LEAD Course Descriptions

LEAD 101: Personality Inventory

Students are required to complete the MBTI assessment tool the summer before beginning their first year. The results will be utilized in a variety of ways during their four years at the College.

LEAD 102: Personality Styles Workshop & Living Agreements

Residential students are required to attend this workshop to help them better understand their personality styles and use the information to complete living contracts with their roommates.

LEAD 103: Community Conversation

Residential students are required to participate in this activity during which they learn to create safe and inclusive living spaces.

LEAD 104: Community Building Requirement

Students are required to participate in an activity that promotes community building as well as any required follow-up by the middle of their third semester (prior to registration). A list of many current, pre-approved programs and activities is available and continually updated, from which students may choose. For a current list click here.

There is also an opportunity for students to select an activity not on the list. These choices will be subject to an approval process. LEAD works closely with the Center for Service and Civic Engagement to create a variety of opportunities. Students, faculty, staff or campus clubs can propose an activity to fulfill LEAD credit using the Community Building Proposal Form.

LEAD 201: Sophomore Symposium

A required evening event highlighting an author of a book related to lifelong career management, including a keynote and follow-up debrief activity. For more on Sophomore Symposium click here.

LEAD 202: Strategically Marketing Yourself (Workshop)

A required workshop designed to assist students in determining how past and future experiences in the work, school, volunteer and extracurricular areas can be used to support their career paths.

LEAD 301: Lifelong Career Management Requirement

Students are required to participate in specified activities related to lifelong career management. Possible examples of these activities might include interviewing workshops, a networking and etiquette banquet, online job research and job fairs.

LEAD 302: Lifelong Career Management Requirement

LEAD 401: Financial Sophistication Requirement

Students are required to participate in specified activities related to developing financial sophistication. Possible examples of these activities might include programs on understanding credit cards, managing a budget, moving off campus, negotiating a lease, buying a car, understanding benefits in a job offer, paying back loans and setting monetary goals. Students have a great deal of choice, depending on their interests.