SPA-352 Leadership for Key Undergraduates (1 credit)
Credit Hour(s): one | Semester: Fall

This initial course, modeled on Leadership for Key Executives (PUAD-622), provides students with team-building opportunities and establishes cohort norms designed to create an inclusive culture of trust. These early sessions also build a year-one foundation for what will become a career-long support group.

SPA-353 The Emotionally Intelligent Leader (3 credits)
Credit Hour(s): three | Semester: Spring

This course will help students understand the impact of a leader’s emotional intelligence on agency/organizational culture, performance, wellness, diversity & inclusion, and other outcomes. Students will learn about the drivers of emotional intelligence and how those drivers align to individual and organizational wellness. Additionally, students will take an emotional intelligence assessment (EQi2.0) and receive executive coaching. Students will learn skills to improve their resilience as they navigate life and work challenges.

SPA-354 Contemporary Approaches to Leadership (1 credit)
Credit Hour(s): one | Semester: Fall

Students will examine changing conceptions around leadership in recent years and align the role of leadership to complex public administration challenges. Students will build on their year one work in emotional and social intelligence to influence, inspire, and create psychological safety.

SPA-355 Problem Solving for Leaders (1 credit)
Credit Hour(s): one | Semester: Spring

Students will study the methods for gathering and analyzing information that better inform effective and accurate decisions; learn to differentiate among different types of problems (i.e., simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic); and understand the correct leadership tools utilized in developing solutions.

During the third year, students will start work on an internship assignment or research project focusing on an aspect of public administration leadership.

SPA-356 Key Undergraduate Organizational Behavior (3-6 credits)
Credit Hour(s): three | Semester: Spring

Students will learn the drivers of culture, managing the dyadic relationship
between supervisors and employees, building productive relationships with
peers, and understanding the different types of power influences. These sessions will include guest lectures from prominent Key and SPA alumni and public administration thought leaders.

SPA-357 Leadership Reflections (3 credits)
Credit Hour(s): three | Semester: Fall

This final course in the certificate program is designed to help students apply what they have learned since year one. The course is based on a particular premise: effective leadership, which is shared, relational, and part of a complex social dynamic involving inquiry and dialogue, is also an ongoing personal journey, requiring expanded cognitive and emotional intelligence.