Course Overview
With the growing emphasis on coordinated care, the transformation of systems, and policy development to promote equity and improved public policies and development outcomes, leadership competencies will be increasingly important in collaborations and community engagement. Additionally, it calls for the co-production of knowledge and equal partnerships between students, academia, and various interest groups. Through this course, students will gain a basic understanding of how to be teachable leaders in applying principles of community engagement in public, organizational and diverse stakeholder group settings. With the course’s design grounded in practice, students will complete the course with the basic introductory skills necessary to dynamically engage different stakeholder sectors, lead the collaborative design of strategic plans, promote multi-level cohesion, and communicate to different audiences in a way that is productive for the co-production of knowledge. Given the importance of community engagement in public leadership being interdisciplinary, students in this course will also discuss and practice skills for building effective teams and accomplishing individual and group objectives through teamwork.
Weekly every Tuesday 10:00 - 12 noon