Leadership Program
Active programs are: Honours BA in Combination, Option, and Minor.
The single major Honours BA Leadership has suspended admissions beginning 2014/15.
The Leadership Option and Minor are available at the Brantford and Waterloo Campuses.
The Honours BA Leadership program focuses on the interdisciplinary problems facing our leaders and our organizations. It explores, from a liberal arts perspective, a range of historical and emerging contemporary resources relevant to these challenges. Graduates will find themselves well equipped to understand organizations and leadership, and well prepared for leadership positions in a wide range of organizations.
- Bruce Arai, PhD
- Ed Dandalt, PhD
- Shane Dixon, PhD
- Kris Gerhardt, PhD
- Lisa Kuron, PhD
- Rosemary McGowan, PhD, Program Co-ordinator: Leadership
- Honours BA Leadership (Admission Suspended)
- Honours BA Leadership in Combination with another Honours BA Program
- Leadership Option
- Leadership Minor
Students in the Honours Leadership program may specialize in human resources management through an articulation agreement with Conestoga College. Under this agreement, students who have completed the required 100-level and 200-level OL courses with a minimum GPA of 5.0 in these courses will be eligible to enroll in the post degree/post diploma program in Human Resources Management at Conestoga College. If these students complete these courses with an average of 70% or better, they will receive 4.0 senior OL credits including credit for the following courses: OL212, OL250, OL260, OL311; 1.0 senior miscellaneous credits and the requirement to complete an online course will be waived.
| Course # | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| OL101 | Leadership and Personal Development | 0.5 |
| OL140 | Leadership Foundations | 0.5 |
| OL200 | Communication Skills for Leadership | 0.5 |
| OL201 | Applying Leadership Experience | 0.5 |
| OL202 | Designing Leadership Experience | 0.5 |
| OL224 | Organizational Leadership | 0.5 |
| OL233 | Introduction to Social Science Research Methods | 0.5 |
| OL251 | Workplace Diversity in the 21st Century | 0.5 |
| OL260 | Organizations and Social Change | 0.5 |
| OL270 | Leadership: Understanding Followers and Leaders | 0.5 |
| OL298 | Entrepreneurship | 0.5 |
| OL300 | Leadership Ethics | 0.5 |
| OL301 | Development Theories, Approaches, and Issues | 0.5 |
| OL311 | Teams in Organizations | 0.5 |
| OL313 | Public Speaking | 0.5 |
| OL314 | Nonverbal Communication and Listening Skills | 0.5 |
| OL315 | Evaluation Research | 0.5 |
| OL322 | Non-Profits and NGOs | 0.5 |
| OL327 | Understanding International Organizations | 0.5 |
| OL340 | Leadership, Culture and Change | 0.5 |
| OL365 | Influence, Persuasion and Negotiation | 0.5 |
| OL370 | Power and Governance in Organizations | 0.5 |
| OL380 | Directed Studies | 0.5 |
| OL401 | Leadership Skills: Practice and Application | 0.5 |
| OL410 | Co-operative Organizations | 0.5 |
| OL430 | Advanced Topics in Leadership | 0.5 |
| OL481 | Project Management | 0.5 |
| OL485 | Expanding Leadership Potential | 0.5 |
