Political and Civic Engagement Program
Minor in Leaders and Leadership
Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements LEADLDRMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 16 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Core Course. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 100 Leaders and Leadership
PACE-C 100 Leaders and Leadership
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An interdisciplinary introduction to concepts of leaders and leadership. Includes research, comparison and analysis of different leaders and leadership styles; examines how the history and theories of leadership evolved; and covers how leaders thrive in different cultural settings, typically in strong relationship with followers.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Introductory Elective*. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 250 Leadership and Public Policy
- PACE-S 250 Honors Leadership and Public Policy
- College of Arts and Sciences electives
- AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
- ENG-L 208 Topics in English and American Literature and Culture
- ENG-R 209 Topics in Rhetoric and Public Culture
- ENG-R 223 Group Communication
- ENG-R 224 Persuasion
- ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
- HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes
- HIST-B 270 Inside Nazi Germany
- HIST-C 220 Ancient Leaders and Leadership
- INTL-I 103 Global Business: Politics, Policy, and Practice
- INTL-I 203 Global Development
- INTL-I 212 Negotiating Global Challenges
- PHIL-P 145 Liberty and Justice: A Philosophical Introduction
- PHYS-P 133 Physics for Future Leaders
- POLS-Y 202 Politics and Citizenship in the Information Age
- POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
- POLS-Y 243 Governance and Corruption across the World
- POLS-Y 249 Religion, Politics, and Public Policy
- REL-R 170 Religion, Ethics, and Public Life
- SOC-S 205 Gender and Leadership
- SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
- SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
- Electives Outside the College
- SPEA-V 236 Managing and Leading Organizations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary introduction to American public leadership and policy making. Explores theoretical and empirical work on American politics and civil society from the local community to the nation\'s capital. Introduces skills of effective political and civic engagement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PACE-C 211, PACE-C 250, or PACE-S 250.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- For students in the Hutton Honors College. Interdisciplinary introduction to American public leadership and policy making. Explores theoretical and empirical work on American politics and civil society from the local community to the nation's capital. Introduces skills of effective political and civic engagement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PACE-C 211, PACE-C 250, or PACE-S 250.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of a social movement, an institutional structure, or an otherwise clearly delimited arena of social regulation and public activity. Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of social study. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourseSpring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected works of English or American literature in relation to a single cultural problem or theme. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once for credit.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how rhetorical practice shapes public culture. May focus on a medium or mode of rhetorical practice, such as documentary film, social movement, or political speech; a theme or issue, such as race, gender, or democracy; or a particular historical period. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum total of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 209 and ENG-R 209.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how to be good and effective members of a group or team, how to occupy different group communication roles skillfully, how to build toward an ideal of democratic participation and decision-making, and how to become reflective about communication processes.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Motivational appeals in influencing behavior; psychological factors in speaker-audience relationship; contemporary examples of persuasion. Practice in persuasive speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 324 or ENG-R 224.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Integrates service with learning to develop research and writing skills requisite for most academic and professional activities. Students volunteer at a community service agency, write an assignment for public use by the agency, and perform coursework culminating in a research paper on a related social issue.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course offers an introduction to the history of the European Middle Ages through the study of its heroes. It also teaches skills necessary for students to succeed in any field of history.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the Nazis' origins, vision, and appeal, and the path to war and destruction. Examines how far the Nazis were able to revolutionize German society, the nature of Nazi violence, the challenges they posed to the international community, and their ultimate failure and defeat.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A close, critical and transdisciplinary study of leadership in ancient Greece and Rome--an investigation which intimately involves students in the lives of the leaders themselves as well as in the overriding cultural, political and social frameworks that defined these individuals as 'leaders' in the first place.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses political, economic, historical, and cultural approaches to analyze case studies of opportunities and challenges generated by multinational enterprises.