Otterbein College will be nurturing future leaders starting this fall with the introduction of its Leadership Minor.

The Leadership Minor will help students develop leadership skills so that they can make significant impacts on their communities and workplaces by combining leadership theory, perspective, skills and practices, and applying those to organizational communication, negotiation, collaboration, empowering others, team building and interpersonal communication. Throughout the program, students will explore their individual leadership potentials.

The minor will help students to develop skills, knowledge, tools and techniques, perspectives, attitudes and values that can be applied to leadership in various settings, including community service and social change. It will provide students who have an interest in community service with the opportunity to develop specific tools and skills that can be applied to social change and community development and give students the opportunities to interact with community leaders in various settings and to practice leadership skills.

The Leadership Minor integrates Otterbein's commitment to service-learning, the effectiveness of the service-learning pedagogy, and the College's success as an engaged campus. Each student in the Leadership Minor will complete core courses, including Finding Your Leadership Potential, Principles of Leadership and Leadership Practices, as well as an elective from a list of communication, environmental studies, health and physical education, history, nursing, political science, psychology and sociology courses, selected by the student based on the student's area of interest.