Ethical Leadership

Required Courses

• LEAD 100 - Design Thinking for Social Impact

  LEAD 100 - Design Thinking for Social Impact

  4.00 credit hours

  As members of a diverse and global community, we face a variety of complex social issues. Students will learn the theory and practice of human-centered design, a creative approach to problem-solving that leads students through a process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test their ideas. Through readings, case studies, hands-on activities, field experiences, and interaction with community leaders and residents, students will develop the mindset and toolkit needed to create innovative solutions for change, regardless of the discipline or field of study they pursue. Students will identify local social or environmental challenges and work collaboratively to address them through the design thinking process.

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• LEAD 120 - Leaders Without Borders

  LEAD 120 - Leaders Without Borders

  4.00 credit hours

  World leaders must navigate an array of domestic and international issues on a daily basis. Their leadership qualities and styles often reflect cultural and social norms as well as their nation's political system. The underlying theme of this course is that the skills and behaviors that are perceived as effective leadership characteristics in one culture are not necessarily those that will be effective in a different culture. Students will explore the ways in which specific characteristics are valued differently by different cultures. Students will also acquire frameworks for assessing how to approach a work assignment in a culture that is not their own. Finally, students will consider the effect of globalization on leadership, and define the characteristics necessary to successfully lead in a highly diverse and complex world that challenges them to understand and respond to nationalism, terrorism, trade, human rights, environmental challenges, power and justice, and explore regional leadership issues.

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• LEAD 200 - Social Innovation

  LEAD 200 - Social Innovation

  4.00 credit hours

  Students learn to utilize design thinking and systems thinking methodology in approaching social and environmental problems. Students will develop an innovative skillset and apply it directly to complex issues of their choosing, while building their efficacy as change-makers. Social innovation is derived from the practice of solution-oriented thinking, that seeks to create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.

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• LEAD 220 - Leadership for Change-Making

  LEAD 220 - Leadership for Change-Making

  4.00 credit hours

  Students will explore the theories of leadership from relational and ethical perspectives. Students will engage specifically with the ideas of self and others, self in communities and organizations, and self in relation to growth and change. Attention will be paid to leadership directed at social change in a variety of real world contexts.

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• LEAD 320 - Ethical Leadership

  LEAD 320 - Ethical Leadership

  4.00 credit hours

  What connects all leaders is that they attempt to guide or inspire the conduct of others (their employees, colleagues, fellow citizens, and so on). Our study of ethical leadership will investigate both what it means to be an ethical leader at a personal level (i.e., a leader, with the right values and character, who acts properly) and collective level (i.e., a leader who inspires ethical action in others). We will analyze examples of leadership at the top (e.g., business CEOs) and from the bottom (e.g., activists and whistleblowers). The course is organized in four sections, each centered on its own theme: (1) developing a toolkit for ethical decision making; (2) understanding the sources of moral failures; (3) developing ethical leaders; and (4) investigating leadership in the face of great moral conflict. Students will end the course by developing group projects that apply course material to a specific case of successful (or failed) leadership.

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• LEAD 390 - Seminar on Leadership Theory

  LEAD 390 - Seminar on Leadership Theory

  4.00 credit hours

  The goal of the seminar is to gain familiarity with the considerations involved in framing a comprehensive theory of leadership with special emphasis upon the connections between leadership, values and ethics. In independent projects students relate major theories about leadership to the study of specific leader/constituent relationships.

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• LEAD 494 - Capstone: Applied Leadership

  LEAD 494 - Capstone: Applied Leadership

  4.00 credit hours

  A structured seminar reflection upon experience of leadership relations gained in an approved experiential setting. Students spend approximately 10 to 12 hours per week in their experiential setting. One two-hour class meeting per week.

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Electives

One of the following:

• LEAD 310 - Leadership and Place

  LEAD 310 - Leadership and Place

  4.00 credit hours

  Leadership and Place traces the influence of home towns and home places on contemporary and historical leadership paradigms while considering such ethical questions as: What role does place play in forming a responsible and responsive leader? How does one lead responsibly and well far from home? How and where do rural, urban and suburban ethical standards and value judgments converge and diverge? Where have the leaders of the past come from and where are they likely to be found in the future? Paying close attention to small communities and neighborhoods as key loci in the production of twentieth-century civic leaders and as ethical centers in a Jeffersonian republic, course texts, lectures and discussions feature real-life case studies designed to engage students in debates weighing ethical and moral positions viewed through the lens of place. Leadership and Place uniquely encourages students in the study of personal (inside-out) as well as cultural (outside-in) place-based, ethical perspectives while inviting them to consider the foundational role home communities play in ethical leadership on the local, regional and national level.

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• LEAD 350 - Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution

  LEAD 350 - Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution

  4.00 credit hours

  Students discover the origins of and build a conceptual framework for understanding ethnic and religious conflict. The approach will be interdisciplinary and examine the central causes, consequences, and ultimately solutions for resolving ethnic and religious conflict. We will use numerous case studies to explore the key conceptual and theoretical areas and questions within the field. The reading is plentiful, but thought provoking, and should enable you to explore the dynamics of global conflict with greater rigor and precision. Come prepared for a stimulating academic experience.

