PPS 190FS.03 – LEADERSHIP & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (Focus Program Students Only)
Instructor: Tony Brown
Wednesday/Friday 10:05 – 11:20 am, Sanford 150
The course explores ways that students can exercise innovative, resourceful leadership to address important civic issues with and external to Duke University.  The course will investigate the fundamental civic issues of citizenship, community, equity and wellness while addressing underlying questions about individual and group empathy, integrity, and agency.

Students will write a personal civic engagement leadership plan and a number of short papers.  Student teams will develop practical initiatives that address an important civic issue at Duke based on an experiential pedagogy of “action-based, integrated learning experiences,” in which student teams apply classroom theory and experiences in a project that addresses a real issue and produces real results during the semester.  A successful project requires the development and application of knowledge (theory and situation specific), thorough analysis, and good judgment.  Success also requires highly-engaged students.  The most engaged students are likely to have a keen interest in civic engagement and value action-based, integrated learning experiences. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] /SERVICE LEARNING COURSE/ PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS260.01 – LEADERSHIP, POLICY, AND CHANGE  
Instructor: Steve Schewel
Monday/Wednesday 3:05 – 4:20 pm, Rubenstein 149
This is a course about leadership for public life. Together we will tackle the pressing strategic and ethical issues related to a significant challenge facing our democracy today—the tension between the demands of national security and the necessity for democratic oversight, between the need for secrecy and the rights of citizens.

Today this conflict plays itself out in news headlines about drone strikes, cyber-attacks and covert intelligence missions, and it captures the nation’s imagination in Oscar-winning films like Argo and Zero Dark Thirty. This gives us the opportunity to view the issue through the lens of current events and popular culture. At the same time, the tension between secret national security actions and democratic rights and practices is as old as the republic itself, so we will read widely in the history of national security secrecy to give context to current events.

As we read about drones and spies and cyber “worms,” we will examine the values conflicts that are central to the debate about national security secrecy in a democracy.  Our exploration will challenge us to take stock of our responsibilities as citizens, and to look for opportunities to exercise leadership on the issue.  In this course you will begin to practice leadership skills such as learning how to raise difficult public questions, to go beyond your own authority to push for change, to be self-reflective in the midst of action, to find allies and partners, to manage conflict, to provide a vision of a possible future, and to involve your community in the difficult work of political engagement and collective action. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

PPS 265.01 – ENTERPRISING LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Tony Brown
Wednesday/Friday 1:25 –2:40 pm, RH 153
This course is designed to provide an engaging and stimulating climate for students to explore leadership, leadership development and the other themes of the course.  The core pedagogy of the course focuses on experiential learning activities, including a personal leadership plan, a team-based community leadership project, case discussions, readings, guest speakers, and personal reflection.  Class topics include the meaning of leadership, leadership development, personal character and values, worldviews and citizenship, leadership attributes and behaviors, organizational change, strategy and planning, conflict resolution, and decision-making and judgment. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE – CORE COURSE, SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

PPS290.05 – NARRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Frederick Mayer
Tuesday/Thursday 11:45 - 1:00 pm, Sanford 150
This course explores the role of stories and storytelling in public leadership. It will consider the ways in which stories operate in mind and culture, forming beliefs and attitudes, constructing identity, and motivating behavior. Through examples drawn from social movements, political campaigns, presidential leadership, community initiatives, and sports, students will learn how stories motivate leaders and move communities, and develop storytelling as a leadership skill. [Areas of Knowledge: SS, CCI; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 415.01 – ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Alma Blount
Wednesday 4:40 - 7:10 pm, Sanford 150
Capstone seminar for students completing community-based research (CBR) projects through the Service Opportunities in Leadership program.  Involves critical reflection on summer projects, exploration of leadership, politics, and policy design concepts. With students' experiences, questions, and insights as a starting point, this course explores how lives of commitment to the common good are formed and sustained. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, W, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 590S.08 – THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ITS FUTURE
Instructor: Marty Morris
Tuesday/Thursday 1:25 - 2:40 pm, Sanford 150
For 35 years Marty Morris worked in Republican politics, as a statew ide campaign manager, consultant to a presidential campaign, and Chief of Staff for Senator Dick Lugar.  In this course, students will look at the evolution of the party of Lincoln and investigate the forces that now make up the Republican Party.  Students will explore where they stand, as citizens and as possible future office holders, on many of the complex issues facing the GOP today.  Students will be introduced to useful tools of the political trade.  They will look at policy theories that have worked in the past and might work again in the future. The class will attempt to answer the central question that many commentators have put forth –is the Republican Party becoming a permanent minority party, or can it rise again as the authentic, practical voice of American conservatism?  [Areas of Knowledge: SS]

History 130D.001 – AMERICAN DREAMS/AMERICAN REALITIES
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Monday/Wednesday 11:45 - 12:35 pm, 116 Old Chem
What does it mean to be an “American?” A  French political scientist said, “To be a Frenchman is a fact; to be an American is an ideal.” What commonly shared ideals, ideas, “myths” define us as “Americans?”  This course examines the role of some commonly shared myths as “rags to riches,” the “agrarian way of life,” the “frontier”, the “foreign devil” and the “City on a Hill” in defining the American character and determining our  hopes, fears, dreams and  actions through our history.  Attention will be given to the surface consistency of these myths as accepted by each immigrant group versus the shifting content of the myths as they change to reflect the hopes and values of each of these groups. [Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: CCI]

History 470S.01 – Leadership in American History
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Tuesday/Thursday 4:40 - 5:55 pm, Carr 242
The seminar will focus on political, social, business, and artistic leaders in American history and problems which have called for leadership. In addition to selected short reading, students will examine closely the following: James MacGregor Burns’ "Leadership"; Walter Clark’s "Ox Bow Incident"; Niccolo Machiavelli’s "The Prince"; May and R. Neustadt’s "Thinking in Time"; Robert Penn Warren’s "All the King's Men"; Gary Wills’ "Certain Trumpets"; and David Gergen’s "Eyewitness to Power."
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R] Permission Required