ELM 8836 - Complex Organizations in Higher Education

(3 units)

Focuses on designing, establishing and maintaining an effective higher education learning environment. An ecological and systems approach to program development is presented. This course may be offered collaboratively with Organization Theory in the California School of Professional Psychology that reviews classical and contemporary theories of organization and management, inter-organizational theory and environmental influences on organizations. This collaboration allows Candidates to review business and higher educational organizational structures and functions, organizational designs, technology, culture, organizational powder and politics and the environment-organization interface.