Leadership Minor

Description

All undergraduate students are eligible for the Leadership Minor and 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 Minor - 18 credits

    Requirements
    • First LEAD 2000PYC 2620 - Exploring 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 Mgmt. & HR Skills (3 credits)
      • Community Engagement Skills (3 credits)
    • Final LEAD 4000PYC 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)
    • 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 core University 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)
    • 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 core University 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) / SOC 2120 Black America Social Relations and Social Institutions* (3 credits)
    • AAS 3100 Science, Technology & 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 4380 Recent Advances in Chemistry
    • CHM 4740 Recent Advances in 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 DHY 8240 Ethical & Legal Issues II (2 credits)
    • ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
    • ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature
    • ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
    • HSA 3300 Health in the Community (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 core University objectives

    Final Course

Program Contact Information

Donald DiPaolo, Ph.D.

Leadership Minor Director

Briggs, Room 237
McNichols Campus

Text: 734-502-0224
Email: dipaoldo@udmercy.edu 

Program website