MLD-354M: Followers

Semester: Not Offered

Credit: 0.5

Faculty: Barbara Kellerman

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day
Meet Day
Review

Description

Having considered the phenomenon of “followership” in MLD-353M, this module will focus on followers per se, as individuals and in groups. Followers are divided into five different types: isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and diehards. They are considered specifically, that is, by naming names, and on a case-by-case basis. During the first half of the course, the cases will be studied from a distance and based on the secondary literature. During the second half of the module, the cases will be derived from personal experience, probably as a follower, or “subordinate,” but possibly as a leader, or “superior.” In either event the cases will focus on followers and constitute the culminating work of the course. Students in this module should therefore be prepared to write about a case with which they are personally familiar and to make an oral presentation on said case in the classroom.

Not offered in 2009–10.