Program Description
The leadership minor builds an understanding of, and an ability to demonstrate, leadership skills. It enhances and deepens an individual's ability to make sense of local, national and world events and the decisions made by individuals and groups with control over resources, and provides another set of conceptual tools for being a critical and responsible citizen of the world.
Curriculum
| Course | Credits |
| Required Courses | 12 |
| LEA 100 Introduction to Leadership | 3 |
| LEA 397 Internship* | 3 or 6 |
| LEA 399 Selected Topics in Leadership | 3 |
| LEA 400 Capstone: Seminar in Leadership | 3 |
| Leadership Electives | 9 |
| Students must select one course from each of the designated areas below, with at least two courses at the 300- or 400-level. Two of the three courses below must be outside the student’s major. | |
| Theory and Institutions Area | |
| BUS 342 Business/Society/Government | 3 |
| CDC 303 Organizational Com | 3 |
| CDC 330 Intro Public Relations | 3 |
| ECO 304 Money and Banking | 3 |
| FIN 311 Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| GEO 360 Emergency Management | 3 |
| HIS 320 History of a Dictator | 3 |
| HON 201 Quant Problem Solving | 3 |
| HON 320 Topics in Culture and Soc | 3 |
| JUS 101 Intro to Criminal Justice | 3 |
| JUS 361 Court Systems | 3 |
| JUS 496 Criminological Theories | 3 |
| MGT 300 Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGT 301 Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| MGT 311 Organizational Theory/Design | 3 |
| POS 300 Public Policy | 3 |
| POS 306 Congress | 3 |
| POS 310 The American Presidency | 3 |
| POS 355 Public Administration | 3 |
| SOC 240 Social Institutions | 3 |
| SOC 410 Social Theory/Policy | 3 |
| WST 100 Intro to Women's Studies | 3 |
| Applied Area | |
| ARB 101/102 Elementary Arabic | 3 |
| ARB 203/204 Intermediate Arabic | 3 |
| CDC 201 Argument and Advocacy | 3 |
| CDC 230 Strategic and Prof Comm | 3 |
| CDC 320 International Comm | 3 |
| CSC 150 Intro to Database Comm | 3 |
| ECO 322 Managerial Economics | 3 |
| ECO 360 International Economics | 3 |
| FIN 301 Financial Management | 3 |
| FIN 302 Advanced Financial Management | 3 |
| TOU 330 Meetings, Expositions and Conventions Operations | 3 |
| GEO 474 Developing Master Plan | 3 |
| GMS 201 General Military Science | 3 |
| JUS 305 International Criminal Justice | 3 |
| JUS 335 Corporate Security Law | 3 |
| JUS 365 Mock Trial Concepts | 3 |
| POS 318 Parties/Groups | 3 |
| POS 319 Campaign Management | 3 |
| PSY 208 Educational Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 211 Social Psychology | 3 |
| PSY 305 Psychology of Personality | 3 |
| REC 378 Recreation/Industry Management | 3 |
| SOC 378 Charismatic Leaders | 3 |
| SOC 400 Structural and Inst Violence | 3 |
| SPN 101/102 Elementary Spanish | 3 |
| SPN 203/204 Intermediate Spanish | 3 |
| Ethics Area | |
| BUS 343 Corporate Social Resp | 3 |
| EDU 310 Teaching Multicultural Society | 3 |
| ENG 306 Press Law and Media Ethics | 3 |
| HIS 379 Special Problems in History | 3 |
| JUS 394 Problems in Policing | 3 |
| JUS 415 Multiculturalism in CRJ | 3 |
| JUS 466 Leadership and Ethics | 3 |
| JUS 470 Crimes Against Children | 3 |
| PHI 220 Ethics | 3 |
| PHI 307 Medical Ethics | 3 |
| PHI 320 Ethical Theory | 3 |
| PSY 340 Psychological Measurements | 3 |
| SOC 315 Social Minorities | 3 |
| SPT 305 Ethics in Sport | 3 |
| WST 340 Violence Against Women | 3 |
| Total | 21 |
* If 6 credits of internship are completed, the student need not take LEA 399.
Program Notes: The leadership minor requires 21 credit hours, including an internship. Students must obtain permission prior to enrolling in the internship. The chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Psychology must approve course substitutions and internships.
Program Webpage
https://www.calu.edu/academics/undergraduate/bachelors/leadership/index.aspx