Leadership Minor

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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

  • ADS 4360 Family Theory and Therapy (3 credits)
  • 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

  • ADS 4500 Prevention and Intervention of Substance Abuse (3 credits)
  • ARCH 3000 Professional Experience Preparation (1 credit)
  • ARCH 3010 Professional Experience (2 credits)
  • BUS 3110 Organizational Design and Structure (3 credits)
  • BUS 3180 Leadership and Teams with Diverse Peoples (3 credits)
  • CJS 2500 Introduction to Police Administration (3 credits)
  • CSSE 4570 Software Project Management (3 credits)
  • CST 3040 Small Group Communication (3 credits)
  • CST 3140 Intercultural Communication (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 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)
  • CST 4990 Capstone Seminar: Media Social Responsibility (3 credits)
  • ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (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)
  • 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

  • LEAD 4000 Leadership Capstone (3 credits) OR PYC 4620 Leadership Capstone (3 credits)