Overview

Key Features

Questions explored include:

How have men and women defined leadership and what are the bases of leaders’ legitimacy in different historical contexts?
What are the distinctive habits of mind of leaders in different historical contexts? What are the moral dilemmas that leaders in different contexts face?
How does one analyze the experiences of leaders in widely disparate contexts to generate systematic comparative understandings of why history judges some leaders great and others failures? How and why do these evaluations about the efficacy of leaders shift over time?

To meet the requirements of the Leadership Studies program from Williams College, students must complete one of two sequences: American foreign policy or leadership studies. Additional and/or substitute electives are offered each year; students should consult the course offerings in the catalog for the full list of elective offerings in a given year or check with the program chair, Justin Crowe, to see if other courses might count as electives.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

America and the World

Visionaries, Pragmatists, and Demagogues

America First? The Trump Era and the Future of World Politics

Movers and Shakers in the Middle East

From Tocqueville to Trump: Leadership and the Making of American Democracy

Dangerous Leadership in American Politics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-08 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Leadership View 478 other Bachelors in Leadership in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

Common Application, Coalition Application, or QuestBridge Application
School Report
Counselor Recommendation
Two Teacher Recommendations
Mid-Year Report (Due February 5 or for schools on a trimester, when 2nd trimester grades are available)
$65 Application Fee or Fee Waiver
Early Decision Agreement Form (Early Decision applicants only)

Tuition Fee

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International

64540 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 64540 USD per year during 48 months.
National

64540 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 64540 USD per year during 48 months.
In-State

64540 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 64540 USD per year during 48 months.

Living costs for North Adams

876 - 1815 USD /month

Living costs

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Scholarships Information

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