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COMM 1101 - Introduction to Public Speaking (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 1101/Comm 1101H/PSTL 1461
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Public communication processes, elements, and ethics. Criticism of and response to public discourse. Practice in individual speaking designed to encourage civic participation.

COMM 1101H - Honors: Introduction to Public Speaking (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 1101/Comm 1101H/PSTL 1461
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Public communication processes, elements, and ethics. Criticism of and response to public discourse. Practice in individual speaking designed to encourage civic participation. prereq: Honors

COMM 1313W - Analysis of Argument (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Strategies for analyzing, evaluating, generating arguments. Problems in listening/responding to argument.

OLPD 1461 - Presentations in Work Settings: Business & Marketing Education and Human Resource Development (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 1461/OLPD 1461
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course prepares students to present information and hone their messages based on audience need in a variety of business, leadership, and workplace contexts. Students interested in majoring in Business and Marketing Education (BME), Human Resource Development (HRD), and other majors can take this course in order to develop the disciplinary practices used in training and development, as well as business and industry to convey vital and timely messages.

SOC 1001 - Introduction to Sociology (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 1001/Soc 1011V/Soc 1012W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is designed to introduce you to the study of society and what sociologists call the "sociological imagination:" a way of viewing the events, relationships and social phenomena that shape our individual lives and much of our collective experience. Through the course we will examine some of the central concepts and problems that have preoccupied both classical and contemporary sociologists and gain a sense of how the sociological imagination can illuminate the social forces that have a concrete impact on our everyday lives. Throughout the course you will be asked to consider the ways in which society affects your life, and how you, in turn, affect society. prereq: Soc Majors/Minors must register A-F

SOC 1011V - Honors: Introduction to Sociology (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 1001/Soc 1011V/Soc 1012W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed to introduce you to the study of society and what sociologists call the "sociological imagination:" a way of viewing the events, relationships, and social phenomena that shape our individual lives and much of our collective experience. Through the course we will examine some of the central concepts and problems that have preoccupied both classical and contemporary sociologists and gain a sense of how the sociological imagination can illuminate the social forces that have a concrete impact on our everyday lives. Throughout the course you will be asked to consider the ways in which society affects your life and how you, in turn, affect society.

PSY 1001 - Introduction to Psychology (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PSTL 1281/Psy 1001/Psy 1001H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Scientific study of human behavior. Problems, methods, findings of modern psychology.

PSY 1001H - Honors Introduction to Psychology (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PSTL 1281/Psy 1001/Psy 1001H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scientific study of human behavior. Problems, methods, findings of modern psychology. prereq: Honors

EPSY 1281 - Psychological Science Applied (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The course introduces students to applied psychology as a discipline and reviews fundamental principles of psychology through the lenses of applied and professional areas that are the foci of CEHD majors. Specifically, through the lenses of education, we review principles of learning, memory, development, intelligence, and interventions; through the lenses of health and wellness, we review personality, biological, social, and cognitive bases of normal and abnormal behavior, as well as treatments; and, through the lenses of business and organizations, we review principles of motivation, sensation perception, and social behavior. Thus, these psychological principles are considered theoretically, empirically, and through examples for application, with lab discussions and projects emphasizing education, business, health and wellness. The course serves as a foundation for future coursework in education, health sciences, and psychology, and is consistent with the APA�s public education effort to demonstrate how the science and application of psychology benefits society and improves lives.

SMGT 3861 - Sport Law

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed to acquaint the students to the US legal system, structure, process and terminology. The course provides an introduction of the legal aspects of contract law, tort law, statutory law, negligence, and constitutional law. A student upon completion of the course will understand basic legal aspects of sport and physical activity and will be able to provide managerial analysis and decision making based upon a legal aspects of sport knowledge, therefore providing a competitive advantage of the organization of which are involved. The course instruction relies heavily on court case studies and the legal implications in a sport setting. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or instructor consent

YOST 4201 - Facilitating Outdoor Experiences

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	02964
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

This course will explore the theory and practice of leading outdoor recreation experiences for young people. It is particularly focused on technical outdoor living skills, judgement and decision making, risk management/site management, instructional strategies in the outdoor classroom, and the application of the Experiential Education model. NOTE: Student will not receive credit if they have previously taken REC 3321 or YOST 3321.

