Mar 28, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Leadership Studies Minor


The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, through its Leadership Studies minor, offers a 12-hour curriculum of applied leadership education within the collegiate setting. This minor is open to students of every major. This experiential learning approach to leadership education (i.e., knowledge, disposition, and skill development) combines seminar, coached experiences, and lecture formats with mentoring and portfolio-based self-assessment, skill development and application in a capstone project – either self-directed or faculty guided experiential learning course.

Admission

Student applications to the minor are accepted throughout the year. The application packet includes a completed application (e.g., contact information, references, a list of leadership activities and involvements), and permission to access student records. An admissions committee comprised of ELPS faculty and instructors teaching in the program conduct a holistic review of the applications with the goal of creating a diverse cohort of students with demonstrated academic and experiential leadership success. Students are admitted into the minor based on the following criteria:

  • Academic potential as demonstrated by the GPA or leadership coursework;
  • Proven ability and preparation to lead a self-directed project;
  • Demonstrated passion for engaging in leadership, social change, and/or service;
  • Positional and/or non-positional leadership while in college;
  • Evidence of commitment to developing leadership potential; and
  • Unique contributions to the leadership learning cohort.

Minimally, students must be and remain in good standing with the university and Leadership Studies. The Leadership Studies minor must be declared and ELPS 351  or ELPS 352  passed with a B or better before beginning a self-directed leadership capstone project. Students must pass the ELPS 499  Proficiency course requirements to graduate.

Additional admission, timeline, curricular, and program contact information is available at: https://elps.utk.edu/leadership-studies-minor/.

Minor Requirements:


The minor requires 12 hours of coursework.

In addition to the nine hours of core requirements students must complete three hours of electives to be selected from the provided list of approved electives and the following co-curricular requirements. Approved electives taken prior to admission may be accepted toward completion of the minor. Portfolio requirements and other co-curricular requirements must be met prior to graduation.

Complete 5 credits of:


Select one sequence of 4 credit hours:


Co-curricular Requirements


  • Leadership Development Portfolio
  • Capstone Project Proposal and Report – Complete Self-Generated Capstone Project if completing ELPS 352  or Faculty initiated Project if completing ELPS 351 .

 

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .
** Approved courses include: ANSC 481 , AE 450 , BCPP 317 , BME 460 , CMST 312 , ELPS 411 , HONR 498 , MICR 401 . Students may petition the department for a course not listed to count as an approved course.