Description
The Leadership and Organization minor provides students with insights into how to be an effective, successful leader in today’s changing environments. Creating, managing, and motivating teams are crucial skills in organizational settings of all types. Students will learn the key ingredients of successful leaders in business and historical settings and how to incorporate them into their own personal style. Students will practice organizing ideas and communicating them professionally. The Leadership and Organization minor equips students to enter the world of business, government, or the nonprofit sector with the leadership tools to make a difference.
Requirements
The minor in Leadership and Organization is a joint program of the College of Arts and Science and Peabody College. The minor requires 18 credit hours.
The following courses are required:
- FNEC 140: Financial Accounting
- MGRL 194: Fundamentals of Management
- HOD 1200: Understanding Organizations
Three elective courses to be chosen from:
- MGRL 198: Corporate Strategy
- HOD 1700: Systematic Inquiry
- HOD 2700: Leadership in Theory and Practice
- HOD 2710: Challenges of Leadership
- HOD 2720: Advanced Organization Theory
- HOD 2730: Introduction to Human Resource
- HOD 2740: Human Resource Management
Minors may be combined with any departmental or interdisciplinary major; however, the minor in Managerial Studies must include 15 credit hours that are being counted solely toward the minor. Students electing a second minor in Managerial Studies must complete at least 12 credit hours counted solely toward the second minor.
