Leadership Certificate Program (LCP)

Georgia College's Leadership Certificate Program provides students the opportunity to learn the principles of effective leadership and to acquire hands-on learning experiences beyond the classroom. The program's core tenets are:

• Leadership for the Public Good. Building and maintaining productive relationships in pursuit of justice, peace, and prosperity.
• Civic Engagement and Public Affairs. Engaging productively in civic affairs with a deep understanding of interconnected institutional relationships.
• Social Entrepreneurship. Leveraging relationships across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address public challenges.
• Leadership and the Disciplines. Establishing leadership within practical and disciplinary conventions.

Through the Leadership Program, students examine the central concepts of the arts and letters: citizenship, morality, virtue, authority, power, and justice. The topics students explore occupy a prominent place in the western canon and among the modern secular philosophers. Using a variety of disciplinary methods and conventions to engage with the material, students learn that leadership is inherently a civic good, articulated and defined in the public sphere and for a social purpose. Academic programs in leadership and public affairs represent a distinctive feature of American liberal arts universities--institutions that have traditionally defined their public-service missions in civic terms, preparing a new generation of civic leaders and leveraging their intellectual capital to serve the collective good.

For more information, visit www.gcsu.edu/leadership/certificate.