CESC 98ALeadership and Social Change
Community Engagement and Social Change · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Exploration of different modes of leadership and consideration of how effective leadership can bring about positive social change. We live in period of extraordinary opportunity and challenge—in which breathtaking technological advances sit alongside breathtaking cynicism and corruption. Examination of how effective and inspiring leaders can lead in such environment, if it is possible to make difference and effect change in face of deep structural inequality, criteria that make effective leader, and if each of us bears within ourselves leadership potential. Exploration of past models of successful leadership and different models of present-day leadership, drawing on inspiring examples from social activism, politics, religion, law, philanthropy, and education. Students are encouraged to formulate their own models of leadership. Three to four day experiential learning opportunity in leadership development off campus.
P/NP grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
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CESC 98A
- CESC 98BOrganizational Analysis and Workforce Readiness
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.