Leadership (LDR)

This is a required course for students in the IMPACT UP program OR may be taken by other students as an elective. It is designed to create an atmosphere of innovation and creativity as students explore vocational directions on the path to discovering that place where we can “be who we are”. The course enlist scintillating reading assignments and experiential learning students to aid us as we learn to hear our own voices, discover our own aspirations in world that often is dominated by the sound of others expectations. In this way we seek to fulfill f the teaching mission of Jesus Christ, the mission of the University of Providence, to provide students with the opportunity to obtain a liberal education for living and making a living. LDR 201 provides a foundation for university students to participate in experiential learning opportunities. Students will develop the necessary skills to represent themselves and the University by developing professional skills, critical thinking strategies and ability to work in an individual and team setting. It challenges students to ask, how they can live their best life. It also seeks to challenge students to move beyond the typical “undergraduate” experience to support them in their professional development. It has the potential to transform and advance student lives.

Provides a foundation for university students to participate in internship and experiential learning opportunities. This course will help students develop the necessary skills to represent themselves and the University by developing professional skills, critical thinking strategies and ability to work in an individual and team setting. Through alumni mentor relationship, informational interviews (prototyping meetings), and class discussions anchored in the writing of highly acclaimed authors students will strengthen their self-efficacy skills in creating the life they want to live. Inspired by their broad faith based liberal arts background students in their junior year will be encouraged to put those faith-based values and their liberal arts foundation into practice as we work on designing our life after graduation. This is done in the context that we are living life and adjusting as we go. Learning to fall fast and fall forward. Students will practice tools for designing their lives, understanding that a well lived life is one that has a solid foundation and is alert to continual intentional, well informed by core value, adjustments.

Provides students with tools to transition from an academic perspective to the career world. This course walks students through the self-discovery, research and application process as they seek graduate school or employment opportunities post-graduation and establish financial futures. Upon completion of this course, students will have developed or refined their personal career portfolio and honed their financial preparedness for post graduations life. The University of Providence mission is to...give students the opportunity to obtain a liberal education for living and for making a living. The Corps of Discovery challenges students to ask, how can I live the best life? It also seeks to challenge students to move beyond the typical “graduate” experience to support them in their future endeavors. It has the potential to transform and advance student lives.