Extreme Leadership

2 credits · Graduate

This course aims to increase students' awareness of their own strengths and opportunities for improvement while gaining an understanding of the qualities essential to effective leadership. The course cultivates leadership skills via: (i) assessment feedback detailing each student's leadership skills; (ii) in-class experiential exercises that identify effective approaches to leadership and help students gauge their opportunities for improvement; (iii) outdoor experiential exercises in the Andes or Patagonia that put students in extreme real-life conditions that challenge them to demonstrate leadership skills; and (iv) post-analysis that will evaluate students’ leadership skills and their improvement during the out-of-class trips.