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Course Objectives:
The primary objective of this course is to equip the student with historical and theoretical perspectives of leadership styles.
The historical, fictional, and theoretical examples can then be used to analyze current managerial conditions and challenges, with a view toward developing one's own management philosophy and leadership style.
This course will also provide the student with the opportunity to examine leadership "in extremis" -- that is, in extreme conditions, when pushed to psychological, physical, and political limits. The student will have an opportunity to examine the decisions made and to subject them to a rigorous examination. Would you have made the same decision? Were the values sound or flawed? What are the ethical dilemmas?
Finally, the course looks at how one begins to form an approach for influencing one's environment, and for analyzing how and why individuals make their choices. The focus is on effectiveness, and learning how to develop one's strengths in order to achieve personal goals.
Course Description:
The Literature of Leadership presents the student with an opportunity to read literature and literary accounts of leaders and leadership situations, and to make connections to one's own life situations and goals. The course includes several genres, including memoirs, fiction, biography, and essays, and encourages the students to engage with a wide variety of philosophical issues and to develop creative and strategic approaches and responses to them.
The areas of leadership focus that will be foregrounded include the following: leadership and the preservation of the state and/or organization; leadership in the pursuit of community development, social justice and societal reform, and leadership of self in the pursuit of duty, self-actualization, and vision.
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