312.700.01
Leading Organizations
Location
East Baltimore
Term
1st Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2025 - 2026
Instruction Method
In-person
Monday, 1:30 - 4:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Enrollment Restriction
This course is not restricted.
Are you ready to: Correct some of the most basic leadership mistakes?
Learn how to speak and listen more effectively as a leader? Learn how to connect more effectively with yourself, your team at work or at home?
Shift from being a leader who feels isolated, lonely, stressed out to one who feels connected and fulfilled? Generate meaningful results at work or home? Navigate change more effectively? Learn leadership skills you can use in any context? Strengthen your public identity or reputation as a leader? Bridge the leadership and happiness gap? If you answer yes to any of the above questions, then this course if for you!
Focuses on the essential distinctions that helps participants develop their personal and interpersonal capabilities to generate meaningful results within public health. Explores and strengthens skill development in key leadership domains such as: 1) self-awareness; 2) listening; 3) effective speaking; and 4) learning, including distinctions such as self-awareness, speech acts, moods and emotions, and somatics. Allows participants to apply each distinction in a hands-on practical way that allows them to become a better observer of themselves and others and acting more skillfully, thereby leading more effectively. Surveys the contemporary issues and perspectives on leadership as well as classic leadership theory.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Report on the role of self-awareness in facilitating one’s leadership results and path
- Analyze various interpretations of leadership and evaluate how they either facilitate or hinder one's ability to address contemporary public health challenges
- Articulate one’s personal leadership stance by identifying one's core beliefs, principles, and values as a leader and analyze how one's approach aligns with different theoretical interpretations of leadership
- Develop and apply listening and speaking skills for leadership
- Design rudimentary leadership practices that will strengthen one’s capabilities to generate new results beyond the course
- Report on the shift that the participant has observed in their self-awareness over the duration of the course
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 40% Participation
- 60% Assignments