Take My Liberty BUSI 502 Class

BUSI 502 treats servant leadership as both a theory and a way of life. The opening reading in Lead Like Jesus Revisited defines leadership as influence and asks whose interests a leader serves.

The Servant Leader then organizes the subject into four domains, the heart, the head, the hands and the habits. Weeks two to four move through those domains, from motives to vision to daily practice.

The middle of the course returns to Lead Like Jesus Revisited for its later chapters, and the final reading turns to Collins, whose research on Level 5 leaders found humility joined to fierce professional will at the top of great companies.

Bible readings run through every week, and every graded paper is expected to draw on Scripture alongside the course books and lectures.

The biblical integration project spans weeks three and four. Each student writes an individual paper first, and the group then combines those contributions into a single longer assessment.

Exams fall in weeks three, five and eight, and the journal, built from weekly questions, is collected at the end.

Liberty's course week opens on Monday in week one and on Saturday after that, so deadlines land on Fridays.

BUSI 502 is planned around the interview, since everything else can move faster than a busy executive's calendar. Interview questions are prepared in the first week so you can request the meeting early.

The forums are written to each prompt and the week's reading, with Scripture used where it supports the argument rather than as decoration. Your group's own instructions decide the length.

Your individual paper for the integration project is written to give the group something distinct to build on. The group paper then needs your share in good time before its week-four deadline.

The research paper is drafted from your interview notes and fifteen or more scholarly sources. It tests your leader against the course's models and reaches a judgment rather than retelling a conversation.

Journal entries are written week by week as the reading is done, then assembled for submission at the end. That keeps them honest to how your thinking changed.

The three exams stay with you, and the forum and paper reading helps with them.

Every item comes as a document you can read, adjust and submit yourself.

BUSI 502 work goes to a writer with graduate training in leadership or organizational studies, often someone who has led teams in business, ministry or the military.

That background matters because the course asks for reflection grounded in practice. Papers written by someone who has carried responsibility for people read differently from summaries of the books.

They know the servant leadership literature beyond the assigned texts, from Greenleaf's original essays to recent empirical studies, which helps the research paper reach its fifteen scholarly sources.

They also write comfortably about Scripture, and they handle biblical integration with care rather than tacking verses onto business points.

A second reader checks each paper for argument, citations and current APA before it reaches you. One writer stays with your course, so the forums, papers and journal sound like the same person.

Only the coordinator knows your name. If a reading is unclear before an exam, a short explanation can be sent.

Several have taught leadership at the graduate level, so their papers meet MBA expectations.

The interview is the first trap. The leader must head a large organization, leaders from Liberty and Thomas Road Baptist Church are not eligible, and students who wait until week five often cannot get a meeting in time.

The research paper is the second. Fifteen scholarly sources in seven to ten pages is a heavy research load for an MBA course, and many students underestimate it.

The integration project is the third, since the individual paper feeds a group paper one week later. A weak individual paper leaves the group without material.

Biblical integration itself is the fourth. Papers that attach verses to leadership claims without explaining the connection earn little.

The journal is the fifth difficulty. It is collected at the end, and students who try to write eight weeks of entries in the last few days produce thin answers.

The third week stacks the solo paper on top of an exam, and the last week pairs the journal with the final exam.

Exams test all three books, so the reading cannot be skipped even when the writing is handed over.

Arranging the course before it opens lets the interview request go out in week one.

Each forum post arrives early in its week. The individual paper arrives before week three closes, and your share of the group paper ahead of your group's own deadline in week four.

Once your notes come in, the long paper is turned around well ahead of the seventh Friday. Journal entries are delivered week by week, ready to compile in week eight.

The research paper is the largest line on the quote, followed by the two integration papers, with the forums and journal smaller.

Students who start late are quoted from the next item due.