Academic Minor and Classes
Overview of Minor
Leadership Studies Minor Description from Catalog
Leadership is a subject of vital importance. It is a topic that cuts across time and place, as well as traditional disciplinary boundaries. As such, leadership is extremely relevant in a broad range of contexts from local and global politics to business, ethics, and education. This minor offers students a conceptual understanding of leadership studies that, when combined with co-curricula and experiential components, provides them with an increased awareness of their role in a world of multi-layered change.
Required Courses:
* LDR 1010 - Leadership and Social Change
* LDR 3010 - Perspectives on Leadership
Subtotal: 6
Electives: (12 credit hours)
I. Leadership Process and Organization
(2 to 9 credit hours)
* HSP 2020 - Small Group Dynamics: Theory and Experience *
* MGT 3000 - Organizational Management
* SPE 3110 - Organizational Leadership *
* HSP 3220 - Conflict Resolution and Decision Making
* PSY 3450 - Organizational Psychology, *
* MGT 4020 - Entrepreneurial Creativity *
* MGT 4530 - Organizational Behavior *
* Courses marked with an asterisk have prerequisites beyond completing Level I or Level II General Studies and does not have the “or permission of instructor” option.
II. Leaders in Context
(3 to 9 credit hours)
* PHI 1030 - Ethics
* PSC 3170 - leadership Studies
* WMS 3170 - Social Justice: Self and Citizenship: A Service Learning Course *
* HIS 3370 - The American Presidency
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* PSC 3130 - The American Presidency
* HIS 3380 - Nixon and the Kennedys
* ANT 3460 - Social Organization and Evolution
* PSC 360A - Women in Power
* SOC 3750 - Social Change *
* PSC 3800 - On Leaders and Leadership
III. Leadership in Multicultural Perspective
(0 to 3 credits)
* AAS 2000 - Social Movements and the Black Experience
* ANT 2330 - Cross-Cultural Communication
* CHS 3100 - The Chicana/o Community
* NAS 3200 - Native American Politics
Internship/Service Learning (3 credit hours)
This three-hour requirement can be fulfilled by either an internship or a service-learning experience offered through any department of the student’s choosing. The internship or service-learning activity must follow the guidelines established by the participating department and must be approved by the director of the Leadership Studies program as well.
Total for Minor: 21 credit hours
This includes participation in leadership projects and workshops.
