Leadership Minor

Description

All undergraduate students are eligible for the Leadership minor, and many 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 Leadership Minor (18 credits)

    Requirements
    • First LEAD 2000 Introduction to Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession, and Your Community (3 credits) OR  PYC 2620 Introduction to 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 Management and Human Relations Skills (3 credits)
      • Community Engagement Skills (3 credits)
    • Final LEAD 4000 Leadership Capstone (3 credits) OR  PYC 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)
    • PAS 1010 Introduction to the Physician Assistant Profession (2 credits) AND PYC 2500 Developmental Psychology (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 University Core Curriculum 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)
    • HUS 4410 Multicultural Understanding (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 University Core Curriculum 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)
    • AAS 3100 Science, Technology and 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 4740 Recent Advances in Chemistry and 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 Ethical & Legal Issues II (2 credits)
    • ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
    • ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (3 credits)
    • ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
    • HIM 4900 Service Learning HIM Internship (3 credits)
    • HSA 3300 Health in the Community (3 credits)
    • HSA 4610 Health Economics (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 University Core Curriculum objectives

    Final Course

    • LEAD 4000 Leadership Capstone (3 credits) OR PYC 4620 Leadership Capstone (3 credits) 

Program Contact Information

Donald DiPaolo, Ph.D.
Professor and Director for the Leadership Minor Program
Briggs, Room 237
McNichols Campus

Email: dipaoldo@udmercy.edu
Text: 734-502-0224