2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

LDRS 401 The Discerning Leader

The purpose of this course is to continue the exploration of the nature and dynamics of leadership. A continuation of LDRS 301, this course will explore leadership topics such as diversity, creativity in leadership, organizational leadership, and the servant leadership model. Students will submit a finalized version of their future action plan for leadership in their lives.

Credits

3

Offered

Spring

Outcomes

  1. Engage in ethical discernment regardless of situational exigencies.
  2. Identify the driving motives and values behind decisions made by themselves and others.
  3. Understand and evaluate the role of worldviews in leading diverse groups of people
  4. Analyze the situational pressures that create moral drift.
  5. Evaluate ethical dilemmas using interdisciplinary theories.
  6. Refine their personal philosophy of leadership that identifies personal values, including individual qualities, virtues, and passions and outlines personal principles for leadership engagement.