Topics in Advanced Leadership

Catalog description

This course explores the roots of leadership, which stem from various disciplines, including history, philosophy, sociology, communication, psychology, and management. The course aims to extend basic leadership theory to application applying it to a particular topic, including but not limited to community engagement, ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion, digital transformation, employee experience, reskilling, the changing workplace, and non-positional leadership. In this class, students will nurture leadership skills and develop language and tools that facilitate strategic planning and decision-making to enact social change. Students may repeat courses for credit under a different topic title, such as Community Engagement and Leadership or Ethical and Inclusive Leadership. This course is one of the possible electives for the SLAM minor.