Along with the accompanying foundational residency course GBLD505, this course critically explores the key concepts of global leadership through personal, collective, and theoretical lenses. This includes learning about one’s own cultural ‘lenses’, mental models and the historical structural inequalities, and coming to a broader understanding and integration of approaches to working in a global context. Participants will explore and describe their personal and collective values and goals, establish personal and collective learning plans, and prepare life and self for residency. During this course, a strong emphasis will be placed on building a supportive learning community, thus creating a strong foundation for the program.
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HEAL501: Higher Education Leadership in Times of Change
Focuses on leaders’ capacity to influence change. Examines new and emerging models of leadership and considers their implications for the design and organization of post-secondary educational environments. Introduces systems, leadership and change theories. Considers how to inspire and lead innovation to foster student learning and institution-wide success.
HEAL502: Settler Decolonization
Learn about Canada’s history of colonization and the theoretical background of coloniality. Explore the idea of self-location and determine how you are personally situated within the ongoing colonial project. Establish goals for moving forward with your decolonizing learning journey. Focus is decolonizing the self.
HEAL590: Decolonizing Educational Systems
Differentiate the concepts of Indigenous resurgence, Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation. Explore processes in educational systems that contribute to decolonizing outcomes, including embodied learning, land-based learning, Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous pedagogies, research as ceremony, and community-embedded learning. Focus is decolonizing in the system.
HEAL595: Decolonizing Educational Relationships
Explore what it means to enact pluriversal relationships in educational systems. Deconstruct hierarchal, binary, and authoritative assumptions about relationship in educational systems. Develop a communitarian orientation to educational relationships, focused on trust, generosity, and centering multiple perspectives. Focus is on decolonizing relationships within the system.
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IHMN505: Trends and Issues in Hospitality Management
Examines community, corporate and social responsibility as it pertains to hotel and resort management. The impact of accommodation on destinations, their competitive position, and the manager’s responsibility for sustainable business development will be examined domestically and internationally.
IHMN520: Financial Analysis and Decision Making
Financial management is essential to any successful business. The theory and practice of financial management tools and analysis are examined, including capital budgeting, investment analysis, financing, firm valuation, risk and return, and financial decision making in relation to hotels, resorts or other specialty aspects of the international hospitality industry.
INDS500: Theory in Interdisciplinary Studies
Guides students in exploration of dominant theoretical paradigms currently used in applied social science studies. Draws from theories used in anthropology, communication studies, education, environmental studies, gender studies, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. Places special emphasis on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and on theories guiding applied research.
INDS505: Academic Writing and Critical Thinking Across Disciplines
Introduces communication strategies designed to enhance clear and effective written discourse at the graduate level across disciplines. Examines the basic principles of successful scholarly writing, including those specific to the students’ own disciplines, and the critical analysis of academic research and discourse. Students will write a critical literature review through a series of research and writing assignments in an interactive online environment.
INDS510: Social Science Research Methods
Introduces students to qualitative and quantitative research methods commonly used in the social sciences. Emphasizes applied research projects designed from interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary or transdisciplinary perspectives. Covers basic research process, research topics and questions, research design, accessing and evaluating research, common methodologies, data collection, ethics, and analysis interpretation and communication of research results.