Civic Leadership Minor

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(24 semester hours)

The civic leadership minor prepares active, engaged citizens who devise and implement responses to complex contemporary issues through grassroots activism and leadership in political, philanthropic, and business sectors. The program is intellectually and experientially based, giving balanced attention to theoretical understanding and civic capacity building.

Required courses (15 semester hours):

PHIL 201 - Ethics and the Good Life 3 hours.
PSCI 107 - United States Diversity: Contemporary American Issues 3 hours.
PSCI 201 - American Government 3 hours.
PSCI 330 - Introduction to Public Administration 3 hours.
WS 450 - Student Activism in Theory and Practice 3 hours.

Electives(9 semester hours):

Internship or fieldwork or

RCSM 485 - Community Development and Nonprofit Organizations 3 hours

and:

Approved electives open to any major (3-6 semester hours):

Students who take 6 hours of internship/fieldwork/RCSM 485 will take 3 hours of approved electives; students who take 3 hours of internship/fieldwork/RCSM 485 will take 6 hours of approved electives.

COMM 311 - Interpersonal Communication 3 hours.
COMM 312 - Introduction to Persuasion Theory 3 hours.
COMM 416 - Cross-Cultural Communication 3 hours.
COMM 455 - Organizational Communication 3 hours.
COMM 469 - Public Relations Case Studies 3 hours.
COMM 470 - Public Relations Campaign Planning 3 hours.
COMM 483 - Gender Communication 3 hours.
COUN 415 - Group Dynamics Laboratory 3 hours
CRIM 222 - Police-Community Relations 3 hours
ELAF 200 - Education and Community 3 hours.
GEOG 356 - Water and Environmental Health 3 hours.
GEOG 411 - Conservation of Natural Resources 3 hours.
GEOG 431 - Urban Geography 3 hours.
GEOG 432 - Political Geography 3 hours.
HIST 404 - Internship in Public History 3 hours
HLTH 210 - Principles of Environmental Health 3 hours
HLTH 352 - Environmental Laws and Administration 3 hours
PHIL 306 - Business Ethics 3 hours.
PSCI 305 - State and Local Government 3 hours.
PSCI 308 - The Judicial Process 3 hours.
PSCI 495 - Internship in Political Science 3-9 hours
PSCI 497 - Field Work in Political Science 1-6 hours.
PSY 270 - Psychological Orientation to Social Psychology 3 hours.
PSY 340 - Cognition in Everyday Life 3 hours.
RCSM 150 - Introduction to Nonprofit Management 3 hours
RCSM 462 - American Humanics Management Institute 1 hour
SOWK 130 - Introduction to the Fields of Social Welfare 3 hours
SOWK 240 - Family and Child Welfare 3 hours
WS 200 - Introduction to Women’s Studies 3 hours.
WS 475 - Fieldwork in Women’s Studies 3 hours.

Note:

Students may petition for courses not listed above to count for approved elective credit.

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