Leadership and Organizations - Concentrations
Leadership and Organizations majors must choose and complete one of the following concentrations:
Organizational Development Concentration (12 credits)
Specializing in 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:
- LEOR 3320 Organizational Processes
- LEOR 3340 Organizational Development and Change
- LEOR 3350 Organizational Behavior
- Select ONE upper-division (3000- or 4000-level) LEOR 3-credit Elective course
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Public Service Concentration (12 credits)
Specializing in Public Service 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:
- LEOR 3410 Political Leadership
- LEOR 3440 Leaders as Agents of Change
- LEOR 3520 Nonprofit Leadership
- LEOR 3540 Leadership in Community-based Organizations
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