Leadership Studies Minor

This course considers various theories of leadership and their role in critical organizational issues, including leader effectiveness, ethics, power, influence, politics, teamwork, motivation, creativity, innovation, communication, conflict, strategy, diversity, and leadership development. The course uses case studies and experiential components to provide hands-on learning and practice opportunities in business, political, and social justice contexts. This course is identical to BADM 371 and is cross-listed.

Prerequisite: None

Options include: Leadership in Community Engagement; Civil Rights Leadership; The Bible on Leadership

This three credit hour, graded experiential learning class will teach, apply, and reflect on the elements of principled leadership in community engagement.  Combining classroom instruction, interactive discussion, reflective journal writing assignments, with front-line collaboration with a community partner, this course will help students assess their leadership style and utilize their leadership skills in service to the local community. 

Prerequisite: LDRS 101, LDRS 111, LDRS 211

Candidates for the leadership studies minor will work closely with the professor on an independent study project dealing with a leadership issue or challenge and the application of principled leadership ideas. The student will write a case study of approximately 20-25 pages discussing a specific leadership problem and the steps taken to solve it. The presentation of the results will be an integral part of this exercise. Students will present in class and, at the discretion of the professor, be tasked to present in other forums, such as Citadel faculty/staff meetings or professional conferences.

This three credit hour, graded experiential learning class will teach, apply, and reflect on the elements of principled leadership in community engagement.  Combining classroom instruction, interactive discussion, reflective journal writing assignments, with front-line collaboration with a community partner, this course will help students assess their leadership style and utilize their leadership skills in service to the local community. 

Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Leadership Studies minor or instructor permission.

Leadership Communication will focus on an understanding of effective leader communications based on analysis of speeches and writings. This course requires critical thinking to analyze and develop leader messages. The course will also examine multimedia tools available to leaders and will address opportunities and challenges of technology.  

Prerequisite: None

Options include: Leadership in Community Engagement; Civil Rights Leadership; The Bible on Leadership

This three credit hour, graded experiential learning class will teach, apply, and reflect on the elements of principled leadership in community engagement.  Combining classroom instruction, interactive discussion, reflective journal writing assignments, with front-line collaboration with a community partner, this course will help students assess their leadership style and utilize their leadership skills in service to the local community. 

Prerequisite: LDRS 101, LDRS 111, LDRS 211

*If you choose to select a second special topics course to count as an elective outside of the one required, it needs to be a different topic to count.

This course is designed to explore the role of sustainability in managing natural resources and in guiding informed decision-making by principled leaders in the fields of business, politics, science, and beyond. Sustainability is the use of guiding principles to manage the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change so that they are consistent with future as well as present needs. This course highlights the roles of stewardship and sustainability in the decisions that principled leaders must make. Students will develop an understanding of how to evaluate short-term and long-term resource needs and how to communicate the environmental decision-making process.

Prerequisite: None

This course investigates the role, responsibilities, and personal commitments of Peer Counselors (PC) within the Corps of Cadets, the Active Duty and Veteran undergraduate student body at The Citadel. The course is designed for undergraduate students earning a Minor in Leadership Studies, and provides training and experiential activities to develop and reinforce the skills necessary to provide supportive services to fellow students through a peer counseling process.

Prerequisite: None

A study of literary texts from various times and cultures that present models of leadership, both good and bad, and raise issues about leadership characteristics and responsibilities.

Prerequisite: FSWI 101

Case studies in how different eras and cultures have envisioned good leadership and of how significant people have embodied its qualities. Examples include: Ethics and Leadership in the Classical World, Founders of the American Republic, Great Military Commanders, and Civil Rights Leaders of the Modern World.

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the many historical models of military leadership from the ancient world to the present, with emphasis on trends in strategy, tactics, management, and civil-military relations. Successful military leadership has meant many different things at different levels of command and in different places and times, and yet there are some qualities of leadership that have proved enduring.

Prerequisite: None

A nation employs four instruments of power in order to achieve its strategic ends—Diplomacy (Political), Information, Military, and Economic. Often referred to as the DIME, these instruments provide a nation’s national leadership with a variety of unique capabilities that, when properly synchronized with one another, can support a national strategy. The purpose of this course is to improve the student’s fluency of the military instrument of power. We will investigate the range of considerations for the employment of military power once the decision has been made to do so. Thus, the goal of this class is to appreciate the theory, capabilities, and limitations for the employment of the military instrument of Department of Intelligence and Security Studies 308 The Citadel power and the role played by strategic and operational intelligence in the planning for and employment of military force.

Prerequisite: None

Learn and practice leadership and followership knowledge/behaviors and organizational practices/cultures/policies that foster diversity and inclusion at intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational,
and industry levels.

Prerequisite: None

Explore the historical, legal, social, economic, and ethical framework of labor relations emphasizing forecasting, planning, staffing, compensating, developing a career, labor relations, performance management, and control and evaluation of human resources.

Prerequisite: None

Examine the positive contributions of ethical business enterprise, and learn practical tools for recognizing and meeting ethical challenges encountered by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Learn how organizations can simultaneously pursue financial transparency and accountability, encourage sustainable stewardship of human capital and environmental resources, and promote responsibility for operational and social impact on stakeholders and communities.

Prerequisite: None

Students are exposed to effective leadership and management skills both within the health care profession as well as the community at large. Although bioethics is emphasized in each individual course, organizational ethics are presented to the student where the impact of legal, social, political and economic forces impact the profession of nursing, the healthcare systems and society as a whole.

Prerequisite: None

A study of the nature of morality and moral reasoning through critical analyses of the writings of classical and contemporary thinkers on this subject. Problems regarding the role of reason in human conduct will be examined in detail, with emphasis upon the nature of the good life, happiness, moral obligation and duty, right and wrong, and the nature of moral language.

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to develop career enhancing professional skills through introduction to the lifecycle of Technical Project Management. This course provides the student with fundamental techniques and principles related to project management, following the national standards for project management. Specific areas of focus will be Project Integration, Planning, Scheduling, Quality, Risk, and Stakeholder Management. The essential role of project leadership will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: Junior or Senior

A study of the modern presidency with attention to its origin and its historical and constitutional development. Emphasis placed on the examination of the various roles and functions of the president and on an analysis of presidents in action.

Prerequisite: None

A study of the organizations and procedures of a legislative body with attention to its role in policy formation and its relationships with other parts as a political and governmental system.

Prerequisite: None

An introduction to the study and practice of political leadership to include necessary concepts and tools for understanding the elements of causation, constraint, and consequences in relation to leadership responses to challenges both inside and outside political institutions. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative studies in order to understand
the dynamic interplay of moral and rational calculations in relation to political strategy and advantage in contemporary society.

Prerequisite: None

This course examines leadership theory and contemporary trends in leadership, organizational behavior, and the management of human resources as they are related to the emergence and effectiveness of leaders.

Prerequisite: None

This course focuses upon the development of skills essential for sport communication professionals, including writing and public speaking, interviewing, monitoring interactions across social media, public and community relations, technology, crises, and integrating strategic communication schemes in sport organizations.

Prerequisite: None

This course covers the leadership philosophies, the decision-making processes, the ethical considerations, and the policy development practices in sport organizations.

Prerequisite: None