Leadership Seminar - A number of seminars focus on trust, character, and outreach. Books are read and discussions held on broadening one's knowledge and sharing it with others in ways that neither demean followers nor presume hierarchical structure in all work environments. Various styles of leadership are evaluated within different cultures and organizations. In addition to collective action, business entails a meeting of minds.

A breath-taking passage in Baltimore's Aquarium

These lectures are designed to help interns understand office politics, self-presentation, and group dynamics from a psychological perspective. The dramaturgy of the workplace reveals different types of interaction that students can master once they become aware of their own motivations and responses.

Students also attend lectures at the Elliot School for International Affairs within George Washington University; press briefings at the National Press Club; visits to the Corcoran Gallery of Art; press conferences at the U.S. State Department; hearings on Capitol Hill; trials in the Supreme Court; and guided tours within branches of the Smithsonian Institution like the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Freer Gallery of Oriental art.

Students are taken on a cruise down the Potomac River to Mount Vernon (George Washington's plantation home), to plays and concerts at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Folger Shakespeare Theater, to the Library of Congress and the Air and Space Museum, to bookstores like Politics and Prose for televised sessions in which authors read from their works, and to Carter Baron Amphitheater where the National Symphony Orchestra plays beneath the stars. We take full advantage of the city, attending the National Folklife Festival, the Forth of July festivities, the annual Cherry Blossom Parade, and different events held at the National Zoo and Baltimore Aquarium.

Two playful pandas at the National Zoo