LDS102.1: Leadership in Today’s Environment
Jack Farrington, School of Social Welfare
Jack.Farrington@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Library S1410D
The concept of leadership has varied from culture to culture throughout the history of civilization. This course involves the students in an examination of leadership styles. Is leadership gender specific? Is dictatorship leadership? Is a military strongman a superior leader? Can a democracy really develop strong leaders? These are some of the issues that will be explored during the semester. The course will examine leadership styles, and their outcomes. Students will engage in discussion of political, corporate, and healthcare leadership, in an era of terrorism. Are the skills necessary to achieve leadership success in 2007 the same as those which led to successful outcomes before 911? The professor will utilize lecture, guest presenters, videos, his personal experiences and student experiences, in exploring this subject.
LDS102.2: Looking Ahead and Getting the Most Out of Your Stony Brook Degree
Peter Baigent, Office of Student Affairs
Peter.Baigent@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: H Quad
Are you getting the most out of Stony Brook? Do you know that it’s not too early to think about what comes next…getting a job, getting into grad school or a professional school? Will you be ready? Stony Brook is a challenging environment that gives you a wide array of opportunities that prepare you for success. This seminar will help you understand Stony Brook , its founding , how it functions and how you can take advantage of it'sattributes.
LDS102.3: Critical Issues in International Relations
Harsh Bhasin, Asian & Asian American Studies
Harsh.Bhasin@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 10:40am-12:40pm
Location: Library S1410D
Professor Bhasin is a veteran diplomat. This seminar will critically examine the leadership-deficit that has failed to resolve such critical issues in international relations as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Kashmir issue between India & Pakistan, ongoing terrorism, the control of nuclear-weapons proliferation (e.g. the case of Iran & North Korea), global environment issues (incl. Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol etc.), the crises in Africa, and issues related to outsourcing, etc. Students will be expected to participate actively in the Seminar with a view to identifying the elements of leadership required – nationally within/among the countries’ concerned, and internationally through the UN - to overcome these long-standing crises in global politics, as the world stands at the dawn of a new millenium
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.4: Creating Social Change
Charles Robbins, School of Social Welfare
Charles.Robbins@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: H Quad
This seminar will give students the opportunity to redefine service as well as to explore avenues for potential leadership. The seminar will be divided into units. Each unit will focus upon an issue that requires service – and ultimately social change. Using each topic as an example, you will increase your understanding of the specific issues and determine which, if any, you might be interested in addressing either as a career or as a service pursuit throughout your life.
LDS102.5: Community Service for Organ-Donation Awareness
Scott Smolka, Computer Science
Scott.Smolka@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Library S1410D
The number of people needing a transplant continues to rise faster than the number of donors. About 3,700 transplant candidates are added to the national waiting list each month. Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants. However, 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs. The focus of this LDS 102 course will be two-fold: (1) students in the course will learn the facts and issues surrounding organ and tissue donation in the United States; and (2) they will help establish, plan, implement and carry out various projects aimed at increasing organ and tissue donation awareness within the University and the surrounding community.
LDS102.6: Leading with Faith
Jeannine Frenzel, Interfaith Center, ID Card
Jeannine.Frenzel@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 9:50am-10:45am
Location: Union 249
The seminar will evaluate how visible our values are in the “real world.” We will reflect on ways that we present our faith and practice our beliefs in the workplace, our relationships, politics, personal wealth, entertainment, and health care issues. We will explore the impact of our intentional and unintentional leadership and the reasonable effects of these perceived decisions.
LDS102.7: Leadership and Community Service Initiatives
Sr. Margaret Landry, Interfaith Center
Margaret.Landry@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Union 249
This course will identify and discuss the role of leadership especially as it relates to community service. It will encourage you to evaluate and identify your own leadership skills and styles, as well as those of others. We will cover opportunities on the SBU campus to be leaders and further develop and enhance your leadership skills. We will also discuss how one motivates oneself and others to assume responsibility for outreach and concern for others, especially those in need. You will learn about opportunities for activities and action steps that can be taken on campus to get involved in community service such as Oxfam America, Habitat for Humanity, Port Jefferson Ecumenical Food Pantry, Alternative Spring Break – New Orleans, and others!
