Leadership Minor
Description
            
                                                
                                                    The largest minor on campus, all undergraduate students are eligible to add a Leadership minor to their major. The minor is a total of 18 credits. This minor is a perfect complement to any field of study at the University.
                                
                                
            
            
                    
        
                                             
                
        
                                        
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Requirements for the Minor - 18 credits
Requirements
- First LEAD 2000 / PYC 2620 - Exploring Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession and Your Community (3 credits)
 - Then one course from approved list in each area below:
- Individual Leadership Skills (3 credits)
 - Group Skills (3 credits)
 - Organizational Mgmt. & HR Skills (3 credits)
 - Community Engagement Skills (3 credits)
 
 - Final LEAD 4000 / PYC 4620 - Leadership Capstone (3 credits)
 - Three of the six courses used for the minor must be at 3000 or above.
 
Introductory Course
- LEAD 2000/PYC 2620 - Exploring Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession and Your Community (3 credits)
 - Students choose one course from each of the four Leadership Skills areas below: (12 credits)
 - Three of the six courses used for the minor must be at 3000 or above.
 
1. Individual Leadership Skills
- Self-awareness
 - Character and integrity
 - Ethics and values
 
- CAS 2000 Catholicism: Spirit & Methods* (3 credits)
 - CAS 3530 Dynamics of Spiritual Growth* (3 credits)
 - CST 3000 Mass Media Ethics (3 credits)
 - ENGR 1000 Engineering Ethics (2 credits)
 - ETH 3580 Health Care Ethics* (3 credits)
 - ETH 3680 Catholic Health Care Ethics* (3 credits)
 - PHL 2010 Foundations of Ethics* (3 credits)
 - RELS 2000 Catholicism: Spirit and Methods* (3 credits)
 - RELS 3570 Spiritual Autobiographies* (3 credits)
 - RELS 4340 Christian Ethics* (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
2. Group Skills
- Communication
 - Team building
 - Developing relationships
 
- CIVE 4820 Civil Engineering Senior Design Project (3 credits)
 - CJS 4160 Gangs and Juvenile Delinquent Groups (3 credits)
 - CSSE 4951 Senior Design Project 1 (3 credits)
 - CST 2040 Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
 - CST 3040 Small Group Communication (3 credits)
 - ELEE 4011 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I (2 credits) AND ELEE 4012 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I Laboratory (1 credit)
 - ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (3 credits)
 - MENG 4950 Prototype Design II (3 credits)
 - MTH 3060 Mathematical Thinking (3 credits)
 - PYC 2600 Social Psychology* (3 credits)
 - PYC 2650 Psychology of Environment (3 credits)
 - PYC 3330 Human Relationships and Parenting (3 credits)
 - PYC 3540 Sex Differences and Sex Roles* (3 credits)
 - PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization* (3 credits)
 - PYC 4890 Group Dynamics (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
3. Organizational Management and Human Relations Skills
- Organizational management
 - Project management
 - Human relations
 - Public relations
 
- BUS 3110 Organizational Design and Structure (3 credits)
 - BUS 3180 Leadership and Teams with Diverse Peoples (3 credits)
 - CIVE 4850 Project Management and Costing (3 credits)
 - CJS 2500 Introduction to Police Administration (3 credits)
 - CSSE 4570 Software Project Management (3 credits)
 - CST 2400 Principles of Public Relations (3 credits)
 - CST 4070 Professional Seminar: Public Relations and Advertising (see advisor, not all seminar topics may apply) (3 credits)
 - ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
 - ENT 3000 Interdisciplinary Design Entrepreneurship and Service (3 credits)
 - HIM 4600 Global Leadership and Strategic Planning for Health Professionals (3 credits)
 - HSA 3010 Overview of the U.S. Health Care System (3 credits)
 - HSA 3200 Health Services Planning and Marketing (3 credits)
 - HSA 3585 Health Services Organization Management (3 credits)
 - NUR 4600 Nursing Leadership (2 credits)
 - POL 3200 Public Administration* (3 credits)
 - PYC 3700 Industrial and Organizational Psychology* (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
4. Community Engagement Skills
- Social change
 - Social justice
 - Partnerships for the common good
 - Mission and vision in broad context
 
- AAS 2000 Critical Perspectives in African-American Studies (3 credits) / SOC 2120 Black America Social Relations and Social Institutions* (3 credits)
 - AAS 3100 Science, Technology & Race (3 credits)
 - ARCH 2100 Architectural Design V (5 credits)
 - ARCH 2200 Architectural Design VI (3 credits)
 - ARCH 3100 Public Interest Design Studio (5 credits)
 - ARCH 3300 Study Abroad Studio (6 credits)
 - BIO 4990 Biology and Social Issues (1 to 3 credits)
 - BUS 3190 Ethics, Business Leadership, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
 - CHM 4740 Recent Advances in Biochemistry (3 credits)
 - CJS 1310 Introduction to Corrections (3 credits)
 - CJS 4510 Criminology and Penology (3 credits)
 - CST 4070 Professional Seminar: Public Relations and Advertising (see advisor, not all seminar topics may apply) (3 credits)
 - EDU 4400 School and Society* (3 credits)
 - ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
 - HSA 3100 Health Care Law and Regulations (3 credits)
 - HSA 3300 Health in the Community (3 credits)
 - NUR 4300 Community Health Nursing (3 credits)
 - NUR 4755 Professional Practice from a Mercy and Jesuit Perspective (3 credits)
 - PHL 3560 Peace and Social Justice* (3 credits)
 - POL 2600 Introduction to Comparative Politics* (3 credits)
 - POL 3100 Women and Politics* (3 credits)
 - POL 3460 Civil Liberties and Equality* (3 credits)
 - RELS 3470 Catholic Social Thought* (3 credits)
 - RELS 3480 Justice: Contemporary Issues and Theories* (3 credits)
 - SWK 2100 Social Welfare and Social Justice* (3 credits)
 - WGS 2000 Gender, Sex, and Justice* (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
Final Course
 
Program Contact Information
            
                                                
                                                    Donald DiPaolo, Ph.D.
            
                    
        
                                          
    
    
                
        
    
                    
Leadership Minor Coordinator
Reno Hall, Room 201
 McNichols Campus
Text: 734-502-0224
 Email: don.dipaolo@udmercy.edu
