Residential
Collaborative Leadership
Undergraduate Certificate
OVERVIEW
Collaborative leadership is the process through which leaders, guided by self-knowledge and interpersonal awareness, facilitate and empower the potential of individuals and groups through enhanced understanding of factors such as individual motivation, interpersonal skills, and group dynamics.
To become one tomorrow’s leaders, students need to be trained in the interpersonal aspects of leadership. The Certificate in Collaborative Leadership uses highly experiential training to take students beyond management skills to team-building, empowerment of others, and identifying and capitalizing on human resources to reach goals.
Students will learn leadership-related content, interpersonal skills, global awareness, and mentoring while experientially interacting with peers from many disciplines and backgrounds, and first year college students, transfer students, or International students who need role models—a powerful synergy!
Courses
Course Sequence and Descriptions
The undergraduate Certificate in Collaborative Leadership (CCL) is open to students campus-wide and consists of 3-credit bearing courses.
EDPS 31500 Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills is a prerequisite for both EDPS 31600 Collaborative Leadership: Cross-Cultural Settings and EDPS 31700 Collaborative Leadership: Mentoring. EDPS 31600 is also a prerequisite for EDPS 31700.
EDPS 31500 — Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills
This experiential, case-based course focuses on integrated study of theories of human motivation and systems, working through how to have difficult conversations with colleagues, supervisors, and employees. Key feature of the course is ongoing recorded role-played scenarios, providing critiqued practice that focuses on how to best communicate with others in a variety of situations, settings, and roles.
Approved to meet Oral Communication (OC) foundational learning outcome
EDPS 31600 — Collaborative Leadership: Cross-Cultural Settings
In this course, students explore the cultural nuances of leadership in the United States as well as around the world. This course will include impact of globalism as a context for leadership, conflict resolution in a global environment, and other important factors that impact culturally diverse or global teams. Method of course delivery will include utilization of experiential activities and innovative technology to learn about and engage with culturally diverse individuals.
Approved to meet Human Cultures: Behavioral Social Sciences (BBS) foundational learning outcome
EDPS 31700 — Collaborative Leadership: Mentoring
This course provides a theoretical and experiential overview of the basic elements of mentoring as a key aspect of effective collaborative leadership. The hallmark of this course is the inclusion of a service-learning component in which students will be paired with undergraduate mentees and required to participate in weekly mentoring meetings for the duration of the semester. This learning experience is designed to promote development of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions required for competent mentorship with an emphasis on peer mentoring.
Admissions
Admissions
This certificate is open to all students at Purdue. Students do not have to be formally enrolled in the certificate program in order to take courses, but completion of all three courses is required in order to receive the Certificate in Collaborative Leadership.
Students pursuing the certificate should notify their academic advisors so that the Certificate in Collaborative Leadership can be added to their MyPurduePlan. Upon completion of all three courses, the Certificate in Collaborative Leadership will be reflected on students’ transcripts and the certificate will be mailed to them.
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testimonial
This series of three classes taught me things that no other classes at Purdue had offered. Now having graduated, I find that there are skills from these classes that I use on a daily basis.
Darrian Petruzzi
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