Academic Leadership Programs and Resources PDF Print E-mail
Leadership Courses, prepared by the Center for Public Leadership, provides students at HKS and the broader Harvard community with comprehensive information on courses in leadership and social entrepreneurship available in 2009-2010 at Harvard University’s graduate schools, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Because the path to leadership and public service is different for each student, our listings are as inclusive as possible. Students will find both courses that cover fundamental aspects of leadership and social entrepreneurship and courses that shed light on fields and topics that are potentially useful to leaders and social entrepreneurs. For students interested in social entrepreneurship, we also recommend: The Guide to Nonprofit Courses: Harvard University and Beyond, published online by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/students/courseguide/index.html.

Many factors affect course choices for students, including program requirements, prerequisites, enrollment policies, and scheduling. While we recognize that Leadership Courses cannot address all of the logistical concerns that shape students’ course choices, we hope we can provide an inspiring overview of the very rich possibilities for studying leadership at Harvard and beyond.

Leadership Courses also provides an overview of CPL’s leadership development framework (pages 5-7). The framework organizes leadership skills and capabilities in seven key areas. The overview provides a representative sampling of how courses can be mapped to the framework. We encourage students to use this overview to help them plan their leadership course choices in ways that cover the many facets of leadership. We have developed this framework with the support and guidance of the faculty who offer these courses, and we are indebted to them for their help in its development.

Using Leadership Courses, please bear in mind that:
  • Information here was current in mid-August 2009, but course offerings, instructors, and meeting dates and times are subject to further change. For up-to-date information, consult the registrars’ offices and registrars’ Web sites listed on page 8.
  • The Center will publish a supplemental course listing in January with updated course information for Spring 2010.
  • Courses outside of HKS, even at other Harvard schools, may not satisfy credit requirements. To determine whether specific courses qualify for HKS credit, please consult www.hks.harvard.edu/registrar.
  • Detailed information about cross-registration can be found at the registrars’ websites for each school (see below). In addition, Harvard University has a central website about cross-registration: http://crossreg.harvard.edu/OASIS/CrossReg/index.html.
  • All courses listed here are open to graduate students. Undergraduate courses are not included.
  • Course descriptions are included only for HKS courses. Other course descriptions can be found on their schools’ websites or, in some cases, on instructors’ websites.

We welcome your comments and suggestions, which will help us improve future editions of Leadership Courses. Please send comments to Owen Andrews, Research Manager, CPL at owen_andrews(AT)hks.harvard.edu.
 
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