PPS 49 – NARRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Frederick Mayer
Tues/Thur 11:40 - 12:55 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; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, First Year Students Only] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 135 – BORDER CROSSING: LEADERSHIP, VALUE CONFLICTS & PUBLIC LIFE
Instructor: Alma Blount
Tues/Thur 10:05 - 11:20 am; Wed 11:55 - 12:45 pm, Rubenstein Hall 149
This is the preparation course for students who plan to conduct community-based research projects in the summer through Service Opportunities in Leadership, or another research service-learning opportunity. Through case studies about complex, difficult policy issues in our society, this course explores leadership as the art of working productively with value conflicts in groups, institutions, and social systems. The course includes training in basic research methods and ethics of human subject research, completion of a 20-hour service project for a community organization, and exploration of a leadership framework for undertaking complex problem-solving work in the public arena. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R, W] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 140S.01 - WOMEN AS LEADERS
Instructor: Katie Higgins Hood
Thursday 2:50 - 5:20 pm, Sanford 224
The title of this course is so obvious, and yet it is not.  This is a class about women and leadership, but what does that mean? 

We will explore a dynamic framework for analyzing leadership where leading is not restricted to “born leaders,” but is seen as an amalgam of accessible elements that include one’s situation, sense of purpose, orientation to results, authenticity, courage and self-awareness.

We will discuss women as leaders in society—primarily in the United States, but also in international contexts.  Although women have made broad strides, there is still subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—evidence that barriers continue for women in leadership roles.  We will ask the question – thirty years after women became the majority of college graduates in the U.S., why are only 3% of Fortune 500 CEO’s women?  And while women have made great progress in developing public personas and attaining elected office, why are so few of our senior officeholders women?  We will explore root causes for these leadership roadblocks, not to complain, but to move past and generate ideas for solutions.

Throughout the course, we will investigate individual stories of women leaders to more deeply understand leadership theory in action and gender differences in leadership.  We will read case studies and biographies, view documentaries, and engage women leaders in frank conversation as we work to refine our insights about these complex issues. [Areas of Knowledge: SS] 

PPS 144S – SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ACTION
Instructor: Tony Brown
Tues/Thur 1:15 – 2:30, Rubenstein Hall 149
Social Entrepreneurship in Action is a leadership course in applied social innovation.  The central goal of the course is to provide students with an academic opportunity to leverage their experiences and interests to create social innovation initiatives.  More than a traditional social entrepreneurship education course, the course design is based on the principle that significant learning and development are results of creating projects that will actually benefit others.  The course integrates theory and practice (more practice to theory than vice-versa) in providing students with knowledge, analytical competence, and leadership skills important to exercising social entrepreneurship.  Teams of students will develop a promising idea, followed sequentially by a credible proposal, and a compelling plan.  Following the end of the course, many students will pilot-test and subsequently launch projects that become signature accomplishments. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE – CORE COURSE, SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] Permission Required

PPS 145 – LEADERSHIP, POLICY AND CHANGE  
Instructor: Alma Blount
Monday 2:50 – 5:20 pm, Sanford 102
This seminar will focus on the policy questions, arguments, and options we formulate together after reading three new, provocative books:

• The Great Disruption, about the global climate crisis and what the author calls “the end of Economic Growth Version 1.0”—a world economy where it will no longer be an option to live beyond the means of our resources; 
• The Big Thirst, about understanding and managing our most precious resource—water; and
• Hot, about global warming and our options for skillfully confronting the new era that is already upon us. 

We will begin our work by exploring concepts of leadership and authority.  We will investigate how leadership and authority are related but contrasting functions that work in creative tension with each other and can manifest in both healthy and unhealthy ways in organizations, institutions and social systems.  By reading case studies and news stories, and also by observing our own group dynamics, we will take note of the ways that one can exercise leadership and authority skillfully to help groups face difficult challenges.

Throughout the semester we will also immerse ourselves in readings about democratic participation, group decision-making, and public deliberation.  Small group projects will include researching both the counter arguments and the supporting arguments that issue from our core texts—The Great Disruption, The Big Thirst, and Hot.  Each group will be asked to find simple, effective ways to “go public” with their work—to bring the group’s analysis and questions to wider audiences for discussion and debate. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

PPS 195S-30 – MORAL COURAGE & LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Tony Brown
Tues/Thur 10:05 – 11:20 am, Sanford 150
Students will explore the issue of moral courage development at Duke University.  A central premise of the course is that the college experience affects the development of students’ moral foundations.  One way to make this seemingly abstract topic more specific is to ask the questions, “What is the best way to spend $1,000,000 to enhance the impact of the Duke experience on the development of students’ moral courage?” and “What can Duke students do to exercise leadership in the development of moral courage for their peers?”   More a course in moral development than ethics theory, students will develop specific, compelling strategies and recommendations to be implemented in one—and three—years.  These strategies and recommendations will be based on clear definitions and rigorous analysis.  Students will work in teams as part of a collaborative, coordinated class project.  The spring 2012 class will build on the work of the spring 2011 class in developing the plan.  In addition, students will develop their own personal moral codes and moral development plans. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

History 72D – American Dreams/American Realities
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Mon/Wed 11:55 - 12:45 pm, Soc Psy 126
This seminar will examine the role of such myths as "rags to riches," "beacon to the world," the "frontier" and the "foreign devil" in defining the American character and determining the hopes, fears, dreams and actions of people throughout American History. Also, attention is 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: R]

History 196KS.01 – Leadership in American History
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Tues/Thur 4:25 - 5:40 pm, Soc Sci 109
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: SS, Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED

Research Service-Learning Pathway

PPS116D.003 –POLICY CHOICE AS VALUE CONFLICT
Instructor: Robert Korstad
Tues/Thurs 1:15 - 2:30 pm, Sanford 03
This course examines the ethical and moral complexities of public policy formation and implementation in the past and present. The aims of this course are 1) to analyze and examine the varied moral foundations of public policy formation; 2) to sharpen students’ capacity for ethical reasoning; and 3) to locate contemporary policy debates within the broader historical contexts that have defined the moral and ethical dilemmas that policy makers and social actors currently face. In addition to familiarizing students with the ideas of a number of political and social theorists, the course will also examine a variety of rich case studies from U.S. history that shed light on contemporary policy dilemmas. The course provides ample opportunities for reflecting upon the important but often neglected connections between ethics, history, and public policy formation and implementation. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

PPS188.01 – WHOSE DEMOCRACY? PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
Instructor: Kristin Goss
Mon/Wed 2:50-4:05 pm, Sanford 225
Overview of patterns in Americans' engagement and disengagement from civic life. Examination of why people do (and do not) participation. Skews based on gender, race, ideology, and class differences. Role of American interest groups and social movements in policy change. Influence of public policies (e.g., federal tax laws, participation requirements, and programs such as AmeriCorps) on civic and political participation. Classroom discussion; short memos; and team-based "research service learning" component, consisting of research-based policy memo for Durham-area grassroots organization and 10 hours of direct service. SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS, Inquiries/Competencies: R]