The Organizational Leadership concentration provides an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to developing skills in managing and leading within an organizational context. Students develop their skills in negotiating, managing workplace diversity, resolving conflict and setting strategic goals. This concentration builds practices needed to compete in today's competitive business environment.

Degree Requirements

A total of 120 credits is required for the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies degree. As part of those 120 credits, a student in organizational leadership will complete the following courses:

Foundational Courses (Required)

• Introduction to Business
• Business Ethics
• Business Statistics
• Calculus
• Principles of Economics
• Business Law
• Principles of Accounting
• Financial Management
• Principles of Marketing
• Organizational Behavior
• Strategy and the Strategic Mindset
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Principles of Management

Electives (Choose 4)

• Small Business Management
• Human Resource Management and the Law
• Negotiation and Influence
• Managing Workplace Diversity
• Introduction to International Business
• Issues in Globalization
• Multinational Corporations
• Theories of Leadership
• China’s Economic Development

Required Courses:

Writing in an Interdisciplinary Environment

Elective Courses:

Adding it Up: Numbers and Reporting
Advanced Latin
Advertising in the Media
Advocacy Journalism
American Popular Culture
Basic News Writing
Beat Reporting
Beyond Sojourner Truth
Bioethics
Broadcast Writing
Catholicism at the Movies: A Critical Review of Portrayals of Faith on Film
Catholicism in 21st Century America
Character, Conscience and Courage
China and the Internet: Challenging America in Cyberspace
China's Olympics
China, the U.S., and the Cold War Confrontation
City Lab Geneva Experience
Communication Law
Communication, Politics, and Public Opinion
Community and Alienation
Community Development and Social Change
Community Organizing and Grassroots Change
Confronting Hunger and Homelessness in the United States
Country Music USA
Creating Your Message Online
Crisis Communications
Critical Thinking and Ethical Decision-Making
Cultural Politics of Television
Cultures & Urban Life
Customer Service
Cyberethics
DC Urban Laboratory
Debating Human Rights in China
Demography and Aging
Development of U.S. National Security Policy
Disorder in Modern China
Diversity and the Multicultural World
Economic Development and Human Security
Education and Society
Engaging the Media
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entrepreneurship in the Real World
Environmental Justice
Ethical Issues in American Politics
Ethics and Public Service
Ethics of Spying: Policy and Process
Explanatory Journalism
Faith-Based Organizations and Community Change
Feature Writing
Film: History, Culture and Structure
Folklore, Folklife, & Folk Festival
Gandhi's Religious and Political World
Global Hunger
Global Media
Global Trade and Local Discontents
Globalization and Social Change in Developing Countries
Greek and Roman Myth
Health Care: Policy and Practice
History of Pandemics and the Rise of Bioterrorism
History of the Future
Housing Policy
Human Rights & International Law
Human Rights: A Force for Change
Immigration and Refugee Policy
Impact of Religion on Society
Inequalities in Health and Illness
Inside the NATO Alliance
Institute on Sacred Scripture
Institutions of International Dispute Resolution
Intercultural Communication
Intergroup Dynamics and Conflict Management
Intermediate Latin
International Human Rights Law
International Affairs and Public Diplomacy
International Relations for the 21st Century
International Terrorism and Transnational Crime
Introduction to Chinese (Level 1B)
Introduction to Communication Theory
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Introduction to International Law
Introduction to Media Criticism
Introduction to Public Speaking
Introduction to Urban Analysis and Community Development
Introductory Latin
Investigative Reporting
Justice: Domestic and Global Perspectives
Law and Literature
Life Entrepreneurs: The Place of Meaning, Purpose and Contribution in Business and Politics
Losing God? Secularization: Theory, History, and Evidence
Making a Difference in Society
Management of Mass Media
Managing and Sustaining Change
Mass Media and Society
Media and Politics
Media and Public Opinion
Media and Public Opinion Lab
Media Convergence and its Relationship to the Information Consumer
Medical and Science Writing
Meet the Atom: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Nuclear Technology
Modern News and Writing
Modernization and Development
Moral Leadership and Social Justice
Mortal Heroes: Ancient Epic Narratives
Music Around the Globe and Net
Mythology and the Human Spirit
New Venture Creation
Oral Skills for Effective Communications
Organizations and Society
Persuasion and Influence
Political Economy of the Gulf
Politics and World Religion
Practicum I
Practicum II
Problems of Democracy
Propaganda & American Foreign Policy
Public Relations for Governmental, Non-Governmental and Non-Profit Organizations
Race and Ethnic Relations
Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
Race, Gender, and Communication
Race, Gender, and Communication
Radical Evil
Religion and Conflict
Religion and Society
Religion and the US Constitution
Rhetorical Criticism
Science and Religion
Shakespeare: Text and Performance
Slavery and Abolition from the Bronze Age to the American Civil War
Social Analysis: Policy & Planning
Social and Cultural Context of Advertising
Social and Cultural Context of Advertising
Social Inequality and Poverty
Social Movements in Advanced Capitalism
Social Research Methods I: Quantitative
Social Research Methods II: Qualitative
Specialized Writing in Public Relations
Teams and Group Dynamics
Television: History, Culture and Structure
Terrorism and Terrorists
The 1960s: Decade of Transformation
The American Revolution and the Colonial Military Tradition
The Art of Interviewing
The Body Perfect and Imperfect
The Business of Media
The Death Penalty: Kill It or Reform It?
The History of Mass Media in America
The History of Narrative and Storytelling
The Human Condition
The Local Nonprofit Sector
The Martyr and the Warrior: Religion and Violence
The Modern U.S. Presidency - Fifty Years of Political Evolution
The Myth of the Hero
The Sacred Quest
The Tudors: History, Film and Legacy
The U.S. Civil War
The Vietnam War and 21st Century America
Theories of Urban Analysis and Community Development
Theory and Practice of Public Relations
Trials, Crime and Punishment in Literature and Film
U.S. Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties
U.S. Latinos and Public Policy
Urban Policy in Global Perspective
Utopia, Dystopia and Future Shock
Values in Criminal Justice Policy
Visual Rhetoric
War Memories, Justice and Reconciliation: The Case of China and Japan
War Stories: Examining the War Experience through Personal Narratives, Fiction and Film
Women and Social Change
Women. Power. Europe.
Work and The National Economy
Writing for the Public Relations Professional
Writing for the Web
Zoroastrianism

