Students will explore the strategies and goals of the Organizational Leadership curriculum. Effective practices for intensive study are emphasized. Student activities designed to strengthen the group will occur and planning will begin for the group service project. Readings include texts from Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler and others examining the individual leader as a primary influence within the community. Other sources offer an alternative view of the leader as merely reflecting larger forces within the community.
Course lasts six weeks.
Students will learn computer writing and communicating skills including basic word processing, e-mail, network utilization and presentation software. Effective and efficient use of library and community resources will be explored. Course lasts six weeks. The course will provide a review of standard grammar, mechanics, and usage required to write and speak effectively, using students' own backgrounds and experiences as topics for their classroom work. Emphasis will be placed on peer collaboration and editing, as well as projects for presentations.