Leadership: Navigating for Success

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the core ideas in leadership. Through a discussion of various principles, students will understand their own leadership capabilities and styles. The class will focus on key theoretical as well as practical foundations of leadership, including task and relationship-oriented styles, the role of personality and environment, emotional intelligence, followership, and servant as well as destructive leadership. Through an articulation of cases and current examples, students will understand the myriad factors that influence leadership. This online course includes 2-4 synchronous video conferences, the scheduling of which will be confirmed during the first week of classes, with recordings available for students who are unable to attend. This course will not satisfy requirements toward majors in the School of Liberal Arts or the A.B. Freeman School of Business.