Course Description
Examines leadership in business organizations. It covers how organizational leaders guide, support, influence, and meet the needs of their followers. Topics include developing employees, increasing engagement, leading teams, leveraging diversity, and building and changing corporate cultures. Students will apply the knowledge and skills they learn through service-learning projects.
Athena Title
Organizational Leadership
Non-Traditional Format
Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Student engagement in the service-learning component will be up to 25% of overall instruction time.
Prerequisite
Admission into Leadership Scholars Program or enrollment in the ILA Leadership Certificate Program
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course explores the conception of leadership as an inward and personal journey of service to others. Key leadership concepts are drawn from a variety of sources, including management, philosophy, and psychology literature. Service- learning projects are a major component of this course. Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Student engagement in the service-learning component will be up to 25% of overall instruction time. Students apply concepts of leadership to issues of individual interest in a community-based service-learning context.
Topical Outline
Module 1: The Heart of Leadership Module 2: Creating a Caring Community Module 3: From Leadership to Citizenship
Syllabus