ADSA 7585 Sports Leadership and Ignatian-based Ethics
Sports leadership based on Ignatian ethics helps individuals, teams, and organizations realize high achievement with integrity and compassion. In this course coaches, managers in sport, and student athletes study Ignatian values and how they inform leadership tasks: determining mission, values, and goals; communicating for positive impact; developing and motivating teams; identifying individual and organizational strengths; and in times of constant change, adapting to it and managing organizations through it. Assignments will include a leadership log and a paper and presentation about leaders whom the students identify as role models. Students will also initiate a leadership goal that they will present to the class and then write a paper applying concepts from the course. Students will also practice a range of leadership exercises and discuss current case studies.
Course overview
- Department
- Advancing Studies
- School
- ADV
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Periodically
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.44 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.68 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 10
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 1–3 hrs/week | 25 of 36 |
| Fall 2025 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4–6 hrs/week | 31 of 46 |
| Summer 2025 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 12 of 22 |
| Spring 2025 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4–6 hrs/week | 13 of 20 |
| Fall 2024 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 4–6 hrs/week | 29 of 50 |
| Spring 2024 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4–6 hrs/week | 14 of 21 |
| Fall 2023 | Cathy Utzschneider | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 of 44 |
| Fall 2022 | Cathy Utzchneider | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 1–3 hrs/week | 30 of 43 |
| Spring 2022 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 1–3 hrs/week | 9 of 19 |
| Fall 2021 | Cathy Utzschneider | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4–6 hrs/week | 6 of 22 |