Leadership (BA) adult learner degree completion program

Total required hours: 126

This degree completion major is for adult learners who have already completed 64 semester hours of credit. It is designed for students looking to integrate the skills, knowledge, and values of a broad academic program and apply them to the challenges of the workplace. Students will learn, integrate and apply a range of perspectives and decision-making models as they strive to advance their careers. Students will learn that success in the workplace and in their personal lives depends on their ability to create and apply solutions based on their thinking across academic disciplines.

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I. General Education Requirements

Transition Year Seminar (4 hrs)
Integrative Studies Interdisciplanary Dyad (8 hrs)
Language and Culture (4 hrs)
Mathematics (4 hrs)
Health and Physical Education Lifestyles (1 hr)
Senior Year Experience (4 hrs)
Writing Intensive Requirement (click the General Education Requirements link below for details)

See
General Education Requirements
for specifics. (The Language and Culture requirement appears under III. Modern Language.)

II. Major Requirements (40 hrs)

A. Core Courses

All courses required:
COMM 1800 - Interpersonal Communication 4 hrs
LEAD 3710 - Transformational Leadership 4 hrs
LEAD 3720 - Leadership: Organizational and Team Dynamics 4 hrs
LEAD 3730 - Leadership Project 4 hrs
One course from:
PSYC 1000 - Psychology for Non-Majors 4 hrs
PSYC 1050 - General Psychology - Writing Intensive 4 hrs

B. Electives (20 hrs required)

ACCT 2000 - Financial Accounting 4 hrs
BUS 5100 - Business Essentials 4 hrs
COMM 2000 - Introduction to Communication Theory - Writing Intensive 4 hrs
COMM 3300 - Teamwork 4 hrs
COMM 3400 - Persuasion 4 hrs
COMM 3750 - Intercultural Communication 4 hrs
COMM 3800 - Organizational Communication 4 hrs
COMM 4800 - Organizational Communication Case Studies 4 hrs
ECON 2100 - Principles of Microeconomics 4 hrs
ECON 2200 - Principles of Macroeconomics 4 hrs
MGMT 3000 - Principles of Management - Writing Intensive 4 hrs
MGMT 3555 - Non-Profit Management 4 hrs
MGMT 4750 - Leadership and Culture 4 hrs
PHIL 1300 - Contemporary Moral Problems 4 hrs
PHIL 2950 - Ethics 4 hrs
PSYC 2330 - Psychology of Personality 4 hrs
PSYC 2610 - Social Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3130 - Stress and Health Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3720 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3900 - Independent Study 4 hrs (faculty willing to supervise or substitute course as approved by program director)

Optional Concentration

Note: Courses in the optional concentrations may be used to fulfil elective reuirements, but is not listed on transcript as a concentration.

Organizational Communication Concentration

All courses required:
COMM 3300 - Teamwork 4 hrs
COMM 3750 - Intercultural Communication 4 hrs
COMM 3800 - Organizational Communication 4 hrs
COMM 4800 - Organizational Communication Case Studies 4 hrs
PSYC 3720 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology 4 hrs

Psychology of Leadership Concentration

Psychology of Leadership Concentration (all courses required)
PSYC 2330 - Psychology of Personality 4 hrs
PSYC 2610 - Social Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3130 - Stress and Health Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3720 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology 4 hrs
PSYC 3900 - Independent Study 4 hrs (faculty willing to supervise or substitute course as approved by program director)

Pre-MBA Concentration

Note: MATH 1240 - Statistics I is a pre-requisite for the MBA program

ACCT 2000 - Financial Accounting 4 hrs
BUS 5100 - Business Essentials 4 hrs
ECON 2100 - Principles of Microeconomics 4 hrs
ECON 2200 - Principles of Macroeconomics 4 hrs
One of the following:
MGMT 3000 - Principles of Management - Writing Intensive 4 hrs
MGMT 4750 - Leadership and Culture 4 hrs

III. Residency Requirements

At least 52 hours must be earned in an Otterbein classroom.

IV. Required Total Hours for the Degree (126 hrs)

If the coursework taken to fulfill the General Education Requirements and the requirements in your major do not equal 126 hours, select a sufficient number of electives to achieve that total.

V. Minimum GPA Overall and in the Major

A GPA of 2.0 overall as well as in the major must be achieved. To be licensed to teach, a GPA of 2.5 overall must be achieved.

VI. Application for Degree

A prospective graduate must complete an Application for Degree at the Registrar’s Office two terms prior to the term in which the degree is to be completed.

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