Leadership Minor
Description
All undergraduate students are eligible for the Leadership Minor and find it is a perfect compliment with any undergraduate major. This makes “Leadership" the largest minor on campus, by far! Students develop key leadership skills and competencies while giving themselves a competitive advantage as they seek internships, employment, and post-graduate study.
Although the minor requires 18 credits, students are able to use core courses and major requirements to count for 12 of these.
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Requirements for the Minor - 18 credits
Requirements
- First LEAD 2000PYC 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 4000PYC 4620 - Leadership Capstone (3 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
 
- ENGR 1000 Engineering Ethics (2 credits)
 - ETH 3580 Health Care Ethics* (3 credits)
 - PHL 2010 Foundations of 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)
 - CSSE 4951 Senior Design Project I (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)
 - PYC 2600 Social Psychology* (3 credits)
 - PYC 2650 Psychology of Environment (3 credits)
 - PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization* (3 credits)
 - PYC 4890 Group Dynamics (3 credits)
 - SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
3. Organizational Management and Human Relations Skills
- Organizational management
 - Project management
 - Human relations
 - Public relations
 
- ARCH 3010 Professional Experience I (2 credits)
 - ARCH 3020 Professional Experience II (2 credits)
 - ARCH 3030 Professional Experience III (2 credits)
 - 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)
 - DHY 8200 Concepts in Professionalism (3 credits)
 - ENGR 1080 Fundamentals of Engineering Design (2 credits)
 - ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 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 4650 Nursing Leadership Immersion (3 credits)
 - PYC 3700 Industrial and Organizational Psychology* (3 credits)
 - PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization (3 credits)
 - SCIE 2300 Pre-Healthcare and Science Career Portfolio (1 credit)
 - SWK 3200 Human Behavior: Multicultural Environment I (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 3100 Public Interest Design Studio (5 credits)
 - BIO 4990 Biology and Social Issues (1 to 3 credits)
 - BUS 3190 Ethics, Business Leadership, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
 - CHM 4380 Recent Advances in Chemistry
 - CHM 4740 Recent Advances in Biochemistry (3 credits)
 - CJS 4510 Criminology and Penology (3 credits)
 - COM 8210 Concepts in Community Health (1 credit)
 - COM 8220 Community Oral Health Education I (1.5 credits)
 - CTA 3010 Engineering Co-Op I (2 credits)
 - CTA 3020 Engineering Co-Op II (2 credits)
 - DHY 8240 DHY 8240 Ethical & Legal Issues II (2 credits)
 - ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
 - ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature
 - ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
 - HSA 3300 Health in the Community (3 credits)
 - NUR 4755 Professional Practice from a Mercy and Jesuit Perspective (3 credits)
 - RELS 3480 Justice: Contemporary Issues and Theories* (3 credits)
 - SWK 2100 Social Welfare and Social Justice* (3 credits)
 - SWK 3100 Social Welfare Policy (3 credits)
 - WGS 2000 Gender, Sex, and Justice* (3 credits)
 
*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives
Final Course
 
Program Contact Information
Leadership Minor Director
Briggs, Room 237
 McNichols Campus
Text: 734-502-0224
 Email: dipaoldo@udmercy.edu 
