Approved Elective Courses

Leadership Theory

  • LDST 710: Leadership Theory
  • AMS 802: Theorizing America
  • POLS 600/WGSS 600: Contemporary Feminist Theory
  • THR 914: Theories of Race and Performance
  • WGSS 567/ISP 567: Native Feminisms
  • WGSS 801: Feminist Theory
  • WGSS 811: Black Feminist Theory
  • WGSS 812: Queer Theory

Leadership Ethics

  • LDST 720: Leadership Ethics

Leadership Skills & Methods

  • LDST 730: Managing the Work of Leadership
  • LDST 760: Leadership Communication
  • LDST 781: DEI Program Assessment
  • LDST 715: Leadership, Equity, & Inclusion
  • LDST 762: Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Management
  • ABSC 801: Design and Analysis of Community Development Methods
  • ABSC 804: Research in Community Health Promotion
  • ABSC 807: Design and Evaluation of Community Health Promotion Methods
  • ASLD 613: Social Justice and Allyship with Deaf Communities
  • ISP 871: Community Health and Development
  • PSYC 750: Advanced Seminar in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
  • PUAD 836: Data-Driven Decision Making
  • SW 640: Grant Writing and Program Development
  • WGSS 802: Feminist Methodologies

Leadership Contexts

  • LDST 740: Leadership and Power
  • LDST 751: Black Women in Leadership
  • LDST 791: "Exercising Leadership": Sport and Social Justice in the U.S.
  • AAAS 720: Intercultural Communication: The Afro-American
  • AAAS 730: Black Leadership
  • AAAS 810: Comparative Racial and Ethnic Relations
  • AAAS 811: The Civil Rights Movement
  • AAAS 812: The Black Power Movement
  • AAAS 822: African and African-American Religion
  • AAAS 855: Race and the American Theater
  • AAAS 857: Cities and Development
  • AAAS 860: Race, Gender, and Post-Colonial Discourses
  • ABSC 710/ISP 871: Community Health and Development
  • ABSC 787/AMS 767/COMS 787/PSYC 787/SOC 767: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Gerontology and Aging
  • AMS 805: American Pluralism: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in American Life
  • AMS 835/HIST 895/WGSS 835: Colloquium in the History of Gender
  • ASLD 611: Introduction to Deaf Studies
  • ASLD 612: Intersectionality and Deaf Communities
  • ASLD 614: Historical Foundations of Deaf Education
  • C&T 807: Multicultural Education
  • COMS 846: Communication and Aging
  • COMS 910: Organizing Identity, Identification, and Stigma
  • ELPS 830: Foundations of Multicultural Education
  • EVRN 673: Environmental Justice
  • HIST 896: Colloquium in United States Women's History
  • ISP 800: Indigenous Issues in the United States
  • POLS 614: Urban Politics
  • POLS 616: Interest Group Politics
  • POLS 623: Politics of Social Policy
  • POLS 629/EVRN 628: Politics of Public Health
  • POLS 630/WGSS 630: Politics of Identity
  • POLS 640/WGSS 640: Politics of Reproductive Policy
  • PSYC 802: Social-Psychological Aspects of Health, Disability, and Associated Life Stress
  • PSYC 821: Women and Violence
  • PUAD 702: Diversity and Social Equity in Public Administration
  • PUAD 703: Foundations of the Nonprofit Sector
  • PUAD 705: Managing Nonprofit Relationships
  • PUAD 845: Innovation and Organizational Change
  • REL 771: Religious Movements and Social Change
  • SOC 671: Social Movements
  • SW 635: Gender and Sexual Diversity
  • SW 637: Criminal Justice System: Abolish or Reform
  • SW 708: Human Rights, Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
  • WGSS 701: Seminar in . . . 

*This list is frequently growing and is not comprehensive. If you have questions about whether or not a course will count toward a specific concentration, please contact Alesia Woszidlo, Director of Graduate Studies.