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The concentration consists of 7 courses, comprising 18 credits. They are:

Leadership Core Courses
(9 credits total)

Required:

1. Leadership Theory (0828.100): (3 credits) (Prerequisite: None): An introduction into the academic study of leadership from a theoretical perspective and broadly examines the historical, social, and political context of leadership as a concept and process.
2. Leadership Seminar I (0828.205): (2 credits) (prerequisite: Leadership Theory) with an Intensive Writing Module: Persuasive Writing for Effective Leadership (0606.200): (1 credit): Joins leadership theory and practice by requiring students to explore leadership issues in an active, hand-on way. The course will provide students with a more in-depth understanding of leadership as it relates to various settings, including their major discipline, and will require students to write persuasively in a leadership way.
3. Leadership Seminar II (0828.305): (capstone) (3 credits) (prerequisite: Leadership Theory and Leadership Seminar I): Provides students with a greater understanding of and appreciation for leadership as a change process along with various factors influencing that process. Focuses on the development of skills needed to manage change in organizations.

Leadership Communication Core
(3 credits total)

Required:

*Interpersonal Communication (1506.206): (3 credits) (Prerequisites: None): Explores techniques of interpersonal speech communication. Focuses on decision-making and speech communication within the small group process.

*General Education requirement

Interdisciplinary Core
(6 credits total)

Students are also required to choose any two electives (3 credits each):

1. (Management/MIS) Organizational Behavior (0506.300) (prerequisite: junior standing): Examines human relations in management and studies the concern for both task and process in the light of structure, goals and human relationship found in organized efforts.
2. (Management/MIS) Organizational Change and Development (0506.304) (prerequisite: 0506.300 and 0506.303) Studies factors that facilitate or inhibit organizational change as well as research findings and theory which deal with methods for diagnosing organizational climate, and selecting and utilizing techniques for bringing about change and overcoming resistance to change.
3. (Soc.) The Sociology of Complex Organizations (2208.353) (prerequisite: 2208.120 Introductory Soc. or permission of instructor) or Human Service Organizations (prerequisite: 2208.120) .
4. (Soc) Self and Society (2208.230) (no prerequisite): An introductory course in the study of behavior in everyday life examines the sociology of the familiar, looking at the socialization processes, the effect of social interaction and re-socialization. The course focuses on the individual as a social interacting organism.
5. (Sec.Ed) Group Theory and Behavior in Instruction (0821.308) (no prerequisite): Students study the interactive process in group instruction by using social and psychological theories related to group process.
6. (Sec.Ed) Educational Policy: Introduction to Decision Making (9821.301): (prerequisite: 0801.101 Teaching as a Profession): Examines the bureaucratic, political and legal structures of educational policymaking; cultural and community contexts of schools and policies generated at the local, state and national levels.
7. (Pol.Sci) Public Administration (2102.320) (no prerequisite): Students consider public administration principles and organizations, internal governmental administrative structures, and the interactions between organizations and their environments.
8. (Psy) Industrial/Organizational Psychology (2208.310) (prerequisite: Intro.Psych. 2001.100 or 2001.101): Students study the application of psychological theories, methods, principles, and findings to various problems of industrial, business and public organizations.
9. (Psy.) Social Psychology (Intro. Psych. 2001.100): Primary focus is on the individual in a social context and examines the psychological, social and cultural factors that shape the social behavior of the individual
10. (Health and Exercise Science) Stress Management (0837.170): Focuses on the nature of stress and the impact it has on a person’s health and studies the relationship of the physiological, psychological and social factors which contribute to one’s general stress balance.
11. (Soc) Human Service Organization (2208.401). Prerequisite: 2208.120. This course will focus on the micro and macro aspects of human service organizations of various kinds and will examine them in terms of structure, delivery of services, their function of "processing" human beings, the internal and external environments in which they operate.