Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology PROGRAM (MA)

Course Descriptions

OP 600—Becoming a Practitioner and Use of the Self

3 Credits

The course will guide students through self discovery with the focus on building skills to motivate, advise, build tolerance, lead, follow and otherwise facilitate positive interpersonal interaction.  Each student will explore themselves as individuals and understand their impact and effect on others including thorough work with measures of personality styles, Emotional Intelligence, learning journaling, 360 feedback, and values systems.   The first segment of this course will focus on increasing self-awareness as a change agent.  The second segment will focus on theory and aspects of team and inter-team dynamics in change processes.  The last segment will focus on behaviors and best practices of professionals in an organization change process.  The entire course will have a high level of experiential work so participants can work towards transferring theory to practice in driving change in organization settings.

Updated 7/14/08