Online Organizational Leadership Degree Courses
Curriculum Details
- 40 courses
- 120 credits
- 8-week course duration
As a student of the online Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership program, you’ll choose from three career-focused concentrations in either nonprofit leadership, global leadership or health care leadership. Each option requires you to complete 20 major courses for 60 credits. By applying the maximum number of associate degree credits, you can complete the program in just two years.
All courses are completed in 8-week terms and many can be selected based on your professional goals and interests, allowing you to build the skills you need for the leadership career you want. You’ll complete your bachelor’s degree with career-ready expertise, plus the credential to pursue graduate education.
Core
Credits
Approaches to understanding, analyzing, and synthesizing information from varied perspectives. Emphasis is on researching, writing, and crafting sound arguments from multi-disciplinary approaches.
Supervised work experience in a community agency or business based on an individualized, contracted program planned in conjunction with a faculty member and approved by the student’s advisor. For six internship credit hours, a student is to work 270 hours with an approved agency; for five credit hours, 225 work hours; for four credit hours, 180 hours; for three credit hours, 135 hours; for two credit hours, 90 hours; and for one credit hour, 45 hours. A student may repeat IDST U398 once with a different internship contract description for a total of no more than six hours of undergraduate credit.
An individualized, contracted research planned in conjunction with an Interdisciplinary Studies faculty member. May be repeated for a total of no more than six credit hours.
Reading and research on selected topics designed to explore issues of broad interdisciplinary interest. Particular emphasis is placed on integration of knowledge at an advanced level, exploration of ethical issues, and gain experience in research and oral presentation. Seminar topics vary.
Survey of functions of management as they pertain to organizational efficiency and effectiveness using written assignments and class discussions. A focus on group and individual dynamics, ethics, culture, leadership, decision-making, globalization, employee engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship, organizational change and workforce diversity.
Key concepts, theoretical perspectives, research, and practical applications and strategies in organizations, organizing, and communication. The historical development of key paradigms that shape the study of organization and organizing are examined.
Practical application of leadership principles through a public service internship. Limited to participants in the Leadership Development Program.
Required Courses for Concentrations
Credits
Go beyond business theory and explore effective leadership strategies for nonprofit, charitable and service-oriented missions.
- NPAD U301 The Nonprofit Sector in the United States
- NPAD U302 Nonprofit Leadership
- NPAD U303 Nonprofit Financial Administration
- NPAD U304 Fund Raising for Nonprofit Organizations
- NPAD U404 Social Entrepreneurship
Gain insights into global business structures while learning how international organizations and legal frameworks shape global policy.
- CRJU U386 Globalization and Crime
- GLST U301 Global Cultures and Identities
- IDST U301 Ethics in the Professions
- MGMT U378 The International Business Enterprise
- MGMT U455 Topics in Management (as appropriate)
- POLI U330 International Organizations
- SPCH U380 Intercultural Communication
Prepare for leadership roles in the health care field with expertise in organizational theory, health systems, policy, ethics and more.
- CHME U210 Introduction to Health Policy: Systems of Care
- HIMS U250 Fundamentals of Healthcare Administration
- IDST U301 Ethics in the Professions
- MGMT U372 Operations Management
- MKTG U350 Principles of Marketing
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