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
- Service 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.
Academics
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)
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 - Maymester
Students must take one of the following courses:
- PRLC 3810(fall only)
- PRLC 4010: Maymester at CU Boulder
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
Experiential Learning
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.
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.
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.
Service
Sante Crutcher
Lauren Caldwell
Spencer Hays
- 10 hours of service per PLC student per academic year.
- Academic Year (AY) = first week of classes in August -Ìý last week of classes in May.
- PLC commits to planning enough events and volunteer opportunities for you to succeed.
- Attendance and participation will be tracked at all events by the Service Coordinator
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