Students apply knowledge and theory from the field of adult learning to analyze an actual workplace program for adult learners. Students develop insight into their own learning styles and those of the individuals and groups they work with. PRL 712 Principles of Research Provides students with opportunities to plan research activities that prepare them for internship experience and for problem solving and decision making in their personal and professional lives. Topics include the meaning of research, its relation to critical thinking and reading, types of research, research methods and data analysis. Participants in the course learn how to select a problem, ways to develop the research proposal, and how to complete a literature review.
Students have opportunities to compare various types of research methodology and data analysis.
Designed to enhance leadership self-awareness, encourage students to fashion personal perspectives on how to lead professionally and prepare them to recognize and address responsibly the ethical dilemmas they inevitably confront. PRL 714 Organizational Studies Focuses on providing a theoretical framework for understanding contemporary organizations and develops the individual, interpersonal, and group skills and disciplines that facilitate organizational learning. PRL 715 Transformational Management Explores the change process in contemporary organizations and the changing role of management and leadership within. In addition to the theoretical framework, students critically evaluate change efforts in their own organization and develop skills for initiating and leading change. Development of objectives for training, design of programs, and program implementation are investigated.