Leadership (BS)

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Please refer to the Four-Year Plan for departmental recommended path towards graduation.

Program Educational Goals:

Effectively Communicate
- Synthesize and communicate, in written, oral and electronic formats, the most significant ideas and results of your work with clarity and precision.
- Communicate thoughtful, constructive feedback to peers regarding the quality of their individual and group contributions, performance, and work products.
Practice Positive Leadership and Followership
- Effectively balance leadership and followership to affect positive group functioning.
- Engage in questions of ethics and recognize the responsibilities of leaders to act responsibly towards themselves, their followers, and the larger community.
- Use creative and critical thinking skills and knowledge of leadership to effectively contribute to a problem-solving team.
- Accommodate individual differences (cultural, socioeconomic, global, etc.) in your decisions and actions.
Engage in Thoughtful Self-Reflection and Self-Assessment
- Critically analyze your leadership and followership performance, referencing leadership theory and practice concepts.
- Effectively and regularly assess and adjust your leadership behaviors to more effectively meet the diverse (including cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic diversity) and changing needs of the communities/people/organizations with whom you’re interacting.
- Develop an original and concise summary of your leadership beliefs.

University Requirements:

ENGL 110 - Seminar in Composition (C- minimum)
First Year Seminar (FYS) (0-4 credits)
Discovery Learning Experience (DLE) (three credits)
Multicultural Requirement (three credits)
University Breadth Requirements (C- minimum):
- Creative Arts and Humanities (three credits)
- History and Cultural Change (three credits)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (three credits)
- Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (three credits)
Capstone Experience

Major Requirements:

In order to fulfill DLE credit requirements (total 6 credits). Students are required to take an additional three-credit DLE course in addition to LEAD 490 listed below.

Expanding Perspectives:

15 credits.

ACCT 352 - Law and Social Issues in Business Credit(s): 3
ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics Credit(s): 3
SOCI 201 - Introduction to Sociology Credit(s): 3

Cultural Impacts

Complete one of the following:

Foreigh Language Course: Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-. Initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination through the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures .
AFRA 320 - History and Significance of Race in America Credit(s): 3
ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Credit(s): 3
BUAD 384 - Global Business Environment Credit(s): 3
HIST 316 - Civic Engagement in America Credit(s): 3
POSC 333 - Contemporary Political Ideologies Credit(s): 3
WOMS 240 - Women and Violence Credit(s): 3