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Roadmap for LEAD Scholars
Year 1
- Summer common reading
- Pre-Orientation program led by Honors program director and cohort advisors
- Common honors first-year inquiry seminar
- Monthly meetings/activities with cohort and cohort advisors
- Personalized academic and leadership planning with advisors
- Coursework: LEAD 250 Leadership and Ethics Across Disciplines or LEAD 311 Rhetoric, Ethics and Persuasion (Spring)
- First-year immersive leadership and professional development institute led by the Office of Career and Life Design
- Participate in annual LEAD forum, where guest speakers who are leaders from a variety of fields are invited to campus to share their experiences and interact with LEAD Scholars
Year 2
- Continue coursework toward a LEAD minor
- Monthly meetings/activities with cohort and cohort advisors
- Identify practicum experiences with support from cohort advisors and other campus resources
- Take an integrative seminar taught by cohort advisors
- Participation in LEAD forum + opportunities to mentor first-year LEAD Scholars
- Spring deadline to declare major (and major advisor)
Years 3-4
- Complete at least one on-campus leadership practicum requirement
- Complete at least one off-campus leadership practicum requirement
- Fulfill any outstanding LEAD minor requirements, including LEAD 490 (capstone and portfolio construction) in spring semester of senior year
- Participate in LEAD forum + opportunities to mentor first-year LEAD Scholars
- Public presentation and celebration of LEAD portfolio
Transfer students must attend 麻豆区 for a minimum of two years and will operate under a compressed timeline, completing practicums and the LEAD capstone in Year 2 along with other requirements specified above. At least one LEAD minor elective requirement may be fulfilled by transfer credit.