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Core

Please refer to the Course Schedule for course offering dates, times, and semesters.

(17 credits)

All students are required to complete the seven core courses first. Exceptions will not be given to enroll in concentration courses prior to completing the core requirements.

 

  • 782.620 Moral Leadership: Human Resources and Organization Development Values and Ethics

    Organization development and human resources is guided by a core set of values and principles that shape the way it is practiced. This course introduces common values, beliefs, and frameworks of ethics. The course examines organizational and human resource policy statements on social and ethical responsibility and considers how to practice moral values in these contexts. The course is designed to raise student awareness of moral and ethical issues in the profession.

    Course to be completed before starting ODSHR concentration courses. Course preparation work required before and after actual class meeting.

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  • 782.625 Self as Change Agent: Individuals, Groups, and Organizations

    This course is foundational in expanding students’ capacity and increasing their effectiveness as instruments of change in groups and organizations. Students investigate skills and competencies needed to succeed in the field, and assess and develop their capacity to be effective practitioners. Topics include student knowledge of self, awareness of impact on others, and the use of self as agent of change; theories of difference, communication foundations, and theory and research on groups; approaches to team development such as goal setting, role clarification, and conflict management; group facilitation; team learning; and the dynamics of groups and their effect on organizational outcomes. Presentation design and delivery, research skills, and experiential learning are also included. This course is highly interactive and relies upon personal reflection, feedback from others, simulations, project teams, videotape feedback, instrumented learning, and directed methods to increase the effective use of self as an agent of change.

    Course must be taken in the first semester of core course work.

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  • 782.636 Organization Development and Systems Theory

    This course builds upon the OD theory framework for working at the individual and group level, developed in 782.625 Self as Change Agent. This course provides an in-depth focus on foundations of organization development, socio-technical systems, and the latest thinking on organizations as complex systems. The impact of macro-level environmental factors on organizational positioning and success is explored. The course includes the classical theories and models from the core literature in OD and affiliated fields such as organizational behavior, sociology, psychology, and economics that underpin the field of OD, and tracks their evolution into the more modern organization sciences, such as complexity and chaos theories.

    Course to be completed before starting concentration courses. This course replaces 782.702 Organization Development Theory.

    Prerequisite(s): 782.625 Self as Change Agent: Individuals, Groups, and Organizations.

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  • 782.640 Research Writing Seminar

    This workshop introduces students to writing proposals and research papers. Emphasis is placed on developing a well-written paper, including a well-defined problem and persuasive arguments, using primary and secondary source materials. This workshop includes discussion of proper attribution, the research process, and the American Psychological Association’s required writing style.

    Course to be completed before starting concentration courses.

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  • 782.642 Introduction to Research Methods

    Introduction to vocabulary, theory, and primary principles, methods, and techniques of research and evaluation that drive advancements in the practice of OD and HR. The focus is on quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry at the conceptual level. Emphasis is on equipping the student with an analytic framework for understanding the academic and practitioner research and evaluation literature found in various courses in the program.

    Course to be completed before starting Concentration courses.

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  • 782.644 Strategic Management Challenges of Complex Organizations

    This course examines the relationships between strategic management and organizational development. Students integrate knowledge of business functions and concepts to understand the development and implementation of successful strategies and the resulting organizational change implications. Students explore concepts of mission and goal setting, business case development, industry analysis, competitive advantage, and appropriate organizational structure and leadership to successfully implement strategy.

    Course to be completed before starting concentration courses.

    Prerequisite(s): 782.625 Self as Change Agent: Individuals, Groups, and Organizations.

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  • 782.638 Strategic Human Capital

    An organization’s human capital asset is the collective sum of attributes, life experience, knowledge, inventiveness, energy, and enthusiasm that its people choose to invest in their work. Emphasis is placed on exploring and understanding current issues, methods, and techniques for measuring, maximizing, and maintaining the human capital asset of an organization for competitive advantage. Students assess implications for actions that human resources professionals can take to build and maintain their human capital investment. Methods and techniques for measuring the value of human capital investment programs will be discussed.

    Course to be completed before starting Concentration courses.

    Prerequisite(s): 782.625 Self as Change Agent: Individuals, Groups, and Organizations.

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