Leadership Minor
Learning to Lead
The Leadership Minor helps you develop your leadership skills so that
you can have significant impacts on your community and your workplace.
To achieve this goal, Otterbein will:
- Help you develop skills, knowledge, tools
and techniques, perspectives, and attitudes and values that can be
applied to leadership in various settings, including community service
and social change.
- Provide students who have an interest in
community service with the opportunity to develop specific tools and
skills that can be applied to social change and community development.
- Provide students who have an interest in
leadership in various settings with opportunities to gain an
understanding of leadership perspectives.
- Provide student with interests in
leadership with the opportunity to interact with community leaders in
various settings and with opportunities to practice leadership.
You will gain unforgettable leadership consciousness aligned with
contemporary leadership theory, perspective, skills, and practices. It
is our sense that students who learn leadership concepts and
applications, who receive training in leadership skills, and who
practice leadership through service-learning develop as leaders and also
find an important complement to their learning in their majors and in
Otterbein's liberal arts core.
Courses
The Leadership minor consists of four required core courses and your
choice of one elective. See the Undergraduate Catalog for more information.
Each course is focused on your personal development, your
understanding of and your sense of responsibility to adopt the
leadership perspective
that personal development depends on human development. As you move
through the series of courses, you will:
- Explore your individual leadership potentials;
- Understand and apply leadership theories,
perspectives, and skills in organizational communication, negotiation,
collaboration, empowering others, team building, and interpersonal
communication; and
- Following direct contact with community
and workplace leaders, learn, shape, and apply leadership strategies,
team learning and change models in organizations.
Commitment to Community Engagement
The Leadership minor integrates Otterbein's commitment to
service-learning, the effectiveness of the service-learning pedagogy,
and the University's success as an engaged campus. Each course employs
service-learning pedagogy designed to assure that you develop and
exercise a commitment to community service and develop skills related to
that classes you are taking that can be applied to you future role as a
citizen and professional in your field. See the
Center for Community Engagement site for more about Otterbein's commitment to
community service.