Leadership Studies Track
Available On Campus and Online
The Leadership Studies track provides an in-depth knowledge of leadership theory, ethics, skills, and context-based issues. The track prepares you for diverse, real-life experiences as citizen leaders in local, state, national, and global communities.
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Curriculum
The Leadership Studies track is 24 of the 120 credits required for the Bachelor of University Studies.
In addition to the UMaine general education requirements, the following courses are required (7 credits):
- UST 100: Introduction to the Bachelor of University Studies (1 credit)*
Six-week course - UST 300: Core Course in University Studies (3 credits)*
Meets upper-level Writing Intensive General Education requirement - UST 499: Senior Capstone (3 credits)*
Meets General Education Capstone requirement
The following courses are required (12 credits):
- LDR 100: Foundations of Leadership (3 credits)*
- LDR 200: Leadership Ethics (3 credits)*
- LDR 300: Advanced Leadership Theory and Practice (3 credits)*
- LDR 499: Leadership Engagement Practicum (3 credits)*
Choose four courses from the following (12 credits):
- ANT 270: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (3 credits)*
- CHF 201: Introduction to Child Development (3 credits)*
- CLA 400: Hero: Myth and Meaning (3 credits)
- CMJ 102: Communication for Resilience and Connection (3 credits)
- CMJ 103: Public Speaking (3 credits)*
- CMJ 345: Small Group Communication (3 credits)
- CMJ 347: Argument and Critical Thinking (3 credits)
- CMJ 367: Public Relations (3 credits)
- CMJ 370: Visual Communication (3 credits)
- CMJ 403: Persuasion and Social Influence (3 credits)
- CMJ 405: Gender in Communication (3 credits)
- CMJ 420: Health Communication (3 credits)
- EHD 203: Educational Psychology (3 credits)*
- ENG 253: Shakespeare: Selected Plays (3 credits)
- ENG 317: Business and Technical Writing (3 credits)*
- ENG 415: Advanced Report and Proposal Writing (3 credits)
- ENG 418: Topics in Professional Writing (3 credits)
- HON 170: Currents and Context (1 credit)
- HON 308: Visiting Scholar in Ethics Tutorial (3 credits)
- HTY 279: European Military History (3 credits)
- HTY 402: Roman History (3 credits)
- INV 282: Advanced Innovation Skills (4 credits)
- INV 401: Systems: Innovation Engineering IV (3 credits)
- KPE 209: Wilderness First Responder (3 credits)*
- KPE 286: Introduction to Outdoor Leadership and Facilitation (1 credit)
- KPE 311: Advanced Methods of Instructing Outdoor Activities (3 credits)
- KPE 344: Principles of Coaching (3 credits)
- KPE 383: Organization and Administration in Athletic Training (3 credits)*
- KPE 426: Exercise Prescription and Leadership (3 credits)
- LDR 210: Leadership and Sports (3 credits)*
- LDR 220: Leadership and Social Movements (3 credits)
- LDR 330: Crisis Leadership and Decision Making (3 credits)
- LDR 340: Inclusive Leadership (3 credits)
- LDR 350: Topics in Leadership Studies (3 credits)*
- LDR 390: Contemporary Leadership and the Art of Political Strategy (3 credits)
- LDR 395: Bipartisan Leadership: Lessons for William S. Cohen’s Career in Public Service (3 credits)
- MES 301: Rachel Carson, Maine, and the Environment (3 credits)
- MGT 325: Principles of Management and Organization (3 credits)*
- MGT 326: Organizational Behavior (3 credits)*
- MGT 327: Business and Society (3 credits)*
- MGT 330: Human Resource Management (3 credits)*
- MGT 342: Small Business Management (3 credits)*
- MGT 445: International Management (3 credits)
- MGT 449: Strategic Management (3 credits)*
- MKT 270: Introduction to Marketing (3 credits)*
- MSL 301: Training Management and the Warfighting Functions (3 credits)
- MSL 302: Training Applied Leadership in Small Unit Operations (3 credits)
- MSL 350: The Evolution of American Warfare (3 credits)
- MSL 401: The Army Officer (4 credits)
- MSL 402: Company Grade Leadership (4 credits)
- NAV 303: Leadership and Management (3 credits)
- NAV 304: Leadership and Ethics (3 credits)
- NUR 335: Care of Adults III Clinical (2 credits)
- NUR 413: Nursing Care Management of Women, Infants, and Families (3 credits)
- NUR 416/417: Nursing Care Management of Children and Families (4 credits)
- NUR 444: Management and Leadership in Healthcare System (3 credits)*
- NUR 453: Community Nursing Care Management (1 credit)
- PAX 290: Nonviolence: Perceptions and Perspectives (3 credits)
- PAX 451: Mediation: Its Premises, Practices, and Policies (3 credits)*
- PAX 470: Sustainable Communication: The Theory and Practice of Nonviolent Communication (3 credits)
- PHI 230: Ethics (3 credits)
- PHI 231: Topics in Applied Ethics (3 credits)
- PHI 232: Environmental Ethics (3 credits)
- PHI 235: Biomedical Ethics (3 credits)
- PHI 236: Feminist Ethical, Social, and Political Theory (3 credits)
- PHI 240: Social and Political Philosophy (3 credits)
- PHI 432: Environmental Justice (3 credits)
- POS 301: Classical Political Thought (3 credits)
- POS 303: Early Modern Political Thought (3 credits)
- POS 304: American Political Thought (3 credits)
- POS 305: Late Modern Political Thought (3 credits)
- POS 306: Crafting the American Constitution (3 credits)*
- POS 307: Democratic Theory (3 credits)*
- POS 353: The U.S. Congress (3 credits)
- POS 354: The U.S. Presidency (3 credits)
- POS 357: Film and Politics (3 credits)
- POS 385: Women and Politics (3 credits)
- POS 386: Religion and Politics in the United States (3 credits)
- POS 474: Conduct of Foreign Policy (3 credits)
- POS 475: International Security (3 credits)
- PSY 230: Social Psychology (3 credits)
- PSY 251: Psychology of Motivation (3 credits)
- SFR 106: Introduction to Forest Land Navigation and Technology (2 credits)
- SOC 201: Social Inequality (3 credits)*
- SOC 325: Sociology of Religion (3 credits)
- SOC 329: Sociology of Gender (3 credits)
- SWK 330: Contemporary Issues in Diversity and Pluralism (3 credits)
- SWK 350: Human Behavior and the Social Environment I (3 credits)
- SWK 351: Human Behavior in the Social Environment II (3 credits)*
- SWK 440: Social Welfare Policy and Issues (3 credits)*
- THE 466: Stage Directing (3 credits)
- WGS 201: Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)*
- WGS 230: Women, Health, and the Environment (3 credits)
- WGS 301: Intermediate Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)*
- WGS 303: Social Movements, Media, and Change (3 credits)
- WGS 340: Transnational Feminisms (3 credits)*
- WGS 401: Advanced Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 credits)*
*Available online
For questions about the track’s curriculum, please contact Richard Powell, Leadership Studies track coordinator, Director of the William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service, and Professor of Political Science.