Organizational Leadership focuses on leadership skills that can be applied to a business, government, nonprofit, or educational setting. Includes instruction in organizational planning, dynamics of leadership, finance, team building, conflict resolution and mediation, communication and other management skills. The Organizational Leadership, offered in collaboration with eMajor degree through eMajor includes two unique concentrations: Healthcare Administration and Public Service. eMajor is a University System of Georgia collaborative program that delivers flexible, online degree programs through USG affiliate institutions (https://emajor.usg.edu/). The goal of eMajor is to provide high quality online degrees that are designed to expand career options through development of critical thinking and leadership skills.
Curriculum
All concentrations require 42 to 46 semester hours in IMPACTS Area and Upper Level electives and 18 credit hours in Lower Level electives of the IMPACTS Curriculum.
Requirements for all Organizational Leadership Majors (18 credit hours)
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Hours |
| POLS 2201 | State & Local Government | |
| 1 | 15 |
| Leadership in a Global Society | |
| Profiles of Leaders | |
| Writing for Leadership | |
| Intro to Public Administration | |
| Ethics and Leadership | |
| Program & Pol Eval for Leaders | |
| Total Hours | 15 |
Public Service Concentration
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Hours |
| ORGL 2050 | Communications for the Wrkplce | 3 |
| ORGL 3400 | Technology for Organization | 3 |
| POLS 4218 | Proj Mgmt in the Public Sector | 3 |
| ENGL 3405 | Professional & Tech Writing | |
| POLS 4200 | Principles of Public Administr | |
| POLS 4219 | Public Human Resource Mgmt | |
| POLS 4204 | Public Finance | |
| ORGL 3200 | Intro to Organizational Devel | |
| ORGL 3000 | Reflective Seminar I: Learner | |
| ORGL 3050 | Reflective Seminar II: Context | 1 |
| ORGL 4000 | Reflective Seminar III: Self | 1 |
| ORGL 4690 | Organizati Leadership Capstone | 3 |
| |
| Organizational Internship | |
| Public Policy | |
| Administrative Law & Governmen | |
| Gov't Org & Admin Theory | |
| Interorganizational Behavior | |
| Advanced Communication Skills | |
| Management of Nonprofit | |
| Professional Ethics | |
| Grant Writing for Nonprofit | |
| Business and Public Management | |
| 18 |
Health Care Administration Concentration
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Hours |
| |
| Communications for the Wrkplce | |
| Technology for Organization | |
| Proj Mgmt in the Public Sector | |
| Professional & Tech Writing | |
| Principles of Public Administr | |
| Public Human Resource Mgmt | |
| Public Finance | |
| Intro to Organizational Devel | |
| Reflective Seminar I: Learner | |
| Reflective Seminar II: Context | |
| Reflective Seminar III: Self | |
| Organizati Leadership Capstone | |
| |
| Health Care Communication | |
| Designing Health Comm Messages | |
| Health Information Management | |
| Health Care Economics | |
| U S Health Care Systems | |
| Health Care Organizations | |
| 18 |
| 120-124 |