Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LEADERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course prepares students for self-selected internships by familiarizing them with essential leadership concepts and keys to success in professional contexts. Approval required by Leadership Rice. Pre-requisite: Leading Edge Workshop. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Description: This course prepares students to exceed expectations and lead in their Summer Mentorship experiences. Students will develop capacities to engage others, execute goals, and make lasting impacts in professional settings. Students will explain their personal leadership capacities and understand what it takes to succeed at the highest levels of professional organizations. Required of and limited to Summer Mentorship Experience Fellows. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: HISTORICAL AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The focus of this course is to construct a historically informed philosophy of leadership that encompasses not just what leadership is but why it is valued, when it is legitimate, what its moral purpose is, and how it both shapes and reflects societal norms. Cross-list: HUMA 312.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP: THEORY TO PRACTICE

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to help students develop a conceptual, practical, and personal understanding of leadership. By reviewing research and case studies, students will learn leadership skills such as building self-knowledge, dealing with ethical challenges, developing networks, and leading change. Students will also explore their own leadership capabilities and potential.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP AND CREATIVITY

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Do creative people become leaders? Does the process of leadership require creativity? We will explore these questions by reviewing research and case studies and by engaging in experiential exercises. Students will also learn about the role of leadership in fostering creativity in groups, organizations, and within their own decision making.

Long Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Entrepreneurial Leadership provides students with a survey of leadership issues and practices in an entrepreneurial business and social context, along with an understanding of fundamental business elements of importance to entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. Through discussions with established entrepreneurial leaders in the Houston community, ongoing readings, group discussions, and special presentations, students experience the challenging interplay between business demands and effective leadership. Delano Brissett is the Founder and CEO of Wynston, an online career and technical education start-up. He was recently named one of 50 under 40 emerging social entrepreneurs by the Social Enterprise Alliance and American Express.

Long Title: RHETORIC OF LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores leadership theories as they relate to persuasive and informative communication strategies deployed by leaders. The class will focus on analyzing speeches, advertisement campaigns, political campaigns, and other leadership-oriented material in order to understand the rhetorical construction of leadership. Cross-list: HUMA 311.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Powerful communication skills are essential for effective leadership, and LEAD 321 equips students to articulate ideas with poise, confidence, and clarity. Students develop written, oral, interpersonal, and team skills while developing an understanding of leadership communication in different contexts, including specific fields of study. The Leadership Communication class gives students the opportunity to practice the types of communication that will be required of them in the workplace and that will be crucial for their success.

Long Title: APPLIED LEADERSHIP: POWER; INFLUENCE, AND PERSUASION

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This leadership skills development course focuses on practical applications in negotiations, consulting, and professional communication with the goal of helping students to motivate and collaborate with divers stakeholders in nonprofit or for profit organizations, Students practice conflict management, change management, and group facilitation. Recommended for Certificate in Civic Leadership.

Long Title: LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course uses a case study approach to understanding leadership issues in higher education and focuses on strategic choice, governance, organizational change, culture and values, leader transitions, and crisis.

Long Title: CRISIS LEADERSHIP

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Change is at the heart of leadership and the most challenging leadership experiences often occur during times of crisis when change is unfolding at a breathtaking pace. Leadership strategies employed during crises can be quite different than times of routine change. In this course we'll explore courses of action, both taken and not taken, by leaders facing extraordinary decisions during major public crises such as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Swine Flu in 1976, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Long Title: ADVANCED LEADERSHIP PRACTICUM

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite(s): LEAD 150

Description: This course prepares teaching assistants to mentor and coach students enrolled in LEAD 150. TA's will develop a deep understanding of current leadership literature, analyze challenges facing young leaders today, develop ways to apply leadership concepts to build skills, and apply strategies for coaching and mentoring. Approval required by Leadership Rice. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: STRATEGIC THINKING FOR COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING

Department: Center for Civic Leadership

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course shows how to solve complex, ill-defined, non-immediate problems. It explains how to combine innovative and critical thinking to: -1- frame the problem, -2- diagnose the problem, -3- identify potential solutions, and -4- choose a solution and implement it. The approach is based on cases, each student will work on a project of their choosing. The course is equally applicable to academic and non-academic projects (such as consulting) in an industry; as such, it is open to students from all schools and departments. It is a part of a larger professional development initiative at Rice to equip students with skills that employers are specifically asking for. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ENGI 545.