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2025-2026 Catalog

HLS 111 - Introduction to Black Leadership

Credit Hours: 3

As an introductory course for the Leadership Studies Minor, this course is designed as a beginning point for the examination of the issues and concepts involved in the study of leadership by focusing on the nature and the character of the leadership itself. This course explores various dimensions of ethical leadership as exemplified by the lives and teachings of Morehouse leaders as well as Black leaders from Africa, early and late, and the African diaspora. This course will also examine heroines of the civil rights movement, including Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, and Fannie Lou Hamer. This course emphasizes experiential and service learning. Either HLS 101 or HLS 111 may serve as the introductory course to the Leadership Studies minor.

Prerequisites: None.