HLD 121US  Leadership Foundations: 3 Credits (3 Lec)

This face-to-face and web-enhanced course provides students with the opportunity to understand and develop leadership skills by examining individual and organizational leadership effectiveness through experiential learning in and out of the classroom. This is an introductory course for students interested in obtaining the MSU Leadership Fellows Certificate, but all students interested in leadership and leader development are welcome.

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1. Students define leadership on an intrapersonal level; describe and explain fundamental leadership principles, models, and theories.
2. Students utilize foundational leadership principles, including complex adaptive leadership theory, to inform their own leader development and personal expressions of leading in ways that honor humanity.
3. Students accurately interpret, diagnose, and influence real-world situations in which positional and/or non-positional leadership is required.
4. Students are able to critically identify and operate effectively in interpersonal situations that require empowered followership.
5. Students design, investigate, and develop written papers and team-based oral presentations that connect leadership theory and leader behavior to effective organizations and positive organizational outcomes.
6. Students formulate, develop, and practice effective leader and empowered follower behaviors in and out of the classroom.