Curricular Field Core:

Business Law
Business Statistics
Calculus
Financial Management
Introduction to Business
Organizational Behavior
Principles of Accounting
Principles of Economics
Principles of Management
Principles of Marketing
Strategy and the Strategic Mindset

Curricular Field Elective:

China's Economic Development
Conflicts: Transformation and Change
Human Resource Management and the Law
Interpreting China's Rise: Beijing Olympics 2008, Shanghai Expo 2010
Introduction to International Business
Issues in Globalization
Managing Workplace Diversity
Multinational Corporations
Negotiation and Influence
Power and Politics
Purpose and Personal Mission
Small Business Management
Socialization and Organizational Culture
Theories of Leadership
Theories of Motivation
Workplace Ethics

Curricular Field Human Values:

Business Ethics

Nonwestern Studies:

China and the Internet: Challenging America in Cyberspace
China's Economic Development
China's Olympics
China, the U.S., and the Cold War Confrontation
Debating Human Rights in China
Disorder in Modern China
Gandhi's Religious and Political World
International Relations for the 21st Century
Interpreting China's Rise: Beijing Olympics 2008, Shanghai Expo 2010
Introduction to Chinese (Level 1A)
Introduction to Chinese (Level 1B)
Mythology and the Human Spirit
Political Economy of the Gulf
Politics and World Religion
The Martyr and the Warrior: Religion and Violence
War Memories, Justice and Reconciliation: The Case of China and Japan
Zoroastrianism

Program Core:

Biblical Literature and the Ancient World
Enlightenment, Revolution and Democracy
Faith and Reason in the Middle Ages
Greeks and Romans
Introduction to Ethics
Introduction to the Social Sciences
Medieval Thought and Culture
The Early Modern World
The New Millennium
The Nineteenth Century
The Renaissance
War and Peace