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; introduces theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines issues in contemporary diplomacy and governance. Topics may include conflict resolution, the operation of international organizations such as the United Nations, and diplomatic relations.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamental problems of social and political philosophy: the nature of the state, political obligation, freedom and liberty, equality, justice, rights, social change, revolution, and community. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Physics developments have led to technologies such as the internet and cell phones. This course introduces physics concepts and fields of research and future developments they may enable and provides a foundation to evaluate the technological, economic, and societal impacts of such developments. Designed primarily for students in non-science fields.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the influence of the news media on citizen preferences and behavior in the information age. Analysis of the forces shaping the media, the relation between the media and politics, and the effect on citizens. Topics include decision making and development of critical skills in response to the information age.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Nature and justifications for democratic politics and the problems confronting democracy today. Demise of liberalism in America; rise of identity politics and its significance; racial inequality and the problems of deliberative democracy; problems of political alienation and participation.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of problems of governance and corruption in developing and/or more developed countries. Examines conditions for effective governance and challenges to economic growth and provision of public goods. Addresses political causes and consequences of corruption. Case studies will vary and may be drawn from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and North America.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the effects of religious belief, behavior, and institutions on political processes and public policy. Implications of religion as an alternative source of public legitimacy in contemporary societies. Topics may include controversies or developments in American, comparative, or international politics.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores religious convictions and their consequences for judgments about personal and social morality, including such issues as sexual morality, medical ethics, questions of socio-economic organization, and moral judgments about warfare.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Why are fewer women than men in leadership positions? This course examines the disparity using an evidence-based approach, including information from scholarly and popular works of the press. Explores how students of both genders can become better leaders. Provides an overview of how social scientists understand gender and other categories of identity as social.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the sociological study of economic action. Provides an overview of the sociological perspective of the economy on all levels--from the actions of individuals in economic situations, to organizational behavior, to the dynamics of markets and global capitalism.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Personality and its development; relationship to culture and communication and to social settings; deviant types.
- Repeatability
- Credit not given for both SOC-H 230 and SOC-S 230.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Description
- Course introduces domestic and global challenges of management in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Examines a range of management concepts and how they can be applied in a contemporary setting. Topics include the organizational environment as well as employee attitudes, cognition, behavior, and performance.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Advanced Electives*. Nine (9) credit hours:
- PACE-C 300 Issues in Political and Civic Engagement
- PACE-C 350 Leadership, Social Movements, and Modern American Politics
- College of Arts and Sciences electives
- AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- CJUS-P 408 Mass Imprisonment
- CJUS-P 419 Race, Class, and Crime
- CLAS-C 351 Change and Innovation in Greece
- CLAS-C 361 Ancient Roman Revolutions
- ECON-E 327 Game Theory
- ECON-E 337 Economic Development
- ENG-R 340 The Rhetoric of Social Movements
- FRIT-M 334 Power and Imagination in Italy
- GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
- GEOG-G 417
- GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
- GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
- HIST-B 356 French Revolution and Napoleon
- HIST-C 377 Greek History: The Persian Wars to the Legacy of Alexander
- HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
- HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
- MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics
- MSCH-S 312 Politics and the Media
- PHIL-P 343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL-P 345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy
- PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
- POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society
- POLS-Y 303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
- POLS-Y 315 Political Psychology and Socialization
- POLS-Y 318 The American Presidency
- POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
- POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
- PSY-P 304 Social Psychology and Individual Differences
- PSY-P 323 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- PSY-P 430 Behavior Modification
- PSY-P 452 Psychology in the Business Environment
- PSY-Y 419 The Psychology of Gender, Work, and Leadership
- REL-A 485 The Life and Legacy of Muhammad
- REL-C 420 Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in American Religion
- REL-D 430 Problems in Social Ethics
- REL-R 300 Studies in Religion (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- SOC-S 302 Organizations in Society
- SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
- SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- SOC-S 410 Topics in Social Organization
- SOC-S 431 Topics in Social Psychology
- Electives Outside the College
- AERO-A 201 Team and Leadership Fundamentals I
- AERO-A 202 Team and Leadership Fundamentals II
- AERO-A 301 Leading People and Effective Communication I
- AERO-A 302 Leading People and Effective Communication II
- BUS-G 303 Game Theory for Business Strategy
- BUS-J 306 Strategic Management and Leadership
- BUS-J 375 Strategic Management
- BUS-Z 302 Managing and Behavior in Organizations
- BUS-Z 370 I-Core - Leadership Component
- BUS-Z 447 Leadership, Teamwork and Diversity
- EDUC-A 200 Leadership in Educational Organizations
- SPEA-A 450 Contemporary Topics in Arts Administration
- SPEA-V 362
- SPEA-V 404 Advanced Public Management
- SPEA-V 412 Leadership and Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive study and analysis of selected political or civic engagement issues. Topics will vary and will be listed in the online
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of six credit hours in PACE-C 200 and PACE-C 300.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Case studies of leaders and social movements across the political spectrum and their impact on politics in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. Introduces social movement and leadership theories and how they illuminate these studies. Provides opportunities for students to develop their own leadership skills.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers visual artistic production (painting, sculpture, photography, and film) during the American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourseSpring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the fight for civil rights by protest organizations such as Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality; the emergence of black leaders such as King, Farmer, and Malcolm X; the challenge posed by Black Power advocates in the Black Panthers and Black Muslims; and the changes in American society made by the black revolution.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- From 1970 to 2010, the United States quintupled its prison population. This course investigates the factors (cultural, legal, political, and economic) that led to the incarceration boom and provides students with the empirical and normative tools to evaluate its causes and consequences.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the contemporary realities associated with race and crime. Consideration of the social, political, and economic factors that shape the life chances of American minorities; theories of minority crime causation; minorities in the criminal justice system; definitional problems associated with concepts of race and crime.
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourseSpring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ancient Greece experienced watershed moments that sparked dramatic socio-political change and artistic achievements, such as the invention of democracy in fifth-century Athens and the military campaigns of Alexander the Great. This course explores one of these moments within its cultural and historical contexts through the study of ancient literary and material evidence.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The Roman world experienced revolutionary eras that generated socio-political change and artistic achievements, such as the crisis of the Republic, the Empire under Augustus, and the Rome of Nero. This course explores one of these eras within its cultural and historical contexts through study of ancient literary and material evidence.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ECON-E 321 or ECON-S 321
- Description
- Mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. Noncooperative games played once or repeatedly, with perfect or imperfect information. Necessary condition for a solution (equilibrium) as well as sufficient conditions (refinements). Cooperative games, such as bargaining and market games. Numerous applications, including experimental games.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ECON-E 321 or ECON-S 321
- Description
- Characteristics of economically underdeveloped countries. Obstacles to sustained growth; planning and other policies for stimulating growth; examination of development problems and experience in particular countries.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces rhetorical theories and practices which inform and are informed by the study of social movements. Topics vary and focus on a specific social movement or a range of social movements.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum total of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 340 and ENG-R 340.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary approach to the interrelationship of literature, visual culture, and history.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SLcourseSpring 2025CASE SLcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How has nature been appropriated, reworked, and produced under capitalism; conversely, how does the materiality of nature shape the conditions of capitalism? In this seminar, we will investigate how relations between capitalism and nature have evolved from the end of feudalism through the current neoliberal era.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SLcourseSpring 2025CASE SLcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to global environmental change (GEC), focusing on the human causes and consequences of biophysical transformations of land systems. Emphasis on socioeconomic, political, institutional, and environmental dimensions of land change; tropical forests, grasslands, and urbanizing areas; international environmental regimes; spatial methodologies in GEC research, and integrated approaches.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Crisis of Old Regime; middle-class and popular revolt; from constitutional monarchy to Jacobin commonwealth; the Terror and revolutionary government; expansion of revolution in Europe; rise and fall of Napoleonic empire.