YOST 4202 - Facilitating Outdoor Experiences - Winter

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	02963
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course will explore the theory and practice of leading outdoor recreation experiences for young people. It is particularly focused on technical outdoor living skills both general and specific to winter, judgement and decision making, risk management/site management, instructional strategies in the outdoor classroom, and the application of the Experiential Education model. NOTE: Student will not receive credit if they have previously taken REC 3322 or YOST 3322.

KIN 3001 - Lifetime Health and Wellness (SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Overview of health/wellness. Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, environmental, and financial health. Influence of societal changes on general health/wellness of diverse populations.

SMGT 1701 - Introduction to Sport Management

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scope/motive of the study of sport from sociological, psychological, historical, economic, and scientific perspective. Issues in sport.

SMGT 3111 - Sports Facility and Event Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sport facilities and event management represents one of the fastest growing areas in the sport and entertainment industry. The construction of new stadiums, arenas, and other venues continues to evolve as new technologies and service experiences are incorporated into venue construction. Further, the organization and management of sport and other special events has become more challenging as the expectations of event goers have increased and standards of what makes a successful event experience have evolved. This course will review and examine the principles and practices associated with managing a sport facility and delivering sporting events. This course builds on the general principles of sport facility and event management by providing students with both in-depth theoretical knowledge and an industry-focused, practical understanding of the administrative and managerial functions that support venues and events. In this course, students will explore topics such as ticket operations, scheduling, event marketing, event budgeting, sponsorship, risk and security, and environmental sustainability as they relate to all types of sport facilities and events. While a primary focus in the course will be on large sport facilities and major sporting events, students will also be given the opportunity to study cases of small venues and local events. As part of this course students will learn to conduct a venue feasibility study, create an event bid, and develop an event management plan. Through these projects students will also connect directly with industry partners to learn their perspectives on contemporary facility and event management as well as build their professional networks in this area of the sport industry. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or CEHD IDP or instructor consent

SMGT 3143 - Organization and Management of Sport

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge pertaining to the various aspects of organization, management, and administration within the sport industry. Students will have the opportunity to hear, learn, and share viewpoints as they relate to sport management through lectures, discussions on current events, and case study analysis. Upon the completion of this course, it is expected that students will (1) have a better understanding of the unique management characteristics of the sport industry, (2) understand the relationship between a sport organization and its environment, (3) have the capacity to diagnose critical issues in sport organizations and apply relevant conceptual framework for analysis, and (4) synthesize important managerial and leadership strategies and techniques to ?real world? issues in sport. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or CEHD IDP or instructor consent.

SMGT 3421 - Business of Sport

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

As the sport industry continues to evolve from a technological and service delivery perspective, the ability of future sport managers to think entrepreneurially about their business as they seek to solve industry problems is of paramount importance. This course examines the sport business ecosystem with a focus on fiscal responsibility and financial management while offering students the opportunity to use the principles of entrepreneurship, forecasting, and risk assessment to build ideas that can shape the future of sport industry offerings. In this course, students will learn relevant theories and industry best practices as they consider how to build organizational capacity for, and willingness to, embrace change and risk-taking to innovate product and service offerings. Projects and assignments in this course will include learning directly from, and writing papers reflecting on, discussions with industry executives in sport organizations that embrace an entrepreneurial mentality. The culminating assignment in this course is a sport entrepreneurship project in which students will leverage on-campus resources to develop a new sport product or service idea. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or CEHD IDP or instructor consent

SMGT 3631 - Sport Marketing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course provides an overview of marketing management in sport organizations. The objectives of the course provide students with a broad introduction to sport marketing concepts, the role sport marketing plays in society, and the various factors that influence sport consumer decision making. In this course you will learn fundamental terms, concepts, and frameworks used by sport marketing professionals to cause consumer action. The course places an emphasis on understanding the unique nature of the sport service and emotional commitment sport consumers have toward their favorite sport brands. Basic concepts of market research will be introduced and utilized to help students learn how to uncover unique insights about their potential target markets. Additionally, students will learn the critical role sport sponsorship plays in the broader context of sport marketing. A particular emphasis will be placed on the unique dynamic of marketing sport and marketing through sport. The course will culminate in a marketing plan and sponsorship proposal written on behalf of a spectator sport organization. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or CEHD IDP or instructor consent

