Course Listings

Leadership Minor: A total of 24 hours, including 15 hours at the 300- or 400-level, are required.

Required Courses:
LED 100 LEADING EFFECTIVELY   (3)
A survey of leadership theory including understanding important concepts of organizational culture, change, critical evaluation, and specific leadership skills necessary for building excellence.  Critical topics such as motivation, diversity, effective communication, empowerment, and servant leadership will be covered.  Each student will complete an intensive service learning experience and will identify and develop a relationship with personal leader mentors. 
Core values: Excellence and Diversity Spring

  (Replaces IDS 321- Alternatives to Leadership)

LED 200 CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION   (3)
An intensive study of the philosophical and social psychological principles that build vision, mission and effective teams.  Students will explore their personal characteristics that support leadership, learn conflict mediation/resolution, and social psychology of group behavior.  Each student will complete a service learning component focused on building unity and community improvement and model this learning to a community/campus group. 
Core value: Community Each Spring

LED 300 VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP   (3)
An exploration of the nature and meaning of ethical values and the human experience of moral development, critical thinking and decision-making for leaders. Students will explore case-studies in value based leadership, their personal path of moral and ethical development, critically evaluate it in a world of competing values and explore their beliefs in light of respect for others.  Core values: Respect for All People, Simplicity, and Integrity Each Fall

LED 366 LEADERSHIP INTERNSHIP (3)                                                                                Fall/Spring

LED 400 LEADING TOWARD THE COMMON GOOD (3)
An exploration of leadership in the global community, challenges, barriers and the meaning of speaking truth to power.  Students will incorporate international education, service learning, and internship experiences investigating the structures and strategies that affect leadership toward a goal of public/global good.  Students will research successful leadership models that are change agents in building social justice and peace in our global society. 
Core values: Peace and Social Justice   Each Fall

To complete the Leadership Minor, a student must take six additional hours from the following.

AGRICULTURE
AGR 219            World Food (3)

EDUCATION
EDU 405            Professional Issues and Urban Experience (2)

HISTORY
HIS 317             Case Studies in Non-Violence (3)
HIS 320             Race, Gender and Ethnicity in American History (3)

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
R&P 345         Nonviolence and Social Change (3)
R&P 152/352  International Quaker Ministry and Witness (3)

HPE/AT
HPE 335         Moral and Ethical Reasoning in Sport (3)

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
MGT 325        Entrepreneurship (3)
ECO 411         Economic Growth, the Environment, Equality and Sustainable Development (3)

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
ENV 4XX            Environmental Resource Management and Conservation    (4)

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES
SOC 410         Seminar in Social Justice (3)
SOC 328         Society and Business (3)

SPANISH
SPN 380         The Culture of Latin America (3)

OTHER SPECIAL TOPICS OR INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSES WILL BE CONSIDERED AS ELECTIVES THAT MEET LEADERSHIP CORE VALUES