EDUC 8351: The Polymathic Leader: Modeling the Unity of Life in a Fragmented World

This course invites students to consider leadership as a personal and cultural vocation rooted in the integration of life, knowledge, and action. Drawing from the Catholic intellectual tradition, classical sources, and interdisciplinary insights, students will explore how the fragmented nature of modern life—divided by specialization, relativism, and disconnection—calls for leaders who model a unity of life. Emphasis is placed on cultivating moral imagination, synthesizing knowledge across disciplines, and practicing habits of reflection and action. Students will engage great texts, case studies, and personal discernment to develop a model of leadership that serves the common good and embodies integrity, wisdom, and purpose.