The Leadership Certificate is designed to strengthen your leadership skills—no matter your chosen profession. In this program, you’ll take a mixture of leadership courses, psychology courses, sociology courses, and choose from various electives spanning many disciplines. You’ll finish the program with a portfolio to show what you’ve learned and accomplished.
The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.
Leadership Certificate, Undergraduate
The purpose of the Leadership Certificate is to educate and empower students to become proactive leaders in our society regardless of chosen profession. The Certificate provides an interdisciplinary course of study with a focus on the theoretical and experiential understanding of leadership. Students benefit from a broad spectrum of courses that entail a leadership component. Collectively, these courses provide a rich compilation of perspectives on leadership. Students also benefit from the thorough examination and critique of their evolving leadership style.
Note: some courses on Lists 1 and 2 have prerequisites that are not included in the Leadership Certificate program. Please review the individual courses for prerequisite information.
Program Prerequisites: students must complete the following courses before admission to the certificate program. One BACR course from Humanities and Arts, and one BACR course from Social Sciences or a DTA (Direct Transfer from a Community College).
Grade Requirements: acceptance to the certificate program requires that students have a ≥2.5 cumulative grade point average and students must maintain a cumulative grade point average in the certificate ≥2.7 with no single course grade <B-.
| Required Courses | ||
| Basic leadership–choose from the following | 3 | |
Any course (3 credits minimum) that focuses on leadership skills (e.g., residential life leadership classes or student government leadership workshops). The certificate adviser will determine whether the course in question qualifies as a leadership basics course. | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP | ||
| BASIC MILITARY SKILLS I and BASIC MILITARY SKILLS II and BASIC MILITARY SKILLS III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence) | ||
| WORKSHOP, SHORT COURSE, CONFERENCE, SEMINAR | ||
| Theory and Philosophy–choose from the following | 4-6 | |
| TOPICS IN LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION | ||
| LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| INTERDISCIPLINARY SR CAPSTONE | ||
| ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP | ||
| MILITARY SCIENCE & TACTICS I and MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS II and MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence) | ||
| MILITARY SCIENCE AND OFFICERSHIP I and MILITARY SCIENCE AND OFFICERSHIP II and MILITARY SCIENCE AND OFFICERSHIP III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence) | ||
| OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP | ||
| Portfolio Assessment–required for all students | 2 | |
| PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP | ||
| Restrictions on choosing courses from across Lists 1 and 2 | ||
Two courses must be at the 400 level. | ||
The course chosen from List 1 cannot also satisfy a List 2 course option. | ||
ENTP/CMST 433 can satisfy List 1, but cannot simultaneously satisfy a Theory & Philosophy course option. | ||
Communication Studies majors and Communication Studies PR majors may not take a CMST course from List 2 and have it apply to the Leadership Certificate. | ||
| List 1: Group and Organization–choose at least one course from the following | 5 | |
| SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION | ||
| COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| SPORTS AND LEADERSHIP | ||
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| ORGANIZATION THEORY AND BEHAVIOR | ||
| BASIC MILITARY TEAM BUILDING I and BASIC MILITARY TEAMBUILDING II and BASIC MILITARY TEAM III (must take all 3 courses in the sequence) | ||
| OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | ||
| QUALITY MANAGEMENT | ||
| COACHING SPORTS TECHNICAL AND TACTICAL SKILLS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO SERVICE, CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY | ||
| SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| GROUP DYNAMICS | ||
| CAMP ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP | ||
| COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| List 2: Leadership Concepts–choose a minimum of three courses from the following | 13 | |
400-level Topics courses require prior approval of the certificate adviser. Additionally, any course from List 1 may be used to satisfy course credit requirements for List 2 as well, though a single course cannot be used for both list requirements. | ||
Any 300- or 400-level course from the Global Studies university graduation requirement (UGR) list or the Diversity UGR list may be used to satisfy credit requirements for List 2. | ||
Credit requirements for List 2 may also be satisfied by any 300- or 400-level course (excluding Special Topics courses) from: Africana Studies (AAST), Anthropology (ANTR), American Indian Studies (IDST), Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), Chicana/o/x Studies (CHST), or Communication Studies (CMST). NOTE: Communication Studies majors and Communication Studies PR majors may not use a CMST course to satisfy List 2. | ||
| COMMUNITY PREVENTION METHODS | ||
| MINORITY PERSPECTIVES IN AGING | ||
| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF CHILDREN | ||
| PEACEMAKING CRIMINOLOGY | ||
| HOMELESSNESS AND JUSTICE | ||
| BRAND THINK AND SERVICE DESIGN | ||
| DISABILITY AS DIVERSITY | ||
| LITERACY FOR LINGUISTICALLY AND CULTURALLY DIVERSE LEARNERS | ||
| DIVERSITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION | ||
| FINDING AND EVALUATING OPPORTUNITIES | ||
| PUBLIC RELATIONS IN BUSINESS AND FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS | ||
| MIND-BODY HEALTH | ||
| MANAGING STRESS | ||
| TIME MANAGEMENT | ||
| FEMINIST THEORIES | ||
| HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | ||
| INDIGENOUS EDUCATION | ||
| PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING | ||
| QUALITY ASSURANCE AND INTRO TO LEAN | ||
| THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE | ||
| WOMEN AND PHILOSOPHY | ||
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | ||
| TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | ||
| PUBLIC MANAGEMENT | ||
| TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS | ||
| SCIENCE OF STRESS AND COPING | ||
| THEORIES OF PERSONALITY | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT | ||
| PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN RELATIONS | ||
| EMOTION AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE | ||
| LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN RECREATION EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF WORK | ||
| IDENTITY AND POWER | ||
| DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK | ||
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK | ||
| HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS | ||
| SOCIAL WORK WITH VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES | ||
| SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS | ||
| SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP | ||
| ENGAGED INTERNSHIP | ||
| Total Credits | 27-29 | |
Cross-listed: GWSS 418.
Notes: may be stacked with DSST 510.
Pre-requisites: junior standing or instructor permission required.
This course teaches students to recognize, analyze, and comprehend disability, and disabled persons, as part of the rich tapestry of human experience; including disability intersections with other diverse identities and groups in society. Working through interdisciplinary scholarship, cultural artifacts, and first-person accounts, students will learn how disability compliments and also complicate existing identity categories and notions of diversity.
Pre-requisites: SOCI 101.
This course is about the relationship between power and identity. Identity can be defined as presentations of the self that facilitate human social interaction and thereby situate individuals in social structures. We will use the concept of power" to explore how identities are central to various forms " of social inequality.
Cross-listed: GWSS 471.
Pre-requisites: junior standing.
The course examines the history of human rights and dignity using the declaration of rights by the United Nations, research and initiatives by the World Health Organization and other international human rights groups. The course covers topics on the human rights of women and children including health, food insecurity, economic status, housing, education, violence, war crimes and residency/citizenship status. It examines strategies for furthering human rights on the global stage.
Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Applied studies of the process of community development emphasizing the interactive roles of citizens, community officials and planners.