Service Leadership is feeling that one wants to serve first, before one aspires to lead. Christ is the ultimate example of a servant leader. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45.
The mission of the Service Leadership minor at Waynesburg University is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge, skills, and abilities so that they may faithfully transform their communities and the world. Students are prepared to be engaged citizens who live a life of servant leadership and purpose of the glory of God.
The mission of the minor program in Service Leadership at Waynesburg University will be fulfilled when our students
- utilize service experiences as laboratories for the learning of courses in their academic major programs;
- engage in substantive research that makes connections between students’ service activities and their vocations;
- think and write critically about the complex network out of which substantial American and international social problems arise (such as poverty, homelessness and/or inadequate housing, hunger, and illiteracy);
- relate these problems to the Biblical theological ethics that mandate a humane response to individual and community symptoms and systemic causes;
- participate in the process of social and political change to alleviate the personal and corporate;
- proposed potential solutions to social issues at the local, national, and/or global scale; effects of these problems at local, regional, national, and /or global levels; and
- develop career interests in the non-profit and public sectors aimed at socio-economic and racial justice.
Mission/Service Courses
Students are required to complete a minimum of 90 service hours. These hours must include a combination of:
At least one (1) credits of:
Department |
Course Number |
Credits |
Course Title |
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SLR |
1 |
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SLR |
1 |
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SLR |
2 |
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SLR |
2 |
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SLR |
3 |
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SLR |
3 |
At least one (1) credits of SLR 155/255/355/455 – one must be at the 355/455 level.
Department |
Course Number |
Credits |
Course Title |
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SLR | 155 | 1 | Service Learning Added Credit Option |
SLR |
1 |
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SLR |
1 |
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SLR |
1 |
At least one (1) credit capstone project:
Department |
Course Number |
Credits |
Course Title |
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SLR |
1-3 |
Students may elect to take this course for 1 credit only in conjunction with another research or project in their major program. If not taken with another senior research or project course, the Service Leadership Project requires enrollment for 3 credit hours.
Service Leadership Skills
Three (3) credits from the following are required:
Department |
Course Number |
Credits |
Course Title |
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BUS |
3 |
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COM | 228 | 3 | Business and Professional Speaking |
ENG | 329 | 3 | Business and Professional Writing |
ENG | 345 | 3 | Grants Writing and Research |
SLR | 215 | 3 | Frontiers of Dynamic Leadership (preferred) |
SOC | 107 | 3 | Fundamentals of Moral Leadership (cross-listed with POL 107) |
Social Change Cognate
Nine (9) credits from the following recommended courses:
Students must take courses from at least two discipline areas. These courses may already be a part of the student’s general education course requirements and/or major.
Department |
Course Number |
Credits |
Course Title |
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BIO |
3 |
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BMS |
3 |
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BUS |
3 |
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BUS |
3 |
International Business Internship (cross-listed with INT 469) |
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ENG |
3 |
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ENV | 117 | 4 | Introduction to Environmental Science |
HIS |
3 |
History of American Minority Experiences (cross-listed as SOC 307) |
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INT |
3 |
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POL |
3 |
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POL |
3 |
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PSY |
3 |
Psychology of Women (cross-listed as SOC 326) |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
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SOC |
3 |
There are 15-17 credits required for this minor.