UCIL20032
Also available in Semester 1.
This unit has been designed specifically for online learning and offers a unique interactive experience.
TRY AN ONLINE UCIL UNIT TASTER
Leadership in Action (LIA) unit aim to help you understand what it means to be a leader in the 21st century. The units explore complex current problems and ask: How does change happen? Who makes it happen? What does that tell us about leadership and how we do it?
This unit will equip you with the tools to critically evaluate models and approaches to leadership and to apply these to a range of 21st-century complex and wicked problems such as sustainable development and climate change, poverty and inequality, homelessness, and humanitarian disaster response. The units will also help you to develop a toolkit of transferable skills that will boost your employability.
You will hear from leaders who are influencing change in the world around us, including some of the university's leading academics and leaders from the public, private and voluntary sectors.
The LIA Online unit is delivered entirely via Blackboard and is available in both semesters 1 and 2. You will work through online learning modules released at intervals through the semester. Each learning module uses a range of bespoke audio/video inputs, case studies, and interactive elearning activities designed to enhance your learning and understanding. You will discuss the topics covered in the learning modules in online discussion boards, as part of an interdisciplinary group of around 25 students, supported throughout by a dedicated eTutor.
Students who successfully complete an LIA unit and 15, 25 or 40 hours of approved volunteering will be awarded the prestigious Manchester Leadership Programme Certificate (Bronze, Silver or Gold).
The course unit aims to:
On successful completion of the unit, you will be able to:
The online unit content is delivered via learning modules released at intervals over weeks 1-10 of the semester.
The learning modules in the first half of the semester will introduce and examine:
The learning modules in the second half of the semester will examine leadership and complex problems, from different perspectives, covering a range of leadership issues and challenges for the 21st century, such as:
Facilitated discussion boards, released at intervals alongside the learning modules, will ask you to think about problems, and challenges for leaders, and to analyse them, applying your understanding of leadership theory, in particular leadership in response to wicked problems.
UCIL units are designed to be accessible to undergraduate students from all disciplines.
UCIL units are credit-bearing and it is not possible to audit UCIL units or take them for additional/extra credits. You must enrol following the standard procedure for your School when adding units outside of your home School.
If you are not sure if you are able to enrol on UCIL units you should contact your School Undergraduate office. You may wish to contact your programme director if your programme does not currently allow you to take a UCIL unit.
You can also contact the UCIL office if you have any questions.
Dr Amelie Mons, Dr Caroline Henaghan, and contributors from the public, private and voluntary sectors.
The unit is delivered entirely via Blackboard. It is a highly interactive and innovative unit that adopts a blended approach with a range of audio and video inputs, interactive activities and case studies from world-class internal and external contributors.
The unit content is supported by elearning activities designed to enhance learning and understanding including:
It has been invaluable to my development as a student. I have always been passionate about leadership, so being able to learn about the nuances of the topic whilst applying it to real life situations allowed me to gain a wealth of knowledge which I will be able to take with me during the rest of my studies and future career prospects.Anonymous
