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Roadmap for LEAD Scholars

LEAD Honors Program Timeline

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Year 1

  • Summer common reading
  • Pre-Orientation program led by Honors program director and cohort advisors
  • Common honors first-year inquiry seminar
  • Monthly meetings/activities with cohort and cohort advisors
  • Personalized academic and leadership planning with advisors
  • Coursework: LEAD 250 Leadership and Ethics Across Disciplines or LEAD 311 Rhetoric, Ethics and Persuasion (Spring)
  • First-year immersive leadership and professional development institute led by the Office of Career and Life Design
  • Participate in annual LEAD forum, where guest speakers who are leaders from a variety of fields are invited to campus to share their experiences and interact with LEAD Scholars
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Year 2

  • Continue coursework toward a LEAD minor
  • Monthly meetings/activities with cohort and cohort advisors
  • Identify practicum experiences with support from cohort advisors and other campus resources
  • Take an integrative seminar taught by cohort advisors
  • Participation in LEAD forum + opportunities to mentor first-year LEAD Scholars
  • Spring deadline to declare major (and major advisor) 
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Years 3-4

  • Complete at least one on-campus leadership practicum requirement
  • Complete at least one off-campus leadership practicum requirement
  • Fulfill any outstanding LEAD minor requirements, including LEAD 490 (capstone and portfolio construction) in spring semester of senior year
  • Participate in LEAD forum + opportunities to mentor first-year LEAD Scholars
  • Public presentation and celebration of LEAD portfolio

Transfer students must attend Linfield for a minimum of two years and will operate under a compressed timeline, completing practicums and the LEAD capstone in Year 2 along with other requirements specified above. At least one LEAD minor elective requirement may be fulfilled by transfer credit.