Leadership Minor
Description
All undergraduate students are eligible for the Leadership minor, and many find it is a perfect compliment with any undergraduate major. This makes “Leadership" the largest minor on campus, by far! Students develop key leadership skills and competencies while giving themselves a competitive advantage as they seek internships, employment and post-graduate study.
Although the minor requires 18 credits, students are able to use core courses and major requirements to count for 12 of these.
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Requirements for the Leadership Minor (18 credits)
Requirements
- First LEAD 2000 Introduction to Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession, and Your Community (3 credits) OR PYC 2620 Introduction to Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession and Your Community (3 credits)
- Then one course from approved list in each area below:
- Individual Leadership Skills (3 credits)
- Group Skills (3 credits)
- Organizational Management and Human Relations Skills (3 credits)
- Community Engagement Skills (3 credits)
- Final LEAD 4000 Leadership Capstone (3 credits) OR PYC 4620 Leadership Capstone (3 credits)
- Three of the six courses used for the minor must be at 3000 or above.
1. Individual Leadership Skills
- Self-awareness
- Character and integrity
- Ethics and values
- ENGR 1000 Engineering Ethics (2 credits)
- ETH 3580* Health Care Ethics (3 credits)
- PHL 2010* Foundations of Ethics (3 credits)
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
2. Group Skills
- Communication
- Team building
- Developing relationships
- CIVE 4820 Civil Engineering Senior Design Project (3 credits)
- CSSE 4951 Senior Design Project I (3 credits)
- ELEE 4011 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I (2 credits) AND ELEE 4012 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I Laboratory (1 credit)
- ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (3 credits)
- MENG 4950 Prototype Design II (3 credits)
- PAS 1010 Introduction to the Physician Assistant Profession (2 credits) AND PYC 2500 Developmental Psychology (3 credits)
- PYC 2600* Social Psychology (3 credits)
- PYC 2650 Psychology of Environment (3 credits)
- PYC 4400* Cross-Cultural Socialization (3 credits)
- PYC 4890 Group Dynamics (3 credits)
- SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
*Courses that may satisfy University Core Curriculum objectives
3. Organizational Management and Human Relations Skills
- Organizational management
- Project management
- Human relations
- Public relations
- ARCH 3010 Professional Experience I (2 credits)
- ARCH 3020 Professional Experience II (2 credits)
- ARCH 3030 Professional Experience III (2 credits)
- BUS 3110 Organizational Design and Structure (3 credits)
- BUS 3180 Leadership and Teams with Diverse Peoples (3 credits)
- CIVE 4850 Project Management and Costing (3 credits)
- CJS 2500 Introduction to Police Administration (3 credits)
- CSSE 4570 Software Project Management (3 credits)
- CST 2400 Principles of Public Relations (3 credits)
- DHY 8200 Concepts in Professionalism (3 credits)
- ENGR 1080 Fundamentals of Engineering Design (2 credits)
- ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
- HIM 4600 Global Leadership and Strategic Planning for Health Professionals (3 credits)
- HSA 3010 Overview of the U.S. Health Care System (3 credits)
- HSA 3200 Health Services Planning and Marketing (3 credits)
- HSA 3585 Health Services Organization Management (3 credits)
- HUS 4410 Multicultural Understanding (3 credits)
- NUR 4650 Nursing Leadership Immersion (3 credits)
- PYC 3700* Industrial and Organizational Psychology (3 credits)
- PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization (3 credits)
- SCIE 2300 Pre-Healthcare and Science Career Portfolio (1 credit)
- SWK 3200 Human Behavior: Multicultural Environment I (3 credits)
*Courses that may satisfy University Core Curriculum objectives
4. Community Engagement Skills
- Social change
- Social justice
- Partnerships for the common good
- Mission and vision in broad context
- AAS 2000 Critical Perspectives in African-American Studies (3 credits)
- AAS 3100 Science, Technology and Race (3 credits)
- ARCH 3100 Public Interest Design Studio (5 credits)
- BIO 4990 Biology and Social Issues (1 to 3 credits)
- BUS 3190 Ethics, Business Leadership, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
- CHM 4740 Recent Advances in Chemistry and Biochemistry (3 credits)
- CJS 4510 Criminology and Penology (3 credits)
- COM 8210 Concepts in Community Health (1 credit)
- COM 8220 Community Oral Health Education I (1.5 credits)
- CTA 3010 Engineering Co-Op I (2 credits)
- CTA 3020 Engineering Co-Op II (2 credits)
- DHY 8240 Ethical & Legal Issues II (2 credits)
- ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
- ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (3 credits)
- ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
- HIM 4900 Service Learning HIM Internship (3 credits)
- HSA 3300 Health in the Community (3 credits)
- HSA 4610 Health Economics (3 credits)
- NUR 4755 Professional Practice from a Mercy and Jesuit Perspective (3 credits)
- RELS 3480* Justice: Contemporary Issues and Theories (3 credits)
- SWK 2100* Social Welfare and Social Justice (3 credits)
- SWK 3100 Social Welfare Policy (3 credits)
- WGS 2000* Gender, Sex, and Justice (3 credits)
*Courses that may satisfy University Core Curriculum objectives
Final Course
Program Contact Information
Donald DiPaolo, Ph.D.
Professor and Director for the Leadership Minor Program
Briggs, Room 237
McNichols Campus
Email: dipaoldo@udmercy.edu
Text: 734-502-0224