Fall 2008 HLP COURSES
PPS 134D– The Politics of Civic Engagement
Instructor: Bob Korstad
This course explores ethical issues related to civic engagement by college students, their reasons for participating, the goals of the university in sponsoring their summer experiences, and the impact they had on the people and organizations they worked with. Students will read books and articles from different political perspectives on the value and appropriateness of civic engagement. Required discussion sections will allow students to share the challenges of their own engagement.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: CCI, EI ]
PPS 137 – Adaptive Leadership
Instructor: Alma Blount
Capstone seminar for students completing community-based research (CBR) projects through the Service Opportunities in Leadership program. Involves critical reflection on summer projects, exploration of leadership, politics, and policy design concepts. With students' experiences, questions, and insights as a starting point, this course explores how lives of commitment to the common good are formed and sustained.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, W, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED
PPS 140S - Women as Leaders
Instructor: Rachel Seidman
This course will teach students to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing women, including themselves, in their quest to practice leadership in public life. Students will understand the historical roots of our conceptions of leadership and the ways American women have worked with, around and on those ideas over the last two centuries. They will analyze the current-day debates over women and leadership in the press and academic literature, and the relationship between theory and practice. Students will gain confidence in their own ability to create leadership roles for themselves over time, and will begin to shape goals that are creative, challenging and optimistic, while founded on a realistic understanding of the complexities involved in women's lives and in practicing the art of leadership in public life.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS]
PPS 144S - Social Enterprise Development (formerly Enterprising Leadership)
Instructor: Christopher Gergen
Become an entrepreneur. This seminar class takes a hands-on approach to teaching how to take a big idea and put it into action through a well designed business plan. Over the 14-weeks, you will create a social venture with a small team, participate in real-world case discussions, and develop an individualized entrepreneurial life plan. We will bring in accomplished entrepreneurs to share their stories and explore how to apply entrepreneurial principles to life decisions. The goal of the course is to help students develop the leadership skills necessary to create high-impact social enterprises in the future and live an entrepreneurial life.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] PERMISSION REQUIRED
PPS 146 – Leadership, Development, and Organizations
Instructor: Stephanie Helms
This course aims to provide active student leaders with the knowledge, analytical competence, and skills needed to exercise ethical and effective leadership in student groups and campus organizations. Class sessions will explore issues that are critical to leaders and organizations on campus. Potential topics include organization theory, culture and diversity, followership, organizational change; strategy and planning; conflict resolution, decision-making and judgment, leader development and leadership succession, internal and external relations, and assessment and accountability. The course is designed to help students complete a substantial campus organization consulting project. The projects' objectives are: (1) to experience team interpersonal dynamics and leadership challenges under real life conditions; (2) to reflect upon and learn from the experience; (3) to produce tangible products and concrete recommendations that add value to student groups and campus organizations; and (4) to learn more about the unique context of the university community. Students serving in leadership roles on campus are encouraged to enroll.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Modes of Inquiry: EI] Permission Required
MMS CORE COURSE
PPS 184S - The Photographic Essay
Instructor: Alex Harris
This seminar will examine the ways in which particular photographers have created photographic essays that communicate to a wide audience. Students will study the classic and contemporary masters of this form while creating their own photographic essays. Students will learn to choose, sequence, and pace images according to the format of their final presentation (book, magazine, exhibition, and web-based). Three assigned projects to be completed by students during the semester as well as one final project combining images from these three essays.
[Area of Knowledge: Arts, Literature, and Performance] PERMISSION REQUIRED.
PPS 195S.01 – Leading Non Profit Organizations
Instructor: Debby Warren
This seminar will introduce students to the concept and practice of leadership within the non-profit sector. Beginning with an overview of this enormously diverse “third sector” that is the lynchpin of civil society, we will examine what it means to lead as an executive and as a trustee (member of the board of directors). What skills and knowledge do executive and board leaders need? How do these roles vary with the challenges and opportunities facing a non-profit organization in its various stages of development? How do cultural and contextual factors affect the notion of a strong leader in a non-profit context? Is leadership in this sector different from leadership in the corporate sector? Drawing from the best literature on leadership and the non-profit sector, we will also draw upon the incredibly rich array of non-profits in the Triangle. In pairs, students will attach themselves to a locally-based non-profit organization, observing its executive and trustee leadership and using the class to compare and contrast diverse examples.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI ]
APPROVED FOR MMS ELECTIVE
PPS 195.20 - Principals and Practices of High Impact Leadership
Instructors: Joe LeBoeuf and Mark Tribus
Leadership is one of the most compelling topics of our time, and might well be one of the most important attributes for effectiveness in all levels of human endeavor. The success of one of most admired and respected institutions in our country, the military, is founded on the understanding and effective application of leadership, and the development of leaders. Two legends in the field of management, Peter Drucker and Jack Welch, suggested that if you really want to understand leadership, look to the United States Military. This course is designed to inspire an interest in the theory and practice of military leadership and to explore how these principles and practices might be applied to the civilian world of work. The course will explore topics such as values-based behavior [courage, trust, ethics], the professional code and warrior ethic, power and authority, individual motivation, cohesion, team and group effectiveness, crisis leadership and leadership in extremis [particularly the lessons of combat]. The format of the course will be an active-learning, small group, workshop-based educational experience that will leverage an array of guest speakers and presenters from the civilian and military world of leadership.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS]
APPROVED FOR MMS ELECTIVE
PPS 264S.02 – Leadership and Public Values
Instructor: James Joseph
This course will be an examination of ethics in public life with particular attention to public values that transform communities and empower leaders. Using case studies from actual experiences in government, business and civil society, each student will be asked to develop a framework/set of principles for making public policy decisions.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]
History 195S.02 – Leadership in American History
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
The seminar will focus on political, social, business, and artistic leaders in American history and problems which have called for leadership. In addition to selected short reading, students will examine closely the following: James MacGregor Burns' "Leadership"; Walter Clark's "Ox Bow Incident"; Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince"; May and R. Neustadt's "Thinking in Time"; Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men"; Gary Wills' "Certain Trumpets"; and David Gergen's "Eyewitness to Power."
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R]
History 195S.11 – American Dreams/American Realities
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
This seminar will examine the role of such myths as "rags to riches," "beacon to the world," the "frontier" and the "foreign devil" in defining the American character and determining the hopes, fears, dreams and actions of people throughout American History. In addition to selected short readings, students will examine closely Arthur M. Schlesinger's "The Disuniting of America," David Potter's "People of Plenty," David Halberstam's, "The Fifties," John Hellmanns', "American Myth and the Legacy of Viet Nam," and Robert A. Rosenbloum and Gerald L. Wilson's "The Value of Myth, Mythic Aspects of American History" (Course Pak).
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: R]
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