Leadership (Option)

What does it mean to be a leader? How does one learn to lead? In this option you will learn all about the importance of building relationships and directing people to work together to achieve common goals and objectives. With opportunities to learn from Trent University’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership, and take courses from across disciplines, you will develop comprehensive perspectives on leadership and earn a formal designation that signals your leadership capacity to future employers.

Courses:

To earn this option, you need to fulfill the requirements of a General or Honours degree in addition to successfully completing 4.0 credits from the following course list:

– 0.5 POST credit consisting of POST 3850H

– 3.5 credits from the following:

Business Administration

• ADMN 2010H: Management Skills
• ADMN 2220H: Organizational Behaviour
• ADMN 2230H: Human Resource Management
• ADMN 3230H: Training and Development
• ADMIN 3800H: Foundations of Leadership
• ADMN 4101H: Thinking About Management
• ADMN 4250H: Business Ethics and Corporations
• ADMN 4260H: Ethics and Capitalism

Canadian Studies

• CAST 2003H: Black Experience in Canada
• CAST 2090H: Canada and the Role of Law
• CAST 3094H: Public Leadership in Action
• CAST 3665H: Canada: State, Society, Power

Environmental & Resource Science

• ERSC 1010H: Environmental Science and Sustainability
• ERSC 1020H: Cases in Environment and Sustainability

Environmental & Resource Studies

• ERST 2520H: Natural Resource Management: Theory and Comparative Cases
• ERST 2525H: Critical Environmental Thinking: Political Economy and Policy Process

Gender & Social Justice

• GESO 2171H: Making for Justice: Creative Workshop
• GESO 2410H: The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Popular Culture, Gender, and Social Movements
• GESO 2487H: Decolonizing Feminisms
• GESO 2711H: Acting Up! Feminism & History in Canada
• GESO 3021H: Discovering Social Justice Research
• GESO 3031H: Doing Social Justice Research: Making Social Change
• GESO 3122H/4122H: Activists and Activisms: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives
• GESO 3820Y/3821H/4820Y/4821H: Community Research Placement

International Development Studies

• IDST 2030H Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Global South
• IDST 3030H Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Field Course
• IDST 3120H: Citizenship Rights and Development
• IDST 4150Y: Post-Carbon Futures and Radical Hope
• IDST 4230H: Global Social Movements
• IDST 4260H: Global Governance and Social Justice

Philosophy

• PHIL 2420H: Ancient Philosophy I
• PHIL 2430H: Ancient Philosophy II
• PHIL 3050H: Philosophy, Gender and Feminism
• PHIL 3110H: Ethical Theory
• PHIL 3180H Social and Political Philosophy

Program Coordinator

Chair of the Department of Political Science, Dr. Hasmet Uluorta huluorta@trentu.ca