Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify and discuss representative literary works about leadership.
• Describe conflicts, critiques and ambiguities that representative texts present about the idea of leadership.
• Discuss at an advanced level how genre and context affect meaning.
• Apply ideas drawn from artistic works of different eras to contemporary professional and social contexts.
• Revise notions of standard genres of professional communication, seen through the lens of literary and philosophical thought of both Western and Eastern cultures.
• Articulate continuities and changes in perceptions and expressions of leadership from the ancient world to the present day.
• Apply ideas from the ancient world, the middle ages, the renaissance and 20th century to contemporary issues and cases in management and organizational behaviour.
• Apply theories and practices of literary and cultural analysis to contemporary civic and professional issues.
• Recognize how historical traditions and artistic works inform contemporary theories and practices.
• Identify assumptions behind theories (e.g., related to gender, culture, historical era, class, education).

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2005