The Leader in You is an active, innovative global learning course about leadership and its interdisciplinary creativity. This course builds on the University of Oregon’s mission to foster the next generation of informed transformational leaders and active participants in the global community. Topics include the actual and intellectual study abroad journeys of Exemplars such as architects and artists, authors and scientists, technologists and legislators, performers and others whose own study abroad influenced how they developed new, revolutionary ways to conceive, express, and live in their world. The focus is on people who created these environments and how those environs impacted their lives and inspired others culturally, politically, or through design. Each student will choose an individual Exemplar to research and map, a process that will inform their own career pathway. Faculty will highlight historical and contemporary Exemplars throughout the course lectures and discussions as a common feature of our learning community. Course work builds upon the introductory winter term ENVD course and ENVD spring studio, but these ENVD courses are not required in order to join this program. Students from any major and any level in their academic degree program are encouraged to participate.
ENVD 400: THE LEADER IN YOU: Environments of Revolutionary Imagination
Instructor
Julie Voelker-Morris, faculty in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, facilitates learning that is experiential, builds skills in cultural agility, focuses on both self and professional development, and engages in arts & cultural programming. Students in this study abroad course are invited to see themselves, their interests, and their questions within all coursework to make it relevant to them. I want all students to find the entry point and moment to direct their own learning—as well as to become a central contributor to our learning community.
Professor Barbara Mossberg ("Dr. B") is an internationally renowned leader in the field of study abroad, recipient of the national award Outstanding Program of Faculty-Led Study Abroad for her work on "The Genius of Study Abroad" on which this program builds. Recipient of the University's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, and Provost Innovation Award for teaching this course in a remote-learning format, Mossberg is Professor of Practice at the Clark Honors College for the University of Oregon, teaching courses on leadership and revolutionary imagination and "the art of living," involving leadership across disciplinary sectors around the concept of "your inner genius." President Emerita of Goddard College, she has served many institutions as an academic leader, and is a specialist as a scholar on cultural leadership. As a city poet laureate and involved in dramatic arts, she uses literature, drama, and science as "texts" that illuminate one's inner purpose and direction. She has served as the Bicentennial Chair at the University of Helsinki twice as the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Scholar, is a Fulbright Specialist, and U.S. Scholar in Residence for the United States Information Agency with the State Department as a cultural ambassador and promoter of study abroad and international education. She has worked in over 20 countries as a speaker and consultant on international education, and taught widely on transformational learning experiences including the art of and science of travel. A scholar of transformational learning, she sees advising and mentoring as the critical dimension of her teaching philosophy and practice, linking students' aspirations to serve and our society's need of their learning.
Location
Oxford, United Kingdom