Get the most marketable skills available -- leadership skills. No matter what your career plans are, the McDonough Leadership Program offers you an excellent way to gain an understanding of leadership and the practical abilities that go with it. Through Marietta's McDonough Center for Leadership and Business, you'll learn about the nature of leadership, undertake an extensive study of leadership development, and train to be a leader. Plus, you'll graduate with a degree from one of the most comprehensive leadership development programs in American higher education today. In fact, the Marietta Model that we've developed is nationally recognized as a cutting-edge approach in the study and practice of leadership within a liberal-arts context. Degree Options The McDonough Leadership Program offers several ways you can participate: Major in International Leadership Studies Minor in Leadership Studies Certificate in Leadership Studies Leaders in Action Certificate and Leadership-designated courses Participating in the program -- in whatever way you choose -- will give you the chance to learn to be insightful, intuitive, visionary, and self-confident. Leadership Studies Abroad The McDonough Center for Leadership and Business offers a course in global leadership studies, which provides our leadership students -- as well as majors in history, international business management, modern languages, or political science -- with the chance to study leadership in countries undergoing significant change. You can also gain international experience through service-learning opportunities in countries such as China, Australia, Mexico, the Philippines, and South Africa.

No matter what your career plans are, the McDonough Leadership Program offers you an excellent way to gain an un-derstanding of leadership. With its unique approach to understanding leadership through the Liberal Arts, you'll learn about the nature of leadership, and undertake an extensive study of leadership development. Plus, you'll graduate with a degree from one of the most comprehensive leadership development programs in American higher education today. In fact, the McDonough Model that we've developed is nationally recognized as a cutting-edge approach in the study and practice of leadership.