Program Overview
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Mission:
To educate, motivate, and equip students to confront the challenges of leadership in a complex, connected and diverse world.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for Leadership Studies Program, students will:
- Develop critical and strategic ways of understanding complex human systems, including effective ways to turn analysis into planning and subsequent action.
- Recognize, understand, and adapt to emotional information in ways that maximize team-building, empathy, perspective-taking, and collaboration.
- Develop and practice a repertoire of decision-making skills, making optimal decisions based upon the unique social, economic, and cultural factors that characterize the situation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of both normative and applied ethics, including the role of justice in diverse context.
The Leadership Studies Minor will complement an academic major at UNC and will serve as a meaningful contextual experience for most career fields.
For advising information, please contact the Coordinator for Leadership Studies: leadership.studies@unco.edu or 970-351-3395.