LEAD 5100 - Developing Leaders

Goals: To learn how to develop and empower others to become leaders. To practice bridging leadership practice with leadership theory in community-based settings.

Content: The best leaders develop and empower those around them. Students in this course will study and practice leadership pedagogies, the role of the follower-leader, and research surrounding leadership education. In order to bridge theory with practice, this course has a field experience component where students will practice teaching leadership/ developing others in a setting of their choice. This course serves as the LEAP experience and capstone course for undergraduates in the leadership minor, but is also open to graduate students interested in learning how to teach leadership.

Taught: Spring

Prerequisite: LEAD 3010

Credits: 4