Cluster: Leading Social Change (formerly Leadership For Change)

PLEASE NOTE:  The Leadership for Change Sophomore Inquiry/Cluster has undergone a name change to Leading Social Change.  All course work currently in progress or completed in the past will still qualify towards meeting your University Studies Requirement.

The Leading Social Change cluster explores how to create change in society through everyday acts of leadership. Students will explore elements of leadership such as identity, politics, and culture, and apply this knowledge to a range of social issues in a variety of social contexts where individual or community leadership is required. Through discussion of the implicit and explicit values that guide leaders, and the exploration of various sociocultural contexts and issues, the cluster recognizes that everyone possesses the capacity for leadership. The cluster is ideal both for students who are interested in learning more about how leaders affect the world and who seek to explore leadership and develop their own leadership skills.

Cluster Coordinator:  Rita Sumner
Office:  650 URBN
Phone:  503-725-8330
E-mail:  sumnerr@pdx.edu

Sophomore Inquiry: Leading Social Change

(UNST 242)

This course will provide a foundation of leadership theory and will examine models of leadership in relation to the theory and concepts of change. There will be opportunities for practice, application, and documentation of leadership, and reflection on individual responsibility for and potential in leadership roles.

This SINQ leads to the Leading Social Change Cluster.

Approved Cluster Courses:

Academic Year 13-14

Note: Courses listed below are all Approved Cluster Courses for the 2013 - 2014 year.  If you are looking for listings for 2012 - 2013, they are archived here.