ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Learn about Admission to the Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development

TOTAL UNITS — 123

39 GENERAL EDUCATION UNITS

REQUIRED COURSES — 18 UNITS

UGP 10

Gateway to Success (to be taken in first term of program)

CRTH 10

Critical Thinking

ENGL 1A

Expository Writing

ENGL 1B

Research Writing

ENGL 120

Business Writing

Plus one of the following:

COMM 35

Speech Communication

COMM 40

Understanding Communication

LIBERAL STUDIES CORE — 21 UNITS

ARTS 50

Contemporary Arts & Culture (or any other ARTS course offered)

HIST 50

Contemporary American Economic History (or any other HIST course offered)

HUM 50

Examining the Humanities (or any other HUM course offered)

LIT 50

Principles of Storytelling (or any other LIT course offered)

PHIL 50

Professional & Personal Ethics (or any other PHIL course offered)

SCI 50

Science, Technology & Social Change (or any other SCI course offered)

SOSC 50

American Government in the 21st Century (or any other SOSC course offered)

OR

 

PSYCH 10

Introduction to Psychology

33 MAJOR UNITS

FOUNDATION REQUIREMENTS — 6 UNITS

MATH 20

Intermediate Algebra

MATH 40

Statistics

OLHSD REQUIREMENTS — 27 UNITS

OLHS 110

Emotional & Social Intelligence at Work

OLHS 111

Engagement, Thriving, & Well-Being in Organizations

OLHS 112

Building & Sustaining Team Cohesiveness

OLHS 113

Managing Conflict & Crucial Conversations

OLHS 114

Leading Effectively through People, Teams, and Organizations

OLHS 115

Diversity & Inclusion in Organizations

OLHS 116

Innovation & Creativity in Organizations

OLHS 117

Adaptability & Agility in a Disruptive World

OLHS 118

Leadership & Transformation Through Relationships & Communities

51 ELECTIVE UNITS

Seventeen 3-unit upper or lower-division courses from any subject.

Each course listed carries three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who complete the BA in Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development will be able to:

• Design and create written communications that clearly articulate and advance ideas, arguments, solutions, and strategies.
• Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills in individual relationships and collaborative projects with teams and external clients using persuasive speech to provide clear directions and guidelines in and beyond organizational settings.
• Locate, analyze and apply information-taking advantage of various research approaches and tools to address organizational problems or to weigh the merits of a solution of emerging possibility.
• Demonstrate how the use and interpretation of quantitative data based on team and individual assessment data can be used to support professional and team development as well as strengthen the overall effectiveness of the organization.
• Demonstrate specialized knowledge of leading and leadership that includes effective approaches and practices that influence people and processes and which can accelerate employee engagement, organizational performance, transformation, and change.
• Develop innovative approaches and solutions to existing issues and new opportunities that strengthen diversity and inclusion relating to people, perspectives, and cultures within organizations and the communities in which those organizations exist.
• Identify and apply practices that support innovation, creativity, and design thinking and which can generate solutions to systemic problems, as well as leverage emerging opportunities that impact people, communities, and organizations.
• Identify approaches and employ practices that can constructively address and manage conflict and facilitate crucial conversations.
• Build agile and adaptive responses to individual, team, and organizational change and disruption generated by local, national, and global forces and experienced within business and industry settings.