SMGT 3632 - Sport Sales and Fundraising

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Effectively managing the revenue generating functions of sport organizations is critical to the long-term success and viability of those entities. This course will allow students to build their knowledge of theoretical approaches to selling and sales management in sport, and it will teach students a range of practical skills that they will be able to apply in addressing sport industry challenges in the revenue generating space. Students will learn the importance of strategic account management in the contexts of season ticket sales, group event sales, premium seating sales, and sponsorship sales. Additionally, students will explore the unique nature of the account management, relationship cultivation, and stewardship process in a sport fundraising context. Particular attention will be paid to fundraising in college athletics. The primary projects in this course will include weekly sales simulations, industry case studies, and a sales campaign that is developed in partnership with a real-world, sport industry partner. Upon conclusion of this class, students will be able to clearly identify, define, and solve problems related to generating revenue in sport organizations through the sale of sport services and fundraising using sport as a platform to positively impact the lives of sport participants. prereq: SMGT major or SMGT minor or CEHD IDP or instructor consent

ACCT 2051 - Introduction to Financial Reporting

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Acct 2050/ApEc 1251/Dbln 2051
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course introduces the topics of financial reporting and accounting. The purpose of financial accounting is to provide information to the entity owners and external parties to serve as the basis for making decisions about that entity. A student who successfully completes this class should be able to 1) understand the concepts and principles of accounting, 2) analyze, record and report the accounting treatment of business transactions, and 3) prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements.

CPSY 2301 - Introduction to Developmental Psychology (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CPsy 2301/ 3301/ H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course will examine normative physical, social, and cognitive development from the prenatal period through adolescence. The major goals include fostering an understanding of the usefulness of a developmental approach to psychological issues, familiarizing students with current research and methodology in developmental psychology, and engaging students in the experiences of developmental psychology through observation and analysis of child behavior. PSY majors should take the cross-listed course CPSY 3301.

CPSY 4303 - Adolescent Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Overview of development in the teenage years/second decade of life. Interactions of adolescents with family, school, and society. prereq: PSY 1001 or equivalent

CPSY 4311 - Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Children

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Study abnormal psychology and atypical development in children and adolescents. Focus on behavioral and emotional problems, disorders and diagnoses, psychopathology contrasted to normal development. Understand symptoms, causes, course, and prevention of common disorders, excluding physical and sensory handicaps. prereq: CPSY 2301 / 3301 or equiv

CPSY 4313W - Disabilities and Development (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Surveys all areas of exceptionality. Mental, hearing, vision, physical, speech, language handicaps. Learning disabilities. Autism. Emotional/behavior disorders. Giftedness. Study the related legal rights, policies, and education accommodations for students with disabilities. prereq: Psy 1001

ESPM 3202W - Environmental Conflict Management, Leadership, and Planning (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3202WESPM /5202
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Negotiation of natural resource management issues. Use of collaborative planning. Case study approach to conflict management, strategic planning, and building leadership qualities. Emphasizes analytical concepts, techniques, and skills.

ESPM 3245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy (ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Policies affecting land use planning at local, state, and federal levels. Ecosystem and landscape scale planning. Collaborative and community-based approaches to planning for ecological, social, and economic sustainability. Class project applies interdisciplinary perspectives on planning and policy, including information gathering techniques, conservation planning tools, and evaluation of planning options.

FNRM 3101 - Park and Protected Area Tourism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FNRM 3101/FNRM 5101
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Tourism is a significant industry locally, nationally, and internationally. Park and protected area attractions are among the most visited but also the most vulnerable attractions. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic concept of park and protected area tourism, including cultural and ecotourism, and then develop your expertise to plan and evaluate sustainable tourism development and operations. Accordingly, you will complete assignments that apply the knowledge gained to planning and evaluation activities. This course is offered partially on-line. COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of the class you will be able to: 1.Differentiate and appreciate the complexities involved with defining and developing nature, eco, heritage, geo-, park and protected, cultural and "sustainable tourism." 2.Identify specific social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with park and protected area tourism, how to measure them, and methods to minimize the negative and maximize the positive impacts. 3.Analyze domestic and international case studies of park and protected area tourism. 4.Critically evaluate park and protected area tourism services and effective management and planning. 5. Create elements of a business plan for park and protected area tourism operations that emphasize sustainability.