LDS102.8: Political Rhetoric: Speeches
Frank Myers, Political Science
Frank.Myers@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 2:20pm-4:20pm
Location: H Quad
This course examines the way political leaders construct messages in their political speeches. We will begin with some classic speeches by Lincoln, such as the Gettysburg Address. Then we will carefully read speeches by other important leaders, such as Churchill, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Martin Luther King. Our goal will be to see how messages are embedded in the speeches and why some speeches are more effective than others.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.9: Finances Matter: Financial Literacy Fundamentals
Barbara Fletcher, Enrollment Management
Barbara.Fletcher@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: H Quad
Students in this course will understand the basics of personal financial management. This includes understanding how your how personal background and values impact financial decision-making, developing personal spending plans, understanding the importance of savings, learning about savings plans, understanding credit cards, evaluating credit card offers. understanding credit reports and credit scores, protecting against identity theft, and understanding the life cycle of financial planning.
LDS102.10: Leadership in Sports
Dick Laskowski, Harriman School Mgmt & Policy
Richard.Laskowski@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 11:45am-12:40pm
Location: Library S1410D
This course will discuss the current controversial issues in sports such as Racism, Steroid Use, Violence, Fan Hostility, etc., and the impact of leadership, both good and bad, on these issues. Students will be expected to review three sports articles weekly from the newspapers and type a brief report regarding the leadership demonstrated by the person, team, or organization discussed in the article.
LDS102.11: Body/Mind Training: Enhancing Your Leaderships Skills
Alice (Amy) Sullivan, Theater
Alice.Sullivan@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU TH 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Dance Space 104
This course will examine the dynamic interplay of imagination, creativity and critical thinking revealed through physical presence, action and performance. Industry, education and business are eager to find cooperative employees who are capable of invention and leadership. This course is based on the premise that physical, creative work requires and enhances the engagement of both independent thinking and collaboration. The practice of physical, creative work will be the focus of the course. The goal of the course is to provide the student with a number of techniques and tools in order to help develop the leader within you. Join us as you find ways to tap into your own human potential, as well as ways to play an important role in collaborations with others.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.12: Immigrant Identity in NYC
George Fouron, Africana Studies
Georges.Fouron@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 10:40am-11:35am
Location: Library S1410D
This seminar addresses realities of post-World War II immigrants to the United States in their attempts to create their own identities in the maelstrom of the U.S. population. As people continue to migrate, issues that pertain to transnational migration, globalization, ethnic group formation, and the politics of citizenship will continue to be among the most provocative areas of social sciences and humanities research. You will explore the recent history of these immigrants and consider ways immigrants create value for themselves and the country.
LDS102.13: Leadership as Innovation
Gerrit Wolf, Harriman School Mgmt & Policy
Gerrit.Wolf@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Harriman 304
Business Week has a new section on Innovation in firms around the world. We shall read Business Week each week and discuss the major articles about leaders who create innovation. Students will write a paper about leaders and innovation.
LDS102.14: Leadership in Schools: Making a Difference
Mark Seidens, College of Business
Day: TU 12:50pm-2:50pm
Location: Library S1410D
We are products of our environment. How has your educational experience impacted on who you are and what you plan to be? This seminar will examine how students develop leadership skills in a school environment and the role of educators in fostering student leadership development. We will consider the value of community service, how it is taught and encouraged in the school system, and how college students can work with elementary and secondary school students as mentors in the process.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.15: Habitat for Humanity
Cindy Zeis, Habitat for Humanity
Day: M 2:20pm-4:20pm
Location: H Quad
To teach basic construction skills based on typical Habitat for Humanity construction schedule. Students will gain hands-on experience as well as classroom instruction of the “how’s and why’s” of building, how history has played a role in how we build as well as what lies ahead for the future of construction. Although the emphasis is on building science the class will be tailored to include Habitat for Humanity’s mission throughout the sessions.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.16: Advocacy: Understanding how to be an effective advocate for yourself and others
Manny London, Technology Management MBA Prog
Manuel.London@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 2:20pm-4:20pm
Location: H Quad
