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 123 units as follows: 39 units of general education
coursework (including 21 units of liberal studies core), 33 units required for the
major (including 6 units of foundation courses and 27 units of Organizational Leadership
and Human Skills Development courses), and 51 units of general elective courses. Each
course listed carries three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted. A cumulative
grade-point average of 2.00 “C” or higher is required 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.)
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
OR:
- MATH 50
- From Numbers to Decisions
- 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.
MANAGEMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
- Tina Jackson, Senior Adjunct Professor
- Patricia Knight, Adjunct Professor
- Steven Lee, Adjunct Professor
- Christopher Lynch, Adjunct Professor
- Roldan Mallorca, Adjunct Professor
- Alan R. Roper, Senior Adjunct Professor
- Walter Stevenson, Professor
- Jan Wilson, Senior Adjunct Professor
- Jeffrey D. Yergler, Associate Professor, Management & Department Chair, Management
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