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of ancient Greek history, ranging from the aftermath of the early fifth century B.C. clash with the Persians and subsequent Athenian Empire to the Hellenistic era initiated by the conquests of Alexander the Great.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-C 377 or HIST-C 387.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Biographies of a number of Russia\'s most colorful personalities and the times in which they lived; among them, Ivan the Terrible, Pugachev, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Bakunin, Tolstoy, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Russian empire under Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Napoleon\'s invasion, expansion across Asia into the Americas, nationalism, war, and revolution. Other topics include daily life of the common people, gender issues, religion, and the emergence of a modern industrial society.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-D 308 or HIST-D 409.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of media in the political process. Topic varies and may include censorship and free speech, social movements, politics of representation.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 445 or MSCH-F 445.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relationship between media and modern politics. Topics will vary.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-S 312 or TEL-T 312.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours in philosophy
- Description
- Readings from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, and Marx. Topics include the ideal state, the nature and proper ends of the state, natural law and natural right, social contract theory, and the notion of community.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours in Philosophy or in a field related to the course. Students without this background should take PHIL-P 145
- Description
- Problems of contemporary relevance: civil disobedience, participatory democracy, conscience and authority, law and morality.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Allegiance to a philosophical vision of "the right" and "the good" seems to be an important foundation for successful leadership. This course aims to study the connections between leadership and philosophy, by focusing on diverse and illuminating case studies of philosophically-informed leaders such as George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories of American party activity; behavior of political parties, interest groups, and social movements; membership in groups; organization and structure; evaluation and relationship to the process of representation.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines public bureaucracy, with special emphasis upon the United States, as a political phenomenon engaging in policy-making and in the definition of the terms of policy issues. Considers the role of bureaucratic instruments in promoting social change, and in responding to it.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Processes and institutions involved in the formation of public policy in American society.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of the relationship between personality and politics. Use of major psychological theories and concepts to understand the attitudes and behavior of mass publics and political elites.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the American presidency both in historical setting and in contemporary context. Topics such as presidential elections, roles and resources of the president, structures and processes of the presidency, presidential leadership and behavior, relationships of the presidency and other participants in policy making.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the ethical responsibilities of public officials in democratic societies. It explores such topics as the meaning of moral leadership, the appeal to personal conscious in public decision making, and the problem of "dirty hands" among others. A special concern is how institutional arrangements affect moral choices.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exposition and critical analysis of the major political philosophers and philosophical schools from Machiavelli to the present.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 101 and PSY-P 102; or PSY-P 155
- Description
- A foundations course illustrating how psychological questions and problems can be addressed from the social, group, and individual differences level of analysis.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PSY-P 304 or PSY-P 320.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 101 and PSY-P 102; or PSY-P 155
- Description
- The application of psychological data and theory to the behavior of individuals within organizational settings. Special emphasis on critical assessment of applied techniques.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 324 or PSY-P 325
- Description
- Principles, techniques, and applications of behavior modification, including reinforcement, aversive conditioning, observational learning, desensitization, self-control, and modification of cognitions.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 101 or PSY-P 155; and one additional 300 or 400-level course in psychology
- Notes
- R: PSY-P 304 or PSY-P 320
- Description
- The application of psychological methods and theory to business settings including marketing, human resources, consulting, and human factors.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-K 300 or equivalent; and PSY-P 304
- Description
- Examines the empirical literature addressing who tends to emerge as leaders, in what conditions, and why; what defines good leadership; and how individuals and institutions can best promote the success of all employees. Covers negotiation, mentorship and networking, and work/life integration and boundaries.
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the ways in which sacred biography is used in various contexts to develop theories of authority and history. Applies theories and methods of textual interpretation to the earliest known biography of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632 C.E.).
