Leadership & Human Relations

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The leadership and human relations minor is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to excel as leaders, collaborators, and communicators in diverse settings. This minor will help you develop team building skills as well as enhance your ability to problem solve and think critically.

Degrees

Leadership & Human Relations

Minor

A Great Fit For

Those with the goal of becoming better leaders both in their future careers and in society at large
Individuals looking to develop their communication and problem-solving skills
Anyone who thrives in team environments
Students from any discipline

How the Leadership & Human Relations Minor benefits you:

Build relationships with your peers and professors to foster a collaborative environment.
Gain a deep understanding of various rhetorical strategies that improve your ability to communicate and present ideas effectively.
Develop the emotional intelligence and social understanding necessary to be successful as a leader in a work or social setting.
Work with community members to solve problems and manage projects.
Reflect on what it means to be an effective leader and examine the role of ethics in leadership.

FEATURED COURSES

REQUIRED

There is no course description available at this time.

REQUIRED

Discover and enhance strategies for building communications skills in small group settings.

ELECTIVE

Satisfies the Integrated Experience requirement. Students enrolled in this course will have the opportunity to gain an unusual level of self-awareness as the course explores a wide array of leadership theories and applications. Students will then use their new knowledge of leadership as a foundation for the study of ethics as the subject relates to contemporary business, social and civic responsibility. This course will have a research paper which will qualify for the writing endorsement for the department. This course will also have a service learning component based on needs assessment and delivery of support to at-risk populations in the Siouxland area.

ELECTIVE

Students will research topics such as water management, renewable energy, trade issues, and corporate versus individual food production practices. The course will emphasize information and the need to analysis of questions and discovery of problems and solutions based on research from both humanities and non-humanities perspectives. Course culminates with a grant proposal.

PLAN OF STUDY

WHY STUDY AT MORNINGSIDE?

13:1

student/faculty ratio so you’re assured a quality education focused on you

99%

employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation

65+

majors & pre-professional programs available

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