Impact Your Organization and your Master's Degree with Servant Leadership
The Servant-Leader Concentration provides unparalleled learning opportunities to affirm, develop and express your natural inclination to serve-first.
The four-course concentration is designed to provide students with an advanced comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of servant-leadership and to further develop the most pertinent dispositions, capacities and skills within the philosophy.
What you will Learn About Servant Leadership
- Forgiveness and restorative justice
- Listening and discerning
- Building community
- Foresight and strategy
- Transformational and systems thinking
In 1999, Gonzaga University became the first academic institution in the country to offer a graduate course in servant-leadership and leadership theorist Peter G. Northouse* recognizes Gonzaga University as one of the prominent leaders in the field of servant-leadership studies.
The successful completion of the Servant Leader Concentration will be recognized on the degree transcript of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership.
Servant Leadership Requirements
Required Course
- ORGL 530: Servant Leadership
Elective Courses | Choose 3
- ORGL 510: Renaissance Leadership for the 21st Century
- Includes study abroad in Italy
- ORGL 518: Transforming Leadership
- ORGL 522: Leadership & Community
- Includes 5-day immersion at St. Andrew's Abbey in Valyermo, CA
- ORGL 532: Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness
- ORGL 535: Listen, Discern, Decide
- ORGL 537: Foresight & Strategy
- Prerequisite: ORGL 530
- ORGL 689: Leadership & Hardiness
- Includes 4-day immersion at Mt. Adams, WA
- COML 504: Organizational Communication
- COML 507: Mindful Leadership and communication
- Includes 3-day immersion on-campus in Spokane, WA
- COML 515: Relational Communication
- COML 572: Communication, Leadership, Community Development
- Includes study abroad in Cali, Colombia
*Leadership: Theory and Practice, 2022, p. 271
Questions?
Contact:
Heather Schmitt
Call or Text: (509) 313-6240 or (866) 380-5323
Email: schmitth@gonzaga.edu
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