UW Collegium Seminars

We invite you to join us on this effort to build upon the existing diverse seminar offerings and integrate or make explicit the student leadership competencies (Seemiller, 2014) that the Husky Leadership Initiative strives to help students develop.  These competencies fall into the general categories of: self-awareness and development, interpersonal interaction, group dynamics, communication, strategic planning, civic responsibility, and personal behavior.  For more detailed explanation of these leadership competencies, please visit:  http://huskyleadership.uw.edu/about/learning-objectives-2/.

We also envision the Collegium Seminars supporting HLI’s perspective on leadership that embraces the following four basic tenets:  1) critical:  students are willing and able to think critically of themselves and their social environment;  2) responsible:  students acknowledge their commitment to the communities that they build;  3) change:  students do not simply accept the status quo; they motivate themselves and influence the communities towards better futures;  and 4) relationships:  students understand that leadership derives from relationships, not position.  Students thus share leadership to create more leaders.  

What will having leadership as a core theme in Collegium Seminars look like exactly?  We know that you will have many innovative ideas to offer and share, but here are some ideas on how to make leadership more explicit in your Collegium Seminar:

• Make the concept of leadership from your discipline a core theme of your Collegium Seminar proposal. 
• Devote one class session to discussing the practice of leadership from your discipline’s perspective.
• Invite a guest speaker to talk about ‘lessons learned about leadership’ from their field of work.
• In your course syllabus, highlight how students will be developing any of the above leadership competencies and tenets through the course curriculum. 
• Ask students to write a reflection paper articulating how they have developed specific leadership competencies or how their thinking has shifted around one of the leadership tenets as a result of what they learned in the Collegium Seminar.

Here are more ideas on how to make leadership more explicit in the classroom. 

Review the training presentation for detailed informaiton.  

Here is HLI’s theoretical framework.