ONLINE CERTIFICATE IN LEADERSHIP STUDIES
Offered by the Pomerantz Career Center, the Certificate in Leadership Studies may be completed entirely ONLINE. The certificate is designed to provide a structure for involvement, introducing students to the concepts of leadership while giving them the necessary hands-on experiences to begin the life-long development of these leadership skills.
Certificate in Leadership Studies pdf
Online Curriculum
To earn the ONLINE Certificate in Leadership Studies, students must successfully complete 20-21 semester hours (s.h.) and maintain a minimum 2.0 GPA in all course work.
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Required Interdisciplinary Core Courses:
Area Electives (12 s.h.) - must complete 3 s.h. from each of the four areas below:
Self and Group Leadership (3 s.h.)
- LS:2002 Career Leadership Academy Part I
- LS:3002 Career Leadership Academy Part II
- COMM:1819 Organizational Leadership
- MGMT:2100 Introduction to Management
- MGMT:3200 Individuals, Teams and Organizations
- PSY:2501 Introduction to Social Psychology
- SOC:4225 The Social Psychology of Leadership
- SSW:3600 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness
Communication (3 s.h.)
- COMM:1301 Core Concepts in Communication Studies
- COMM:1818 Communication Skills for Leadership
- COMM:1819 Organizational Leadership
Cultural Competence (3 s.h.)
- AINS:2165 Native Peoples of North America
- GHS:3050 Global Aging
- GWSS:2052 Women in Islam and the Middle East
- HIST:3254 Sexuality in the United States
- SOC:2810 Social Inequality
Ethics and Integrity (3 s.h.)
- MGMT:2000 Introduction to Law
- RCE:4195 Ethics in Human Relations and Counseling\New Course Department Effective Fall 2022 CSED:4195
Experiential Learning - complete one of the following:
How to Declare the Certificate
Students may add a certificate program to their plan of study at any time. Declaring a certificate will allow you to request a degree audit for the certificate requirements in MyUI. There is no penalty to remove a certificate from a plan of study and one may be removed at any time.
Current BAS/BLS University of Iowa students may add the certificate to their plan of study by contacting their assigned BAS/BLS advisor.
After the certificate has been declared, please log into MyUI to make an appointment with your Leadership Studies Certificate advisor. Instructions are provided on the Career Center website.