Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LEADERSHIP: THEORY TO PRACTICE

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LEAD 309 offers an opportunity to understand and grow the capacities associated with leadership. The class combines theory and practice with added emphasis on learning how to build and sustain a powerful team. This course is required for a Leadership Rice mentorship or the Leadership Certificate.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE SEMINAR

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Prerequisite(s): UNIV 309 OR LEAD 309

Description: This series of special topic seminars explores leadership development in more depth. Students should come away with a better sense of how to impact their communities and construct a more authentic life. Open to students accepted into or interested in the Leadership Certificate Program. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CREATIVITY SEMINAR

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: The purpose of this seminar is to deepen understanding of the creative process and explore ways in which individuals can mine their creative capacity. In addition to minor weekly assignments, participants will design a creative major project that grows, develops, and explores one's own creative interests.

Long Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 2

Description: An entrepreneur is a person who perceives an opportunity and creates an organization to pursue it. This course is about attitudes, attributes, and skills that contribute to successful entrepreneurship, both in the profit and non-profit realms. Students must have some professional work experience to participate.

Long Title: RHETORIC OF LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the ethical implications of leadership and includes: a presentation of main approaches to ethics; class discussion of the ethical dimensions of the concept "leader"; and a series of case studies.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Leadership Communication provides an introduction to leadership communication with an emphasis on the core communication capabilities needed to be an effective leader. The course will provide instruction and practice in written and spoken individual and team communication and allow students the opportunity to develop the important interpersonal skills they need to communicate in diverse professional contexts and across different cultures. This course is designed for upper level students and satisfies the prerequisite for the Leadership Rice mentorship.

Long Title: THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF LEADERSHIP: ELITES AND SOCIETY

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the rise, reign, and fall of leading groups in human societies (the powerful, the influential, the celebrated, the stars) with emphasis on the contemporary United States. Particular themes to be addressed include power, wealth, fame, and satus as well as leadership failures, moral dilemmas, and issues of accuntability. Cross-list: SOCI 375.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP PRACTICUM

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Prerequisite(s): UNIV 309 OR LEAD 309

Description: LEAD 409 is required for students serving as teaching assistants for LEAD 309 during the fall. Practical leadership skills are developed in the classroom and in practice while serving as facilitators for team building and team projects in LEAD 309. Repeatable for Credit.