Leadership (BA)

Explore a variety of impactful courses in our Leadership program, covering foundational principles to advanced strategies. Develop essential skills in communication, negotiation, and project management — vital for leading teams and driving organizational success.

For two decades, our program has shaped adept leaders with ethical decision-making abilities and a strong focus on personal development. Prepare to excel in diverse career paths with practical knowledge and hands-on experience, ensuring readiness to tackle real-world leadership challenges.

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Program Details

Degree Highlights

Your future professors make sure your academic experience is current, complete and designed to open doors in your career. Here are a few things you can count on:

  • Focus on Professional Success: Take the built-in opportunities to participate in extra-curricular leadership development opportunities. The Leadership program provides you with chances each year of your degree to take foundational leadership theory and apply the skills and concepts to cases, projects, assignments to help reinforce your skills and knowledge.
  • Flexibility with Online Courses: Complete many of your courses online – from first-year to fourth-year courses, giving you flexibility in your scheduling.

Top Experiences

Here are just a few of our students’ favourite ways to apply their learning in the real world throughout their degree:

  • Board Engagement: The Youth Leader on Board program matches students with local organizations to provide students a unique opportunity to serve as a student member of the board of directors.
  • International Competitions: At the Collegiate Leadership Competition students apply all the individual and group-based Leadership skills and knowledge learned in their studies to compete against other universities and colleges from Ontario, the U.S., and beyond.

Courses, Options and Pathways

First-Year Required Courses

  • Leadership Foundations
  • Leadership and Personal Development

Sample First-Year Electives

  • Introduction to Psychology 
  • Mental Health Literacy 
  • Introduction to Criminology 
  • Physical Determinants of Health 

Sample Upper-Year Courses

  • Designing Leadership Experience
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Leadership: Followers and Leaders
  • Influence, Persuasion and Negotiation
  • Project Management
  • Leadership Skills: Practice and Application

Options and Minors

These are a few of the many popular academic opportunities which allow you to dive deeper into your major area of study or broaden your knowledge:

  • Public Safety Minor/Option
  • Business Technology Management option
  • Health Studies Minor/Option
  • Politics and Public Policy Option

Check out other options to enhance your degree.

Popular Combinations

Programs to consider as in-combinations (double majors):

  • Game Design
  • Human Rights
  • Computer Science
  • Policing
  • Psychology

Admissions

  • Format: full time or part time
  • Duration: four years
  • Start: September (fall term), January (winter term) or May (spring term)
  • OUAC code: UHK; ULE (Leadership in Combination)

Your Career Awaits

It’s not only about the journey; the destination matters. Let us help you get set up for a meaningful career. 
 
Here are just some examples of our graduates' destinations. What’s yours?

Possible career paths include:

  • project manager
  • entrepreneur
  • non-profit leadership
  • public sector administration
  • corporate trainer
  • policy analyst
  • management consultant
  • change management specialist

Support After Graduation

Alumni for life means that you have access to Career and Employment Support offered at Laurier for your entire career.

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Tuition and Scholarships

Getting a university education is an investment in your future.

At Laurier, we take financial health seriously by providing a wide variety of funding opportunities for you throughout your degree, such as scholarships and bursaries, and by equipping you with the skills to manage your finances effectively in the years to come.

 

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Laurier students engaged in hands-on learning in 2023

 

Laurier graduates employed or in post-graduate studies in 2023

Brantford Campus

The Brantford campus is woven into the downtown core of the City of Brantford and is home to more than 3,000 students. Close to great walking and biking trails, you get the best of both worlds.

There are many ways to tour our Brantford campus, whether that's on a guided tour with one of our Laurier student ambassadors, on your own using virtual reality, or even on-demand through one of our pre-recorded tours. See our campus spaces and start to picture yourself at Laurier.

Chat with Current Students

Want to know what it’s really like to be in this program? U Community is our Discord server where future Golden Hawks like you can connect with current students to get their first-hand stories and tips on living and learning at Laurier.

Connect with Us

Questions? Email chooselaurier@wlu.ca, call 548.889.8888 or see all contact information.


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