Integrative Leadership Graduate Minor (ILM)
Overview
The graduate-level academic minor in integrative leadership (ILM) will enhance the preparation of graduate students to lead and foster collective actions across boundaries of individuals, groups, organizations, sectors, and nations to solve some of the world’s most pressing and complex problems. Any student in any University of Minnesota graduate or professional program (see exceptions below), regardless of college or enrollment, is encouraged to apply for this minor.
By pursuing this course of study, students will:
- Gain an understanding of principles, concepts, tools, strategies, and competencies needed to work collaboratively with people across sectoral boundaries
- Learn how to share power, influence, authority, and ownership in collaborative environments across interests, disciplines, organizations, sectors, cultures, nations and ways of thinking
- Learn to negotiate between different world views, needs, and perspectives
- Learn and apply the skills of negotiation, conflict management, public engagement, systems thinking, persuasion, facilitation, and communication to work effectively across boundaries
- Learn how to recognize and articulate their own perspective or worldview, culture, and values and look beyond their own perspective and expertise for solutions to problems
- Learn how to create contexts for individuals, groups, or collaborations to self-organize, express their viewpoints, define their own problems, and evaluate themselves
- Understand the role of ethics, democratic citizenship, and social change in integrative leadership
- Contribute to the understanding and development of the concepts, skills, and practices, and scholarly knowledge for integrative leadership
Students must already be admitted to a master's, doctoral, or professional degree program at the University of Minnesota. As with all graduate minors, a student must identify a minor adviser for the integrative leadership minor. The minor adviser must be included in the student's committee and attend the final oral examination, for degrees requiring oral examination.
Administration
This new minor was developed by faculty who are members of the Center for Integrative Leadership (CIL), a University-wide initiative dedicated to examining and advancing a new vision for cross-sector leadership that will be highly effective at tackling the challenging issues of our time. Four sponsoring colleges, the Carlson School of Management (CSOM), the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (HSPA), and the School of Public Health (SPH) are engaging across units to offer this minor as a joint program to inspire the innovative leaders that our society needs. The Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) will serve as the minor's academic home.
Curriculum
Master's Minor (9 credits)
The minor program for master's students is a minimum of 9 graduate-level semester credits. Credits from required courses in a student’s major program (a.k.a. non-elective courses) will not count towards the minor. The following courses (or equivalents approved by Steering Committee) are required:
Overview of Leadership Theory (Required course - choose one)
- OLPD 5048 [Formerly EDPA5048]—Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Leadership (3 cr)
- OLPD 8020 [Formerly EDPA 8020]—Leadership: From Theory to Reflective Practice (3 cr)
- PA 5941—Leadership for the Common Good (4 cr)
- PubH 6780—Topics: Public Health Administration and Policy: Public Health Leadership (3 cr)
- Courses on overview of leadership theory and development from other colleges may be substituted for this core course subject to approval by the director of graduate studies for the integrative leadership minor.
Leading Engagement Processes (Required course - choose one)
- OLPD 5736— Public Engagement and Higher Education (3 cr)
- OLPD 6490—Managing Civic Engagement (3 cr)
- PA 5190—Topics in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management: Managing Civic Engagement (3 cr)
- Courses on managing civic engagement theory and development from other colleges may be substituted for this core course subject to approval by the director of graduate studies for the integrative leadership minor.
Final Course (Required course - No substitutions will be allowed)
- OLPD 6402/MGMT 6402/PA 5105/PubH 6702—Integrative Leadership Seminar (3 cr)
The program for an individual student will be developed by the student, the major adviser, and the director of graduate studies (DGS) of the integrative leadership minor. With permission of the ILM DGS, students with sufficient background and previous course experience equivalent to one or more courses within the curriculum may apply for waiver of appropriate requirements and replace waived courses with additional electives to meet the 9 credit minimum.
