Programs

Leadership Development

Associate Degree

Credits:

60.00

Financial Aid Eligible

Western offers most courses in a 7-week format, but course length can vary. There are two 7-week sessions in each term, so courses listed below may not be taken at the same time. See www.westerntc.edu/7-weeks for more information.

This course list gives you an idea of what coursework will be required but is not the official list. Current students should use the MyWestern self-service portal for academic planning.

First Term

Course NameCourse NumberCredits

Professional and Leadership DevelopmentCourse: 196-129Credits: 2.00

Students will develop personal and learning skills that will enhance their success in the Leadership Development Program. The course is tailored to the unique demands of today's industries, providing students with the skills and mindset required to excel as leaders in modern workplaces. Students will be introduced to different learning styles and leadership styles to help them be academically and professionally successful.

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Personal Leadership StrategiesCourse: 196-164Credits: 3.00

The learner applies the skills and tools necessary to deal with the time management, stress, and related challenges to a supervisor. Each learner will demonstrate the application of time management techniques, personal planning, continuous learning, valuing rights and responsibilities of others, effective communication, assertiveness, and dealing effectively with stress.

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Diversity & Change MgmntCourse: 196-169Credits: 3.00

Addresses changes taking place in the workforce and their affect on the supervisor and the organization. Explores a broadened view of diversity, including values, age, gender, disabilities, education and culture. Provides an action framework for the supervisor to gain advantage by blending and capitalizing on the different skills and perspectives of people and creating an organization where everyone gives his or her best.

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SupervisionCourse: 196-191Credits: 3.00

The learner applies the skills and tools necessary to perform the functions of a frontline leader. Each learner will demonstrate the application of strategies and transition to a contemporary supervisory role including day-to-day operations, analysis, delegation, controlling, staffing, leadership, problem-solving, team skills, motivation, and training.

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Strengths SeminarCourse: 890-106Credits: 1.00

This course supports learners as they make the transition to college, as appropriate to their area of interest. Students will investigate their strengths to adopt successful academic habits, explore career goals, build digital literacy, navigate campus resources, and foster community, belonging, and wellness.

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Second Term

Course NameCourse NumberCredits

Computer Apps for Business Course: 103-111Credits: 3.00

Introduces the student to Office 365 suite of products. This course includes software application basics and file management strategies to better organize, create, and maintain information to communicate in a business setting. Office 365 applications will be related to solving business problems, formatting business information, and creating business reports that integrates all features of Office 365.

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Intro to HR ManagementCourse: 116-117Credits: 3.00

Explore strategies and theories of human resources management, including staffing, training, employment law, employee relations, safety, and compensation.

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English Composition 1 Course: 801-136Credits: 3.00

This course is designed for learners to develop knowledge and skills in all aspects of the writing process. Planning, organizing, writing, editing and revising are applied through a variety of activities. Students will analyze audience and purpose, use elements of research, and format documents using standard guidelines. Individuals will develop critical reading skills through analysis of various written documents.

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Oral/Interpersonal Comm Course: 801-196Credits: 3.00

Focuses upon developing speaking, nonverbal communication, and listening skills through individual speeches, group activities, and other projects.

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Third Term

Course NameCourse NumberCredits

Employment LawCourse: 116-158Credits: 3.00

In this course students will explore federal and state employment laws to incorporate them into business practices.

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Project ManagementCourse: 196-188Credits: 3.00

Learners explore the importance of project management in business environments. Learners create successful proposals and plan, schedule and budget for a project. Team leadership and communication are practiced. Microsoft Project assists them in monitoring the progress of the project, including the use of Gantt Charts, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM). Includes professional presentation of your project.

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Team BuildingCourse: 196-189Credits: 3.00

The learner applies the skills and tools necessary to facilitate problem solving in a team environment. Each learner will demonstrate the application of the benefits and challenges of team work, necessary roles in a team, stages of team development, different approaches to problem solving, consensus, a systemic process of problem definition, data acquisition, analysis, developing alternative solutions, solution implementation, and evaluation.

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Leadership DevelopmentCourse: 196-190Credits: 3.00

The learner applies skills and tools necessary to fulfill his/her role as a modern leader. Learners demonstrate the application of evaluating leadership effectiveness and organization requirements, individual and group motivation strategies, implementing mission and goals, ethical behavior, personal leadership style and adaptation, impacts of power, facilitating employee development, coaching, managing change, and effective conflict resolution.

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Fourth Term

Course NameCourse NumberCredits

Safety in the WorkplaceCourse: 196-136Credits: 3.00

An introduction to safety and loss prevention in the workplace with an emphasis on the supervisor's responsibility for maintaining a safe, productive environment. Students will study safety concepts, hazard controls, developing safety and health programs, and federal and state mandated regulations.

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Capstone in LeadershipCourse: 196-167Credits: 3.00

This course will be a capstone course on leadership. Students will examine their leadership potential and growth with the use of leadership evaluations and feedback.

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Organizational DevelopmentCourse: 196-168Credits: 3.00

Learners apply skills and tools necessary to deal with organization behavior and change. Learners apply intervention strategies to deal with diversity, restructuring, globalization, team building, confict resolution and process consultation. Learners analyze how an organization's goals, decision-making, performance management and planning impact goal attainment, business outcomes, organizational structure, job design and employee participation.

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Managing for QualityCourse: 196-192Credits: 3.00

The learner applies the skills and tools necessary to implement and maintain a continuous improvement environment. Learners will demonstrate the application of a personal philosophy of quality, identifying all stakeholder relationships, meeting or exceeding customer expectations, a systems-focused approach, using appropriate models and tools, managing a quality improvement project, and measuring effectiveness of continuous improvement activities.

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Fifth Term

Course NameCourse NumberCredits

Business FinancialsCourse: 102-126Credits: 3.00

Students will explore how businesses build their bottom line. In the pursuit of profitability, students will learn to maximize the financial resources of the organization. This will be accomplished by evaluating financial statements, budgets, sales forecast, and other financial metrics.

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Principles of SustainabilityCourse: 806-112Credits: 3.00

Prepares the student to develop sustainable literacy, analyze the interconnections among the physical and biological sciences and environmental systems, summarize the effects of sustainability on health and well-being, analyze connections among social, economic and environmental systems, employ energy conservation strategies to reduce the use of fossil fuels, investigate alternative energy options, evaluate options to current waste disposal and recycling in the U.S., and analyze approaches used by your community to promote and implement sustainability.

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Economics Course: 809-195Credits: 3.00

This course is designed to give an overview of how a market-oriented economic system operates, and it surveys the factors which influence national economic policy. Basic concepts and analyses are illustrated by reference to a variety of contemporary problems and public policy issues. Concepts include scarcity, resources, alternative economic systems, growth, supply and demand, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, unemployment and global economic issues.

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Intro to Psychology Course: 809-198Credits: 3.00

An introductory course in psychology surveying the multiple aspects of human behavior. It addresses the theoretical foundations of human functioning in such areas as perception, learning, motivation, development, personality, health and pathology, exploring physiological and environmental influences. It directs the student to an insightful understanding of the complexities of human relationships in personal and vocational settings.

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