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About the Leadership Minor
The 17-credit Leadership Minor program is interdisciplinary, multidimensional, experiential, and global. As a participant, you will explore and experience multiple frameworks of leadership. The program prepares you for real-life leadership experiences, both on campus and in the larger global community by combining social change theories of leadership with authentic community leadership.
The Leadership Minor Explores Various Topics
- Personal vs. Positional Leadership
- Conflict Management
- Social Change
- Vision, Mission, and Goals
- Group and Team Development
- Adaptive, Integrative, and Citizen-Leadership approaches
- Leadership Theories/Philosophies/Frameworks
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Decision-Making
- Goal-Setting
- Systems Thinking
- Congruency
- Ethics and Values
Goals for the Leadership Minor
- Reinvigorate the education of undergraduate students within the University of Minnesota's learning community. The Leadership Minor will help accomplish this goal by incorporating inquiry-based and experiential-based instructional strategies that promote the success of its students, not only during their experience at the University of Minnesota, but throughout life.
- Incorporate a cross-discipline collaboration among the College of Education and Human Development, The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and the Office for Student Affairs to ensure that the program is relevant to students from different backgrounds, values, cultures, ethnicities, perspectives, and experiences.
- Become a vehicle for students in all majors to incorporate a leadership and citizenship component into their academic program as they prepare for the workplace and meaningful community involvement.
- Expose undergraduates to diverse career opportunities and provide meaningful opportunities for learning about leaders through field-based experiences, community-engagement, and other experiential and instructional strategies.
Expected Learner Outcomes
Students will:
- Gain an understanding of perspectives on leadership including frameworks, theory and practice, styles and models.
- Develop an evolving personal definition of what it means to lead and the role of personal responsibility in leadership throughout the course sequence of the Leadership Minor.
- Gain an understanding of leaderhip opportunities within the University and the larger community.
- Learn how to engage with others in order to affect change .
- Apply your knowledge of leadership in real-life settings .
- Understand the role of ethics, democratic citizenship, and social change in leadership.
- Demonstrate critical thinking through oral and written communication skills.
- Prepare to become a responsible citizen in a diverse, democratic society.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT:
Matthew Pryor
When I was a freshman, I had a difficult time transitioning from my small home town of New Ulm, MN to the 26,000 Undergraduate population of the University of Minnesota. In order to size down the University I joined a fraternity on campus, but realizing something was missing in my leadership development, I enrolled in the leadership minor. MORE
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT!
Katie Jurgenson
My leadership journey up to this point has been a very involved one, but a different one. I started out in the 1000 level class and before I knew it I was working in the office, I was a TA for multiple classes and I was deep in my passion for understanding and improving the Leadership Minor. While working through the summer I was allowed to further my understanding of the history, processes and issues surrounding the Minor. At that point I became completely involved in the future of the Minor. MORE