FSOS 1201 - Human Development in Families: Lifespan (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Human development in a family context. Life-course and human development theories. Individual/family development, mate selection, birth, life cycle. Physical, cognitive, language, social, social, and personality development. Historical, social, and cultural factors. How theory/research are applied to everyday lives.

FSOS 3102 - Family Systems and Diversity (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 3102/FSOS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Family systems/theories applied to dynamics/processes relevant to family life. Diversity issues related to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. Divorce, single parenthood, remarriage. Family strengths/problems. prereq: At least soph or instr consent

MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is about the foundational principles of management, encompassing disciplinary and topical boundaries. We will look at these principles from the perspective of how they guide action, specifically: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. By the end of the course, students will know the basics of how to set up organizations to be effective and innovative, and not just efficient. During the course, you will engage with the material in the course and understand how management frameworks can be used to choose the right internal structures and processes that can best react to your particular industry context and general business environment.

MGMT 3015 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	IBUS 3010/MGMT 3010/MGMT 3015
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Career paths, including new business start-ups, franchising, acquisitions (including family business succession), corporate venturing, and entre-preneurial services. Legal structures for new business formation. Aspects of business law/ethics.

OLPD 3601 - Introduction to Human Resource Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Human resource development theories, principles, concepts, and practices.

OLPD 3621 - Introduction to Training and Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Processes to carry out theoretically sound training/development practices, within the context of systemic relationship with host organization or system.

OLPD 3641 - Introduction to Organization Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Organization development theories, principles, concepts, and practices. How development is used to direct change in an organization.

YOST 1001 - Seeing Youth, Thinking Youth: Media, Popular Media, and Scholarship (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is an invitation to meet and engage with the field of Youth Studies. This is an introductory course to a subject you already know about ? you?ve lived its content; thought about it; you may even written poems, made a video or posted a meme about this life-moment. Since you know this so well, why take a university course on it? You will leave this course better able to notice the young people around you; wonder about them and their lives; name, describe and analyze what you see and hear and read about youth. This course is about all young people. This means that we are attentive to including material about youth from diverse backgrounds, many ethnic/racial, social class, linguistic, and geographic locations or those who have a variety of physical and mental capacities, those who are ?normal? and ?typical? and those who are ?not?. Together, we will examine myths and stereotypes about youth, where they come from, and how to deconstruct them using a variety of lenses-- social, popular and news media, young adult novels, academic articles, biographies, and more. We will do this through engaging class discussions and activities. You will learn how to use critical ethnography ?in the field? where you will observe and write about youth in a variety of settings including malls, sporting events, busses, coffee shops, and music venues. We believe that an introductory college course is a space and time to reflect, analyze, and learn about what matters to you, about who you are and about the work others have done and what you want to do. In these ways, this course introduces ways of being an engaged and thoughtful student, citizen and professional, all of which require critical thinking skills and an ability to work across difference and diversity. In this course, students will develop skills in assessment, reflection/reflexivity, deconstruction, empathy and judgement; all precursors for professional decision-making in careers like youth work, policy, public health, education, communications, and other fields. We hope this course may lead to reflecting on your occupational future and vocational call.

YOST 2101 - Urban Youth and Youth Issues (DSJ)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course explores issues faced by youth, especially those who live in or are characterized by our understanding of urban areas. We explore by asking questions like: ?Which youth are labeled as 'urban' and by whom?? ?What has contributed to notions of ?urban? and ?suburban?"? "What are the associated myths and stereotypes?? and ?How are urban communities policed and what are the consequences of this policing?? We will critically examine what the term ?urban youth? means, how it has evolved over time and place, its relationship to power and privilege, and its use as a ?code word? with implicit associations of race, poverty, and violence. Using a critical Youth Studies framework, which engages with the role of historical, social, cultural, geographical, and political contexts, we seek to understand how each of these axes of power-relations influence the opportunities and struggles of young people, their interaction with institutions and the construction of their identities in particular places. This class is a part of the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) program. Students will combine direct work with youth in the community with classroom learning. The objective is for students to make valuable contributions to communities, gain practical experience and apply the knowledge gained in the classroom to their service learning work. Students will also be able to discuss, reflect and write about their community ?engaged experiences. This class offers a unique opportunity to engage with diverse youth in different settings thus gaining valuable skills that can be useful for future professional practice in many fields including, education, recreation, mental health, and youth work. prereq: YOST 1001 or instr consent

