Leadership Coursework

LEAD 1001- Becoming a Leader: MLS

The course introduced students to the theories and practices of historical and contemporary leadership studies. I examined both the moral and ethical dimensions of leadership and how cultural diversity, inclusivity, and social justice apply to culturally competent leadership in the 21st century.

Although this was not my first leadership class, it was the most important one being that it set the foundation for learning about leadership and defined the way I viewed leadership through a multicultural lens.

During this course, I facilitated a workshop on Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality that can be found here.

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LEAD 2410 - Dynamics of Power/Leadership

In this course, I explored the social construction of dominant western worldview and questioned it as the sole arbiter of meaning and reality, and illuminate the ways in which hierarchies of power, i.e. ideological, political, and economic, determine and shape human experience.

Being that I joined MLS a semester late, this was the first course I took for the leadership minor. It was extremely eye-opening and difficult to learn about the topics of power, oppression, and privilege since these themes show up in day-to-day life. The intensity of the class allowed me to realize that I was in the exact program I need to be in.

INVS 3100 - Community Engagement

Throughout this class, I concreted outcomes of the different leadership approaches such as transformational, servant, cross-cultural, and transactional leadership as we apply these to multidisciplinary situations of selected contemporary figures at national and international scales.

I found this course to be the most application based in the program. We read the books “Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete” by William C. Rhoden and “Redefining Realness” by Janet Mock that have turned into monumental reads for me. Although I had to take this class online due to COVID, my cohort and I really engaged in articulate conversations and I learned a lot about myself in the process.

EDUC 2910/2920 - Field Practicum 1 & 2

Leadership and the practice of community are inextricably linked, and these form the cornerstone of our program. We further recognize that being in community is a process, not an end state – a reciprocal process that will require members of practicum to attend to community as a practice. Throughout my leadership classes I took practicum right besides it which really created a community within my cohert.

Through these course I learned how to be a facilatorter and really embody my leadership role as a person. I became more confident at speaking in front of a class and driving difficult conversations.

I also took this course as a peer mentor and fell in love with the role. Gaining more responsibility in the MLS program has been very fulfilling and I am now in my third semester as a peer mentor.

LEAD 4000- Leadership Capstone

This course offers a vision of leadership development that focuses on students becoming ethical leaders who can foster change in the world. We emphasize the word “becoming” because this course, although intellectually rigorous, is not merely a school exercise.