Developing Leadership for a Better World

Description from DukeHub

This course explores diverse concepts and practices of leadership and facilitation and their applications in community, organizational, public, and group contexts. Built on frameworks of asset-based community development and community organizing, the fundamentally relational model of leadership that guides this course empowers groups and teams to determine for themselves the change they want to bring about and then mobilize together for collective action that meaningfully improves individual lives, community conditions, and social structures. Through readings, discussion, and community-engaged learning students will examine how to develop leadership that creates successful organizations, builds power in community-led initiatives, transforms systems, and improves policy outcomes.

Skills

• writingdescription: "writing" and 1 more
• policy and lawdepartment: PUBPOL
• leadershipdescription: "leadership" and 3 more
• fieldworkAI review: "community-engaged learning"

AI-resilient: 2 of 5 2/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "teams"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "leadership"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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