PPS 49 - Terrorism and Democracy: Citizen Leadership and the Ethics of Security
Instructor: Steve Schewel
Since the devastating terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, American foreign policy has focused intensely on eliminating the threat that terrorists pose to our nation. President Bush took us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and President Obama’s administration is fighting those same wars today. Heightened security measures at home and abroad have led to extra-judicial internment of suspected terrorists, warrantless wire-tapping, covert operations, controversial interrogation methods and allegations of torture by American officials. This course will involve you in a critical examination of the pressing ethical issues our nation faces associated with terrorism and counter-terrorism. These include the uses of violence, the concept of “just war,” entangling alliances with autocratic foreign governments, the tension in a democracy between rights and security, the meaning of patriotism, the character of dissent and the role of government secrecy. The course will emphasize the importance of citizens taking leadership to help our nation face its challenges. Students will practice essential leadership skills designed to help them effectively raise difficult public questions, to be self-reflective in the midst of action, to find the right allies and partners, to manage conflict, to provide a vision of a possible future, and to involve their communities in the work of change.

PPS 135- Border Crossing: Leadership, Value Conflicts & Public Life
Instructor: Alma Blount
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. Includes training in basic research methods and ethics of human subjects 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, EI; Inquiries/Competencies: R, W] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 140S - Women as Leaders
Instructor: Rachel Seidman
This course will teach students to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing women in their quest to practice leadership in public life. Students will understand the historical roots of our conceptions of leadership and the ways American women have worked with, around and on those ideas over the last two centuries. They will analyze the current-day debates over women and leadership in the press and academic literature, and the relationship between theory and practice. Students will engage directly with these ideas in a hands-on final project.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS]

PPS 194 - Entrepreneurial Leadership & Social Innovation
Instructor: Christopher Gergen
Gateway course for the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative (ELI). Introduces students to the important frameworks of entrepreneurship, social innovation, and social enterprise development. Examines the dynamic relationship between social entrepreneurship and the public good through case studies, individual reflection, group projects, and experiential learning. Explores the challenges and triumphs of social entrepreneurship in areas of public concern such as education, community welfare, international development, and healthcare.
Students will also have a chance to reflect on their own leadership path by developing a personalized entrepreneurial life plan. Following the class, students will have an opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial ideas through a summer immersion experience in Durham and ELI’s fall capstone course, Social Enterprise Development. Successful enterprises are eligible for seed financing and incubation through the Duke Hatchery.
[Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] PERMISSION REQUIRED
***APPROVED AS MMS ELECTIVE***

HISTORY 195S.06 - American Dreams/ American Realities
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
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. In addition to selected short readings, students will examine closely Arthur M. Schlesinger’s “The Disuniting of America,” David Potter’s “People of Plenty,” David Halberstam’s, “The Fifties,” John Hellmanns’, “American Myth and the Legacy of Viet Nam,” and Robert A. Rosenbloum and Gerald L. Wilson’s “The Value of Myth, Mythic Aspects of American History” (Course Pak).
[Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: R]

HISTORY 195S.07 - Leadership in American History
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
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]