Leadership Studies Minor
Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
10/18/13
Dr. Robert J. Birkenholz, Coordinator
202 Ag. Administration Building
2120 Fyffe Road
614-292-8921
Birkenholz.1@osu.edu
The undergraduate minor in Leadership Studies provides students with knowledge of leadership theories, principles,
and concepts to better prepare them for success in future professional roles. The minor is structured to include
theories and principles of personal leadership, team and organizational leadership, community leadership, and ethics
and diversity. Students should select courses in each of the four curricular areas that are tailored to their professional
needs and interests.
This interdisciplinary minor is open to and appropriate for students in majors outside the College of Arts and Sciences at
The Ohio State University. A minor in Leadership Studies consists of a minimum of 15 credit hours (of which, 6
hours must be in courses numbered at the 3000 level or above) as follows:
Personal Leadership Foundations (choose one):
Credit Hours
BUSMHR
2210
Personal Leadership and Team Effectiveness
3
COMLDR
3530
Foundations of Personal and Professional Leadership
3
ESHESA
2571
Introduction to Leadership Development in Learning Organizations 3
Team and Organizational Leadership (choose one):
AEDECON
3160
Human Resources Management in Small Businesses
2
BUSMHR
4221
Concepts and Competencies for Managing People
3
COMLDR
4430
Leadership in Teams and Community Organizations
3
EDUPAES
4245
Leadership and Programming in Sports Industry
3
ESHESA
2570
Team and Organizational Leadership
3
ESHESA
2575
Student Organization and Leadership Training
3
ENGR
5680
Leading in Engineering Organizations
2
MILSCI
2001
Individual Leadership I
2
MILSCI
2002
Individual Leadership II
2
PSYCH
3522
Organizational Psychology
3
PUB AFRS
2130
Leadership in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
3
Community Leadership (choose one):
ESHESA
2571
Leadership in Community Service
3
POLITSC
3912
Political Leadership
3
PUB AFRS
2120
Public Service and Civic Engagement
3
RURLSOC
4500
Leadership and Community Development
3
Ethics and Diversity (choose one):
BUSMHR
3211
Leadership and Character
3
ECON
3048
Ethics and Social Responsibility in Economic Life
3
ESHESA/PSYCH 2577
Leadership and Inter-Group Dialogue
3
ESHESA
3573
Theories of Leadership in Learning Organizations
3
PHILOS
3300
Moral Philosophy
3
Practicum (choose one):
Major dept
x193
context-based leadership practicum or
3-4
COMLDR
4480
Leadership Practicum
3-4
Restrictions and General Information
1. The Leadership Studies minor is not available to students majoring in Agriscience Education, Agricultural
Communication or Community Leadership.
2. The minimum overall GPA in courses comprising the minor shall be 2.0.
3. A minor should be declared at the time a student accumulates 60 hours.
4. A maximum of one course may overlap between the minor and the GE (Writing and Communication, Foreign Language,
Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, Culture and Ideas, Historical Study, Quantitative Reasoning, Data Analysis,
Natural Science, Social Science, Cross-Disciplinary Seminar, Service-Learning, Education Abroad).
5. Courses taken on a pass/non-pass basis may not be applied to the minor.
6. At least 6 hours of courses comprising the minor must be numbered at the 3000 level or above.