Curriculum
Business Leadership program courses are offered in an accelerated cohort — in two years, students complete a prescribed schedule of courses that meet Saturday mornings and afternoons combined with instructor-facilitated online sessions and collaborative work with their classmates. In the second year, online courses are added to accelerate progress toward the degree. Students will earn three milestones during their Business Leadership program coursework.
The program curriculum for each year of the program is outlined below.
Year One
The first year of the program provides the foundation for the study of organization behavior through prerequisite courses and discussion of basic concepts, including business writing, leadership, theories of organization behavior and communication, conflict resolution, statistics, and social psychology. After completing spring quarter coursework, students will earn their first milestone in the program. During the first year, students also complete two half-credit proseminar courses, which will meet during the lunch break between the Saturday morning and afternoon classes and feature guest speakers, career development, and leadership coaching with faculty.
FALL QUARTER (5- or 10-week sessions)
- ENGLISH 205 Writing Seminar: Business Communication
- ORG BEH 307 Leadership Principles and Practice
- ORG BEH 398-A Proseminar in Business Leadership I (0.5 units) (first 5-week session)
- ORG BEH 398-B Proseminar in Business Leadership II (0.5 units) (second 5-week session)
WINTER QUARTER (10 weeks)
- ORG BEH 301 Organization Behavior [CANCELLED AS OF 12/22/2022]. Please instead register for SOCIOL 302-CN: Sociology of Organizations. This is another required course in the BLP program. It is running at the same time and location as the canceled Organization Behavior 301-CN.
- ORG BEH 311 Conflict Resolution
SPRING QUARTER (10 weeks)
- COMM ST 360 Theories of Organizational Communication
- STAT 202 Introduction to Statistics
- COMM ST 205-DL Theories of Persuasion (online course)
SUMMER SESSION (10 weeks)
- ORG BEH 310 Organizational Change (10 weeks)
- PSYCH 213 Social Psychology (first 5 weeks; course was formerly PSYCH 204)
- COMM ST 250-DL Team Leadership and Decision Making (last 5 weeks; online course)
Year Two
Year two builds on the foundational courses to provide advanced study in areas such as advanced communication, the sociology of organizations, as well as introductory courses in accounting, finance, and research methods. Students earn their second and third program milestones during their final year of the cohort.
FALL QUARTER (5- or 10-week sessions)
- COMM ST 395-DL Topics in Communication Studies: Digital Media and Society (online course)
- SOCIOL 226 Sociological Analysis
- CIS 350-DL Strategic Information Systems (online course)
WINTER QUARTER (10 weeks)
- ACCOUNT 201-DL Introduction to Financial Accounting (online course)
- ENGLISH 385-DL Topics in Combined Studies: Literature and Leadership (online course)
- SOCIOL 302 Sociology of Organizations
SPRING QUARTER (10 weeks)
- FINANCE 202-DL Introduction to Finance (online course)
- PHIL 364-DL Business and Professional Ethics (online course)
- ORG BEH 391-DL Topics in Management: Global Leadership (online course)
SUMMER SESSION (10 weeks)
- ORG BEH 395 Practicum
- ORG BEH 367-DL Strategic Planning and Management (online course)
- MKTG 201-DL Principles of Marketing (online course)