Retention Related Program Outcomes

• Student will articulate the importance of one’s sense of self from a social and cultural context.
• Students will appreciate cross-cultural differences enhancing their capacity for healthy relationships.
• Students will apply leadership and professional development competencies.
• Student will create a blueprint enabling them to establish and progress towards their personal and professional goals.
• Students will feel enabled through peer and administrative support systems impacting matriculation and graduation from Texas A&M University.

Course Names

Fall Course:Diverse Leadership and Cultural Exploration
Spring Course:Practicing Diverse Leadership and Cultural Exploration

Some Course Specifics

• Course will be team taught

• Fall course will be a three (3) credit course held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

• Tuesdays will be the lecture
  • Class will be held tentatively at 11:10-12:25pm
  • Focus: Knowing, Being & Doing
  • Important topics * Defining Leadership
    * Leadership Styles
    * Theories of Prejudice and Discrimination
    * Ethical Leadership
    * Traits of Effective Leaders
    * Different Types of Minority Leadership
    * Individual and Institutional Discrimination
    * Leadership Continuum Theory
    * Transformational Leadership
    * Stewardship & Servant Leadership
    * Followership
    * Power and Inequality
    * Relational Leadership
    will be covered
• Thursdays will be the lab
  • The lab will enable students to explore who they are (personally and in social, familial, and communal contexts), to assess the level of their cultural and diversity awareness and how who they are affect various components of leadership through interactive exercises (case studies, simulations, and exercises). The intention is that they will begin to understand themselves as well as acknowledge and appreciate one another’s stories.

• Spring course will be a one (1) credit course

  • This course will focus on hard and soft skills
  • The class would cover various special topics * Problem Solving (Case Studies)
    * Conflict Resolution
    * Responsibility of Leadership: Social Justice and Activism
    * Price of Leadership: Advocacy
    * Intercultural Competence
    * Intercultural Communication
    * Understanding Group Process
    * Importance of Mentoring
    * Interviewing
    * Writing Skills (Resume, letters, etc.)
    * Ethics and Moral
    
  • Since the spring CLUES class is focused on soft and hard skills of leadership, the fellows become somewhat of a student organization. They pick a president, treasurer, and several committee chairs. As we learn about leadership and group development in class the fellows are living it out and have the opportunity bring their readings to life with personal in the moment experiences. The fellows who are leaders in the formal sense join a committee and have a chance to actively learn about one of leaderships most treasured principles Followership. If you want to talk to a fellow about their experience or if you want to support one of their events, Please click here.