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-A 485 or REL-R 467.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the religious thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in the context of American religious cultures.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-C 420 or REL-R 438.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive study of a selected problem in religion and society such as religion and American politics, war and conscience, medical ethics.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics and movements in religion.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of the internal structure of firms and other complex organizations, and their power in society. Considers how organizations are shaped by the state, suppliers, competitors, and clients; investigates how organizational structure shapes attitudes of managers and workers. Other topics include technology and organizational culture, organizational birth, death, and adaptation processes.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interrelations of politics and society, with emphasis on formation of political power, its structure, and its change in different types of social systems and cultural-historical settings.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspective on work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers; and how work has changed over time.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester, e.g., social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, politics, demography, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., socialization, personality development, small-group structures and processes, interpersonal relations, language and human behavior, attitude formation and change, collective behavior, public opinion.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourseSpring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- Managerial decisions are not static and cannot be made in isolation. A manager must take into account and react to the "moves" of rival firms, government, and his or her subordinates and superiors within the company. Game theory is designed for the study of these types of interactions. The ultimate aim of the course is to strengthen your ability to think strategically in business situations, rather than to teach you facts or theories.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- The primary objective of this course is to help develop analytical skills in identifying key strategic issues and formulating appropriate strategies given a firm's situation. The course will provide exposure to the theories, concepts, and techniques of strategic management through the text, readings, company examples, in-class exercises, video vignettes, and guest speakers.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- This course is about the creation and maintenance of strong long-term organizational performance. This means that it is concerned with both the determination of strategic directions and the management of the strategic process.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- Integration of behavior and organizational theories. Application of concepts and theories toward improving individual, group, and organizational performance. Builds from behavioral foundation toward an understanding of managerial processes.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- Course will cover three main areas: 1)introduce concept of employees as a human resource, how leaders can combine personalities, knowledge, skills, and abilities of individual workers to achieve firm's goals; 2) learn principles of peer-to-peer feedback and tools to analyze team effectiveness; 3) focus on leadership of an organization.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- This course uses a "matrix approach" to provide an integrated experience for the student. Ultimately, this course aims to strengthen students' leadership potential, their ability to be an effective team member of a high performing team, and to understand, respect, and value diversity.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- This course provides students with an introduction to the forms, types, and purposes of leadership in educational organizations. The course considers individual, group, and distributed forms of leadership. Within this course, students will identify the qualities of different leadership approaches and their application in specific settings.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- Extensive analysis of selected contemporary topics in Arts Administration. Topics vary from semester to semester.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- This course advances the effective management of public organizations by presenting a range of theories and ideas relevant to management and leadership of organizations and the people within them. Topics and skills include organizational structure, decision making, implementing new government programs, innovation, and assessing government performance.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Description
- This course is designed to examine the complex leadership issues and challenges facing communities and explore how citizens and government can work together to address these challenges. This includes exploration of how the problems, conflicts, and dilemmas encountered by leaders when making decisions must be considered within an ethical framework.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Experiential Learning. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 200 Issue Forum
- PACE-C 440 Forum Discussion Leader
- PACE-X 473 Internship in Political and Civic Engagement
- ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience (any topic)
- SPEA-V 482 Overseas Topics in Public Affairs
PACE-C 200 Issue Forum
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Dialogue and deliberation activities structured as a half-day forum during which participants interact with an expert panel and discuss a current controversial issue previously selected by PACE student leaders. Includes a pre-forum assignment, active participation in the forum, and a post-forum response paper.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours in PACE-C 200 and PACE-C 400.
PACE-C 440 Forum Discussion Leader
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- Consent of program
- Description
- Training in facilitation of democratic deliberation as preparation for leading small group discussions for the PACE Issue Forum. Includes training, practice, service at the Issue Forum, and debriefing meeting. Final reflection paper required.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.