YOST 2241 - Experiential Learning

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	YoSt 2241/YoSt 5241
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Youth work is often described as 'highly experiential' and transformative. But what does that mean? Youth workers understand, sometimes intuitively, that 'learning by doing' makes sense, but why? Is all experience equally valid, moral, and educative? What makes an experience educative or mis-educative? What is the difference between experiential education and experiential learning? This course will explore a range of definitions given to experiential learning and will lay a sound theoretical foundation for understanding it, particularly in the context of youth work. This class is interactive and uses hands-on and in-the-field learning in its instruction. In any given class, students may hike, rock climb, practice meditation, engage in animal therapy, canoe, visit gardens, outdoor STEM classrooms or simply go on the lawn outside of the classroom in order to engage in youthwork ?icebreakers? and ?games.? The intention in this, is to learn by doing; to learn about by simultaneously learning how-to! Through experience, you will learn about the importance of place and history in experiential education; multiple theories and practices of experiential education, including the Learning Cycle Theory and educative and mis-educative experiences; methods of reflection and assessment, group facilitation, leadership skill development in youth; values curiosity and the outdoors. prereq: YOST 1001 or instr consent

YOST 3032 - Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	YoSt 3032/YoSt 5032
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

In this course, we will explore the multitude of theories that have been proposed to describe, understand, and even explain young people in the second decade of life and beyond. Indeed, we will be studying development theories that have been used to explain your own life and experience. This gives us a unique perspective in the class. You have first hand experience that can be used to interrogate the theories and often illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of each. Over the course of the semester, we describe, discuss, and critique six theories of adolescent and youth development, including: Social Justice Youth Development, Participatory Youth Development, Community Youth Development, Positive Youth Development, Adolescent Development, and Recapitulation. We begin with the most recent theory and then using academic archeology, dig back through time to understand not only the individual theories but also how they connect and join to each other. Along the way, we also discuss the social and cultural events and situations that influenced each theory?s development and often demise. A major goal of this class is to better understand where these theories come from, what they are connected to, and often how they are used to both support and marginalize young people. Class will be interactive, using both small and large group discussion, experiential learning activities, and guest lecturers. The major assignment for the class is a grant writing project, where students will collaborate with a youth-serving organizing to develop a grant proposal that addresses the organization?s needs. This project will be used to deepen understanding of how to apply the theories we learn in class, as well as to develop skills around writing strong grant proposals for youth-serving organizations. prereq: YOST 1001 or 2101, [any Psych or CPsy course], or instr consent

YOST 3101 - Youthwork: Orientations and Approaches

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Within the U.S. there is an ongoing conversation about what values, knowledge, skills, and practice are basic to the field of youth work. The occupational title, youth worker, is not widely recognized with a set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that distinguish it from other occupations that work with young people (teacher, coach, social worker). Often youth worker is taken to signify those who ?work with youth.? In recent years there have been attempts to clarify and specify what a youth worker does, whom a youth worker should be, and how one should be educated for this type of work. These debates now occur within international and national movements to ?professionalize? youth work. In this course, we enter this conversation by considering the multiple ways of becoming, being a youth worker, and doing youth work. Toward the end of the course, we will also explore how context?agency, street, and neighborhood?can have consequences on all three of these. To be knowledgeable participants in these conversations you must know the possible answers to at least four questions. Who are young people? What is youth work? Who are youth workers? Where is the location of the work? For each of these questions, we explore the diverse answers, given by scholars and practitioner, here in the United States and internationally. How one chooses to answer any one of these questions has consequences for the other three. Attention is also given to how you and I choose to answer these questions given our own experience of being a young person and our current interactions with young people. At the end of this course, you will be able to participate at a beginning level in the conversations that are of concern to youth work and enhance your direct work with, on behalf of, and/or for young people. In the process, you will have begun constructing and articulating a personal philosophy of youth work. prereq: One gen psy course, one gen soc course, or instr consent

LEAD 1961W - Personal Leadership in the University (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Lead1961V / Lead 1961W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Examine personal views of leadership, differences between personal/positional leadership, leadership ethics/values, personal leadership strengths/skills.

LEAD 3961 - Leadership, You, and Your Community

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

How do effective leaders create positive systemic change within complex systems? What is community and how does it shape the work of leadership? Students examine leadership from a multi-dimensional and multicultural perspective and critically examine leadership theories in authentic, complex community settings.

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