Minor in Community Leadership

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The Minor in Community Leadership provides students with knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be agents of change in their communities. Along with the foundational Intro to Community Leadership SOCI 3305 and the capstone internship course SOCI 4379, students are required to strengthen their communication skills in Community Applied Communication COMS 3385. The three core courses all feature the Academic Community Engagement (ACE) pedagogy giving students opportunities to apply knowledge and skills to meet community needs and gain professional experience. Three elective courses round out the minor providing students an interdisciplinary perspective on community leadership.

Minor in Community Leadership
Required Courses
COMS 3385Community Applied Communica3
SOCI 3305Intro to Community Leadership3
SOCI 4379Internship In Applied Sociolgy3
Choose 3 elective courses from the following:9
Prin of Ag Leadership/Comm Dev
Environmental Science
Successful Workplace Relations
Intercultural Business Comm
Small Group Communication
Professional Comm. Development
Law And Society
Professionalism & Ethics In CJ
Dance Pedagogy
Principles of Public Health
Community Health
Writing For Mass Media
Principles Of Public Relations
Contemporary Moral Issues
Nonprofit Organizations
Social Policy
Political Attitudes & Behavior
Introduction To Ethnic Studies
Social Inequality
Rural And Urban Sociology
Worksp Chldrns Creative Drama
Total Hours18