HIST115 CM - Kings Consuls and Courtiers: Models of Leadership From the Ancient World

Lessons of the past are integral to understanding ethical and responsible leadership. Ancient peoples regarded effective leadership as an essential ingredient to social order and the general well-being of the community. This course allows students to sample and explore the substantial historical record of leadership from earliest antiquity to the medieval period in order to identify how ancient people conceptualized the psychology of leadership. Students will encounter a diverse landscape of leadership models through which earlier societies valuated the individual in relations to the communal weal, the ethics of authority, the performative role of personality in interacting with peers and subordinates, and the potential pitfalls of deviating from (or adhering too closely to) prescriptive codes of conduct.

Offered: Occasionally

Credit: 1

Course Number: HIST115 CM