FYE 110: First Year Experience

Structure: lecture

Description: Explores study skills, communication, problem-solving, education and career options, and practical life skills to be successful in today’s educational and professional world. Demonstrates strategies that promote academic, personal, and professional success through the of use various digital tools and social-emotional strategies.

  1. Demonstrate study skills and academic strategies that utilize both conventional and digital tools, basic computer operating skills, file management, proper email etiquette, and productivity software, that facilitate success in college.
  2. Apply problem-solving and communication skills in the decision-making process, including how to set academic and career goals.
  3. Present education pathways and career opportunities using a wide variety of digital tools and strategies, including proper documentation of resources.
  4. Implement self-management skills necessary for academic, career, and life success.
  5. Demonstrate ethical and responsible use of technology including distinguishing between credible and unreliable sources.
  6. Demonstrate proficiency in using digital communication tools, including email, productivity software, cloud management, mobile apps, online course delivery systems, and other multimedia tools as appropriate, in academic and professional settings.

IRW 100: Integrated Reading and Writing

Structure: Lecture

Description: Improves reading comprehension and vocabulary of expository materials. Applies active Reading strategies to college level materials. Provides parallel and supplemental review of English skills needed. If students withdraw from IRW 100, they must also withdraw from their concurrent ENG 101 course. 

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, the student can do the following: 
  2. Apply a variety of reading strategies to college-level texts to improve comprehension and increase vocabulary.  
  3. Determine the purpose, main idea, and organization of college-level texts. 
  4. Detect, interpret, and draw inferences from text, including visual materials. 
  5. Use library search tools to find print/non-print materials. 
  6. Plan, draft, revise, edit, and proofread to produce essays in the standard written English.  
  7. Identify and correct sentence errors such as run-ons, comma splices, and fragments. 
  8. Document sources appropriately in writing assignments. 

Organizational Leadership

Adjunct at WKU - Classes are largely built by full time faculty, though as a long time adjunct and previous advisor, I have provided input and help build the courses.

LEAD 325: Leading Change

LEAD 325 will you with the knowledge and basic skills necessary to comprehend, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply organizational change concepts.  Topics to be covered include: conceptual perspectives of leading change, leading change in an organization, leading change in the community, political and social change, and leading global change. This course also includes an emphasis on applied learning through group activities.  

Learning Outcomes

Upon the conclusion of this course, students will gain the ability to:  

  • Categorize and apply the key elements and foundations of effective leading change.
  • Analyze and apply concepts of organizational change in real world contexts.
  • Analyze and compare leading social and political change in a global society.
  • Differentiate various techniques of change concepts within the organization.

LEAD 330: Ethics

Through this course, students will gain a comprehension of ethical theories and their relationship to leadership at both an individual and organizational levels, gain an understanding of decision-making processes and ethical implications that can result from leadership decisions, and increase their awareness of their own ethical leadership perspective. 

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Apply classical and influential ethical theories in the field;
  • Discuss personal power schema and be able to increase personal and social power through a broader understanding of power bases;
  • Analyze past, current, and future ethical problems from a leadership perspective;
  • Identify the morally relevant features of leadership situations and the decision-making process;
  • Identify the ethical leadership perspectives of others; and
  • Argue the benefits of ethical behavior to themselves, their organizations, and society.

LEAD 450: Global Leadership

Learning Outcomes

Upon the conclusion of this course, students will gain the ability to:  

  • Describe, comprehend at deeper levels, and apply basic multicultural leadership perspectives and cultural competencies in an ever changing global society.
  • Analyze and compare behaviors of effective multicultural leaders
  • Describe and apply leadership theories and models through in-class exercises
  • Understand, compare, and contrast tools available for measuring and improving local and globally diverse, multicultural leadership effectiveness
  • Recognize differences between leadership behaviors across time periods and cultural dimensions
  • Utilize the knowledge and experiences gained from this course to continue developing their leadership competencies on a local and global scale
  • Apply gained leadership knowledge to various contexts and situations
  • Analyze issues on local and global scales
  • Examine the local and global interrelationships of one or more issues
  • Evaluate the consequences of decision-making on local and global scales