CS 299 - Leadership

Credits: 1
LEC hours per week: 1
Encourage students to develop awareness of their leadership potential and abilities through small group discussions and assumption of leadership roles and responsibilities. Students will acquire information, experience diverse points of view, construct knowledge and practice a variety of interpersonal and social skills, such as communicating, goal-setting, decision-making, team-building, and managing stress.
Course Outcomes:

Demonstrate the ability to describe the characteristics of leadership
Demonstrate the ability to accurately define leadership
Demonstrate an understanding of leadership through a discussion of the major roles of a leader
Describe the differences between leadership and management
Demonstrate an understanding of interpersonal behaviors and the resulting effects upon working relationships
Demonstrate an understanding of stress and its impact upon effective leadership
Demonstrate an understanding of basic parliamentary procedure and its role in the conduct of meetings
Demonstrate an understanding of conflict resolution by identifying the basic types of conflict, conditions that lead to conflict, and methods of facilitating conflict resolution
Demonstrate an understanding of change management attitudes and the need to plan for change

Course Topics:

Diverse points of view
Interpersonal and social skills
Communicating with others in the workplace
Goal-setting
Decision making
Team building
Managing stress

Course Attribute(s): None