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President's Leadership Program
Requirements
The President's Leadership Program (PLP) is open to selected freshmen with demonstrated leadership experience and potential who are also accomplished scholars. PLP has courses of its own, in which scholars are engaged with leadership theory, and Liberal Arts Core choices where leadership dimensions are suggested. The program also sponsors guests to campus who are distinguished leaders in their own fields. The leadership mentor network is accessed through internship opportunities, and students are encouraged to study for a semester abroad. The PLP program can be taken with any major. In PLP 100 the Contract Learning Guide, the scholar's agreed PLP learning contract, is first introduced.
Semester 1
ID 108 Freshman Workshop (1-3) Take one hour
Semester 2
PLP 100 Contemporary Leadership In Theory (3)
HIST 100 Survey of American History from Its Beginnings to 1877 (3)*
Semester 3
ENG 225 Communications on a Theme (3)
Semester 4
PLP 200 The Entrepreneur in America (2)*
Semester 5
BAMG 354 Organizational Behavior (3) (BAMG 350 prerequisite waived for PLP scholars by Management program)
Semester 6
PLP 492 Internship/Study Abroad (1-3)
Semester 7
Though none is required, students are invited to consider other University classes which bear on leadership. A partial list of these includes:
PHIL 110 Figures in Western Philosophy (3)*
PSCI 220 Introduction to International Relations (3)
MUS 241 Perceiving the Arts (3)
HIST 260 History of Science and Technology of the West (3)
HIST 267 Age of Revolution Since the 17th Century (3)
PHIL 150 Ethics in Theory and Practice (3)
PSCI 100 United States National Government (3)
BAMG 350 Management of Organizations (3)
PSY 366 Industrial Psychology (3)
AFS 456 The Black Church and Religious Traditions (3)
*Carries Liberal Arts Core Credit.
Program Narrative
Year one. The highlights of the first year are two classes, ID 108 and PLP 100. ID 108, to be taken in the first semester, will be a special section of the University's freshman orientation class highlighting campus and community leadership opportunities. The Career Center will assist with inventories of student aptitudes and interests, leading to matching of majors with careers.
PLP 100, Foundations of Leadership, will continue to build on the self-assessment inventories developed in ID 108. Students will be asked to begin a plan for their junior year internship, travel and study opportunities. Through readings and discussion with guests, leadership scholars will be asked to explore leadership as a creative process of creating, anticipating and molding change.
Year Two. In the second year, students gain a comprehensive introduction to theories of normative human development in PSY 265, and the opportunity to do further reading and writing on leadership issues in ENG 225.
PLP 200, explores the entrepreneurial mind, personality and achievement. Successful entrepreneurs will be invited to campus, and asked to share their perspectives on success and leadership with PLP students. "Entrepreneur" is defined in the broadest sense, and includes leaders who have successfully managed change in education, the arts and government. As the beginning exercise in this seminar, PLP students will be asked to share final plans for their junior year internship/study/travel project and its linkage to the senior paper.
Year three. In the junior year, the PLP student's match of junior project and senior paper is developed through an internship, and/or by study and travel abroad. PLP staff will develop correspondent relationships with universities abroad, in cities where Americans can comfortably live; staff will also develop internships in Denver and throughout Colorado so that students may experience the life of the career they've chosen. The project will be recorded in a final paper, formalized in a contract between the student and the PLP advisor. In the case of students concurrently enrolled in the Honors program, the paper's research design may be coordinated with an Honors advisor in the student's major field.
Year four. In the fourth year, the student finishes writing the senior paper in the seventh term, and presents results to colleagues in the capstone course. In the capstone experience, students again assess themselves as leaders, in charge of their own personal, residential and career-development transitions.
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