I know you are all wondering… Kristen, what is a Fraternal Leadership class?
Well, it is a leadership class designed specifically for sorority and fraternity members at Ohio State that uses the social change model as its derivative for leadership.
You think that sounds great, and you want to know more? Well Okay…
This class is like no class you have ever seen before. It functions differently. The majority assignments focus on blogging, the outcomes are specific and distinct, and the syllabus will certainly make you giggle and think at the same time.
- First off, instead of a syllabus, this class has a blogabus. Yes-I said blogabus. Since a main component of this course is student blogging, it is fitting that this class has a blogbus instead of a traditional paper syllabus. (Yay Blogabus).
- Secondly, instead of a traditional course purpose this class instead has a “Reason for Leading” (See below).
{Reason for Leading (our fancy way of saying “Course Purpose”)}This focus section of EDU 270 exists to provide general members of all 4 councils the opportunity to realize that you all have not only enormous and magnificent potential to change the future of the Fraternal Movement, but also the awesome responsibility to act upon that potential. But we realize that such a daunting task can be, well, just that: daunting. Therefore, this class also exists to provide an overview of the theory related to, and skills necessary for the practice of effective leadership in the Fraternal Movement setting (we’ll talk more about what we mean by the “Fraternal Movement” in class). So, in laymen’s term, for the next 10 weeks we all are going to give each other a reason to lead our Fraternal Community to heights never seen before, and give you the resources, skills, and confidence necessary to achieve those heights. In essence, this course will – hopefully – give you a reason to go above “managing” your councils to actually “leading” your councils to become the exemplary collegiate fraternal councils.
Like I said, this class is different, very different. It allows students to explore the idea of leadership through values, creativity, self reflection, new ideas, making a difference, and social change. It allows students to think as social entrepreneurs; to imagine a world that is better, to imagine Fraternities and Sorority that are stronger, to imagine that they can (and will) change the world.
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If you are interested in following along with the progress of this class, you can follow my class blog at karupert.blogspot.com . From there you will also see links to many of the students blogs where they will be reflecting on specific class prompts, as well as blogging about anything else that they would like during the quarter. You can also follow the class hashtag by following #FLCsp11. This course is a twitter friendly class, and students will be using the hashtag to share their learning with friends who aren’t in the class.
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Lastly, there are 2 videos that really sum up this class for me. The first is about entrepreneurship and what that means in regards to Leadership, and the second is one of my favorite videos, entitled Imagine Leadership. I promise you wont regret taking a few minutes to watch either.
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Entrepreneurs Can Change The World
Imagine Leadership:
