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Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022



Leadership Minor

Description

All undergraduate students are eligible for the Leadership Minor and find it is a perfect compliment with any undergraduate major. This makes “Leadership" the largest minor on campus, by far! Students develop key leadership skills and competencies while giving themselves a competitive advantage as they seek internships, employment, and post-graduate study.

Although the minor requires 18 credits, students are able to use core courses and major requirements to count for 12 of these.

Requirements for the Minor - 18 credits

Requirements
  • First LEAD 2000PYC 2620 - Exploring Leadership: Yourself, Your Profession and Your Community (3 credits)
  • Then one course from approved list in each area below:
    • Individual Leadership Skills (3 credits)
    • Group Skills (3 credits)
    • Organizational Mgmt. & HR Skills (3 credits)
    • Community Engagement Skills (3 credits)
  • Final LEAD 4000PYC 4620 - Leadership Capstone (3 credits)
  • Three of the six courses used for the minor must be at 3000 or above.

1. Individual Leadership Skills

  • Self-awareness
  • Character and integrity
  • Ethics and values
  • ENGR 1000 Engineering Ethics (2 credits)
  • ETH 3580 Health Care Ethics* (3 credits)
  • PHL 2010 Foundations of Ethics* (3 credits)

*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives

2. Group Skills

  • Communication
  • Team building
  • Developing relationships
  • CIVE 4820 Civil Engineering Senior Design Project (3 credits)
  • CSSE 4951 Senior Design Project I (3 credits)
  • ELEE 4011 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I (2 credits) AND ELEE 4012 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Senior Capstone Design I Laboratory (1 credit)
  • ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature (3 credits)
  • MENG 4950 Prototype Design II (3 credits)
  • PYC 2600 Social Psychology* (3 credits)
  • PYC 2650 Psychology of Environment (3 credits)
  • PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization* (3 credits)
  • PYC 4890 Group Dynamics (3 credits)
  • SOC 1000 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)

*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives

3. Organizational Management and Human Relations Skills

  • Organizational management
  • Project management
  • Human relations
  • Public relations
  • ARCH 3010 Professional Experience I (2 credits)
  • ARCH 3020 Professional Experience II (2 credits)
  • ARCH 3030 Professional Experience III (2 credits)
  • BUS 3110 Organizational Design and Structure (3 credits)
  • BUS 3180 Leadership and Teams with Diverse Peoples (3 credits)
  • CIVE 4850 Project Management and Costing (3 credits)
  • CJS 2500 Introduction to Police Administration (3 credits)
  • CSSE 4570 Software Project Management (3 credits)
  • CST 2400 Principles of Public Relations (3 credits)
  • DHY 8200 Concepts in Professionalism (3 credits)
  • ENGR 1080 Fundamentals of Engineering Design (2 credits)
  • ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
  • HIM 4600 Global Leadership and Strategic Planning for Health Professionals (3 credits)
  • HSA 3010 Overview of the U.S. Health Care System (3 credits)
  • HSA 3200 Health Services Planning and Marketing (3 credits)
  • HSA 3585 Health Services Organization Management (3 credits)
  • NUR 4650 Nursing Leadership Immersion (3 credits)
  • PYC 3700 Industrial and Organizational Psychology* (3 credits)
  • PYC 4400 Cross-Cultural Socialization (3 credits)
  • SCIE 2300 Pre-Healthcare and Science Career Portfolio (1 credit)
  • SWK 3200 Human Behavior: Multicultural Environment I (3 credits)

*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives

4. Community Engagement Skills

  • Social change
  • Social justice
  • Partnerships for the common good
  • Mission and vision in broad context
  • AAS 2000 Critical Perspectives in African-American Studies (3 credits) / SOC 2120 Black America Social Relations and Social Institutions* (3 credits)
  • AAS 3100 Science, Technology & Race (3 credits)
  • ARCH 3100 Public Interest Design Studio (5 credits)
  • BIO 4990 Biology and Social Issues (1 to 3 credits)
  • BUS 3190 Ethics, Business Leadership, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
  • CHM 4380 Recent Advances in Chemistry
  • CHM 4740 Recent Advances in Biochemistry (3 credits)
  • CJS 4510 Criminology and Penology (3 credits)
  • COM 8210 Concepts in Community Health (1 credit)
  • COM 8220 Community Oral Health Education I (1.5 credits)
  • CTA 3010 Engineering Co-Op I (2 credits)
  • CTA 3020 Engineering Co-Op II (2 credits)
  • DHY 8240 DHY 8240 Ethical & Legal Issues II (2 credits)
  • ENGR 3110 Professional Practice of Engineering (2 credits)
  • ENL 2750 Diverse Voices in Literature
  • ETH 3590 Ethics and Public Policy (3 credits)
  • HSA 3300 Health in the Community (3 credits)
  • NUR 4755 Professional Practice from a Mercy and Jesuit Perspective (3 credits)
  • RELS 3480 Justice: Contemporary Issues and Theories* (3 credits)
  • SWK 2100 Social Welfare and Social Justice* (3 credits)
  • SWK 3100 Social Welfare Policy (3 credits)
  • WGS 2000 Gender, Sex, and Justice* (3 credits)

*Courses that may satisfy core University objectives

Final Course

Program Contact Information

Donald DiPaolo, Ph.D.

Leadership Minor Director

Briggs, Room 237
McNichols Campus

Text: 734-502-0224
Email: dipaoldo@udmercy.edu 

Program website