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CONTENTS

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  Leadership Education
  • Leadership Minor
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  Leadership Development
  • Campus Leadership Opportunities
  • Leadership Resources
  • Aztec CORE
  • Leadership Summit
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  Leadership Recognition
  • Leadership Awards
  • Student Leader Profiles

Minor in Leadership Development

Why is SDSU offering a minor in Leadership Development?

As one of only a handful of universities offering a minor in Leadership Development, we recognize the important role that leadership plays in shaping our world. Leadership in every form (educational, political, corporate) has a significant impact on our quality of life, and the need for leaders in every discipline resonates throughout the global community. We recognize that today's graduates can truly distinguish themselves by being prepared to meet the challenges of leadership in the modern world. Our comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to leadership education has been designed to give you the tools you need to meet these needs, transform your future career and build a better world for us all.

What will I learn?

Dedicated faculty with leadership experience will help you explore a variety of different leadership theories and encourage critical thinking skills related to the analysis of leadership styles and practices. The minor will increase your self-awareness through the exploration of your strengths, values, beliefs, culture and identity. Today's leaders must distinguish between ethical and unethical leadership practices. Therefore, the minor in Leadership Development curriculum is grounded in the relational leadership model and in the concepts of ethics, social justice, and social change.

The Certificate in Cultural Competency from the Office of Intercultural Relations provides a series exploring the many facets of intercultural issues and provides participants with practical experience to further improve their skills in working with others from diverse backgrounds.

What does the minor in Leadership Development consist of?

The minor consists of 20 units, designed purposefully as an interdisciplinary program. This allows you flexibility to select elective courses that will most significantly impact your own major and preparation for your career. It is open to all students and is not a requirement for any major.

Courses

Following are the courses within the minor in Leadership Development:

CORE

• ARP 205 - Exploring Leadership (3 units)
  • Understanding, applying and critiquing leadership theories, examining personal strengths, values, goals, and philosophy of leadership.
• EDL 206 - Emerging Leaders (3 units)
  • Attributes of successful leaders. Enables students opportunities to self assess, develop, and apply leadership attributes for leadership development.
• ARP 403 - Field Lab in Leadership: Campus/Other Postsecondary (1 unit)
  • Prerequisite: Administration, Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education (ARP) 205.
  • Laboratory on campus and at other postsecondary settings to integrate academic work with experiences on campus and in postsecondary settings.
• EDL 404 - Field Lab in Leadership: Public Agencies and Businesses (1 unit)
  • Prerequisite: Educational Leadership (EDL) 206.
  • •Laboratory in public agencies and business settings to integrate academic work with experiences in the community.
• ARP 381 - Topics in Administration, Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education (3 units)
  • Needs assessment, task analysis, formulation of objectives, lesson plans, instructional techniques, and evaluation in adult and vocational settings.
• EDL 405 - Enacting Leadership (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of all courses in the leadership development minor with a 3.0 GPA.
  • Capstone course. Synthesis and integration of learning to demonstrate self-efficacy. Apply analytical reasoning in leadership scenarios. Articulate individual leadership abilities and apply leadership principles to major field and career

ELECTIVES (SELECT TWO)

One elective is taken the same semester as ARP 403 and the second elective is taken the same semester as EDL 404.

• COMM 371 - Intercultural Communication (3 units)
  • Prerequisites: Communication 103; and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences required for non-majors. Open to majors and non-majors.
  • Study of communication with emphasis on influence of cultural background, perception, social organization, language and nonverbal messages in the intercultural communication experience.
• COMM 485 - Communicating Leadership (3 units)
  • Prerequisites: Communication 300 and 350.
  • Current theory and research in leadership and communication. Understanding yourself, role of leadership, and selection of appropriate communication strategies for leadership.
• CSP 310 - Group Leadership in Educational Settings (3 units)
  • Two lectures and two hours of activity.
  • Prerequisites: Anthropology 102 or Psychology 101 or Sociology 101; and completion of 60 units.
  • Identifying, classifying, and analyzing the components essential to development of leadership in educational settings. Simulation activities assist students in acquisition of group leadership skills.
• POL S 375 - International Relations (3 units)
  • Dynamics of conflict and cooperation among national, international and transnational actors; contributing political, economic, and social factors.
• PA 330 - Public Personnel Administration (3 units)
  • Analysis of personnel problems. Supervision and management of public employees and public organizations in an age of change.
• PA 340 - Administrative Behavior (3 units)
  • Social, psychological, and behavioral theories of organization; concepts of administrative leadership; organization and the individual; emphasis on governmental organizations. Not open to students with credit in Psychology 321.
• PA 480 - Leadership in the Public Sector (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Public Administration 301.
  • Leaders as energizing forces for public administration. Analysis of leadership theories and case studies.
• PHIL 329 - Social Ethics (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.C., Humanities.
  • Ethical issues of contemporary life. Individualism vs. collectivism; democracy vs. dictatorship; ethical problems arising in law, medicine, business, government and interpersonal relationships.
• PHIL 330 - Medical Ethics (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.C., Humanities.
  • Value judgments upon which medicine is based and the ethical issues which medicine faces.
• PHIL 332 - Environmental Ethics (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.C., Humanities.
  • Development of traditional values concerning the natural environment. Reasons for altering values in light of modern changes in relationship of human beings to the environment. Application of ethical principles to actions affecting the environment.
• PHIL 340 - The Morality of War and Peace (3 units)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II. C., Humanities.
  • Historical and contemporary arguments regarding morality of war, pacifism, and terrorism, with contemporary applications.

The minor in Leadership Development is a collaboration between the College of Education's Administration Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education Department, Educational Leadership Department, and the Division of Student Affairs.

Leadership Minor Advisors

Dr. Timothy Quinnan,
Associate Vice President for Campus Life

Randy Timm,
Director, Student Life & Leadership

Robyn Adams,
Interim Assistant Director, Student Life & Leadership

Caleb McCanne,
Leadership Development Peer Mentor