Doctoral Minor (12 credits)
The minor program for doctoral students requires a minimum of 12 graduate-level semester credits. Credits from required courses in a student’s major program (a.k.a. non-elective courses) will not count towards the minor. The following courses (or equivalents approved by Steering Committee) are required:
Overview of Leadership Theory (Required course - choose one)
- OLPD 5048 [Formerly EDPA 5048]—Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Leadership (3 cr)
- OLPD 8020 [Formerly EDPA 8020]—Leadership: From Theory to Reflective Practice (3 cr)
- PA 5941—Leadership for the Common Good (4 cr)
- PubH 6780—Topics: Public Health Administration and Policy: Public Health Leadership (3 cr)
- Courses on overview of leadership theory and development from other colleges may be substituted for this core course subject to approval by the director of graduate studies for the integrative leadership minor.
Leading Engagement Processes (Required course - choose one)
- OLPD 5736— Public Engagement and Higher Education (3 cr)
- OLPD 6490—Managing Civic Engagement (3 cr)
- PA 5190—Topics in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management: Managing Civic Engagement (3 cr)
- Courses on managing civic engagement theory and development from other colleges may be substituted for this core course subject to approval by the director of graduate studies for the integrative leadership minor.
Final Course (Required course - No substitutions will be allowed)
- OLPD 6402/MGMT 6402/PA 5105/PubH 6702—Integrative Leadership Seminar (3 cr)
A minimum of three additional credits must be taken in courses selected from the list of elective courses below. The program for an individual student will be developed in consultation among the student, the major adviser, and the director of graduate studies (DGS) of the integrative leadership minor. With the permission from the ILM DGS, students with sufficient background and previous course experience equivalent to one or more courses within the curriculum may apply for waiver of appropriate requirements and replace waived courses with additional electives to meet the 12 credit minimum.
Illustrative Elective Courses
An illustrative set of elective courses acceptable for the minor (additional courses may be approved by the Steering Committee):
- HRIR 5021—Systems of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (4 cr)
- IBUS 6316—Sustainability and Cooperative Advantage in Scandinavia (4 cr)
- MGMT 6004—Negotiation Strategies (2 cr)
- MGMT 6032—Strategic Alliances (2 cr)
- MGMT 6034—Strategic Leadership (2 cr)
- MGMT 6035—Complex and Cross-Cultural Negotiations (2 cr)
- MGMT 6040—International Strategy and Organization (2 cr)
- NURS 7610—Health Innovations and Leadership (3 cr)
- OLPD 5134—Futures Research for Educational Leaders (3 cr)
- OLPD 5142—Youth Futures in International and Global
Contexts (3 cr) - OLPD 5323—Women in Leadership (3 cr)
- OLPD 5332—Leadership Development Seminar (3 cr)
- OLPD 8702—Administration and Leadership in Higher Education (3 cr)
- PA 5103—Leadership and Change in an Innovation Society (3 cr)
- PA 5190—Topics in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management: Public Service Redesign (1.5 cr) *
- PA 5190—Topics in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management: Social Entrepreneurship (3 cr) *
- PA 5251—Strategic Planning and Management (3 cr)
- PA 5405—Public Policy Implementation(3 cr)
- PA 5920—Skills Workshop: Intercultural Competence (3 cr) *
- PubH 6727—Health Leadership and Effecting Change (2 cr)
* The specific special topics listed above are the only ones that are approved - other topics offered under these designators may not be accepted. If you have questions, check with your adviser or the ILM DGS.
Admissions
Prior admission into an established master's, doctoral, or graduate professional degree program is required. The Graduate School has determined that the following professional programs are not eligible for a minor: JD, MD, PharmD, DVM, DDS, and LLM (see Graduate Degree Plan form). Students interested in admission to the minor should contact the ILM DGS. Admission requires the addition of the required minor coursework to the student's Graduate School degree plan form and the ILM DGS's signature on the form. Students must demonstrate relevant academic background and experience. Competitive standards are expected to limit enrollment to 15 students a year.
Program Contact
Dr. Louis Quast
Director of graduate studies for the integrative leadership minor
Email: louquast@umn.edu
Revised February 1, 2013