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Academic Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Organizational Development & Change, PhD (with optional concentrations)
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The PhD in Organizational Development and Change is a multidisciplinary degree for scholar-practitioners who want to expand their capacities to bring about positive change in today’s organizations and communities. The degree requires completion of the following:
- New Student Orientation (NSO) and Learning Plan
- Interdisciplinary foundations and leadership courses
- Organizational Development & Change emphasis courses
- Advanced research studies, including a Portfolio Review and Comprehensive Assessment
- Elective coursework
- Dissertation
Our PhD offers a master’s along the way . Students have the option to fulfill elective requirements choosing not just from HOD prefix electives but from any of the general electives offered in the Leadership for Change program.
OD&C students may structure their elective choices to fulfill an optional OD&C concentration in one of the following:
- Coaching
- Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice
- Media, Technology, & Innovation
- Organization Development
- Sustainability Leadership
Or one of these concentrations as listed below:
- Community College Leadership for Change
- Creative Longevity & Wisdom
- Dual Language
- Leadership of Higher Education Systems
- Somatics, Phenomenology and Communicative Leadership
Students develop the knowledge to help organizations and communities thrive in today’s complex world. Emphasizing a multidisciplinary integration of human and organizational systems, this degree creates new approaches to inclusive leadership and sustainability. Students gain knowledge, practice, and research skills to empower themselves and others and meet today’s organizational and social challenges.
Graduates of the program are uniquely qualified to become leaders in their chosen professions. They are consultants, educators, entrepreneurs, coaches, and leaders in human resources, health care, and at nonprofits.
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Required Coursework
Effective date: 09/01/2023
Required Foundations (24 credits)
Organizational Development and Change course
Required Advanced (16 credits)
Electives (24 credits)
Choose any additional 24 credits from HD/ODC concentration and elective courses listed below, additional Advanced Research Methodology courses listed above, or any general electives with ELC course prefixes.
Dissertation (16 credits)
Total Semester Credits: 84
Optional Concentrations
Students matriculated into the Fall 2016 catalog can concentrate their elective studies in the HD/OD&C concentrations listed below, or from any concentration offered in other School of Leadership Studies. In this way, students can individualize their doctoral program and expand their professional expertise. Each concentration typically includes a minimum of three tailored courses and access to a community of scholar-practitioners who are passionate about this specialized field of study.
Coaching Concentration
The doctoral concentration in Coaching offers an interdisciplinary approach to integrating research-based coaching theory with professional practice in organizational and individual coaching. Participants will study the core theories that underpin principle practices of individual and organizational coaching and undertake individual research to integrate theory with practice in individual and organizational settings.
Community College Leadership for Change Concentration
The doctoral concentration in Community College Leadership for Change addresses the most current issues in community colleges and builds students’ knowledge and skills as scholar-practitioners.
Creative Longevity & Wisdom Concentration
The goal of the Creative Longevity & Wisdom concentration is to enhance knowledge and practice in areas concerning mid-life and older adults.
Dual Language Concentration
The Dual Language Concentration offers an academic program to guide teachers, administrators, and scholar-leaders in examining the research, theory, and practices needed to develop effective K-12 dual language programs. This concentration is currently closed to new enrollments.
Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice Concentration
The doctoral concentration in Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice is designed to develop more inclusive scholar-leaders who are knowledgeable about and sensitive to the complex ways that power and injustice manifest in organizations and communities in order to co-create a more just society.
Leadership of Higher Education Systems Concentration
The doctoral concentration in Leadership of Higher Education Systems focuses students’ doctoral study on the knowledge and skills needed to become leaders and change agents in higher education institutions, such as 4-year colleges, universities, and graduate schools
Media, Technology, & Innovation Concentration
The doctoral concentration in Media, Technology, & Innovation is focused on the ways in which media, technology, and knowledge networks are transforming our societies, organizations, and ourselves by becoming the dominant driving force for innovation and organizational change.
Organization Development Concentration
A doctoral degree with a concentration in Organization Development (OD) prepares students to become scholar practitioners, thought leaders, and change agents in a variety of organizations-profit, non-profit, and public sectors.
Somatics, Phenomenology & Communicative Leadership Concentration
This Somatics, Phenomenology & Communicative Leadership Concentration combines and integrates scholarly theory and mastery of embodied mindful awareness (somatics) with substantial grounding in transformative phenomenology (consciousness and deep personal reflection) along with the interpretive and practical dynamics of social constructionism (Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), Symbolic Interactionism, and related communication and social construction disciplines). The impact of the artful blending of these three disciplines and bodies of theory is to: (1) reinforce the validity of “essence-based evidence” available through the phenomenological lens, (2) provide insights into improved research and practice through lifeworld analysis (3) improve practice skills through somatic awareness and practices (4) intensify and enhance leadership skills through increase communication practices such as CMM, (Communicative Management of Meaning) which was developed and perfected by the late Barnett Pearce, HOD Professor Emeritus, and (5) increase contemplative skills as related to research and practice based.
Sustainability Leadership Concentration
The objective of the doctoral concentration in Sustainability Leadership is to produce leaders in businesses, nonprofits, governments, and educational institutions.
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