LEA 620 70 - Leadership in Film & Literature

  • Week 1: What Can Film Analysis Teach Us About Management and Leadership Development? [unit]

    Focus: This week introduces the foundational question of how films can serve as an engaging educational tool to explore management, leadership styles, and learning processes. Students will assess the value of film-based learning in enhancing student engagement, understanding tacit knowledge, and enriching leadership development.
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  • Week 2: Heroism and Leadership – The Hero’s Journey [unit]

    Focus: This week explores the Hero’s Journey model as a metaphor for leadership development. Students will analyze qualities that make a hero compelling and examine how narrative arcs can inform leadership potential, transformation, and inspiration.
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  • Week 3: The Anti-Hero and Leadership Archetypes [unit]

    Focus: This week focuses on the anti-hero as a leadership archetype. Students will deconstruct the appeal and contradictions of flawed leaders, exploring how they challenge conventional models and reflect complex ethical realities.
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  • Week 4: Leadership, Identity, and Representation in Film [unit]

    Focus: This week examines leadership portrayals through the lenses of gender, race, and identity. Students will evaluate the media’s role in shaping public perceptions and the consequences of bias and stereotypes in leadership representation.
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  • Week 5: Creative Leadership Behind the Camera – The Director’s Role [unit]

    Focus: This week shifts the spotlight to film directors as leaders. Students will evaluate how directors manage creativity, motivate teams, resolve conflict, and deliver visionary outcomes using various leadership strategies.

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  • Week 6: Film and Social Change – Leadership as Influence [unit]

    Focus: This week examines the social impact of films and their ability to influence attitudes, behavior, and perceptions of leadership. Students will explore how films serve as rhetorical tools to advocate for justice, policy change, and social reform.
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  • Week 7: Leadership Reflection and Application through Film [unit]

     

    Focus: This final week centers on applying lessons from film to real-world leadership, emphasizing teamwork, collaboration networks, and personal growth. Students will reflect on how films have shaped their leadership development and creativity.
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