PPS 190FS.03 – ENTERPRISING LEADERSHIP & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (New Course-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

PPS 264.01(PPS137) – ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Alma Blount
Wednesday 6:15 – 8:45 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 265.01 (PPS 146) – Leadership, Development, and Organizations
Instructor: Tony Brown
Wednesday/Friday 1:25 –2:40 pm, RH 151
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]

PPS 295S.01 (PPS 140S.01) - WOMEN AS LEADERS
Instructor: Katie Higgins Hood
Tuesday 3:05 - 5:35 pm, Sanford 225
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]

PPS396S.01 (PPS 168) – DOCUMENTARY ENGAGEMENT
Instructors: Liisa Ogburn
Monday 10:05 – 12:35 pm, Bridges House 104 In this seminar students will learn to use documentary photography and audio as tools for social engagement in preparation for intensive field-based summer community documentary projects that contribute to the public good. Students will also examine classic and contemporary documentary audio and photography to help give context and shape to their own documentary work. The class will focus on one of the most serious health problems facing American youth: obesity. Students will be paired with teens enrolled in Duke’s Healthy Lifestyle program at Duke Children’s Hospital. As a service learning course, each student will be paired with a teens, providing support, as needed, and/or helping with the Active Teens program held at the Lenox Baker Center. At the same time, students will be documenting their lives and stories. Students will learn and refine valuable technical skills such as Photoshop and Premier, in order to complete a 4-6 minute multimedia documentary portrait by the end of the semester. These portraits will convey what it means to change health behaviors, and may be used in medical education, policy and public health efforts, as well as for patient education, motivation and empowerment. Liisa Ogburn runs the Documenting Medicine program at Duke, which provides medical residents with the skills and equipment to use documentary to explore patient and provider stories. SERVICE LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: ALP] Permission Required

History 377D (HST72D) – American Dreams/American Realities
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Monday/Wednesday 11:45 - 12:35 pm, Social Sciences 136
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 (HST196) – Leadership in American History
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Tuesday/Thursday 4:40 – 5:55 pm, Soc Psy 128
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