civic leadership minor
WS 450 Student Activism in Theory and Practice students coordinates the "Take Back the Night" March in October.
The civic leadership minor prepares active, engaged citizens who devise and implement responses to complex contemporary issues through grassroots activism and leadership in political, philanthropic, and business sectors. The program is intellectually and experientially based, giving balanced attention to theoretical understanding and civic capacity building. The civic leadership minor requires 24 credit hours to complete.
REQUIRED COURSES (15 Credit Hours):
- PHIL 201 Ethics and the Good Life (3 hours)
- PSCI 107 United States Diversity: Contemporary American Issues (3 hours)
- PSCI 201 American Government (3 hours)
- PSCI 330 Introduction to Public Administrations (3 hours)
- WS 450 Student Activism in Theory and Practice (3 hours)
ELECTIVES (9 Credit Hours):
- Internship or Fieldwork
- RCSM 485 Community Development and Nonprofit Organizations (3 hours)
Approved electives open to any major (3-6 credit hours):
Students who take 6 hours of internship/fieldwork/RCSM 485 will take 3 hours of approved electives; students who take 3 hours of internship/fieldwork/RCSM 485 will take 6 hours of approved electives.
- COMM 311 Interpersonal Communication (3 hours)
- COMM 312 Introduction to Persuasion Theory (3 hours)
- COMM 416 Cross-Culture Communication (3 hours)
- COMM 455 Organizational Communication (3 hours)
- COMM 469 Public Relations Case Studies (3 hours)
- COMM 470 Public Relations Campaign Planning (3 hours)
- COMM 483 Gender Communication (3 hours)
- COUN 415 Group Dynamics Laboratory (3 hours)
- CRIM 222 Police-Communication Relations (3 hours)
- ELAF 200 Education and Community (3 hours)
- GEOG 356 Water and Environmental Health (3 hours)
- GEOG 411 Conservation of Natural Resources (3 hours)
- GEOG 431 Urban Geography (3 hours)
- GEOG 432 Political Geography (3 hours)
- HIST 404 Internship in Public History (3 hours)
- HLTH 210 Principles of Environmental Health (3 hours)
- HLTH 352 Environmental Laws and Administration (3 hours)
- PHIL 306 Business Ethics (3 hours)
- PSCI 305 State and Local Government (3 hours)
- PSCI 308 The Judicial Process (3 hours)
- PSCI 495 Internship in Political Science (3-9 hours)
- PSCI 497 Fieldwork in Political Science (1-6 hours)
- PSY 270 Psychological Orientation to Social Psychology (3 hours)
- PSY 340 Cognition in Everyday Life (3 hours)
- RCSM 150 Introduction to Nonprofit Management (3 hours)
- RCSM 462 American Humanics Management Institute (1 hour)
- SOWK 130 Introduction to the Fields of Social Welfare (3 hours)
- SOWK 240 Family and Child Welfare (3 hours)
- WS 200 Introduction to Women's Studies (3 hours)
- WS 475 Fieldwork in Women's Studies (3 hours)
Students may petition for courses not listed above to count for approved elective credit.