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.
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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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder
- PRLC 4010R: Science Policy - Maymester
Students must take one of the following courses:
- PRLC 3810(fall only)
- PRLC 4010: Maymester at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder
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.
Engagement
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Public service opportunities are transformative allowing PLCers to reflect on their positionality in the community. Public service, exposes PLCers to intercultural perspectives helping to create leaders who understand real community needs through critical thought, applied leadership skills, and civic responsibility. Public service hours will be logged by the service team. Please find the
Examples of public service opportunities:
- Garden to Table, PB n’Ìý Luvin, Meals on the Streets, Meals at All Roads Shelter, STEM mentors, As You Are Facilitators
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Experiential opportunities are hands-on experiences that promote career readiness, cultural awareness, ethical engagement, interpersonal growth, and reflection. Experiential hours will be logged by the team lead of the team that put on the event. Please find the
Examples of experiential opportunities:
- Industry Nights, Professional Develop Workshops, Follow Me to PLC host, etc.
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Service to PLC is essential for all PLCers. It is important that students give back to the program 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.Ìý
Please find the link to hours spreadsheetÌý.