Program Requirements

The Presidents Leadership Class has three sets of requirements for program completion. Students must complete all of the requirements to graduate with a certificate of completion and to become a part of the PLC alumni community. Please explore the requirements below.

  • Academic Requirements
  • Experiential Requirements
  • Engagement Requirements

In addition to these requirements, we have expectations and policies that students should follow and display during the completion of the requirements listed above.

Program Policies & Expectations

  2024-2025 Student Handbook 

Academics

First Year Courses

 

First-year students must take both courses during their first year in the program. Lectures and recitations are taken with their cohort.

  • PRLC 1810(fall semester)
  • PRLC 1820(spring semester)
Multi-Level Leadership

 

Students must take one of the following courses:

  • PRLC 2820 (fall only)
  • ENLP 3100(few PLC spots)
  • PRLC 4010: Maymester at CU Boulder
  • PRLC 4010R: Science Policy - CU in DCMaymester
Global Level Leadership

 

Students must take one of the following courses:

  • PRLC 3810(fall only)
  • PRLC 4010: Maymester at CU Boulder
ALE Course

 

Students must take one of the following courses to get full credit for their ALE:

  • PRLC 2930-801(fall and spring) - PLC only - non-student staff
  • PRLC 2930 - 800 - (fall and spring) - PLC student staff course
LSM Capstone

 

Students must take the LSM capstone to earn the minor

  • LEAD 4000 - offered both semesters, many sections

Leadership Studies Minor

Experiential Learning

Deep Dives

 

Two Deep Dive trips are required in PLC. Deep Dives are multi-day explorations into complex topics involving speaker panels, travel to relevant locations, group discussions, relevant service, and complementary activities. PLC recommends you complete one Deep Dive in your first year. You can save the second Deep Dive for when it best fits your schedule.

Applied Leadership Experience - ALE

 

One ALE and the accompanying course PRLC 2930 are required in PLC. Students will participate in applied experiences throughout their undergraduate careers. One of these experiences will become a PLC ALE - an applied experience enhanced by a structure that insists on attention to goals, receiving and learning from feedback, reflection through individual and group analysis, intention on the future application of skills, and lessons learned.

Student Staff

 

The Student Staff helps the professional staff and faculty implement programming throughout the academic year to enrich the experience of their peers. Student Staff is a long-held tradition and remains popular among PLCers. The staff is typically ~35 students fulfilling different positions depending on their interests, strengths, and program needs. The staff is a team of teams with focuses ranging from academic curriculum to mental health advocacy and service projects.

Engagement

Service Hours - 5 hours

 

Public service opportunities are transformative and encourage PLCers to reflect on their place and responsibilities in this world. To be considered public service, an opportunity needs to expose PLCers to different perspectives and help to create leaders who understand the challenges facing their communities. Public service hours will be logged by the service team. Please find the link to the spreadsheet here. 

Examples of public service opportunities:

  • Garden to Table
  • PB n’  Luvin
  • Creek Clean Ups
  • Meals on the Streets
  • Meals at All Roads Shelter
Experiential Hours - 5 hours

 

Experiential opportunities offer PLCers hands-on experiences that make them better leaders. Experiential hours will be logged by the team lead of the team that put on the event. Please find the link to hours spreadsheet here.

Examples of experiential opportunities:

  • Industry Nights
  • Professional Develop Workshops
  • Guest Speakers
  • Service to PLC (IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF STUDENT STAFF) 
Service to PLC - Student Staff members only

 

Service to PLC is essential for all PLCers, especially staff members who are so involved in the program. It is very important that we can give back to the PLC community that gives us so much. While service to PLC hours are only required for student staff members, service to PLC opportunities can be used as experiential hours for other PLCers. 

Please find the link to hours spreadsheet here.

Examples of service to PLC opportunities:

  • Interview Days
  • Follow Me to PLC
  • Setting up huddles, industry nights, community dinners, etc