Leadership is a highly valued, yet always scarce resource in all areas requiring coordinated action: civil society, professional work, profit and non-profit venues, religious and social action contexts. Communication's Rhetorical Leadership certificate program prepares leaders with humanistic knowledge, skills and attitudes through five graduate courses.<br>Rhetorical Leadership and Ethics covers rhetoric's role in and potential for responsible leadership in multiple arenas, it is informed by the long history of debate over the legitimacy of studying rhetoric as a means of promoting joint action.<br>Rhetoric of Constituting Community and Social Controversy addresses explicitly the rhetorical range available to leaders, whether their main goal is constituting communities or promoting change in ways that the existing decision-making channels cannot accommodate.<br>Argumentation in Theory and Practice integrates argumentative theory and practice in ways that are useful for potential leaders, it involves some performance-based learning that requires students to test their preferred theory alternatives in action.