The College is pleased to announce that the following second 8 weeks seminar has recently been added to the Schedule of Classes for this Fall 2007. This course carries Arts & Humanities distribution credit in the College and also fulfills the College’s Topics requirement. Space is limited to only twenty-two students.
COLL-S 103 32780
Leadership: Mind, Body and Spirit –
Lessons from the Aspen Idea
(Pugh) (A&H) (3 cr.)
1:00 – 3:00 WF
This is an introductory course to the study of leadership. It provides each student with an opportunity to attain a deeper understanding of effective leadership using, as a foundation, the concept of the Aspen Idea which reflects the fusion of body, mind and spirit. This Idea underlies the internationally known leadership programs at the Aspen Institute, materials from which will be adapted to this course. The course introduces the leadership triad composed of situational, personal and skillful dimensions. Aspen, Colorado is used as a case study for identifying significant lessons of leadership by examination of the mining, skiing, intellectual and cultural aspects of the Aspen experience. We study this confluence of thought, creativity and action that resulted from a renaissance and re-birth after World War II as the Tenth Mountain Division veterans and the University of Chicago proponents of classical authors came together in a place of majestic physical beauty. The combination of theories, research studies, and real life experiences permits students to discover and identify principles of leadership which will form the basis of their own personal leadership plan as well as a foundation for vision, achievement and success in life.
