Community Based Leadership Minor
Description
The minor in community engaged leadership (CELD) is an interdisciplinary minor that equips students with the skills to analyze and understand significant problems facing our communities, explore their relationship to these problems, imagine how to transform these problems, and do meaningful work to improve our communities through a project co-designed with an off-campus partner. The minor provides an overview of how students can ethically and effectively partner with community-based organizations, orients students with theories of how change happens, introduces them to best practices for partnership, and culminates in a capstone project in collaboration with an off-campus community-based organization.
The community engaged leadership minor is an interdisciplinary minor consisting of 19 credit hours. This includes a 4-hour CELD 2100: Introduction to Community Engaged Leadership course which includes a required lab section, and a 3-hour CEDL 3100: Community Engaged Leadership Capstone course.
Beyond the core courses, students must take an additional 12 hours of courses approved by the minor’s faculty governing body composed of representatives from each school and college. As of fall 2022, the governing body for the minor has established a process for reviewing and approving courses that would count toward the successful completion of the community engaged minor.
The approved, additional courses are:
- BUSN 1000: Business for a Better World
- BUSN 3000: Business Internship
- COUN 3010: Multicultural Issues in Helping Professions
- EDCI 3200: Service Projects in Science Ed: K-12
- EDLD 1200: Advancing the First-Year Experience
- SJNM 1020: Introduction to Multimedia Writing
- SJNM 3611: Journalism Explorations
- MGMT 3920: Organizational Behavior
- MGMT 4910: Leadership and Group Dynamics
- PBHL 5280: Public Health Policy
- PHIL 1020: Introduction to Professional Ethics
- SPRA 2620: Introduction to Therapeutic Recreation
- SSTU 1010: Introduction to Southern Studies
- SSTU 1060: Introduction to Southern Documentary
- SSTU 1090: Rights and Southern Activism
- SSTU 5100: Oral History of Southern Social Movement
- SCWK 2200: Foundations in Maternal Child Health
- WRIT 3450: Community Writing
Other Academic Requirements
A minimum grade of C is required for all courses within the minor.