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Collaborative Leadership

Undergraduate Certificate

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OVERVIEW

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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

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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.

Admissions

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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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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.

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