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NORTH CENTRAL STATE
COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
Last Revision: October 2005
A. Course Number and Title: HUM 150 Leadership and the Classics
B. Academic
Division: Arts and Sciences
C. Department:
Humanities
D. Lecture Hours: 3
E. Lab Hours: 0
F. Credit Hours:
3
G. Prerequisites:
None
H. Course
Description from Catalog: The course is designed to help learners
identify leadership qualities and to help identify their personal
leadership philosophies. The course is an interdisciplinary study that
explores the relationships that exist among philosophy, drama, film,
literature, and visual art as they reveal examples of and standards for
leadership.
I. Textbook(s):
Phi Theta Kappa-Leadership Development Studies.
Latest Edition, Phi Theta
Kappa, Inc. Jackson, Mississippi.
J. Workbook(s)
and/or Lab Manual(s): None.
K. Purpose of
Course: The course has a dual function: (1) to help students
identify leadership qualities, and (2) to help students to identify
leadership qualities in classic works of literature, the visual arts,
drama, and film.
L. Supplies
Needed: None.
M. Course
Outcomes: By the end of the quarter the learner will be able to:
1. Identify the leadership skills that exemplify effective
leadership
2. Revise a vision statement for a specific leadership
project
3. Identify the steps involved in setting goals
4. List the elements of an effective team building process
5. Write a plan for empowering constituencies involved in
a specific task
6. Write a plan for resolving conflict within a specific
scenario
7. Define the concept of servant-leadership
8. Write a plan for making ethical leadership decisions
Assessment Procedures:
1.
Given a list of skills, identify all of the skills on the list that
relate to leadership.
2.
Given a poorly written vision statement for a specific project, revise
the statement so that it states a relatively clear vision for that
project.
3.
Given a list of steps in goal setting, place the steps in the correct
order.
4.
Given a list of elements, identify all the elements on the list that
involve team building.
5.
Given a paragraph describing an empowerment problem, write a
one-paragraph plan for empowering the constituencies involved.
6.
Given a paragraph describing a specific conflict, write a one-paragraph
plan for resolving that conflict.
7.
Given the term “servant leader,” define that term with 80% accuracy.
8.
Given a paragraph describing a specific ethical conflict, write a
one-paragraph plan for dealing with that conflict.
N. Course Content: The topics covered
in the course may include:
1. Personal Leadership Philosophy
Readings: Plato, The Republic (excerpts)
Film: Twelve O’clock High
2. Leadership Vision
Readings: Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham
Jail.
Film: Hoosiers
3. Goals and Leadership
Readings: Melville, Moby Dick (excerpts)
Film: Sister Act
4. Ethics in Leadership
Reading: Bernstein and Woodward, All the President’s Men
Film: The Siege
5. Decisions in Leadership
Reading: Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Film: Twelve Angry Men
6 Identifying Conflict
Reading: Robert Kennedy, Thirteen Days
Film: Failsafe
7. Teams
Reading: Tennyson, Idylls of the King: The Coming of Arthur
Film: Remember the Titans
8. Groups and Empowerment
Reading: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Film: Gandhi
9 Identifying Change
Reading: Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Film: Schindler’s List
10.
Defining Servant Leadership
Reading: Nye, Soft Power
Film: To Kill a Mockingbird
O.
Planned Activities: Lectures, Student Presentations, Film Sessions,
Journal Writing, Small Group Sessions
P. Grading and Testing Guidelines:
Written Exercises:
400 points
Quizzes: 400 points
Final Exam 200 points
TOTAL 1000 points
Scale: 1000-950 A
949 – 920 A-
919 – 890 B+
889 – 860 B
859 – 830 B-
829 – 800 C+
799 – 770 C
769 – 740 C-
739 – 710 D+
709 – 680 D
679 – 650 D-
649/Below F
Q.
Attendance Requirements: All students are required to attend all
scheduled classes and examinations. Each faculty member has the right
to establish regulations regarding attendance that he/she considers
necessary for successful study.
Students who do not attend classes may be administratively
withdrawn from those classes. However, failure to attend classes does
not constitute withdrawal, and students are expected to process a formal
withdrawal through the Student Records if unable to complete a class.
R. Other Specific Guidelines and Requirements: None
S. Statement on Disabilities: Any student who requires
reasonable accommodations related to a disability should inform the
course instructor and the Coordinator of Disability Services (room 138
in Kee Hall; phone 419-755-4727).
T.
Statement on Withdrawals: As a student, you are expected to attend
class. If you are unable or choose not to
attend class, you need to officially drop the class. You may
do this up to the end of the eighth week during a regular eleven‑week
quarter, and up to the end of the fifth week during an eight‑week term
(Classes not following an eight or eleven‑week
schedule have different withdrawal and refund dates. Contact the
Student Records Office for
applicable dates). The last day to officially drop an eight
or eleven‑week class is listed in Newsbriefs, the weekly
publication on campus, and is also available at the Student Records
Office. If you registered for classes in the
Student Success Center, you should return there to officially withdraw
from any classes. All other students should go to the Student Records
Office to process their withdrawal from any class.
If you choose to
walk away from your class without officially withdrawing from it, the
faculty member teaching the class must grade your classroom performance
on the material available to him or her. This normally results in an
“F” grade. An “F” grade can lower your grade point average
considerably, depending on the total credits accumulated.
U. Statement
of Academic Dishonesty/Plagiarism/Copyright Infringement: It is the
position of the College that the responsibility for academic honesty is
that of the student. It is expected that the student's work will be the
product of his/her own efforts unless the student clearly indicates
otherwise. Academic honesty is an important element of mature,
responsible learning.
Dishonest scholarly
practices include but are not limited to appropriating, in whatever
form, another's work and submitting it as one's own (known as
Plagiarism), intentionally falsifying information, or taking another's
ideas with the intention of passing these ideas off as one’s own (also
known as Plagiarism).
In addition, cases of academic dishonesty
may involve photocopied materials. Materials used may fall under the
Copyright Act. Violations of said Act may subject the user and/or the
College to sanctions. If you have questions whether a particular use is
in violation of the Act, please contact the office of the Vice President
of Academic and Student Services.
V.
Classroom Conduct: All students are expected to
demonstrate professional behavior and use language appropriate for the
classroom.
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