M&IS 34165 Spring 2008 Hogue

 

Instructor:                    Mary Hogue, Ph.D.

Office:                         A423

Phone:                         (330) 672-1148

Office Hours:              MW 12:30-1:30

                                    W 3:00-5:30

                                    You also may stop in my office any time you see my door open,

                                    or I will be happy to schedule a mutually convenient appointment.

E-Mail:                         mhogue@kent.edu

Class meeting:              MW 11:00-12:15, BSA 206

Required text:              Annual Editions, Social Psychology 7^th ed.

                                    Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2007). The Leadership Challenge, 4^th ed.

                                    Jossey Bass: San Francisco.

Additional Readings:

Barker, R. A. (1997). How can we train leaders if we don’t know what leadership is?

Kellerman, B. (2007). What every leader needs to know about followers.

 

Course Objectives: This course will be directed toward an investigation of leadership as a process that includes the leader, the follower(s), and the situation with an emphasis on understanding how the three work together to produce leadership and how none can act alone to produce leadership.

 

Course Overview: This class is devoted to ensuring that you learn about leadership – not that you achieve a particular grade through short-term memorization of the material for a test. To learn, you must work to build your memory. Your work will consist of reading assigned material before attending class, completing additional assignments before attending class, participating in discussions and activities during class, completing pop quizzes during class, working with a group of classmates to lead a class discussion, and reflecting on your work then reporting your reflections to me through one mid-term and one final exam.

 

Throughout the course, I hope that you will keep a journal. Within the journal, you can include notes & thoughts on the articles you read, notes & thoughts on the additional assignments, and notes & thoughts from class discussions and activities. For each quiz and exam, you may use your journal. This means that for each quiz and exam, when I say to put away your notes and books, you may keep one book – your journal – on your desk. The journal can be only one spiral-bound notebook. Within the journal, you may keep only the notes you make on the pages provided. You cannot place articles into pockets that the notebook may have. You cannot tape papers onto pages in the notebook. You can use only the notes you write in your journal during your learning process. These notes can be taken while reading assigned articles/chapters and while in class.

 

Grade Determinations: Learning occurs in various ways, so I will assess your understanding in various ways as well.

 

Because you are required to read assigned material and complete additional activity assignments before coming to class, you have the opportunity to be rewarded for doing so. There will be 6 pop quizzes throughout the semester. Each will consist of fill-in-the-blank and short answer questions, and each will be worth 10 points. Your lowest quiz score will be dropped so that 50 points are available for simply reading the assigned material and preparing the assignments.

The first half of the semester will be devoted to developing an understanding of various principles related to human interaction. Before you can attempt to become a good leader, you must learn as much as you can about the leadership process, and that means learning about how people interact. After settling on a definition of leadership that will guide the class, we will examine who leaders are, who followers are, what influence is, the reciprocal influence of leaders and followers on each other, and how the situation impacts the leader-follower relationship.

 

The midterm is worth 100 points. It will consist of short answer and short essay questions.

 

The second half of the semester will be devoted to developing yourself as a leader. Together, we will apply the material we learned in the first half of the semester. From this, I hope that you will come away with an understanding of leadership that you will use in the future as you attempt to lead others.

 

The final exam is worth 125 points. It will consist of short answer and short essay questions, and it will cover material from your book and from the class discussions generated by your classmates. This means that you will be responsible for the outside material that your classmates bring to the discussions that they lead.

 

Working in teams of 4-5 students, you will each have a turn to lead the class in the discussion of assigned reading material. The content of your presentation is to be grounded in the assigned reading chapter, but beyond that, the content is up to you. If you require any preparation by students before they come to class, then those instructions must be given to me at least two classes before your presentation is scheduled.

 

Your presentation will be graded by me on the appropriateness of the discussion (e.g., are you explaining the material properly) and the quality of the discussion (e.g., are students responding to you and engaged in the discussion, does the discussion enrich their understanding more than if they would have simply read the information that is in the book). This means that you are responsible for researching your topic and bringing to class material that is not presented in your text but is pertinent to your topic. Follow my discussions from the first half of the semester as a template.

 

At the beginning of class on your discussion day, each team member must hand to me a work report outlining the presentation including the sources of your outside material and specifying the contributions of each group member. Because you will also be graded by your team members on your contributions to the group, work reports must also specify the number of points you assign to each group member.

 

Fifty points are available for discussion leadership. Thirty-five points will be assigned by me (25 points for your presentation with each team member receiving the same number of points and 10 points for your work report with each team member being assigned an individual grade for the work report) and 15 points assigned by your teammates (so that your final grade group participation will be the average number of points assigned to you by the rest of your team).

 

Points available:

Quizzes (6 quizzes with 1 dropped)        50

Mid-term exam                                               100

Discussion leadership                          50

Total                                                    325

 

The table below depicts the grading scale along with the points necessary to earn each grade.

 

 

Class Attendance: All students are expected to attend class regularly and are responsible for all material covered even when they miss class. I do not give out my class notes nor do I re-teach missed material.

 

A.       Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

 

B.       Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes.  You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools/Flashfast) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section.  Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Friday, January 25, 2008 to correct the error with your advising office.  If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.

 

C.       Academic Honesty:  Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit.  The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense.  It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course.  Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

 

D.       For Spring 2008, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, March 30, 2008.   Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

 

E.       Students with disabilities:  University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content.  If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments.  Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sas for more information on registration procedures).

 

 

 

Schedule

 

Following is a tentative class schedule. The professor reserves the right to change anything in this syllabus. Syllabus changes will be made either in class or through Flashline email. You are responsible for any changes made.

 

 

Note: AE refers to Annual Editions text.