IVYT 171H - Leadership (Honors)

1. Cultivate constructive habits for lifelong achievement and success.
2. Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of leadership and the skills that manifest in effective leaders.
3. Identify their personal leadership assumptions, values and philosophy, and enhance self-awareness.
4. Demonstrate effective techniques and strategies for articulating a vision.
5. Understand the steps involved in setting personal, academic, and career goals.
6. Discuss the complexities inherent in ethical leadership.
7. Employ the processes involved in effective decision-making.
8. Recognize the different types of conflict and appreciate the role a leader can play in managing conflict.
9. Learn team-building strategies and engage in team-building activities.
10. Comprehend the concept of empowerment and the techniques of effective leaders to empower others.
11. Express the methods leaders can use to initiate change and help others adjust to change.
12. Expand their awareness of leadership to include the concept of servant-leadership.
13. Engage with complex issues that expose them to diverse ideas, peoples, and to interdisciplinary ways of thinking that develop/enhance their critical thinking skills and promote continuous learning outside the classroom.
14. Exhibit dedication and preparation for future undergraduate and graduate studies through examples of leadership and high levels of scholarship.
15. Develop collaboration and camaraderie with students and faculty creating a strong network for mutual, intellectual, and social support.
16. Demonstrate focus, organization, support that is documented according to expectations, evidence of high level critical thinking, and attention to rhetorical situations.

• Personal leadership philosophy
• Leading by serving
• Understanding ethical leadership
• Articulating a vision
• Team building
• Leading with goals
• Making decisions
• Guiding through conflict
• Initiating change
• Empowering others
• Critical and reflective thinking
• Personality and learning modalities
• Successes and goal attainment
• Time and stress management
• Financial responsibility
• Diversity and global awareness
• Advanced research methods

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