PROS 40095 Soft Skills of Leadership: European and American Perspectives

Course Name: PROS 40095 Soft Skills of Leadership: European and American Perspectives

Description: What do you admire in a leader? Does morality or spirituality matter? What leadership skills do you have? Against the back drop of beautiful Florence, students will have an opportunity to explore traits and skills of effective leadership across a variety of fields. This class will explore leadership as it is manifested in Florence’s art, politics, business, professional sports, food-wine industry, fashion and educational realms, together with reflection on American culture and how it may compare and contrast. We'll spend more than half the course out of the classroom!

Students will benefit from the exploration of their own leadership style as healthy and effective leadership skills will be explored and practiced. The focus will be on "soft skills" of leadership (integrity, morality, spirituality and authenticity), offering students the occasion to improve and enhance their leadership abilities to better serve them, and others, in their chosen career field.

3 credit hour, upper division; may be substituted for PROS 44005
A combined Special Topics course with SPAD (Sports Administration) -- Contact jtomasek@kent.edufor information about gaining credits for that program
Numerous opportunities for field visits to sports facilities, food and wine venues, educational entities, and other; a great deal of time outside the classroom in beautiful Florence!

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: None

This course is offered through the Kent Campus. Please review course tuition at https://www.kent.edu/tuition to find costs for Kent campus tuition.