Advocacy involves power, influence and persuasion. It is important in many jobs—including advocating for oneself and others at work or for social issues in the community. This course will help you recognize what an advocate does, issues that invoke advocacy, and situations that support advocacy. You will consider characteristics that make you likely to be a strong advocate and characteristics that determine the extent to which you use cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral advocacy strategies. It also considers characteristics that help you persist to accomplish your advocacy goals, for instance, your political and communication skills, your knowledge of change management, your charisma, your resilience in the face of barriers, and your openness to learn from experience. We will use role playing and other business exercises to help you become an effective advocate.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.17: Solving World Hunger: Oxfam and Fair Trade
Manny London, Technology Management MBA Prog
Manuel.London@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 6:50pm-8:50pm
Location: Library S1410D
This course will cover the accomplishments of Oxfam and other non-governmental organizations around the world that fight poverty and hunger. We will give special attention to the Fair Trade movement as a means of fostering business development in third world countries. Also, we will talk about Fair Trade enterprises in the U.S. and specifically on Long Island and at Stony Brook. We will address how students can get involved to support these initiatives locally and globally.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.18: Advocacy: Understanding how to be an effective advocate for yourself and others
Manny London, Technology Management MBA Prog
Manuel.London@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 2:20pm-4:20pm
Location: Library N3090
Advocacy involves power, influence and persuasion. It is important in many jobs—including advocating for oneself and others at work or for social issues in the community. This course will help you recognize what an advocate does, issues that invoke advocacy, and situations that support advocacy. You will consider characteristics that make you likely to be a strong advocate and characteristics that determine the extent to which you use cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral advocacy strategies. It also considers characteristics that help you persist to accomplish your advocacy goals, for instance, your political and communication skills, your knowledge of change management, your charisma, your resilience in the face of barriers, and your openness to learn from experience. We will use role playing and other business exercises to help you become an effective advocate.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.19: People, Poverty & Power
Tom Lyon, Three Village Schools
Day: W 5:20pm-7:20pm
Location: H Quad
Have you ever asked yourself, "Why is the world so often an unjust place? and "Why can't I do anything to change that?" We will explore some of the realities of hunger and poverty worldwide, and look at some of the ways people are making a difference. The focus will be on personal reflection about your role in all of this. Much of the information shared in this seminar will come from Heifer International, as award-winning organization that has been fighting world hunger for 60 years, "One family, one village at a time."
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.20: Service Learning as a Way of Life: The New Network
Roberta Richin, Consultant
Day: W 5:20pm-7:20pm
Location: Library S1410D
Do you struggle to balance what you want to do and what you have to do right now? Do you have a vision of how you could do good and do well on personal, academic, social, political, or other levels? Do you want to speak truth to power? In this course, you will meet and network with other young people who share your determination and interest. We will explore local-global networks just waiting to exchange ideas and energy with you. Use the Miracle Corners of the World® model for turning your vision into reality, so you balance what is in your heart and on your mind. In the process, you will learn how to make the most of all your resources. By building on your own academic program, you will join youth from around the campus and around the world to develop "the Tools, Confidence, and Networks to make Local Change through Global Exchange.® "
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.21: Polishing Your Negotiation Skills
Jeff Casey, Professional Education Program
Jeff.Casey@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 6:50pm-8:50pm
Location: Library N3090
This course provides real-time experience in bargaining and negotiation – the art and science of creating good agreements. Students will participate in a series of experiential learning activities and role-play simulation cases in which they will negotiate and resolve conflicts in a variety of business and professional scenarios.
Note: This class meets for 2 hours a week for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
LDS102.22: Religion & Society
Joseph Topek, Interfaith Center
Joseph.Topek@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Union 249
This course will focus on the role of religion and religious leadership in American society. It will include a look at religious groups with ethnic identities, such as Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Greek Orthodox/Eastern Orthodox. We will also discuss religion’s influence on public policy, electoral politics and issues such as abortion, evolution, and science, the influence of American society on religion, and religion and the media. Distinctly American religious groups will be looked at, as well as those that have been deemed “cults.” Readings will include selected articles and students will be assigned to attend a program or interview an individual to learn more about religious leadership or how a particular religion interacts with secular society.
LDS102.23: Islam/Fact & Fiction
Sister Sanaa Nadim, Interfaith Center
Day: W 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: Union 249
This course will provide an introduction to classic Islam and the variations between the different schools of though as well as the difference between Islamic Culture and text. The course will also provide students with an open form for discussions related to current events and their relation to text.
