Courses

Course progression: LEAD 1961, LEAD 3961, LEAD 3971, LEAD 4961W, and one elective course. Some courses fulfill writing intensive and global perspectives liberal education requirements. read below for more information.

Personal Leadership in the University

LEAD 1961W*
3-credits

In this course, students examine their own views of leadership, explore the differences between personal and positional leadership, examine leadership ethics and values, and analyze their own leadership strengths and skills. This course is open to any undergraduate student. Learn about reserved sections for specific student groups or see all of our Fall 2025 class times.

*meets writing-intensive and civic life & ethics liberal education requirements

Leadership, You, and Your Community

LEAD 3961
3-credits

After completing LEAD 1961W, students can enroll in LEAD 3961. In this second course, students engage with two key questions. How do leaders build and nurture communities? How do I want to lead in my communities? Students explore relational leadership theory and critically reflect on concepts that can disrupt systemic power imbalances and are integral to leading in community. Students practice utilizing the tools of group facilitation and Liberatory Design for leading in community, and will continue to develop their leader identity in the context of their existing communities and the communities they hope to build in the world.

Leadership Minor: Field Experience

LEAD 3971
3-credits

After completing LEAD 3961, students can enroll in LEAD 3971. In this third, project-based course, students have the opportunity to apply the theories and concepts learned in previous courses while working with a mission-based community organization. This course focuses on key concepts of adaptive leadership and issues identified by the local community. Students will explore self and organizational dynamics through their field project, including personality, values, beliefs about success, failure, and authority, and issues of equity and purpose. They will practice Observation, Interpretation, and Intervention in an organizational setting. Students officially declare the Leadership Minor during this course.

Leadership for Global Citizenship

LEAD 4961W*
3-credits

After completing LEAD 3971, students can enroll in LEAD 4961W. This fourth course is taken after the field experience course in the final year before graduation. In this upper-division writing-intensive, capstone course, students pull together the threads of leadership theory and practice they have been working with throughout the Leadership Minor and apply it to intercultural systems thinking in a global and local context. In addition, students gain experience working with diverse leaders from around the world, mapping systems. and planning their own global leadership path within their specific field.

*meets writing-intensive and global perspectives liberal education requirements

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