Spring 2007 HLP COURSES
PPS 146 – Leadership, Development, and Organizations
Instructor: Tony Brown
Course provides students with the knowledge, analytical competence, and skills needed to exercise leadership in organizations and address problems in our society. The course explores the many facets of leadership, leadership development, and the processes by which enterprising people affect change in a variety of organizational situations. It focuses on a variety of experiential learning activities including case discussions, community leadership projects, guest speakers, and personal reflection. (TTH 1:15-2:30pm)
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]
PUBPOL 196.30 – Border Crossing: Leadership, Value Conflicts & Public Life
Instructors: Alma Blount and Steve Schewel
This is the preparation course for students who plan to conduct community-based research projects in the summer through the Service Opportunities in Leadership Program, or another research service learning opportunity. Students will be trained in basic research methods, complete a 20-hour service project for a local community organization, and be introduced to a leadership framework for undertaking complex problem-solving work in the public arena. The course is designed to provide students with theoretical knowledge and critical reflection skills for entering other cultures to conduct research with community organizations.
The course theme this semester is religion and public life. Students will explore the history of how religion, politics and public policy issues have become intertwined in the U.S., and investigate contemporary issues that represent a spectrum of viewpoints on faith and politics in our culture. The heart of the course will be a presentation of case studies that illuminate the complexities of religious values that can become either impediments to public problem solving work, or resources for its successful completion. (TTH 2:50-4:05pm, W 3:05-3:55pm)
[Areas of Knowledge: SS, EI; Inquiries/Competencies: R, W]
PUBPOL 196.34/HST 104.34 – New Perspectives on Public Policy & Civil Rights
Instructor: Robert Korstad
This course will look at the relationship between various public policies and what is being called “The Long Civil Rights Movement,” the period from World War II to the present. The course will investigate how movement leaders advocated for specific policy changes in areas such as education, voting, housing, health care, and job training. The course will use recent studies to evaluate the success of these policy interventions. (MW 10:05-11:20am)
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: CCI]
PUBPOL 196.53 – Robertson Scholars Colloquium - Leadership, Ethics, and Public Policy
Instructor: Tony Brown
The central goal of the Robertson Scholars Colloquium is to educate, motivate, and support the Robertson Scholar class of 2010 to launch an extraordinary college experience for themselves. The Colloquium is designed to provide Robertson Scholars with enhanced knowledge, analytical competence, and skills important to the exercise of ethical leadership. The course explores many facets of ethical leadership, leadership development, and the processes by which people affect change in teams, organizations, and communities. The teaching method is highly experiential and interactive. (TTH 4:25-5:40pm)
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ, SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]
PUBPOL 264S.34 – Historical Perspectives on Public Policy
Instructor: Bob Korstad
This course will explore the ways that history and historical thinking can be of assistance to public policy makers. All issues have a history, and that history will shape policy whether we understand it or not. This course will add focused historical understanding to the conceptual tools already deployed in public policy and raise important methodological questions about how and why history matters to the work we do. In what ways can history provide evidence for social science generalizations and policy considerations? To what extent can historical analysis of single case studies provide useful ‘lessons learned’ for policy makers? In what ways can historical interpretation improve predictions about the behaviors of social groups and nations and thereby serve to inform the choices that policy makers possess? How do narrative techniques and story-telling strategies shape the crafting and implementation of public policy in the past and present? To what extent are counterfactuals, when used with discipline and imagination, effective tools for conducting social science research and making public policy? (MW 4:25-5:40pm)
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ, SS]
History 196S.06 – 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: CZ; Modes of Inquiry: EI, R]
History 196S.07 – 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," Johns 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; Modes of Inquiry: R]
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