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• LEAD 360 - Precepting

  LEAD 360 - Precepting

  2.00 credit hours

  Precepting is a form of leadership in the classroom. A preceptor is not a simply a teaching assistant, a peer mentor or a tutor. A preceptor is an apprentice who works alongside a professor, participating in the management and delivery of a course he or she has already taken. In this seminar, students engage with the scholarship of teaching and learning, leadership theory, and strengths-based development while reflecting on their unique precepting experience. Precepting provides high-impact, experiential learning in the world of higher education.

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• LEAD 497 - Internship

  LEAD 497 - Internship

  0.00-12.00 credit hours

  Valuable professional experiences supplement classroom instruction and allow students to apply theories and concepts to broader issues and system. Students explore career options within a specific area of study and critically reflect on the experience in a structured manner. May be repeated with different professional experience.

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• LEAD 499 - Independent Study

  LEAD 499 - Independent Study

  1.00-12.00 credit hours

  Individual studies undertaken with guidance of a faculty member. May be repeated with different content.

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Additional Requirements

Complete a minor in one of the following partner departments or programs:

• Interdisciplinary Programs: Chicago Area Studies; History of Ideas
• College of Arts & Sciences: History; Religious Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Environmental Studies
• School of Entrepreneurship & Business: Management

Required Courses

• LEAD 120 - Leaders Without Borders

  LEAD 120 - Leaders Without Borders

  4.00 credit hours

  World leaders must navigate an array of domestic and international issues on a daily basis. Their leadership qualities and styles often reflect cultural and social norms as well as their nation's political system. The underlying theme of this course is that the skills and behaviors that are perceived as effective leadership characteristics in one culture are not necessarily those that will be effective in a different culture. Students will explore the ways in which specific characteristics are valued differently by different cultures. Students will also acquire frameworks for assessing how to approach a work assignment in a culture that is not their own. Finally, students will consider the effect of globalization on leadership, and define the characteristics necessary to successfully lead in a highly diverse and complex world that challenges them to understand and respond to nationalism, terrorism, trade, human rights, environmental challenges, power and justice, and explore regional leadership issues.

  Schedule Of Classes

• LEAD 220 - Leadership for Change-Making

  LEAD 220 - Leadership for Change-Making

  4.00 credit hours

  Students will explore the theories of leadership from relational and ethical perspectives. Students will engage specifically with the ideas of self and others, self in communities and organizations, and self in relation to growth and change. Attention will be paid to leadership directed at social change in a variety of real world contexts.

  Schedule Of Classes

• LEAD 320 - Ethical Leadership

  LEAD 320 - Ethical Leadership

  4.00 credit hours

  What connects all leaders is that they attempt to guide or inspire the conduct of others (their employees, colleagues, fellow citizens, and so on). Our study of ethical leadership will investigate both what it means to be an ethical leader at a personal level (i.e., a leader, with the right values and character, who acts properly) and collective level (i.e., a leader who inspires ethical action in others). We will analyze examples of leadership at the top (e.g., business CEOs) and from the bottom (e.g., activists and whistleblowers). The course is organized in four sections, each centered on its own theme: (1) developing a toolkit for ethical decision making; (2) understanding the sources of moral failures; (3) developing ethical leaders; and (4) investigating leadership in the face of great moral conflict. Students will end the course by developing group projects that apply course material to a specific case of successful (or failed) leadership.

  Schedule Of Classes

• LEAD 390 - Seminar on Leadership Theory

  LEAD 390 - Seminar on Leadership Theory

  4.00 credit hours

  The goal of the seminar is to gain familiarity with the considerations involved in framing a comprehensive theory of leadership with special emphasis upon the connections between leadership, values and ethics. In independent projects students relate major theories about leadership to the study of specific leader/constituent relationships.

  Schedule Of Classes

Required Courses

Applied Leadership Experience

One of the following:

• Service in an North Central College organizational leadership position (e.g., student government, residence life staff, service trip coordinator).

• Service in an North Central College athletic leadership position (e.g., Team Captain).

• Completion of LEAD 360 - Precepting, or service in some other approved academic leadership position

• Completion of LEAD 494 - Capstone: Applied Leadership, a LEAD approved internship experience involving significant leadership components.

• Completion of a College Scholars Honors Thesis (HONR 400) with significant leadership and/or ethics dimentions.

Note: Students are encouraged to propose additional leadership applications to satisfy this component of the Leadership Concentration to the Director of the Leadership, Ethics and Values Program.

Leadership Readiness Portfolio

The Leadership Readiness Porfolio (electronic or hard-copy) must include all of the following:

• Evidence of completion of the Applied Leadership Experience.

• Copies of no fewer than three major written assignments submitted in one of the leadership concentration required courses.

• A concluding/capstone personal statement reflecting on completion of your college career and of the Strengths Assessment, not to exceed three pages.

• A complete resume.

• Completion of all requirements for either a North Central College B.S. or B.A. degree.