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  1. Classroom location
  2. Office location + e-mail address
  3. Office telephone
  4. Course description, objectives
  5. Text(s)
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  1. Other materials
  2. Grading methods, criterion weights, make-up policy, mid-term grade reports
  3. Procedure, course requirements
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  1. General supports (Computer Works, writing center)
  2. Daily assignments, holidays, add/drop & open dates, dead day, final exam
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  1. ADA statement
  2. Electronic device statement
  3. Additional services, statements
  4. Attendance/
    Absence policy
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  1. Incomplete work policy
  2. Cheating policy
  3. Specialization requirements (certification, licensure, teacher competencies)

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