Leadership Minor
At its very core, leadership focuses on effective communication, self-awareness and a clear understanding of your goals or your organization’s goals.
Leadership is something that everyone talks about. Employers want to hire leaders. The ambitious want to be leaders. First-time employees want to learn from leaders. But, what does leadership truly mean? One who has compassion? Business acumen? Wisdom? Vision? Are you a Nicki Minaj or LeBron James? A Jane Goodall or Steve Jobs?
体育买球官网 University takes an interdisciplinary approach that allows you to learn and examine the qualities of leadership and gain the skills you will need to position yourself for future professional and academic opportunities. You will take classes in philosophy, psychology, management and more to help you learn how to thrive in a collaborative team environment.
You will learn about different leadership styles and how to cultivate your own style that you will finesse as you journey along your career path. Your professors will help guide you as you serve in at least one campus leadership position during your four years at 体育买球官网, which is a requirement of the leadership minor. Join the Student Government Association, or work as a resident assistant, a captain or co-captain of a sports team or an ROTC candidate. Regardless of what you choose, this experience that will challenge and provide you with lessons to last a lifetime.
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LSHP-200 SUConnects Mentor Training Seminar. Open to students accepted into the SUConnects Mentor program, this course prepares students to for their role as mentors for first-year students. Students will explore issues facing students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. They will focus on recognizing, exploring, and strengthening their leadership skills. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the SUConnects Mentor program and/or consent of instructor. 2 SH.
Open to students who are currently in a leadership position, the practicum includes both formal professional training and written reflection. May be repeated for up to four credit hours total in conjunction with different leadership roles. Requires approval of the Leadership Minor Director. S/U grade. Credits may apply to any of the four leadership minor areas. Prerequisite: Completion of 12 SH at 体育买球官网 University. 1-2 SH.
The leadership seminar is the culminating course in the leadership minor. Students will explore the challenges faced by leaders both today and in the future. They will examine the qualities needed to serve as ethically trustworthy and competent leaders in a wide variety of venues, such as business, government, community, non-profit sector, and so on. Students will also have the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences of leadership during their tenure at SU. Prerequisites: Completion of at least 12 semester hours for the leadership minor. 2 SH.
When you enroll at 体育买球官网, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from thecomplete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor and consult with their advisor(s).
The leadership minor is designed to focus attention in a concentrated way on a key goal of a 体育买球官网 education: preparing students for a lifetime of leadership in a diverse and changing world. The minor allows students to explore the challenges faced by leaders, both today and in the future.
While pursuing the minor, students will examine the qualities needed to serve as ethically trustworthy and competent leaders in a wide variety of venues, such as business, government, community, and the non-profit sector. To complete the minor, students are required to serve in at least one leadership position on campus (e.g. as a resident assistant, a member of the Student Government Association, president of a club, officer of a sorority/fraternity, captain of a sports team, participant in ROTC, etc.).
Minor in Leadership
Students minoring in leadership complete 20 semester hours with grades of C- or higher, including LSHP-502 Leadership Seminar and at least one course from each of the areas listed below. Minors are also encouraged to complete a Leadership practicum with a grade of S as part of their 20 hours. While LSHP-502 is required for the minor, the other LSHP courses (100, 200, 500) can be used to count toward any of the three areas.
Double-counting restriction for interdisciplinary minors
Only 4 semester hours of this minor may be double-counted toward the student’s major.
4 Ethics
- CHEM-303 Scientific Ethics, Blunders, and Fraud
- COMM-201 Ethics and Leadership
- PHIL-122 Resolving Moral Conflicts
- PHIL-125 Justice
- PHIL-150 Race, Class and Ethics
- PHIL-255 Plato’s Republic/HBO’s The Wire
- RELI-104 Ethics in Biblical Stories
- RELI-107 Faiths and Values
- RELI-315 Being Awesome at Life
- RELI-318 Confucian Ethics
4 Personal Interactions and Group Dynamics
- ANTH-162 Intro to Anthropology
- ANTH-152 Public Culture
- COMM-191 Interpersonal Communication
- COMM-192 Public Speaking
- COMM-194 Intercultural Communication
- COMM-391 Team Communications
- ENGL-385 Making Democracy Work
- MGMT-468 Women in Organizations
- PSYC-101 Principles of Psychology
- PSYC-230 Social Psychology
- PSYC-245 Personality
- PSYC-350 Psychology, Culture, and Ethnicity
- RELI-316 Doaism, Zen and Authenticity
- SOCI-101 Principles of Sociology
- SOCI-102 Social Problems
- WGST-100 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
4 Issues in Leadership
- BSAN-174 Data Collection and Modeling
- BSAN-233 Data-Driven Decision Making
- EENV-242 Climate and Global Change
- ENST-301 Current Topics in Environmental Studies
- ECON-315Managerial Economics
- ENGL-299 Professional and Civic Writing: Practice and Theory
- MGMT-240 Principles of Management
- MGMT-290Non-Profit Management
- MGMT-360 Management and Organizational Behavior
- MUSC-369Beginning Conducting
- MUSC-371Instrumental Conducting
- MUSC-372Choral Conducting
- MUSC-275Intro to Arts Leadership
- POLI-131 International Relations
- POLI-212 Introduction to Public Policy
- POLI-310 Public Opinion and Political Psychology
- POLI-316 The American Presidency
- POLI-321 European Union
- POLI-351 Public Administration
- ROTC-102 Introduction to Leadership
- ROTC-401 Leadership Challenges and Goal Setting
- THEA-340 Stage Management and Theatre Operations
- THEA-451 Directing
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