Organizational Leadership Major (36 Credits)
Organizational leadership is the ability to help others move organizations forward in changing times. While the focus of the program is cultivating the ability to lead at any level, individuals also develop and refine skills in critical thinking, problem solving, motivating and empowering others, and communicating effectively and persuasively.
Through the Organizational Leadership major students will learn to:
- Define and recognize the evolving nature of leadership;
- Identify, compare and contrast classic and contemporary views of leadership;
- Deduce leadership knowledge from the liberal arts and humanities;
- Analyze the practices of leaders and apply their traits, styles and behaviors to their own leadership practice;
- Define and discuss the concept of followership; and
- Discuss the need for ethical, responsible leadership.
Organizational Leadership Program Required Courses
- CLDR 370W Principles of Organizational Leadership
- CLDR 412W Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- COMM 456W Organizational Communication
- CLDR 499W Leadership Capstone
Students choose 8 additional courses from the following:
- CLDR 406W Corporate and Community Relations
- CLDR 414W Mediating Organizational Disputes
- CLDR 416W Creating a High Performance Success Path
- CLDR 474W Building Effective Teams
- CLDR 478W Careers in Organizations
- CLDR 480W Leadership and Ethics
- CLDR 484W Leadership: Starting from Self
- CLDR 486W Gender Perspectives in Leadership
- CLDR 487W Leading Organizational Change
- CLDR 410W Entrepreneurial Leadership
- COBS 352 Principles of Organizational Behavior
- COBS 330 Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- COBS 440 Organizational Socialization
- COBS 442 Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management
- COBS 370 Power and Politics in Organizations
- COBS 400 Best Practices in Organizations
- COBS 361 Organizational Research
- COBS 350 World Class Organizations
- COBS 360 Organizational Design and Development