ODC 6400 - Leadership, Culture, and Group Dynamics
Prerequisite: Department Approval.
This seminar surveys various leadership styles, exploring the characteristics, effectiveness and appropriateness of each for different environments and situations. The course also examines essential aspects of organizational culture, group dynamics and their impact on how teams function. Situations causing conflict in groups and the hidden dynamics preventing teams from functioning effectively are examined and solutions to overcome these problems are discussed.
Credit: 3
ODC 6430 - Culture of Learning Organizations and Systems Thinking
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
ODC 6430 offers students an opportunity to explore foundational concepts of organizational learning, and to apply organizational learning models to diagnose innovative workplaces. This course embraces a system perspective of learning at the organizational level-of-analysis grounded in the premise that innovation and sustainable change is contingent upon an organization’s ability to create new knowledge through learning. Students use a systems approach to explore culture, group dynamics and leadership strategies for developing effective organizations. Special focus is devoted to the leader’s role in influencing group dynamics to create a learning organization culture.
Credit: 3
ODC 6435 - Workforce and Talent Development
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
ODC 6435 offers students an opportunity to explore foundational concepts and a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of strategic talent and workforce development in organizational, local, national, and global settings. Students will learn about key conceptual models (e.g., talent life-cycle, leadership pipeline, high-potential classification and role segmentation frameworks), processes and tools used for assessing and developing talent (e.g., talent reviews and brokering, multi-trait multi-method assessment frameworks, and the 70/20/10 model of development). Additionally, the two forms of workforce development: place-based strategies that attempt to address the needs of people living in a particular region and sector-based strategies that focus on matching workers’ skills to needs in an industry already present in the region will be addressed.
Credit: 3
ODC 6440 - Organization Development and Change
Prerequisite: Department Approval.
ODC 6440 is the foundation for all MAODC and Graduate Certificate in OCD courses. Students first learn the basic nature of human culture and organizational change. Then the practice of ODC is studied within the larger holistic and comparative contexts for global and local change. Discussions and assignments are designed to assist the student in differentiating between change and adaptation. Change and development initiatives in governments, communities and organizations are discussed.
Credit: 3
ODC 6443 - Change Leadership
Prerequisite: Department Approval; Graduate Standing or Concurrent.
ODC 6443 presents a globally relevant perspective for understanding the dynamics of change leadership. Issues such as power, stakeholder and conflict are discussed via case studies. Students learn how their own world views, values and personal behaviors can influence their effectiveness as leaders in different social and organizational contexts. Self-reflection is balanced with group and organizational understanding to analyze the appropriateness and utility of various change interventions.
Credit: 3
ODC 6444 - Innovations and Creativity
Prerequisite: Department Approval; Graduate Standing or Concurrent.
ODC 6444 Innovation and creativity are critical aspects of organization development and change in contemporary societies. This course explores the significance of innovation and creativity to the human experience. Relationships among creativity, change and innovation are discussed within a multidisciplinary perspective. Practical methods for creating innovation in organizations and group processes are illustrated via cases and simulations.
Credit: 3
ODC 6447 - Consulting and Group Process Facilitation
Prerequisite: Department Approval; Graduate Standing or Concurrent.
Participants in this integrative seminar will learn approaches for creating change interventions in organizational settings. Group process, facilitation methods, dealing with stakeholders’ resistance, aligning power systems, and organizational design will be among the issues discussed. Learning will be enhanced by cases, simulations and experimental assignments.
Credit: 3
ODC 6448 - Assessing Culture
Prerequisite: Department Approval; Graduate Standing or Concurrent.
This course explores the perspective and methods for measuring culture. Included are cases from national, organizational, community, and group contexts. Professional and disciplinary differences in defining and measuring culture will be compared and evaluated. Methods reviewed include traditional psychometric approaches such as surveys and interview, culturally-appropriate approaches such as ethnography, scenarios and dilemmas, simulations, and document analysis. Students will be expected to develop instruments or processes to apply in professional situations.
Credit: 3
ODC 6450 - Foundations of Organization Development and Change
Global, national and community-level organizational change and development is being experienced throughout our contemporary world. Students analyze and interpret research data pertaining to organization development and change. Then the practice of ODC is studied within larger context of global national, community and organizational change. Change and development initiatives are discussed.
Credit: 4
ODC 6451 - Leading Complex Organizational Change
Leading change is critical in today’s world. Issues related to understanding the dynamics of change leadership are discussed. Students learn how characteristics can influence effectiveness of leaders in different organizational contexts. Self-reflection is balanced with organizational understanding to analyze the appropriateness and utility of various methods for leading change.
Credit: 4
ODC 6452 - Innovative and Creative Methods of Organization Change and Development
This course explores the significance of innovation and creativity to the human experience. Relationships among creativity, change, culture, and innovation are discussed within a multi-disciplinary perspective. Practical methods for creating innovation in organization and group processes are illustrated via cases, simulation and action research.
Credit: 4
ODC 6453 - Consulting and Group Process Facilitation in Organizational Change
Students will learn perspectives and approaches for creating change and development interventions in organizational settings. Group process, facilitation methods, dealing with stakeholders and resistance, aligning power systems and brokers, and organizational design will be among the issues discussed. Learning is enhanced by the use of cases, simulations, and experiential assignments.
Credit: 4
ODC 6454 - Diagnosing, Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture
Prerequisite: Department Approval.
This course explores the perspective and methods for measuring culture. Included are cases from national, organizational, community, and group contexts. Professional and disciplinary differences in defining and measuring culture are compared and evaluated. Methods reviewed include traditional psychometric approaches such as surveys and interview, culturally-appropriate approaches such as ethnography, scenarios and dilemmas, simulations, and document analysis. Assessing cultural competency will be a focus in the course.
Credit: 4
ODC 6600 - Action Research and Evaluation Methods in Organization Development and Change
Prerequisite: Department Approval; Graduate Standing or Concurrent.
ODC 6600 acquaints students or reinforces the tenents of the scientific method, action research and ODC program evaluation. It discusses research designs and methods appropriate for the ODC discipline and introduces students to research materials, knowledge technology, communications skills, and both quantitative and qualitative methods to be used for the professional project. This course should be taken in semester before the professional project is taken.
Credit: 3
ODC 6990 - Internship
Prerequisite: At least a 2.7 GPA for undergraduate level and a 3.0 for graduate.
Internships provide students with applied, experiential learning opportunities so that they can make connections between academic study and the practical application of that study in a professional work environment. Academic internships are supervised by a faculty member and an on-site professional supervisor. All academic internships must be approved in advance by the department or program. Unless stipulated otherwise by the department or program, credit hours are defined by the university's credit hour policy. Internships may be repeated for a total of 9 credit hours.
Credit: 1 to 3
ODC 6997 - Directed Readings in Organization Development and Change
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Directed individualized readings. Repeatable for credit.
Credit: 1-4
ODC 6998 - Special Topics in Organizational Change and Development
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval from department/program chair. Restricted to students pursuing master’s degrees in Organization Development and Change.
This course provides an opportunity for students to explore other areas related to the organizational change and development curriculum but not included in the program of study. These special topics are offered based on student interest and current events. Course content will vary and may be repeated as topics change.
Credit: 1-4
ODC 7000 - Professional Project
Prerequisite: ODC 6400, ODC 6430, ODC 6440, ODC 6443, ODC 6444, ODC 6447, ODC 6448, ODC 6435, ODC 6600 (which may be taken concurrently); Graduate standing.
Applied Research requires the development of a publishable-quality applied research project/paper at the graduate level. Students enrolled in this course should be in the MAOC program.
Credit: 3