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  • LDRSP 2020: Found. in Leadership

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Leadership involves collaboration, teamwork and establishing relationships that can lead to positive and transformational change. The purpose of this course is to facilitate learning opportunities and experiences that provide students with the knowledge, mind-set and skills to better understand leadership. Through the use of the text, additional readings, activities, and presentations, students will increase their effectiveness as a leader both at the University and in the community. The goal of this course is to increase student awareness and development of leadership skills. Students will gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the theory and practices of leadership.
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  • LDRSP 2040: Leadership in Community

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Leadership 2040 is a foundational course in Leadership Studies, with a special focus on service and civic participation. Students will be provided a framework for becoming leaders through community engagement. This course satisfies an elective credit in the "group, Organizational, and Community Contexts" are for the Leadership Studies minor.
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  • LDRSP 3960: Ldrshp Dev

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Orientation Leader workshop/training course
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  • LDRSP 4100: Practicum

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course requires that a student complete a minimum of 75 hours of work on site through a pre-approved organization or community agency. By working at their site students are expected to immerse themselves in the organization to further develop their knowledge of civic engagement and leadership based on their direct experience with others, and by observing and conferring with their on-site contact person who is expected to serve as a professional role model. This immersion will then be analyzed through classroom discussion and course assignments, and informed by previous leadership coursework. Through analyzing their practical experience, students will synthesize theoretical knowledge and application of practical skills employed through the Practicum. Prerequisites: "C" or better in LDRSP 2020.
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  • LDRSP 4750: Leadership Capstone

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This advanced undergraduate seminar, as the capstone academic experience in the undergraduate Leadership Studies minor, is designed to be both retrospective and integrative, encouraging the student to synthesize relevant concepts and experiences and to formulate her or his own informed perspective on the successes and failures of leadership in contemporary society. Leadership theory, theories of social change, and interdisciplinary approaches to complex global issues will serve as significant parts of the course material. Prerequisites: "C" or better in (LDRSP 2020 AND LDRSP 4100).
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  • LEAP 1050: LEAP Major Exploration

    1.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is designed for LEAP students who have not yet committed to a major, and are motivated to explore themselves and their academic options at the University of Utah. Students will learn about the major/career decision making process, including self assessment, evaluation of majors and careers, and implementing an action plan.
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  • LEAP 1060: Foundations of Research

    1.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Introduces students to research processes relevant to a variety of writing assignments. Topics include the organization of information; ethical uses of information; and applications of critical thinking, reading, analysis, and synthesis.
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  • LEAP 1100: Health Professions

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In the first semester of Health Professions we focus on health disparities among communities in America, and how social factors, along with individual behaviors, significantly affect the health of a community.
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    General Education Course

  • LEAP 1101: LEAP Sem in Soc Sci

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The social science portion of the two-semester sequence that forms the core of the LEAP experience. (Some LEAP courses begin with 1100 and others with 1101.) The course focuses on construction of social identity and definitions of community from a social science perspective. In addition to acquiring library research skills, students work with the fundamental concepts, theories, and methods of analysis of the social sciences.
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    General Education Course

  • LEAP 1110: Law and Communities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class focuses on the development and functioning of communities, those included and excluded from the communities, the relationship with and obligation to community, the practice of law within the community, and the support or challenge given by legal authority within the community. We will read three memoirs/biographies of American lawyers that offer a variety of racial, ethnic, class and gender perspectives on communities and the law. We will also read articles about Asian Americans and play an elaborate role-playing game about the Cherokee nation.
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