BUAD 317: Leadership and Change

This course prepares students with the theory, tools, and competency needed to be effective and efficient in a challenging organizational environment.  In this course, students will study leadership paradigms including the trait, skill, style, behavioral, situational, and contingency leadership models as well as change management, influence and power, team leadership, ethics and diversity.  Leadership classes feed inter/intrapersonal growth, and enhance successful communication, critical thinking, and professional competence.  This course will focus on how leaders align people to change.