Students attend weekly workshops focused on college transition, campus leadership, career development, and team building, among other topics. Students lead workshops on topics of their interest. Enrollment restricted to students in the second year of the Posse Program.
STAF 250 | Posse Workshop
Students attend weekly workshops focused on college transition, campus leadership, career development, and team building, among other topics. Students lead workshops on topics of their interest. Enrollment restricted to students in the second year of the Posse Program.
STAF 201 | Leadership and Critical Thinking
To develop critical reading, writing, and speaking skills, this course takes on a cross-disciplinary approach to evaluating leadership in a vastly interconnected world. This course introduces students to contemporary scholarship in the field of leadership studies and asks them to apply aspects of that research to case studies in contemporary society. Students evaluate their own leadership style and apply concepts learned to a real world project.
STAF 200 | Access Cohort Workshop
This course engages Access Cohort members (those who have received the Access Cohort scholarship) in programming focused on college transition, career development, and academic strategies, as well as individualized support with Access Cohort faculty mentors.
Enrollment is restricted to students in the Access Cohort.
STAF 151 | Posse Workshop
Students attend weekly workshops focused on college transition, campus leadership, career development, and team building, among other topics. Students lead workshops on topics of their interest. Enrollment restricted to students in the first year of the Posse Program.
STAF 150 | Posse Workshop
Students attend weekly workshops focused on college transition, campus leadership, career development, and team building, among other topics. Students lead workshops on topics of their interest. Enrollment restricted to students in the first year of the Posse Program.
STAF 104 | Foundations and Applications of Outdoor Leadership
This course prepares students to be active engaged leaders within Puget Sound Outdoors, Passages, and beyond. Students attend weekly classes and participate in four field sessions focused on developing the technical, interpersonal, and judgment skills to lead groups in a wilderness environment. The course culminates in a capstone field session following commencement weekend where students apply knowledge learned from the semester. Enrollment is restricted to students who will lead for the Puget Sound Outdoors and Passages programs.
STAF 103 | Leadership Development
This course prepares students to be engaged and active leaders on campus and beyond. The course serves as a foundation for leadership roles within the Division of Student Affairs and is the second course in a two-course series required or highly recommended for various leadership roles within Student Affairs. It serves to deepen students’ understanding of a variety of leadership development models and helps students explore how to implement leadership skills and strategies employed by these models.
STAF 102 | Leadership Foundations
This course prepares students to be engaged and active leaders on campus and beyond. The course serves as a foundation for leadership roles within the Division of Student Affairs and is required or highly recommended for various leadership roles within division, including, but not limited to Passages Leaders, Resident Assistants, Puget Sound Outdoors Leaders, etc. It serves as an introduction to a variety of leadership development models and helps students explore how to implement leadership skills and strategies employed by these models.
STAF 101 | Introduction to Journalism
This course teaches students the basics of journalism writing. Hands-on activities and engaging in-class discussion are used to develop the skills to interview and properly attribute sources, write effective ledes, avoid the pitfalls of bias, structure thoughtful articles of varying genres and more. This course is strongly encouraged for writers and prospective writers for the university’s student newspaper, The Trail, or other student publications in which writing experience is preferred. All students interested in journalism writing are welcome. Pass/fail grading only.