Leadership Studies
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.
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.
Minor Requirements — 18 Credits
Core Leadership Courses — 9 credits
Ethics Foundation — 3 credits
Choose one of the following:
Global & Cross Cultural Foundation — 3 credits
Choose one of the following:
| ANT 313 | Anthropology of Globalization | 3 |
| ANT 331 | Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems | 3 |
| BAMG 350 | Management and Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BAMG 454 | Leadership in Organizations | 3 |
| COMM 223 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| ECON 335 | Environmental and Resource Economics | 3 |
| ECON 344 | International Economics | 3 |
| EDF 370 | Social Foundations of Education | 3 |
| ENST 315 | Nature & Society | 3 |
| ENST 331 | Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems | 3 |
| GEOG 310 | Urban and Regional Planning | 3 |
| GEOG 320 | Population Geography | 3 |
| GNDR 285 | Gender in the Contemporary Global OrderLAB3LAIS | 3 |
| LEAD 250 | Leadership in a Global Context: Glocal Living | 3 |
| LEAD 364 | Leadership and Community Building | 3 |
| LEAD 495 | Special Topics in Leadership | 3 |
| MCS 101 | Multiculturalism in the United States: Concepts and Issues | 3 |
| MIND 182 | Confluence of CulturesLAA2LAMS | 3 |
| MIND 286 | Value Issues in Political EconomyLAB1 | 3 |
| MIND 289 | Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century | 3 |
| PSCI 110 | Global IssuesLAB1LAIS | 3 |
| PSCI 323 | Politics of Religion | 3 |
| PSCI 326 | International Political Economy | 3 |
| SOC 235 | Social Change in a Global Context | 3 |
Leadership Elective — 3 credits
Choose one of the following:
| ART 428 | Museum Leadership | 3 |
| BAMG 350 | Management and Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BAMG 353 | Human Resources Management | 3 |
| BAMG 355 | Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| BAMG 454 | Leadership in Organizations | 3 |
| COMM 431 | Communication and Leadership | 3 |
| ENST 364 | Leadership and Community Building | 3 |
| HESA 311 | Leadership for Higher Education and Student Affairs Groups and Organizations | 3 |
| HESA 355 | Leadership for Social Change in Higher Education and Student Affairs | 3 |
| LEAD 492 | Leadership Internship | 3 |
| SES 450 | Sport Leadership and Ethics | 3 |