Values-Based Leadership

A badge in Values-Based Leadership is an experiential learning opportunity that gives curious learners an opportunity to analyze community needs and prototype local solutions in collaboration with established local businesses as well as social and commercial entrepreneurs. In addition to values-based leadership training from industry professionals, students will gain internship experience, and take a course that challenges them to consider how local entrepreneurship takes place in wider systems of influence. Students will come away from the program with extended social/professional networks as well as a portfolio resumé for use in their own entrepreneurial endeavors and future job searches.

The badge requires participation in a 10-week humane leadership training course workshop (4 credits), an internship with the Local Innovation Lab (4 credits), and one elective course selected from the list of “systems of influence” courses (4 credits). All three components may be taken simultaneously or sequentially.

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3 Required Courses

1. SSCI 399: Humane Leadership Training
2. EC 409: Local Innovation Lab Internship (or approved practicum credits from student’s home program.)
3. One Systems of Influence Elective Course (select one):

• NAS 201: Intro to Native American Studies – 4 credits
• NAS 318: Native North America – 4 credits
• NAS 390: The Nine Tribes of Oregon – 4 credits
• COMM 200: Communication Across Cultures – 4 credits
• EC 310: The Environment and the Local Economy – 4 credits
• EC 340: Gender Issues in Economics – 4 credits
• SOAN 336: NGOs and Humanitarianism – 4 credits
• CCJ 386: Hate Crimes – 4 credits
• CCJ 388: Race and Crime – 4 credits
• PHL 205: Intro to Ethics – 4 credits
• PSY 489: Native American Psychology – 4 credits
• GSWS 201: Intro to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies – 4 credits
• GSWS 312: Trans Histories, Trans Futures – 4 credits
• GSWS 342: Queer Lives and Communities – 4 credits

Additional Requirements

A-F letter grading.
Minimum grade of B or better in each of the three courses.

Outcomes

Upon completion of the program students will be able to:

• analyze community needs and prototype local solutions in collaboration with established local businesses as well as social and commercial entrepreneurs.
• demonstrate proficiency with the models and methods required for practical, humane leadership of self, projects, and teams.
• present a portfolio resumé for use as proof of concept in their own entrepreneurial endeavors and in future job searches
• use an expanded social and professional network to aid them in their own school-to-work or career transitions
• construct their own understanding of how entrepreneurship and innovation take place in wider systems of influence