Adizes Graduate School Online Degree Program

 

Two new AGS on-line classes will begin on September 10th, 2007: Epistemology and Styles & Interests in Personal & Organizational Life.

The Epistemology class will help students in answering the question on how do we really know what we know. This course is about the Nature and Evolution of Knowledge: The course exposes participants to a full range of "ways of knowing" and their implications for organizational life. Both classical and contemporary theories of knowledge and their evolution are explored at the individual, cultural and societal levels. We will trace the roots of the modern Western mind through the rationalist versus empiricist orientations to knowledge, the evolution of science and the rise of post-modernism. This AGS Course will be taught by Bruce LaRue, PhD.

 

The Styles & Interests in Personal & Organizational Life class will addresses various theories about the nature of styles and manifest interests in interpersonal, group and organizational life. The focus is on the appropriateness of particular personal, managerial, and leadership patterns in various settings. The goal is to build and apply models that enlarge the student's understanding of how to work with various styles and interests in a number of functions and processes. Students examine whether personal, managerial and leadership patterns are specific activities clustered together into sets, or whether they are personal styles and manifest interests as traditionally represented in any number of complex technologies. Concepts of style, manifest interest, script, archetype, and individual differences are discussed along with problems of measurement and theory construction. This AGS Course will be taught by Vesna Zendelska Lijakovska, JD

"I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Ranier Maria Rilke

For more information about the AGS courses please contact: degree@adizes.com