Leadership Studies

Applied Leadership Certificate

The Applied Leadership Certificate is a series of courses designed to educate, motivate, and equip students to confront the challenges of leadership in a complex, connected, and diverse world. This certificate will complement any degree program or stand alone as a meaningful contextual experience for most career fields. While the certificate has a minimum requirement of 12 credits, students who wish to develop their leadership skills further are encouraged to take additional courses from this series.

Students will learn to…

• Describe and explain various approaches and cultural perspectives of differing leadership styles, theories, and models of leadership and followership. 
• Communicate and utilize models of effective leadership in multiple settings (small teams, community groups, organizations) 
• Demonstrate the ethical use of power, including the role of justice, in leadership contexts.
• Develop a personal leadership toolkit with integrated lived experiences.

Coursework includes

• LEAD100 Fundamentals of Leadership
• LEADD200 Applications of Leadership
• One leadership elective from a variety of disciplines
• Leadership Capstone:
  • LEAD492 Leadership Internship or
  • LEAD497 Senior Leadership Seminar