Strategic Leadership, Nonprofit & Community Leadership Concentration, Ph.D.

Nonprofit & Community Leadership

The nonprofit & community leadership concentration includes coursework in civil society and the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizational issues, governance of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy and resource development.

Required Courses

LEAD 700. Introduction to Leadership Studies and Ethics 3.00
LEAD 705. Advanced Research Methods in Leadership Studies 3.00
LEAD 740. Foundations of Postsecondary Education 3.00
LEAD 750. Organizational Theory 3.00
LEAD 760. Proseminar in Principles of Nonprofit Organizations 3.00
LEAD 890. Advanced Leadership Dynamics 3.00
LEAD 891. Externship in Advanced Leadership 3.00
LEAD 900. Doctoral Dissertation 3.00 - 12.00

Assessment Course

Choose one of the following:
LEAD 754. Strategic Leadership Decision Making 3.00 ¹
LEAD 764. Leadership and Accountability for Nonprofit Organizations 3.00 ²
PSYC 770. Assessment and Public Policy 3.00 ³

Statistics and Business Required Courses

Required Statistics and Business Courses ⁴

PSYC 605. Intermediate Inferential Statistics 3.00
PSYC 606. Measurement Theory 3.00
PSYC 608. Multivariate Statistical Methods in Psychology 3.00
MBA 617. Corporate Financial Decision-Making 3.00
MBA 620. Accounting for Decision-Making and Control 3.00
MBA 691. Strategic Management 3.00

Elective Courses

Choose four of the following:
LEAD 710. Advocacy for Change Leadership 3.00
LEAD 711. Effective College Teaching 3.00
LEAD 751. Organizational Behavior and Leadership 3.00
LEAD 752. Organizational Change and Strategic Human Resource Management 3.00
LEAD 761. Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector 3.00
LEAD 762. Organizational Governance 3.00
LEAD 763. Philanthropy and Resource Development 3.00
LEAD 780. Policy Development and Analysis in Postsecondary Education 3.00
LEAD 790. Postsecondary Dynamics 3.00
PSYC 830. Structural Equation Modeling 3.00
PSYC 836. Hierarchical Linear Models 3.00
PSYC 840. Qualitative Research Design and Analysis 3.00

Footnotes

¹ For organizational science and leadership emphasis.

² For nonprofit and community leadership emphasis.

³ For postsecondary analysis and leadership emphasis.

⁴Students may be allowed to activate variable credit regarding these courses with prior approval. All requests for variable credit will be assessed individually by SSLS to ensure that the replacement course meets the academic rigor and content standards of the equivalent course at JMU. Students should speak with their adviser.