Leadership Studies Minor

The 18-unit Minor in Leadership Studies is a multi-disciplinary program providing students the opportunity to study and practice leadership from multiple disciplines, including both theoretical and experiential components, emphasizing active learning and community service.

Regardless of one’s academic major, this minor seeks to improve a student’s abilities for leadership roles in their chosen field. The program has four components: theoretical, experiential, skill building and a culminating capstone.

The minor in Leadership Studies will prepare students of all majors to study the qualities and skills of effective leaders and apply these concepts to improve their leadership behaviors and ethical decision making that effects constructive and effective change. The program seeks to educate students to be prepared to serve as leaders in their professions and in their community.

The Leadership Studies Minor emphasizes ethical, cultural, historical, organizational, philosophical, political, psychological, societal and ethical dimensions of leadership. Students will learn the nature of leadership, examine strategies for effecting change and practice ways to become a better leader in multi-cultural contexts.

The program is comprised of courses from Business, Communications, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Political Science and International Studies and Psychology. Additional courses are offered by all other academic departments on campus: History, Social and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies. Conversations with Art, Art History, Digital Arts and Music will be pursued to identify applicable courses.

Students contemplating a Leadership Studies minor are required to meet with their major advisor, and then the advisor for the Minor in Leadership Studies, preferably by the beginning of their sophomore year.

• At least 12 of the 18 units in the minor must be Upper Division.
• No more than 9 units of the 18 may also be used for the major and/or GE.
• Students must complete at least 12 of the 18 units of the requirements for the minor in Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California.