5 courses with the subject LEAD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LEAD 1000Leadership for the Common Good4
Goals: To understand the myths surrounding, best practices for, and personal approaches to leadership. To understand the effect an individual can have on society. Content: This 1000-level course introduces leadership using a personal leadership perspective and framework. Students taking this course will have the opportunity to examine their own views on leadership; mythologies of leadership; the impact of identity and difference on leadership expression; the differences between personal and positional leadership; and begin to explore concepts and skills relating to effective leadership and positive change for the common good. Taught: Fall and spring
Goals: To become effective at collaboration and learn best practices for leading with limited authority. To understand personal leadership strategies for supporting effective and functional groups and teams. Content: In this collaborative course, students will learn the best practices for exercising leadership on groups and teams while possessing little to no formal authority. Today’s fluid workplaces require that leaders demonstrate an ability to work both independently and collaboratively, across silos. In this hands-on course, students will explore the theoretical foundations of collaborative and adaptive leadership while applying that knowledge to impactful group and team projects. Taught: Spring
Goals: To understand, through a critical lens, the history of the field of leadership and how decolonizing and antiracist approaches can be applied to modern practices of leadership. To explore foundational leadership theories in order to craft one’s own theory of exercising effective, ethical leadership. Content: This writing intensive course will provide students with a solid theoretical foundation for both applied leadership and leadership studies in the future. It explores the central questions: What is leadership? Who determines what is good leadership? How do we influence the trajectory of leadership practices? What is my own philosophy of leadership?
Goals: To learn how to develop and empower others to become leaders. To practice bridging leadership practice with leadership theory in community-based settings. Content: This course serves as the capstone course for the Organizational Leadership major within the Online Degree Completion program. The best leaders develop and empower those around them. Students in this course will study and practice leadership pedagogies, the role of the follower-leader, and research surrounding leadership education. In order to bridge theory with practice, this course has a field experience component where students will practice teaching leadership/ developing others in a setting of their choice.
