Integrated Leadership Education And
Development (ILEAD) Project
Leadership Minor—Course
Offerings
The leadership minor incorporates
a variety of skills and experiences designed to allow students to learn and improve
individual leadership abilities. Through
completion of the coursework, students will become aware of what leadership is as
well as how to work on improving personal leadership skills.
Required Core
Courses (All of the following courses must be
completed successfully)
Eng 340 - Oral Presentations
(3-0-3)
Eng 360 - Collaborative
Communication: Community and Global Perspectives (3-0-3)
HSS 408 - Leadership
Science, Technology, and Society Capstone Seminar (3-0-3)
1 Ethics Course Offerings (1 of the following courses must be completed successfully)
STS 310****
- Technology and Human Values (3-0-3)
Phil 331 - Problems in
Philosophy
Phil 333 - Moral Philosophy
(3-0-3)
Phil
334-Engineering Ethics and Technological Practice: Philosophical Perspectives
on Engineering
1 Diversity Course Offerings (1 of the following courses must be completed successfully)
STS 306 - American Mosaic:
Understanding Cultural Diversity (3-0-3)
STS 340 - Multiculturalism in a
Technological Society (3-0-3)
STS 342 - Women in Technological Culture (3-0-3)
Required Core
Courses (All of the following courses must be
completed successfully)
Eng 340 - Oral Presentations
(3-0-3)
Prerequisite: HSS 101. Instruction and practice in effective oral
presentations. Students deliver a wide range of presentations adapted to the needs
of a variety of audiences. Topics include voice and diction, presentation
skills, the effective use of visual aids, reporting technical material and
audience analysis.
Eng 360 - Collaborative
Communication: Community and Global Perspectives (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202, or their equivalents. The central
focus is on the challenge for cooperative communication to solve local and
global problems. Examines how technological advances have altered the way we
gather resources to solve problems. Today's information is too vast, too
diverse, and changes too rapidly to be used to solve social dynamics problems
in traditional ways. Using the resources of all available technology--e-mail,
video conferencing, satellite communications, etc.--the goal is to bring all
stakeholders together in order to build consensus and/or solve problems.
HSS 408 - Leadership Science,
Technology, and Society Capstone Seminar (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: completion of the GUR in English (3 credits), Cultural
History (6 credits), Basic Social Sciences (6 credits) and either the
Lit/Hist/Phil/STS (3 credits) or the Open Elective in Humanities and Social
Science (3 credits). The remaining 300-level course may be taken as a
co-requisite of the seminar. The capstone seminars allow students the
opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a specific area of the
instructor's expertise. Students will be required to bring together interests
and skills developed in previous courses. Students make in-depth oral and
written presentations. A list of capstone seminars is published each semester
in the course registration bulletin. Also see HSS 491H-HSS 499H. Honors
students are not permitted to take this course to fulfill the Capstone in HSS
GUR. They choose from HSS 491H-HSS 499H.
Ethics Course (1 of
the following courses must be completed successfully)
STS 310****
- Technology and Human Values (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two from HSS 211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. Examines the interactions between science, technology and human values. Specifically, explores psychological, moral, and philosophical consequences of, and humanistic responses to, technological change. Readings, essays, fiction, and research articles treat such topics as the philosophical foundations of modern science, scientism, technicism; the impact of technology on images of man found in modern literature; and the moral implications of various kinds of recent technology. Honors Note: See HSS 101.
Phil 331 -
Problems in Philosophy
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two from HSS 211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. An examination of problems of a social, ethical, esthetic, religious, and scientific nature, and a study of the related principles and methods of philosophy. Readings are chosen from a wide range of periods and schools from the Greeks to the present, with some application of philosophical analysis to individual and societal problems.
Phil 333 -
Moral Philosophy (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two
from HSS 211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. A critical discussion of
the history and fundamental elements of ethical thought. Examines topics such
as the basic ethical theories, the nature of right and wrong, the significance
of moral choice, the structure of the moral life, and the place of reason in
ethics. Readings from both classical and modern philosophers.
Phil 334 -
Engineering Ethics and Technological Practice: Philosophical Perspectives on
Engineering (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two
from HSS 211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents.. A philosophical
examination of the nature of engineering practice and applied technology.
Considers such questions as: How do the societal functions of engineers and the
practical application of technologies relate to basic moral and intellectual
values? What moral obligations are implied by the uses of technology? What are
the ethical duties of engineers in the practice of their careers? How are
technological practice and engineering related to questions about knowledge and
reality?
Diversity Course (1 of the following courses must be completed successfully)
STS 306 - American Mosaic:
Understanding Cultural Diversity (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two from HSS
211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. An examination of multiculturalism
in the United States. The course provides students with a methodological
framework for understanding cultural diversity in the United States and around
the world.
STS 340 - Multiculturalism in a
Technological Society (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two from HSS
211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. Explores the roles of culture and
ethnicity in our increasingly technological and global society. The interplay
between scientific developments and the specific sociocultural contexts is
addressed. Specific case studies from various countries are explored, covering
differing levels of technological achievement. Upon completion of the course,
students will be able to competently analyze the interaction between a
country's scientific development and its political and sociological climate.
Special topics are negotiated with students at the start of each class, with
the goal of covering all continents and a variety of scientific fields. At
least one case study each semester carefully reviews multiculturalism in the
American technological culture. Emphasis also is given to the particular roles
and responsibilities of the United States as a technological and political
leader.
STS
342 - Women in Technological Culture (3-0-3)
Prerequisites:
HSS 101, HSS 202 or their equivalents; two from HSS 211, HSS 212, Hist 213 or
their equivalents. Takes an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to
issues of gender in science and technology. The issues include the current
status and problems of women in non-traditional professions; the historical
contributions of women in science and technology; images of women in Western
and non-Western cultures; theories of gender difference, past and present; the
impact of cultural gender coding on the epistemologies of science and
technology; women and Third World development. Course materials include case
studies and autobiographical narratives, films, and science fiction as well as
historical and sociological analyses. Expressive student writing and group
projects are encouraged.