Leadership

LEAD 100 – 21 st Century Leadership 3

What is the best way to demonstrate leadership within society? How should we prepare ourselves as future leaders? This course examines the development of political thought on the nature of leadership from Plato to the present. The focus of the course is on the ideas relative to leadership that retain their relevance for today’s society.

 LEAD 200 – Leadership & Change 1

Exploration of leadership in a world of change: understanding paradigm shifts and adjusting to dislocation, conflict, confusion, and uncertainty.

 LEAD 291 – Entrepreneurship/Leadership Seminar 2

A survey course designed to introduce non-business majors to the world of small business management. Includes readings and in-class discussions of: how to write a good business plan; fundamentals of small business management; resource location and financing for a new business; basic accounting procedures; strategic marketing exposed, with an emphasis on interactive learning in a group setting.

 LEAD 296 – Study Tour 1

Tour arranged and graded by the director of the Theodore Roosevelt program, credit awarded on a pass/fail basis. Recent topics include: Lewis and Clark in North Dakota and Water Resources in North Dakota: Understanding Competing Interests.

 LEAD 300 – Global Leadership 1

This course examines a wide variety of contemporary examples of leadership styles with the intent to investigate their long-term application to a more global vision of leadership, for example, through institutions like the United Nations and the World Court.

 LEAD 491 – Honors Theses Research/Scholarly Project 3

This project entails hands-on research where possible. If no opportunity of that nature exists, arrangements will be made for an alternative suitable for both departmental and Theodore Roosevelt Program objectives. LEAD 491 is a writing intensive and capstone course.

 LEAD 494 – Independent Study 1

A project designed and proposed by student, organized by faculty supervisor, approved by the director of the Theodore Roosevelt program, suitable for presentation at an undergraduate conference or poster session.

 LEAD 495 – Service Learning Project 3

90 hours minimum service, not for pay, in a project/activity designed in collaboration with a supervising professor and a leader in some form of service organization, and approved by the director of the Theodore Roosevelt program. To be completed at any time during the course of study; 1-3 credits at a time.

 LEAD 497 – Internship 2

Students will be placed in an off-campus company or agency, which will provide the student with specific activities that will demonstrate the correlation between academic study and leadership experience. This internship is designed to coincide with any internship required within the discipline major.