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Dec 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Leadership (BS)
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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.
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Major Requirements:
In order to fulfill DLE credit requirements (total 6 credits), students are required to complete 3 credits of approved Discovery Learning Experience(s) with a passing grade or a “P” grade for courses graded Pass/Fail only, in addition to LEAD 490. Expanding Perspectives:
15 credits. Cultural Impacts
Complete one of the following: - Foreign Language Course: Completion of any level course from the following subject areas with minimum grades of D-: ARAB, CHIN, FREN, GREK, GRMN, HEBR, ITAL, JAPN, KORE, LATN, RUSS, SPAN. 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 - GLOBALIZATION AND BUSINESS Credit(s): 3
- HIST 316 - Civic Engagement in America Credit(s): 3
- POSC 333 - Contemporary Political Ideologies Credit(s): 3
- WOMS 240 - Gender and Violence Credit(s): 3
Ethics, Issues and Contemporary Society Course:
One of the following: Expanding Ways of Thinking:
Minimum 9 credits.
Developing Proficiencies:
Engaging Civil Discourse:
9 credits. Your Emergence as an Inspiring Leader:
6 credits. Minimum grade of C- required in LEAD 200 and LEAD 209 . Demonstrating Your Leadership Capacity:
5 credits. Minimum grade of C- required in LEAD 490 and LEAD 495 . Area of Interest: Finding Your Leadership World
Students will complete 9 credits in one of the following areas of interest or complete a minor. Leading Innovation:
9 credits. Leading with Inclusion and Diversity:
9 credits. Leading and Influencing Team Processes:
9 credits. Leading Non-Profit Organizations:
9 credits. Leading Environmental Actions:
9 credits. Individually Designed Leadership Area of Interest:
9 credits. Students choose one course each from any three of the above areas of interest. Electives:
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
Credits to Total a Minimum of 120
Last Revised for 2024-2025 Academic Year
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