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Mar 29, 2024
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2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Organizational Leadership, B.S.
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This degree is only available in the College of Professional Studies.
The organizational leadership program provides students with the leadership competencies needed for supervisory and middle management success in a variety of job families and functions. To fully develop the leadership skills of students, the program focuses on four key competency areas: operations and administrative competencies; human relations and interpersonal competencies; decision-making and critical thinking competencies; and communication competencies. To facilitate development of these competencies, courses marked with a carat (^) must be taken in sequence as part of a Tracked Educational Adult Module (TEAM).
Core Student Learning Outcomes
- Communications and Leadership Skills: Students will be able to give and exchange information within meaningful context and with appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills.
- Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills: Students will be able to link data, knowledge, and insight together to provide quality advice for strategic decision-making.
- Focus on the Customer, Client and Market: Students will be able to anticipate and meet the changing needs of clients, employers, customers and markets better than competitors.
- Interpretation of Converging Information: Students will be able to interpret and provide a broader context using financial and non-financial information.
- Technological Aptitude: Students will be able to utilize and leverage technology in ways that add value to clients, customers and employers. Students will be able to use information technology as a tool to do essential business tasks.
- Ethics: Students will be able to apply effective ethical decision-making. Students will be able to apply business-related legal and ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision-making.
Student Learning Outcomes
- General Business Knowledge - Students will demonstrate core foundational knowledge in the field of business.
- Communication and Leadership Skills - Students will be able to give and exchange information within meaningful context and with appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills.
- Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills - Students will be able to link data, knowledge, and insight together to provide quality advice for decision-making.
- Focus on the Customer, Client and Market - Students will be able to anticipate and meet the changing needs of clients, employers, customers, and markets better than competitors.
- Interpretation of Converging Information - Students will be able to interpret and provide a broader context using financial and non-financial information.
- Technologically Adept - Students will be able to utilize and leverage technology in ways that add value to clients, customers, and employers. Students will be able to use information technology as a tool to do essential business tasks.
- Ethics - Students will be able to apply effective ethical decision making. Students will be able to apply business-related legal and ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision-making.
The organizational leadership program provides students with the leadership competencies needed for middle management success in a variety of job families and functions. To fully develop the leadership skills of students, the program focuses on four key competency areas: operations and administrative competencies; human relations and interpersonal competencies; decision-making and critical thinking competencies; and communication competencies. The organizational leadership degree uses the TEAM approach described on the College of Professional Studies . Courses marked with an asterisk (*) require TEAM enrollment.
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Total Credits Required: 39
Organizational Leadership Core
Total Credits Required: 51
Approved Electives: 30 Credits
Total Credits Required: 120
* Students must complete at least 45 credit hours, including ENG 1252 and BA 2700 , before enrolling in the organizational leadership TEAM.
** Students may test out by placement exam. Credits do not count toward degree.
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