- Do you want to develop your leadership
abilities?
- Are you interested in being more effective
personally and in your interactions with others?
- Do you aspire to become a leader on campus?
- Does a dynamic and engaged community both
in and out of the classroom appeal to you?
What This Learning Community Is About
Students will develop their sense of citizenship and personal responsibility
with a special focus on Leadership styles and skills. Students will learn
practices for effective living and exemplary student leadership styles.
Students in Leadership will:
- take a one-credit workshop on LEADERSHIP that meets weekly.
- Students explore leadership in order to help them become more
effective as individuals and in relationship to others.
- This workshop style course stresses an active approach to leadership
in which students learn and practice valuable life-skills.
- Students study leadership skills and styles, and engage in group
projects to further their own skills.
- The
one-credit leadership class is taught by professional staff members from Student
Life, Campus Ministry and the faculty.
- The workshop class runs from August through early
March.
- be housed together in
St. Monica Hall on South campus with other members of the program.
- participate in a specially designed section of the first year seminar
course Augustine and
Culture Seminar (called ACS) with other residents in your hall.
- gain more because students and faculty interact in and out of class
creating a stronger community for first year students.
Students selected to participate will automatically be enrolled in a
designated section of the first year seminar course, ACS, and in the
Leadership 1-credit workshop (listed as VEXP). The
1-credit course is over and above the regular course load and is spread out
from the beginning of the school year through early March. It is designed
not to interfere with other academic requirements and is open to
students from all four colleges: Liberal
Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Nursing
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