I. Course Title: Demystifying Leadership
II. Course Number: POSC 410
III. Credit Hours: 3 credits
IV. Prerequisites: None
V. Course Description:
Interdisciplinary course focusing on leadership perspectives, strategies, and competencies that enable students to practice leadership, exercise authority, and manage change in different professional, community, and personal contexts. It is the capstone course in the Leadership minor.
Note(s): Applied Learning designated course.
VI. Detailed Description of Content of the Course:
POSC 410 is the capstone for the new Leadership minor. The Minor in Leadership is an interdisciplinary minor meant to complement any major on campus by introducing leadership perspectives, strategies, and competencies to enable students to exercise leadership in their roles as professionals and active citizens. In this course, participants will learn to engage the complex challenges of leading, exercising authority, and managing change in their workplaces, professions, communities, the nation, and the world.
VI. Detailed Description of Conduct of Course:
This senior seminar includes independent research on leadership topics, advanced case studies and in-class exercises on leadership challenges, cultivation of the personal disciplines of an effective leader, development and presentation of the leadership e-Portfolio, and actual or simulated leadership problem-solving exercise. Specific topics of seminars change each semester in accordance with the interests of instructors and needs of the topical issues relating to leadership issues and challenges in the public domain.
VII. Goals and Objectives of the Course:
Students will be able to: evaluate leaders in different spheres according to prominent theories of leadership, understand their own strengths and improvement areas as leaders, analyze leadership dilemmas from an ethical perspective, and problem solve a real or simulated leadership challenge.
VIII. Assessment Measures:
The assessment of student learning outcomes may be based on one or more writing assignments, service-learning projects, experiential learning exercises, and/or e-Portfolio presentation, in which students will reflect upon their course-by-course and experience-by-experience development as leaders while at Radford University.
Other Course Information: The new Leadership Minor will be overseen by the Director of Leadership minor, and housed in the Department of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences.
Review and Approval
April 15, 2016
March 01, 2021