BARNARD LEADERSHIP
INITIATIVE
THE CURRICULUM
The BLI Curriculum assembles an array of course offerings that provide students with opportunities to explore paths of leadership, relevant institutional and organizational contexts, and common systemic barriers that potential women leaders may face. The aim is to provide tools and strategies to enable women to advocate for and prepare to assume positions of authority and leadership at the highest levels of achievement while, at the same time, building keen awareness and critical understanding of issues of gender, leadership, and of the institutions that surround it.
Students of any major may pursue the BLI curricular program. Completion of the program is typically done in conjunction with the major requirements in one of the College’s departments or programs. Students who complete the program receive recognition on their transcripts indicating their completion of the leadership initiative curriculum.
The program consists of three required courses:
Women and Leadership ( AMST BC3450) and the two-semester sequence, Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar in Public and Private Enterprise (BLIC BC3997x - BLIC BC3998y).
While enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar, students are eligible to receive associated BLI grants to fund expenses associated with senior research projects.
and three electives:
Three electives may be selected from among the following courses:
- Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (WMST V 1001)
- Theorizing Women's Activisim (WMST V3312)
- Sociology of Gender (SOCI W3302)
- Work and Culture (SOCI BC3903)
- Social Entrepreneurship (URBS V 3920)
- Entrepreneurship (ECON BC3014)
- Business Organization (ECON BC3017)
- Organizational Psychology (PSYC BC2151)
- Social Conflict (PSYC BC3166)
- Psychology of Stereotyping and Prejudice (PSYC 3179)
- Colloquium on American Political Decision-Making (POLS BC3331)
- Colloquium on Political Participation and Democracy (POLS BC3300)
- Russia and the West (POLS V3675)
>> See the current BLI course listings in the online course catalogue