LDR702 Cultural Exegesis
Culture is in constant flux. Wherever people live and work around each other or engage in shared space, or common cause, cultural patterns emerge to facilitate workable relationships and maintain equilibrium. And as a culture changes, effective leadership is required to understand the cultural environment, identify the issues, and move people toward interventions that are fit to the cultural realities. This course is designed to help students investigate the dynamics of a culture, track its historical development, its current dynamics, and its trajectory forward, so that they can understand the challenges and what it will take to create effective interventions.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Identify the various cultures and specific elements of these cultures that shape the environment in which a challenge lies.
- Compare these cultural elements with those from other very different cultures, examining the substructures under the variants to find where the variants converge, exposing the raw humanity beneath the cultures.
- Evaluate at what level of significance various observed cultural characteristics will affect the viability of a given intervention.
- Map the impact of the cultures on the organization and on any interventions to be applied.
- Develop a comprehensive cultural analysis of the setting within which the challenge lies sufficient to understand the roots of the issue and the particulars of how that issue sits in a particular cultural setting.