Minor in Leadership

About

The Leadership minor is designed to strengthen your leadership skills—no matter your chosen profession. In this program, you’ll take a mixture of leadership courses, psychology courses, sociology courses, and choose from various electives spanning many disciplines. You’ll finish the program with a portfolio to show what you’ve learned and accomplished.

Curriculum & Requirements

What You'll Learn

The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.

Leadership Minor

The purpose of the Leadership Minor is to educate and empower students to become proactive leaders in our society, regardless of their chosen profession. The minor provides a focus on the theoretical and experiential understanding of leadership. Students benefit from a broad spectrum of courses that entail a leadership component. Collectively, these courses provide a rich compilation of perspectives on leadership. Students also benefit from the thorough examination and critique of their evolving leadership style.

Enrollment Requirement: CMST 493 is available exclusively during the winter term and must be completed before registering for CMST 494, which is offered only in the spring term.

Grade Requirements: Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average in the minor 2.5 with no single course grade <C-.

Required Courses
Basic leadership–choose from the following3
INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP
BASIC MILITARY SKILLS I
and BASIC MILITARY SKILLS II
and BASIC MILITARY SKILLS III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence)
Theory and Philosophy–choose two from the following 7-10
INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
SPORTS AND LEADERSHIP
TOPICS IN LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
INTERDISCIPLINARY SR CAPSTONE
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
BASIC MILITARY TEAM BUILDING I
and BASIC MILITARY TEAMBUILDING II
and BASIC MILITARY TEAM III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence)
MILITARY SCIENCE & TACTICS I
and MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS II
and MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence)
OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP
Required Application Courses
CMST 493LEADERSHIP APPLICATIONS3
CMST 494PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP2
Total Credits15-18

Sample Courses

DSST 410. DISABILITY AS DIVERSITY. 5 Credits.

Cross-listed: GWSS 418.
Notes: may be stacked with DSST 510.
Pre-requisites: junior standing or instructor permission required.
This course teaches students to recognize, analyze, and comprehend disability, and disabled persons, as part of the rich tapestry of human experience; including disability intersections with other diverse identities and groups in society. Working through interdisciplinary scholarship, cultural artifacts, and first-person accounts, students will learn how disability compliments and also complicate existing identity categories and notions of diversity.

Catalog Listing

PLAN 407. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Applied studies of the process of community development emphasizing the interactive roles of citizens, community officials and planners.

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