Contemporary Leadership
The Science and Society Program offers a minor in Contemporary Leadership, open to all undergraduate students regardless of major. The minor provides a broad overview of leadership theory and practice, and engages students in critical thinking, self-reflection, problem solving and multicultural education. Students should contact the minor advisor for course selection and plan approval.
Consult advisors often to ensure timely enrollment in SAS 192 and 190X, which are only offered in spring quarter, once a year.
24 units
Core leadership courses (8 units)
- SAS 130 Contemporary Leadership (4 units)
- SAS 192 Internship in Science and Society (1-12 units)
- SAS 192 must be taken concurrently with an approved internship for 2 units.
- SAS 190X Science & Society Seminar (1-4 units)
- 2 units of SAS 190X is required.
Preparatory Subject Matter (16 units)
Students are required to complete 4 units from each of the following four categories. All courses are 4 units except where noted.
- Ethics and Values (4 units)
- ANS 170 Ethics of Animal Use (4 units)
- ECS 188 Ethics in an Age of Technology (4 units)
- ENL 107 Freedom of Expression (4 units)
- ESP 164 Ethical Issues in Environmental Policy (3 units)
- ESP 164 is a three-unit course.
- PHI 115 Problems in Normative Ethics (4 units)
- PHI 116 Ethical Theories (4 units)
- PHI 117 Foundations of Ethics (4 units)
- PSC 175 Genius, Creativity, and Leadership (4 units)
- Communication, Interpersonal Relationships and Human Dynamics (4 units)
- ANT 139AN Race, Class, Gender Systems (4 units)
- CMN 136 Organizational Communication (4 units)
- CRD 172 Social Inequality: Issues and Innovations (4 units)
- LIN 163 Language, Gender, and Society (4 units)
- PSC 151 Social Psychology (4 units)
- SOC 126 Social Interaction (4 units)
- SOC 132 The Sociology of Gender (4 units)
- UWP 104A Writing in the Professions: Business Writing (4 units)
- UWP 104B Writing in the Professions: Law (4 units)
- UWP 104C Writing in the Professions: Journalism (4 units)
- UWP 104D Writing in the Professions: Elementary and Secondary Education (4 units)
- UWP 104E Writing in the Professions: Science (4 units)
- UWP 104F Writing in the Professions: Health (4 units)
- Organization Structure and Cultures (4 units)
- AMS 125 Corporate Cultures (4 units)
- ANT 105 Evolution of Societies and Cultures (4 units)
- CRD 152 Community Development (4 units)
- CRD 154 Social Theory and Community Change (4 units)
- CRD 158 Small Community Governance (4 units)
- CRD 164 Theories of Organizations and their Role in Community Change (5 units)
- SOC 030A Intercultural Relations in Multicultural Societies (3 units)
- SOC 030A is a three-unit course.
- SOC 156 Social Movements (4 units)
- SOC 180A Complex Organizations (4 units)
- SOC 180B Complex Organizations (4 units)
- SOC 183 Comparative Organizations (4 units)
- WMS 140 Gender and Law (4 units)
- Multiculturalism, the Global Community and Social Change (4 units)
- AMS 153 The Individual and Community in America (4 units)
- AMS 156 Race, Culture and Society in the United States (4 units)
- CRD 176 Comparative Ethnicity (4 units)
- ENL 179 Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (4 units)
- HIS 173 Becoming an American: Immigration and American Culture (4 units)
- HIS 178B Race In America, 1865-Present (Discontinued) (4 units)
- NAS 134 Race, Culture, and Nation (4 units)
- POL 124 The Politics of Global Inequality (4 units)
- POL 125 Political Economy of Foreign Aid (4 units)
- POL 130 Recent U.S. Foreign Policy (4 units)
- TXC 174 Introduction to World Trade in Textiles and Clothing (4 units)
Total = 24 units
Minor Advisor
E. G. Hack
eghack@ucdavis.edu
(530) 754-7277
