LAW-2984 Leadership & Character Strengths
Many Suffolk law graduates achieve both formal and informal leadership roles during their legal careers. This course is designed to help lay a foundation for law students to achieve such roles more successfully. Since many leadership opportunities vary within given situations, the focus of the course is to help students be sufficiently self-aware in order to be able to respond to a leadership opportunity when it presents itself and continue learning, both when they succeed and when they do not. A specific focus of the course will be to help students recognize, understand and develop their character strengths and how they might put them to use in the interest of greater justice in the wider community, as well as achieve greater resiliency when future leadership challenges arise. The course will include reading, research, positive and contemplative psychology practice, journal writing and other brief written assignments to be completed prior to and after formal classes. The course writing will not satisfy the Suffolk Law School legal writing requirement. There is no final examination but a short final reflective paper will be required. There is no pre-requisite. The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis.