Leadership Theory

This course will provide an essential theoretical understanding of leadership, authority, and group dynamics in a format designed to generate personal insights into one's own patterns of response to social forces, as well as to develop practical skills for exercising authority and leadership within groups and organizations. The history of the development of leadership will be discussed as will traditional views of leadership. An ongoing theme of the course is leadership as service. This course has a strong experiential component that continually provides participants with opportunities to test and integrate their learning with experience (i.e., the mentorship experience).