Option in Leadership

www.trentu.ca/politicalstudies

The Option in Leadership enables undergraduate students to accumulate knowledge in the area of leadership studies, and to highlight this academic concentration with the formal Option designation. This initiative is associated with Trent University’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership. Fundamentally, leadership is a social relationship that concerns how a group of people organize themselves to achieve certain common goals and objectives, usually (but not always) via the direction of a specific person or set of persons. The Option in Leadership aims to increase student education and training in the area of leadership and enable learners to signal their leadership capacity to future employers. To leverage the existing resources as well as reflect the interdisciplinary nature of leadership studies, the Option in Leadership is designed to reach across academic units and allow students to gain credits beyond any one single department or program.

Students are advised to plan course selection carefully in order to acquire needed prerequisites (see individual course descriptions).

Students may choose to graduate with only one of the Option in Leadership or the Certificate in Political Leadership.

Students who have fulfilled the requirements for an Honours or General degree in any subject may graduate with an Option in Leadership if they have successfully completed the following 4.0 credits:

• 0.5 POST credit consisting of POST 3850H

• 3.5 credits from the following:

  • ADMN 2010H

  • ADMN 2220H

  • ADMN 2230H

  • ADMN 3230H

  • ADMN 3800H

  • ADMN 4101H

  • ADMN 4250H

  • ADMN 4260H

  • ADMN 4440H

  • CAST 2003H

  • CAST 2090H

  • CAST 3094H

  • CAST 3665H

  • COMM 3001H

  • COMM 4001H

  • ERSC 1010H

  • ERSC 1020H

  • ERST 2520H

  • ERST 2525H

  • GDST 2030H

  • GDST 3030H

  • GDST 3120H

  • GDST 4150Y

  • GDST 4230H

  • GDST 4260H

  • GESO 2171H

  • GESO 2410H

  • GESO 2487H

  • GESO 2711H

  • GESO 3021H

  • GESO 3031H

  • GESO 3122H/4122H

  • GESO 3820Y/3821H

  • GESO 4820Y/4821H

  • PHIL 2420H

  • PHIL 2430H

  • PHIL 3050H

  • PHIL 3110H

  • PHIL 3180H

  • POST 2012H

  • POST 3091H

  • POST 3285H

  • POST 3620H

  • POST 3605H

  • POST 3672H

  • POST 4081H

  • POST 4505H