EDL 290: The Nature of Group Leadership

Students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership explaining a student-created board game
Students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership playing a tabletop game
Students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership playing a tabletop card game
Groups of students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership playing the same game on various tables
Students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership play testing a student-created gam
Students from EDL290 Table Top Games and Leadership at an Expo table with a student-created game on the table

EDL 290: The Nature of Group Leadership is a two-credit course for students interested in exploring multiple approaches to leadership and building capacity for socially responsible leadership. The course involves engaged learning through community action work, skill building, reading, writing, analysis, and dialogue.

Sections offered for EDL 290 have different specific focuses.  

  • EDL 290E - This is a two-credit course for students interested in exploring multiple approaches to leadership and building capacity for socially responsible leadership. The course involves engaged learning through community action work, skill building, reading, writing, analysis, and dialogue. This course is exclusively for students living in the Emerging Leaders LLC. There are limited seats, so please register quickly at Orientation.
  • EDL 290F - Orientation and Leadership - Sections are exclusive to the SOULs.
  • EDL 290M - Section for students on the Middletown campus. 
  • EDL 290R - Section for Recreational Sports
  • EDL 290O - Open sections offered for any student interested in learning more about group leadership. 
  • EDL 290S - Section exclusively for members of student organizations offered in the spring. Contact JS Bragg for more information. 
  • EDL 290T - Tabletop Games & Leadership - Sections for studying leadership through the context of board, card and role playing games.
  • EDL 290W - Section for members of the Wilks Institute for Leadership and Service.

Student Learning Objectives

  • Examine and compare multiple approaches to leadership with a focus on leadership for social responsibility and group organization
  • Understand personal leadership capacities, as well as recognize and critique individual effectiveness in leadership, through readings, exercises, and case analysis work
  • Explore the ethical concepts and strategies for socially responsible leadership work
  • Learn about community leadership through a community action project designed to link student initiative with community problems or needs
  • Build skills relevant to leadership work, including self-assessment, dialogue and listening, critical thinking, team- and coalition-building