Course Syllabus

Instructor: Kathy Volz Instructor, Gallogly College of Engineering Email: kvolz@ou.edu Live Session (Zoom link): https://zoom.us/j/9525276229

 

University of Oklahoma

ENGR 4013: Leadership and Management for Engineers

Spring 2019

Online Course - 3 credit hours

COURSE MEETING TIME & LOCATION

Fully online. See course schedule.

COURSE GOALS & LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to leadership by focusing on what it means to be a good leader. Emphasis in the course is on the practice of leadership. The course will examine topics such as: the nature of leadership, recognizing leadership traits, developing leadership skills, creating a vision, setting the tone, listening to out-group members, handling conflict, overcoming obstacles, and addressing ethics in leadership. Attention will be given to helping students to understand and improve their own leadership performance. By the end of this course, you will:

• Have an awareness of your own leadership philosophy, traits, skills, and behaviors
• Gain an understanding of the fundamental ways in which leadership is practiced in on-going organizations
• Gain an understanding and appreciation for the unique dimensions of your own leadership style, their strengths and weakness, and ways to improve what you do as a leader

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice Interactive eBook

by Peter G. Northouse

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Print ISBN: 9781506356730, 1506356737

eText ISBN: 9781506356891, 1506356893

Edition: 4th

Copyright year: 2017

 

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (February 28, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1633693023

ISBN-13: 978-1633693029

TOPICS COVERED:

The topics in this course are:

• Understanding Leadership
• Leadership Traits, Strengths, Skills, Philosophies, and Styles
• Attending to Tasks and Relationships
• Creating a Vision
• Establishing a Constructive Climate
• Embracing Diversity and Inclusion
• Listening to Out-Group Members
• Managing Conflict
• Addressing Ethics in Leadership
• Overcoming Obstacles
• Collaboration
• Giving and Receiving Feedback

COURSE FORMAT

The course is delivered in an online format, consisting of 15 weekly modules. Each module contains readings, questionnaires, quizzes, assignments, discussions, live sessions, and a project. Some modules will include lecture videos, but most of the learning in this class will come from reading, discussions, observations, and reflections.

READINGS

You will be required to complete two reading assignments for each module. You will be expected to have read the required Northouse chapter reading and HBR article prior to participating in the live sessions.

LECTURES

There will be lecture videos for some modules. You will be expected to watch the lecture videos.

QUIZZES

Each module will have a quiz. Quizzes are a tool to assess your knowledge of the chapter readings. You will be allowed to re-take the quizzes as many times as you’d like. You may retake the quiz as many times as necessary to achieve a 100% on the quiz.

ASSIGNMENTS

Throughout the course, you will have several assignments. you will be expected to complete the assignments and submit them on time. You will submit assignments online via Canvas.

Late assignments will be accepted up to 48 hours after the due date, with a deduction of 25% of the assignment value. Without prior arrangement with the instructor, no assignments will be accepted more than 48 hours after the due date.

DISCUSSIONS

Throughout the course, you will be required to participate in discussions. Your participation in discussions must be meaningful, respectful and value-adding. Discussions will be used to encourage dialogue amongst you, your classmates, and the instructor.

Each week, the discussion board will have multiple topics. You may choose whether to participate in one or multiple topics. You will be required to make two posts each week. It does not matter whether your posts are original or reply posts, but each post is expected to be in the range of three to seven sentences.

LIVE SESSIONS

You are expected to attend a live (synchronous) session every week. Please see below for the offered times. You may choose to attend whichever Live Session best fits your schedule:

            Thursdays from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. CST

            Thursdays from 8:15 – 9:15 p.m. CST

The Live Sessions are graded. If you are unable to attend the Live Sessions, you are able to complete a make-up assignment each week to earn the points you missed from the Live Session.

MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENT

If you are unable to attend a Live Session, you may choose to complete the make-up activity to make up the points you missed. You will find the activity in Live Session page along with the due date.

EVALUATION

You will be evaluated as follows:

Assessment Item	Description	% of Grade
Quizzes	Multiple attempts. Highest grade recorded.	5%
Questionnaires and Assignments	You will have weekly discussion boards, questionnaires, and assignments	60%
Live Session Attendance / Make-up Activity	Weekly Live Session	25%
Final Paper	Personal Leadership Development Plan	10%

Grading Scheme: 90-100 (A), 80-89 (B), 70-79 (C), 60-69 (D), and < 60 (F).

