Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL) Track

Organizational Development and Leadership Track

Fall Courses 

• CLIC 800 - Leadership Theory and Creative Practice (UVI Core Course 1)
  • Students critically assess and evaluate various conventional and innovative leadership theories and demonstrated practices with a special emphasis on identifying creative forms and original areas of research in this area of inquiry. Leadership theories and applications are considered within multiple contexts toward a systematic investigation of demonstrated practices, corresponding values, and underlying assumptions of leadership as the foundation towards leading complex organizations. 3 Credits
• CLIC 801 - Sensemaking, Creativity, and Innovation in Leadership (UVI Core Course 2)
  • This course thoroughly examines and explores how retrospective sense-making and rational decision-making processes influence creativity and innovation. Emphasis is placed on learning how innovation and creativity reflexively change leadership practice. This course will also provide students with the opportunity to design an applied research project to systematically investigate some facet(s) of sense-making and decision-making related to creative leadership. 3 Credits 
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Spring  Courses 

• CLIC 802 - Organizational Theory and Analysis (UVI Core Course 3)
  • This is a foundation course in the doctoral program. This course evaluates multiple theoretical perspectives of organizations toward building a working synthesis that can be utilized in researching and practicing organizational leadership. 3 Credits
• CLIC 806 - Qualitative Research Methods I (Research Methods Course 1)
  • This course emphasizes qualitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational research. Learners evaluate case studies and ethnographies toward generating an original research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format. 3 Credits
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Summer Courses 

• CLIC 803 - Ethics and Social Justice in Leadership (UVI Core Course 4) 
  • General ethical theory and relevant legal and social justice issues are critically examined within an organizational leader context toward developing ethical leader principles and demonstrated behaviors in complex organizations. This course is an advanced seminar and emphasizes the systematic investigation of an ethical or social justice issue of problems requiring creative leadership. 3 Credits
• CLIC 809 - Capstone/Dissertation I: 5 Credits 
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Fall Courses 

• CLIC 804 - Innovation By Design (UVI Core Course 5)
  • This course focuses on the methodologies and practices necessary for individuals and organizations to regularly create break-through innovations. Participants will learn the tools and methodologies of the design thinking innovation process. The participants will master applying these methods in the creation of innovative new products, processes, and services using case studies and projects. Participants will also learn to combine this break-through product innovation method with traditional corporate new product development processes. Emerging research on innovative new product development will also be discussed and analyzed. 3 Credits
• CLIC 807 - Quantitative Research Methods II (UVI Research Methods Course 2)
  • This course emphasizes quantitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational leadership research. Learners evaluate experimental and correlational studies toward generating an original applied research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format and include both laboratory and lecture section formats. 3 Credits
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Spring Courses 

• CLIC 805 - Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change  (UVI Core Course 6)
  • Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change is knowing from within as opposed to from an external perspective. This, combined with capacities for guiding the communicative construction of meaning, creates a sense of collaborative action for change. Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change methods place the scholar-leader in the center as the instrument of change. As such, her or his own being, as the primary instrument, is enhanced to create more effective practice.  3 Credits
• CLIC 808 - Action and Participative Research Methods III (UVI Research Methods Course 3)
  • This course emphasizes quantitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational leadership research. Learners evaluate action research case studies toward generating an original applied research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format and include both laboratory and lecture section formats. 3 Credits
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Summer Classes 

• CLIC 818 - Online Learning Orientation (ODL Track Course 1)
  • Designed to introduce students to the online environment and practices in Fielding's ODL program, this online seminar takes place prior to the beginning of the first academic trimester. Students will learn to use Fielding's website and software to navigate, post, and complete initial assignments. Students will meet online and begin building community with their entering cohort and receive course introductions in preparation for beginning the academic term. Faculty and staff participate in facilitating dialogue and increasing online skills as the seminar progresses. Certificate students participate in the orientation for two days; master's students participate for four days. 0 Credits
• CLIC 810 Capstone/Dissertation II: 5 Credits 
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Fall Courses 

• CLIC 819 - Organizational Development: Origins, Evolution, and Current Practices (ODL Track Course 2)
  • This course provides a history and overview of the field of organizational development, including the current and projected state-of-the-art. It explores the work of key theorists and contributors to the field of organizational development. The course will identify the basic values, principles, theories, and models for understanding how and why organizations develop, behave and change in the ways they do, and the practices for leading and managing change at the individual, group, and system levels. Foundational concepts, terminology, and methodologies needed to understand, design, and evaluate applied organizational development interventions will be explored. 4 Credits
• CLIC 820 - Leadership: Theory and Practice (ODL Track Course 3)
  • This course lays a theoretical and practical foundation in leadership. It explores the breadth and limitations of leadership theories (past and present) and traces their evolution. The course looks first at the organization as the context for leadership and how that context influences both leadership and followership. The course also focuses on ways leadership can, in turn, shape the organization. Students connect with their core values and aspirations as a foundation for expanding their leadership capacity. Through the fundamental leadership skills of observation, interpretation, and intervention, students become instruments of organizational transformation.2-semester Credits
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Spring Courses

• CLIC 821 - Leading by Design: Theory and Practice (ODL Track Course 4) 
  • This course focuses on different theories of organizations and their relevance in today's workplace. It provides an overview of leading models of organizational structure, processes, rules, behavior, roles, and function. The course considers chaos/complexity theory, addressing organizations as complex adaptive systems, co-evolving with an environment that is often turbulent and non-predictable. Students will critically examine different types of change -- incremental, transitional, transformative, and strategic – and how to best enable intentional change from a design perspective. Students will explore their own orientation toward design and their use of self in the design process. 4 Credits
• CLIC 822 - Group Dynamics: Effective Teams and Group Development (ODL Track Course 5)
  • This course focuses on group dynamics and the impact of collaborative working teams. Elements of an effective team in various situations are discussed, such as mergers and acquisitions or inter-organizational projects. Students examine how work gets done in virtual or geographically dispersed teams, including the impact of web technologies on group potential, performance, and learning. By simultaneously studying and participating in a group, students gain an understanding of group processes and how to facilitate and collaborate with groups online and face-to-face. 4 Credits
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Summer Courses 

• CLIC 8 - Capstone/Dissertation III: 5 Credits 
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