Leadership Core

The Leadership Core consists of 39 credit hours of coursework (14 courses plus a capstone course[s] in a student’s major[s]). Leadership Core (LDRS) coursework replaced earlier General Educational Requirements and was the product of a deliberate effort taken to strengthen and streamline the quality of required courses outside a student’s major program of study. Since adopting the Leadership Core, William Penn University has received recognition by the John Templeton Foundation.

Most of the courses are designed to promote communication, values and inquiry, and a good number of them are aimed toward international and multicultural understanding and historical consciousness. Others are geared toward fostering an understanding of numerical reasoning, technological proficiency, scientific content/methodology, aesthetic appreciation, and/or leadership/management skills.

Courses designated at the 100 or 200 level should be taken during the student’s first two years while those designated at the 300 level should be taken during the last two years. Some courses also have prerequisites. Transfer students with an associate degree are required only to take Quaker Values and Contemporary Leadership to fulfill the Leadership Core requirement.

Leadership Core Courses

• LDRS 100 Freshman Seminar

• LDRS 101 English Composition I

• LDRS 102 English Composition II

• LDRS 105 Computers and Technology

• LDRS 111 Environmental Biology (or Lab Science: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, or Physics)

• LDRS 200 Principles of Communication (or THEA 212 Oral Interpretation)

• LDRS 203 Problem Solving with Statistics I (or MATH 103 College Algebra and Trigonometry or higher level mathematics)

• LDRS 216 Perspectives in World History (or LDRS 217 Perspectives in American History or any History course)

• LDRS 220 Arts and Society I and LDRS 221 Arts and Society II or A&S I or A&S II plus 3 credits in any art, theatre, music, or literature course

• *LDRS 290 Quaker Values

• LDRS 300 Comparative Religion (or any religion course)

• LDRS 325 Psychology of Human Social Interaction (or PSYC 102 Introduction to Psychology or PSYC 108 Life-Span Psychology or SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology or SOCI 123 Sociology of Contemporary Issues)

• *LDRS 390 Contemporary Leadership

Total Leadership Core 39 credit hours

*Required by all graduates of William Penn University