Organization & Leadership Concentrations
Organization & Leadership majors must choose and complete one of six ORLE concentrations.
Organizations and Organizational Development Concentration (15 credits)
Specialization in Organizations and Organizational Development teaches students:
- The theory to develop essential competencies to conceptually and structurally align organizations and groups with the purpose of an enterprise.
- An understanding of organizational, group, and individual behavior.
- How to develop and continue effective change initiatives.
- Skills to design organizations that reinforce intended relationships, behaviors and performance.
- Principles, practices, models, interventions, and processes inherent in organizational development.
Concentration Requirements
The following courses are required:
- ORLE 1300 Leading Teams and Groups
- ORLE 2310 Organizational Behavior
- ORLE 3320 Organizational Processes
- ORLE 3340 Organization Development and Change
ONE course from the following list is also required:
- ORLE 3330 Consultation Theory and Practice
- ORLE 3360 Future Directions of Organizations
- ORLE 3380 Facets of Organizational Development
- ORLE 2165 Principles of Human Resources
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Leadership: Liberal Studies Perspectives Concentration (15 credits)
Specialization in Leadership: Liberal Studies Perspectives gives students:
- The ability to examine leadership strategies through a variety of lenses/disciplines.
- An opportunity to apply and evaluate various lenses in case studies/readings.
- Skills to integrate the philosophies of various Liberal Arts disciplines into their own theory-making about leadership.
- The ability to evaluate the leadership practices of political, theological, literary, historical and social leaders using theory.
- The ability to lead others effectively by using a "multiple lens" framework that the Liberal Arts provide.
Concentration Requirements
The following courses are required:
- ORLE 3460 Leaders in Literature
- ORLE 3480 Historical Leadership during World Conflict
- ORLE 3440 Leaders in Social Movements
- ORLE 2420 Political Leadership: Theory and Practice
- ORLE 3420 Integrity in Leadership - Religious Perspectives
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Professional Communication Concentration (15 credits)
Specialization in Professional Communication gives students:
- The ability to examine leadership strategies through a variety of lenses/disciplines
- An opportunity to apply and evaluate various lenses in case studies/readings.
- Skills to integrate the philosophies of various Liberal Arts disciplines into their own theory-making about leadership.
- The ability to evaluate the leadership practices of political, theological, literary, historical and social leaders using theory.
- The facility to lead others effectively by using a "multiple lens" framework that the Liberal Arts provide.
Concentration Requirements
The following courses are required:
- CMST 1000 Introduction to Communication
- CMST 2000 Introduction to Small Group Communication
- ORLE 3610 Communicating Leadership: Issues and Applications
As well as TWO of the following:
- ADPR 2200 Media Writing
- CMST 2100 Interpersonal Communication
- CMST 3200 Organizational Communication
- CMST 3410 Intercultural Communication
- CMST 3310 Ethics in Human Communication
- COMM 166 Mass Communication Theory and Research
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Social Context Concentration (15 credits)
Specialization in Social Context provides students with:
- An in-depth knowledge of leadership skills needed to work with a volunteer staff.
- Knowledge of organizing for specific purposes and gains in neighborhoods, communities, and the world.
- Understanding of the social forces that give rise to the organizing of not-for-profits and grassroots organizations.
- A working knowledge of the tenets of Servant Leadership.
- Skills to become an active member in a democratic society.
- Ability to identify rhetorical strategies used by leaders, members, the press, and politicians in promoting social causes.
- Skills to practice discernment in their own lives.
- Understand vocation and the call to be a leader or a follower.
- The ability to identify and apply own ethical framework in these contexts.
Concentration Requirements
The following courses are required:
- ORLE 3610 Communicating Leadership: Issues and Applications
- ORLE 3440 Leaders in Social Movements
- ORLE 2420 Political Leadership: Theory and Practice
- ORLE 3520 Leadership in Not-for-Profit Organizations
- ORLE 3540 Grassroots Organizations
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Information Systems Concentration (15 credits)
Students specializing in Information Systems will gain:
- Theoretical knowledge of information systems.
- Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to real world problems.
- Understanding and use of fundamental terms, concepts and techniques of the field.
- Active application of the theory.
- Practice in writing computer programs.
- Designing and implementing databases.
- Ability to design networks.
- Creation of web sites.
- Creating multimedia presentations.
Concentration Requirements
The following course is required:
- ORLE 2710 Information Systems for Management
As well as FOUR of the following:
- ORLE 3770 Computer Programming
- ORLE 3730 Introduction to Database Management Systems
- ORLE 3740 Data Communications and Networks
- ORLE 3750 Electronic Commerce
- ORLE 3760 Information Systems Analysis, Design and Implementation
- ORLE 3720 Multimedia
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Commerce Concentration (15 credits)
Students specializing in Commerce will:
- Be prepared with the knowledge, competencies, and values to become effective leaders within commercial organizations and environments.
- Develop the necessary critical and analytical skills to manage organizational resources, anticipate commercial challenges, and develop effective strategies to work in an increasingly global, multicultural, and technological environment.
- Develop a solid understanding of the major commercial disciplines.
- Gain a systemic understanding or organizational behavior and problem solving.
- Gain broad exposure to the major disciplines inherent within commercial operations including economics, finance, marketing, and global business planning.
- Examine the social and ethical implications of commercial decisions with an emphasis on respect for diversity and the balancing of commercial and social interest.
Concentration Requirements
The following courses are required:
- ORLE 2220 Economic Theory and Practice
- ORLE 2240 Principles of Financial Management
- ORLE 1260 Personal and Family Financial Planning
- ORLE 1280 Marketing Concepts and E-Commerce
- ORLE 3210 Global Commerce
