The purpose of the Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Human Skills
Development is to address the need for the critical skills that are in continual demand
in organizations and businesses of all sizes, from the small startup to large multinationals.
Organizations are in constant need of workers across all levels of the organization
who can influence, inspire others, and demonstrate best practices. These workers have
a set of human skills or "soft skills" that revolve around the human dimension of
organizations such as demonstrating emotional and social intelligence, building teams,
managing conflict, communicating effectively, fostering creativity and innovation,
adaptability, and understanding diversity. Employer needs are shifting in response
to rapid changes in local and global industry and the marketplace and, as a result,
college graduates, mid-career professionals, and seasoned executives must keep refreshing
not only their leadership skills and expertise but especially these soft skills that
connect, empower, and mobilize people.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Human Skills
Development
The degree requires completion of 120 units as follows: 36 units of general education,
33 units for the major, and 51 units ofelective courses, including courses taken for
minors. (See Declaring Minors below for more information.) Each course listedcarries
three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted. A cumulative grade-point average
of 2.00 “C” or higher is re-quired in all courses taken at Golden Gate University.
All degree-seeking undergraduate students must complete their English, mathematics
and critical thinking requirements within their first 27 units at Golden Gate University,
unless they have already earned credit for the equivalent courses from another institution
and have had those courses accepted in transfer by Golden Gate University. If either
Math or English requirements for the degree have not been satisfied, newly enrolled
students must take placement tests to ensure proper placement in the appropriate Math
or English course. Students may also choose to waive the placement tests and enroll
in the first course in either series, which are ENGL 10A and MATH 10. (See the course
descriptions below to identify courses that have prerequisite course requirements.)
General Education - 36 units
Lifelong Learning and Self Development - 3 units
- UGP 10
- Gateway to Success (to be taken in first term of program)
Communication and Critical Thinking - 9 units
- CRTH 10
- Critical Thinking
- ENGL 60
- Research Writing
Plus one of the following:
- COMM 35
- Speech Communication
- COMM 40
- Understanding Communication
Quantitative Reasoning - 3 units
One of the following:
- MATH 20
- Intermediate Algebra
OR:
- MATH 50
- From Numbers to Decisions
Liberal Studies - 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 10
- Foundations of Literary Study (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
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Foundation Courses - 6 units
- ENGL 120
- Business Writing
- MATH 40
- Statistics
Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development Courses — 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
Select seventeen additional 3-unit upper or lower-division courses from any subject
for a total of 51 units. Note: courses used tocomplete minors also count toward this
requirement.
Declaring Minors
To be eligible to declare minors, students must have already completed the required
coursework, or be able to complete it intheir final terms without requiring waivers,
substitutions, or directed study courses, unless they are approved in advance by thedepartment
chair, program director, or dean.
Students may declare minors when they have completed the required coursework, or after
the “Last Day to Drop Course with-out Tuition Charge” (per the Academic Calendar)
for their final terms.
Students may declare up to two minors in a given degree program. Students seeking
to declare more than two minors will be re-quired to appeal to the dean for approval.
Students’ diplomas will list the minors that they had successfully completed at thetime
their degrees were conferred. Students may not declare additional minors after their
degrees have been conferred.
The following minors are available for this major:
- Accounting Minor
- Business Minor
- Data Analytics Minor
- Finance Minor
- Human Resource Management Minor
- Information Technology Minor
- International Business Minor
- Law Minor
- Literature Minor
- Management Minor
- Marketing Minor
- Operations and Supply Chain Management Minor
- Psychology Minor
- Public Administration Minor
Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development Minor
The minor in Organizational Leadership and Human Skills Development provides an introduction
to the “soft skills” that arecritical to the human dimension of organizations. In
order to be effective, today’s leaders are increasingly expected to possess skillssuch
as those addressed in this minor: demonstrating emotional and social intelligence,
building teams, managing conflict,communicating effectively, fostering creativity
and innovation, adaptability, and understanding diversity.
Required Courses - 15 units
Select five of the following:
- OLHS 110
- Emotional and Social Intelligence at Work
- OLHS 111
- Engagement, Thriving, and Well-Being in Organizations
- OLHS 112
- Building and Sustaining Team Cohesiveness
- OLHS 113
- Managing Conflict and Crucial Conversations
- OLHS 114
- Leading Effectively through People, Teams, and Organizations
- OLHS 115
- Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations
- OLHS 116
- Innovation and Creativity in Organizations
- OLHS 117
- Adaptability and Agility in a Disruptive World
- OLHS 118
- Leadership and Transformation Through Relationships and Communities
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.