PACE-X 473 Internship in Political and Civic Engagement
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of program
- Description
- Students will complete a mentored internship providing field experience in political and civic engagement. Includes an orientation session before and a structured evaluation afterward.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in PACE-C 410 and PACE-X 473.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- At least sophomore standing
- Description
- Explores the relationship between academic and extracurricular choices and life after graduation. Students assess their skills, develop a portfolio to highlight them, and create a plan to address gaps. Focuses on a paradigm of job searching that emphasizes research and highly customized, focused application materials.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of the following: ASCS-Q 296, BUS-T 275, or SPEA-V 252.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
SPEA-V 482 Overseas Topics in Public Affairs
- Description
- SPEA Abroad Program: study of selected topics in public affairs. Topics vary from semester to semester.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Exceptions to minor requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
PACE-C 250 Leadership and Public Policy
PACE-S 250 Honors Leadership and Public Policy
AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
ENG-L 208 Topics in English and American Literature and Culture
ENG-R 209 Topics in Rhetoric and Public Culture
ENG-R 223 Group Communication
ENG-R 224 Persuasion
ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes
HIST-B 270 Inside Nazi Germany
HIST-C 220 Ancient Leaders and Leadership
INTL-I 103 Global Business: Politics, Policy, and Practice
INTL-I 203 Global Development
INTL-I 212 Negotiating Global Challenges
PHIL-P 145 Liberty and Justice: A Philosophical Introduction
PHYS-P 133 Physics for Future Leaders
POLS-Y 202 Politics and Citizenship in the Information Age
POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
POLS-Y 243 Governance and Corruption across the World
POLS-Y 249 Religion, Politics, and Public Policy
REL-R 170 Religion, Ethics, and Public Life
SOC-S 205 Gender and Leadership
SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
SPEA-V 236 Managing and Leading Organizations
PACE-C 300 Issues in Political and Civic Engagement
PACE-C 350 Leadership, Social Movements, and Modern American Politics
AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
CJUS-P 408 Mass Imprisonment
CJUS-P 419 Race, Class, and Crime
CLAS-C 351 Change and Innovation in Greece
CLAS-C 361 Ancient Roman Revolutions
ECON-E 327 Game Theory
ECON-E 337 Economic Development
ENG-R 340 The Rhetoric of Social Movements
FRIT-M 334 Power and Imagination in Italy
GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
HIST-B 356 French Revolution and Napoleon
HIST-C 377 Greek History: The Persian Wars to the Legacy of Alexander
HIST-D 303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
HIST-D 308 Empire of the Tsars
MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics
MSCH-S 312 Politics and the Media
PHIL-P 343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL-P 345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society
POLS-Y 303 Formation of Public Policy in the United States
POLS-Y 315 Political Psychology and Socialization
POLS-Y 318 The American Presidency
POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
PSY-P 304 Social Psychology and Individual Differences
PSY-P 323 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
PSY-P 430 Behavior Modification
PSY-P 452 Psychology in the Business Environment
PSY-Y 419 The Psychology of Gender, Work, and Leadership
REL-A 485 The Life and Legacy of Muhammad
REL-C 420 Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in American Religion
REL-D 430 Problems in Social Ethics
REL-R 300 Studies in Religion
SOC-S 302 Organizations in Society
SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
SOC-S 410 Topics in Social Organization
SOC-S 431 Topics in Social Psychology
AERO-A 201 Team and Leadership Fundamentals I
AERO-A 202 Team and Leadership Fundamentals II
AERO-A 301 Leading People and Effective Communication I
AERO-A 302 Leading People and Effective Communication II
BUS-G 303 Game Theory for Business Strategy
BUS-J 306 Strategic Management and Leadership
BUS-J 375 Strategic Management
BUS-Z 302 Managing and Behavior in Organizations
BUS-Z 370 I-Core - Leadership Component
BUS-Z 447 Leadership, Teamwork and Diversity
EDUC-A 200 Leadership in Educational Organizations
SPEA-A 450 Contemporary Topics in Arts Administration
SPEA-V 404 Advanced Public Management
SPEA-V 412 Leadership and Ethics
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