ILRID 2650 - [Inclusive Leadership]

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2026-2027. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: ILRID 2510, ILRID 2610, EDUC 2610, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to ILR sophomores or others with permission of the instructor who have not satisfied their ILR sophomore writing requirement. Not open to: first year students. Satisfies the ILR sophomore writing requirement.

S. Kim.

What can we learn about leadership from pathbreakers such as Grace Lee Boggs, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, and Sylvia Rivera? While traditional scholarship on leadership has focused on corporations, politics, and higher education, leaders exist in many other spaces. Activists, for example, demonstrate many of the proven hallmarks of effective leadership: listening to others, taking risks, recognizing power, and forging communities. This course seeks to galvanize leadership education by putting traditional leadership scholarship in conversation with the writings of activists and humanistic scholars. Through this juxtaposition, we will explore and examine our preconceived notions of “leadership,” “diversity,” and “inclusion.” We will analyze our own personal experiences to articulate a more informed vision for inclusive leadership and to strategize ways to lead across difference with empathy and awareness of power. As this course is a writing seminar, we will use writing as a method for thinking thoroughly about questions related to inclusion and leadership. Writing assignments will involve scholarly analysis, critical reflection, and substantial revision.