LEAD 402(S) Leadership and Social Change(Same as African American Studies)*
While leadership philosophy and practice in North America and Europe have brought about significant social change, leadership in the developing world has moved mountains as well. This seminar will travel on two paths that will converge, one focusing on critical reading and discussion, the other on collaborative research. In our shared reading and discussion, we will explore leadership traditions represented by Gandhi, King, the American Civil Rights Movement, and anti-poverty community organizing. Concurrently, each student will research and write a paper on a leadership philosophy, methodology, or tradition in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. (Students can work in twos or threes.) During the second half of the semester, students will share their evolving research, with discussion of emerging themes and oral presentations on work in progress. Our goal is to analyze, compare, and try to synthesize leadership philosophies and practices across a number of diverse cultures, such as South Africa, Palestine, India, China, Brazil, and Cuba. Readings will include: Stanley Wolpert, Gandhi’s Passion, Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop: MLK’s Mission to Save America, Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the
Mississippi Freedom Struggle, Kim Bobo et al, Organizing for Social Change, Anne Hope and Sally Timmel, Training for Transformation.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Leadership Studies or instructor permission.
Enrollment limit: 20.

Hour: BURNS