Leadership Skills

(4 Credits)

Leadership Principles is a four part course that explores basic leadership principles and their application in personal leadership development as well as organizational and community change. This course fuses the scholarship and teachings of social scientists, leadership practitioners and community leaders and explores how these principles translate into daily practices and can improve our relationship to ourselves and our environment. In part one, we explore how to recognize our personal leadership values and improve awareness of our default behaviors. In part two, we review popular leadership styles and learn how to recognize them. In part three, we combine what we learned in part one and two to examine how a community can be built and sustained through the conscious application of leadership principles. In part four, we learn how we can effectively lead ourselves and others. Students learn to explore our personal leadership styles and values, to deepen self awareness of ourselves and others in our community, how to apply basic leadership principles to our daily lives, and to identify leadership styles in ourselves and others.