LATE POLICY

Late assignments will be accepted up to 48 hours after the due date, with a deduction of 25% of the assignment value. Without prior arrangement with the instructor, no assignments will be accepted more than 48 hours after the due date.

 

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

ACADEMIC POLICIES AND STUDENT SUPPORT

 

Catalog

Please familiarize yourself with the student catalog: http://catalog.ou.edu/courses/courses.htm

Online Library

Students in the MAcc program can use the University of Oklahoma library by visiting: 

http://libraries.ou.edu/

Academic Misconduct

In addition to the course conduct policies outlined by your professor in the Course Syllabus in the online classroom, please review the Graduate Student Handbook. 

It is the responsibility of each student to be familiar with the definitions, policies and procedures concerning academic misconduct. The Student Code is available from the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and is contained in the Student’s Guide to Academic Integrity, available at http://integrity.ou.edu/students_guide.html This site also defines misconduct, provides examples of prohibited conduct, and explains the sanctions available for those found guilty of misconduct.

Plagiarism 

Plagiarism is the most common form of academic misconduct at OU. There is basically no college-level assignment that can be satisfactorily completed by copying. OU's basic assumption about writing is that all written assignments show the student's own understanding in the student's own words. That means all writing assignments, in class or out, are assumed to be composed entirely of words generated (not simply found) by the student, except where words written by someone else are specifically marked as such with proper citation. Including other people's words in your paper is helpful when you do it honestly and correctly. When you don't, it's plagiarism. 

Go to http://integrity.ou.edu/students_guide.html to learn more about the rules for avoiding plagiarism. Test your skills in avoiding plagiarism by taking the library’s plagiarism tutorial, available at https://libraries.ou.edu/content/academic-integrity-tutorial

Reasonable Accommodation for Disabilities
The University of Oklahoma is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for all students with disabilities. Students with disabilities who require accommodations in this course should contact their professor as early in the semester as possible.

Students with disabilities must be registered with the Disability Resource Center prior to receiving accommodations in this course.

If you have a disability and you would like to make a request for reasonable accommodation, please see the Graduate Student Handbook or visit the Disability Resource Center and other disability services at OU at: http://drc.ou.edu/

Adjustments for Pregnancy/Childbirth Related Issues

Should you need modifications or adjustments to your course requirements because of documented pregnancy-related or childbirth-related issues, please contact me as soon as possible to discuss. Generally, modifications will be made where medically necessary and similar in scope to accommodations based on temporary disability. Please see www.ou.edu/content/eoo/faqs/pregnancy-faqs.html for commonly asked questions.  

Title IX Resources  

For any concerns regarding gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, stalking, or intimate partner violence, the University offers a variety of resources, including advocates on-call 24.7, counseling services, mutual no contact orders, scheduling adjustments and disciplinary sanctions against the perpetrator. Please contact the Sexual Misconduct Office 405-325-2215 (8-5, M-F) or OU Advocates 405-615-0013 (24.7) to learn more or to report an incident. 

Religious Holidays

It is the policy of the University to excuse absences of students that result from religious observances and to provide for the rescheduling of examinations and additional required classwork that may fall on religious holidays without penalty. It is the responsibility of the student to make alternate arrangements with the instructor at least one week prior to the actual date of the religious holiday.

Copyright Policy

It is illegal to download, upload, reproduce, or distribute any copyrighted material, in any form and in any fashion, without permission from the copyright holder or his/her authorized agent.  The University of Oklahoma expects all members of its community to comply fully with federal copyright laws. If such laws appear to have been violated by any user, the university reserves the right (1) to terminate that user’s access to some or all of the university’s computer systems and information resources and (2) to take additional disciplinary actions as deemed necessary or appropriate. Repeat offenders will be sanctioned and their privileges terminated.

Registration and Withdrawal

If you choose to withdraw from this course, you must complete the appropriate University form and turn the form in before the deadline. If you stop attending the course and doing the course work without doing the required paperwork your grade will be calculated with missed homework and examination grades entered as zero. This could result in receiving a grade of F in the course.  Deadlines are shown in the Academic Calendar, which is available from the Office of Admissions and Records or online at http://www.ou.edu/admissions/home/academic_calendar.html

Student Grievances

In addition to any policies outlined related to submitting an informal or formal grievance by your professor in the Course Syllabus in the online classroom, please review the Graduate Student Handbook for more information about the process of submitting a formal grievance.