16 Short courses offered by the university

Leadership and management are defined as distinct and interrelating concepts. Excelsia College offers a Effective Leadership and Management course.

This Christian Leadership course at Excelsia College develops the individual’s leadership skills grounded in Christian values with particular attention to the distinctive features of Christian leadership, such as servant-hearted motivation and pastoral concern in team and client relations.

Our nation has an Australian Curriculum and the core principles of our Curriculum Leadership for Rigour and Relevance curriculum at Excelsia College are based on the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (2008). 

Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at Excelsia College is the study of how people as individuals and in aggregate determine the character, dynamic and effectiveness of an organisation. This unit is designed to provide students with an in-depth introduction to the broad range of theory, research, and practice in organisational behaviour.

In some ways, the term ‘business ethics’ is an inadequate concept for an interdisciplinary field covering a vast range of normative issues in commerce, governance, leadership and management at Excelsia College's Professional Ethics course. 

Creativity and Innovation are core skills for 21st century entrepreneurial leaders as they create opportunities to shape school cultures, strategic planning and curriculum innovation. Excelsia College offers a Creativity and Innovation for Leadership course.

This Assessment and Reporting course at Excelsia College examines the nature, purposes, scope and strategies of assessment and reporting. Modes of assessing and reporting are presented and evaluated with respect to their coherence with a student-centred philosophy of teaching and learning.

According to current data, each year approximately one in every five Australians will experience a mental illness, with mental illnesses the third leading cause of disability burden in Australia. Excelsia College offers a course in Approaches to Mental Health.

Research and data are dynamic tools for improving schools and student outcomes at the Leading Data-Based Change Management course at Excelsia College.

Counsellors are in a unique, influential and privileged position in the lives of their clients who are often vulnerable and unprotected. Excelsia College offers a Ethical Issues and Practice course.

This Teaching Students with Diverse Abilities course at Excelsia College provides a basic understanding of the current philosophies and practices relevant to including and serving prior to school and school students with diverse abilities within the regular classroom.

Theories of organisational learning address the processes which lead to (or prevent) changes in organisational knowledge, as well as the effects of learning and knowledge on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the Excelsia College. 

Pedagogy is a popular and misunderstood term in education. In this Leading Classroom Pedagogies - Instruction and Inquiry for Engagement unit at Excelsia College educators are given the opportunity to evaluate pedagogical practices and their own personal pedagogies in the context of the Australian curriculum and its mandated pedagogical requirements.

Schools are hubs of learning where all participants continue to grow and learn. This Leading Professional Learning Communities unit at Excelsia College explores the construct of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) and Lave & Wenger’s classic theory of communities. 

Counselling Theories and Models at the Excelsia College is shaped by understandings of human nature and functioning that may be idiosyncratic, partial and ad hoc; or shared, more-or-less comprehensive, and rigorous. 

Business activity is inextricably linked to the contexts in which it operates – political, legal, social, cultural, technological, and environmental– and, implicitly, the long-term viability or sustainability of those contexts ar Excelsia College's Organisational Learning and Change course.