Leadership Studies Minor

Program Description: 

The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, through its Leadership Studies minor, offers a 12-credit hour curriculum of applied leadership learning and development within the collegiate setting to prepare students to be career ready and civic-minded graduates. This minor is open to students of every major and designed to enhance the undergraduate educational experience. The curriculum has an experiential approach to leadership learning and development. Students will have structured opportunities to combine contemporary leadership studies theory with coached leadership experiences. Leadership learning and development will accumulate throughout the completion of the minor and demonstrate the necessary leadership identity, efficacy, and capacity to exercise leadership in collegiate, civic, and career contexts. 

Admission 

Students can declare the Leadership Studies minor at any time by completing the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (CEHHS) Minor Add/Drop form. The CEHHS Minor Add/Drop Form can be found here: https://cehhsadvising.utk.edu/advising-resourcesforms/  

Campus: Knoxville, Distance Education

Leadership Studies Minor Requirements:

The minor requires 12 credit hours of coursework.

Students must complete:

a) Phase 1 and 2 - nine hours of core requirements;

b) Phase 3 - three hours of electives to be selected from the provided list of approved electives; and

c) Phase 4 - co-curricular requirements. Phase 4/LEAD 499 requirements must be met prior to graduation.

Phase 1 - Introduction to Leadership Studies, Learning, & Practice

Students must complete at least 6 credits in Phase 1.

a) LEAD 201 (3 Credits);

b) LEAD 349 (2 Credits) with LEAD 350 (1 Credit) - (Co-requisite)

Note: Once a student has completed the initial co-requisite sequence of 2-credits of LEAD 349 and 1-credit of 350, LEAD 350 can be repeated an additional 3 times throughout Phases 1, 2, 3 and 4 for a total of 4 times (4 Credits). 1-credit per semester is suggested.

LEAD 201 - Introduction to Leadership Studies 3 Credit Hours
LEAD 349 - Leadership Learning Through Practice 2 Credit Hours
LEAD 350 - Coached Leadership Practicum 1 Credit Hours

Phase 2 - Leadership and Change Processes

Students must complete 3 credits of LEAD 352 (3 Credits) in Phase 2.

LEAD 352 - Leadership and Change Processes 3 Credit Hours

Phase 3 - Elective

Students must complete 3 credits of an elective in Phase 3.

ALEC 202 - Leadership and Diversity in Organizations and Communities 3 Credit Hours
ALEC 303 - Analysis of Leadership Approaches and Styles 3 Credit Hours
ECON 305 - Markets, Ethics, and Capitalism 3 Credit Hours
ENT 410S - Leadership in Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurship 3 Credit Hours
ELPS 211 - Servant Leadership and Social Justice Seminar 2 Credit Hours
ELPS 310 - Emerging Leaders 3 Credit Hours
ELPS 411 - Leadership Knoxville Scholars Capstone Seminar 3 Credit Hours
ELPS 451 - Leadership in Transition Seminar 1 Credit Hours
ELPS 493 - Independent Study 1-3 Credit Hours
ELPS 495 - Special Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
ESM 250 - Applied Statistical Concepts for Decision Makers 3 Credit Hours
LEAD 350 - Coached Leadership Practicum 1 Credit Hours
LEAD 490 - Contemporary Issues in Leadership Studies 3 Credit Hours
MGT 331 - Leadership Skills 3 Credit Hours
PHIL 244 - Professional Responsibility 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 382 - Contemporary Topics in Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 435 - Multicultural Psychology 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 440 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology 3 Credit Hours
SOWK 316 - Social Justice and Anti-oppressive Practices 3 Credit Hours
SOWK 318 - Honors: Social Justice and Anti-oppressive Practices 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 341 - Social Inequalities 3 Credit Hours

Phase 4 - Experiential Leadership Proficiency

Students must complete the co-curricular requiriments in Phase 4.

Students will choose to complete either a Leadership Development Portfolio OR Leadership Development Overlay of Capstone Experience from Academic Major
Instructions will be provided in the Canvas page associated with LEAD 499.

LEAD 499 - Experiential Leadership Proficiency 0 Credit Hours

Undergraduates

Graduate Students