ILROB 4203

The Pragmatics of Leadership: Leading Change

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

Distance Learning. This course will introduce students to the practical skills of leadership and execution as the capacity to mobilize actors, sustain and manage, negotiate and coach. Based on the principles of collective action and the idea that leadership implies not simply charisma or vision, but the strategic and tactical skills of execution. This course will put particular emphasis on political skills as essential to moving agendas ahead. Special emphasis will be placed on enhancing students' skill sets. The course combines theory, application, and exercises and will include a number of practitioners as guest lecturers. The student project will be to apply the material of the course to analysis of the actions of a particular leader. Most Monday classes will be held via distance learning and Friday classes will be face-to-face in Ithaca with the teaching assistant.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 35 undergraduate students. Preference given to: juniors and seniors.

When Offered Fall.

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