The MA in Servant Leadership seeks to meet the needs of adult learners. All students will participate in the core courses described above, and while some student's program may include mostly elective course work taken through Viterbo University, other students may choose to construct a program consisting largely of contracts for individualized work or a mixture of elective courses and contracts. Contracts are composed in close coordination with the student's adviser.

As a culmination of their program, students will complete an extended literature review on a specific topic in the field of servant leadership. Themes from the literature and recommendations for implementation will be presented in a formal written paper and in an oral presentation to a seminar of their peers. Prerequisite: 501, 504.

This course is aimed at providing a framework to help participants make the moral decisions that they face as servant leaders to promote the common good. This course will emphasize traditional ethical principles, contemporary ethical theory, and social teaching. Application will be made to leadership theory and practice and how these principles shape the common good, especially in our institutions and communities. Co-offered with SVLD 504.

Every servant leader is a teacher and every teacher is a servant leader. This course will be both theoretical and practical. This is an exploration and experience of servant leadership as a skill which can be taught and learned in a variety of settings. Foundations will be built, curriculum will be developed, presented, and practiced. Every organization needs to be teaching leadership and service. The mere act of teaching means that one wishes the world well.

This course is a study of the "whys" and "hows" of community building. We will begin with looking at the conceptual basis for community and then proceed to the practical skills involved with developing and maintaining an organization.

Rituals and celebrations form our core identities as we live and work within community. Servant-Leaders are asked to lead people in appropriate reflection, rituals and celebrations within each community they serve. This course will explore meditation, prayer, and a discipline of self-reflection as well as help participants create and facilitate rituals that celebrate important moments in community and practice leading others in those celebrations.

The challenges communities and organizations face often reflect, refract, and interact with a range of global forces at work in the world today. In order to evaluate the prospects and ambiguities of servant-led social change in the twenty-first century, this course will analyze how the very real and often contentious political, economic, and cultural processes of globalization affect the diverse local contexts in which participants currently serve.

The prophet is called and calls others to read the signs of the times. Prophetic Leadership is genuinely involved in the social, economic, and political realities of the communities they serve. This course will examine prophetic voices throughout history. Participants will discern and discover their won prophetic voice in leadership and the courage of their own conviction.

Robert Greenleaf understood that the primary task of a Servant Leader is to build an effective, ethical organizational culture and that the means to do this was through the intentional surrender of coercive power and the cultivation of trusting relationships. This course will examine seminal writings on the nature of power and trust spanning two thousand years, beginning with historical and philosophical writings by figures like Thucydides and Plato and ending with contemporary empirical studies in sociology and psychology.