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Sep 23, 2024
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Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Organizational Leadership, B.S.
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120 Credit Hours
Available to PBA Online students only
The Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership (ORL) program provides adult learners an opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in leadership theory and practice. The overall goal of the Organizational Leadership program is to offer a quality, flexible degree completion curriculum that:
- Affirms Christian values and beliefs;
- Equips students to utilize leadership, professional development, and human relations principles;
- Develops students’ written and oral communication skills;
- Instills a commitment to be critically reflective, self-directed, life-long learners;
- Promotes an appreciation of the multicultural environment in which students live and work;
- Helps students better adapt to technological and cultural change; and
- Empowers students to work effectively as individuals and as team members.
Program Structure
The required curriculum for the Organizational Leadership major is composed of three-credit hour courses normally offered during eight-week subterms. As an accelerated program, it is designed so that full-time students can complete 30 credits each academic year: 12 credits each fall, 12 credits each spring, and 6 credits each summer.
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Program Learning Outcomes
“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.
1. Students will experience a positive life transformation during their time in the ORL program that prepares them to taking on organizational management or leadership positions.
2. Students will become practiced in the conventions of Standard Written English, including proficiency in grammar, mechanics, and syntax, and demonstrate proficiency in applying them to common forms of business documentation and their formatting. In addition, students will be able to use critical thinking to determine audience expectations, as well as recognize the purpose and basic requirements of various rhetorical situations before beginning to write.
3. Students will identify, clarify, and develop their personal leadership style.
4. Students will be able to interpret financial statements to select the healthier of two competing firms.
5. Students will be able to demonstrate competency in discussing the advantages and disadvantages of individual versus group decision-making.
Graduation Requirements
Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined here.
NOTE: Students must earn 42 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.
Major in Organizational Leadership Curriculum Requirements
Required ORL Major Courses - 39 Credit Hours
Additional Required Credit Hours - 36-39 Credit Hours
These additional hours may be fulfilled by a minor, second major, general electives taken concurrently, previous coursework taken at PBA, or through transfer credits. Up to 29 credits are possible through Professional Education Credits. See Academic Policies for information on PECs.
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