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Lawyers, nuns, social workers, and schoolgirls have won the Nobel Peace Prize. In achieving this distinction, they hone their leadership skills to a fine art. They face personal danger, inner conflicts, social challenges, and pointed criticism. Succeeding despite their flaws, their ability to inspire courageous, innovative action cuts across age-groups, decades, borders, and nationality. Students in this Honors Seminar will touch and experience that inspiration.

Students will intensively study several extraordinary women from different cultures who have won the Prize; e.g., Aung San Suu Kyi, Leymah Gbowee, Sharin Ebadi, Mother Teresa, and Malala Yousafzai. What characterizes their leadership? What have they accomplished and at what price? How do they survive their successes, failures, and controversies? How applicable are their approaches to a student's everyday life and future? This highly interactive class will examine these questions through biographies, videos, lectures, writing, student presentations, and group discussions.

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