Course registration is around the corner and it is time to start thinking about courses for next year! ILead offers numerous academic courses on leadership at both the undergraduate and graduate level. These courses are hands-on, experiential learning opportunities that count towards Complementary Studies (CS) electives and Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) electives.
Throughout the coming weeks, we will offer sneak peeks into ILead courses on Facebook and Twitter. Follow the conversation using #ILeadCourses. To begin the sneak peeks, we asked our course instructors “how does your course empower students?” Check out their responses below:
Annie Simpson and Penny Kinnear:
APS445H – The Power of Story: Discovering your Leadership Narrative
Embrace your life experience: the good, the bad, the ugly and make it your most precious leadership asset.
Robin Sacks:
APS442H & APS1010H – Cognitive and Psychological Foundations of Effective Leadership & APS444H & APS1026H – The Happy Engineer – Positive Psychology for Engineers
My courses offers a semester long journey inward, like deep sea diving but into yourself.
Haig Baronikian:
APS446H & APS1019H – Leadership in Project Management
Through the course, Leadership in Project Management, students acquire the understanding, approaches, tools and skills to lead more effectively in the context of organizations and projects. They have opportunity to learn of theoretical aspects, as well as to practice within a project team and gain insights from industry practitioners.
Nick Evans:
APS1011H – Concepts and Applications of Authentic Leadership
Concepts and Applications of Authentic Leadership helps build the awareness and belief that we are able to create the experiences, relationships, work and life that we desire.
Danny Cushing:
APS1029H – The Science of Emotional Intelligence and its Application to Leadership
With a focus on emotional intelligence and mindfulness, this course helps you develop greater self-awareness and enhances your ability to respond to stressful situations with clarity and confidence.
Mark Franklin:
APS1030H – Engineering Careers: Theories & Strategies to Manage your Career for Future
Engineering Careers helps students become empowered and proactive in their career and life choices. Through storytelling and “storylistening”, and with the support of a game, a web application, discussion, peer encouragement and meetings with remarkable engineers, you gain clarity, confidence and a stronger voice.
Dave Colcleugh:
APS1501H – Leadership and Leading in Groups and Organizations
The students who have taken Leadership and Leading in Groups and Organizations tell us they very much appreciated the discussion and learning they received which, they say, will make them better leaders of organizations. They all recognize the vast majority of all graduate engineers will work in for profit or not for profit business organizations. They are inspired to learn individual competencies can be learned that prepares them to do the, also learnable work, of leaders in the organization.