As a course, GLS 1100 introduces and immerses students in deep learning and creative challenges – enhancing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills essential to understanding ideas central to the quality of human life, leadership, and society as a whole. The course is intentionally interdisciplinary and will operate around six themes related to leadership: Modernity, Politics of Power, the “Other,” Life Lessons, Western Civilization, and Globalization. This course enables one to understand leadership competencies, theories, and frameworks to further one’s own self-awareness, values, and purpose. Special attention is given to understand the challenges facing global leaders in the twenty-first century.
This is an active learning class. Class meetings combine lecture, discussion, presentation, and field work. The lectures enable the instructor to convey relevant background and context for the course readings, to relate information not available in the readings, and to model styles of research, debate, and presentation. Discussions allow students to actively engage with both readings and lectures, to question or defend the arguments presented, and to share the results of research in connection with class assignments.
The Profiles in Leadership Project features three components:
Past (Historical Figure, Written Research Paper)
Present (Oral Interview, Digital Scholarship)
Future (Student Leadership Profile Poster, Creative Design)
For more visit: About the Project
