Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Administrative Office - San Francisco

415-422-2592

Program Director: Richard W. Stackman, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Director: Bonnie F. Shaw, M.A.

The Organizational Behavior and Leadership (OBL) major will prepare you to assume leadership roles that are essential to meet the challenges and uncertainty confronting today's organizations. The OBL program is structured to equip you with the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and tools you need to facilitate the performance of the organizations where you serve.

The curriculum focuses on the theoretical frameworks and practical applications for exploring and explaining human behavior in the workplace, providing a broad perspective so you can go beyond your accepted ways of interacting and working with others. Through classroom emphasis on critical thinking and independent judgment, you will learn to be an active investigator of organizational life while you develop the conceptual and problem-solving skills that an organizational leader needs to plan, organize, and lead a group or an entire organization.

The OBL program is offered in both 15- and 23-month formats. Please visit www.cps.usfca.edu/prospective/obl for detailed information.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Develop a fuller awareness and appreciation of self, others, society and the world through the Jesuit values of moral and ethical leadership, social justice, and service to others.
• Analyze and synthesize how cognitive, behavioral, and emotional outcomes contribute to the sustainability of organizations.
• Demonstrate competence in skills relevant to effective organizational behavior professionals
• Apply concurrently organizational behavior theory to practice in the classroom, organization, and society.
• Lead and work effectively with diverse individuals and groups through a broad, interdisciplinary liberal arts foundation.

Program Requirements

Students are required to complete the 37 semester units of credit included in the undergraduate Organizational Behavior and Leadership program. Computer access and proficiency, including use of the Internet, e-mail, and CD-Roms, are requirements for this program.

The following are required courses for the major:

• INTD - 307 Experience and Critical Writing
• INTD - 308 Advanced Expository Writing
• OB - 319 Foundations of Organizational Behavior
• OB - 336 Topics in Organizational Behavior
• OB - 335 Organizations in Context
• INTD - 300 The Critical Thinking Seminar
• OB - 351 Organizational Research and Analysis
• INTD - 304 Social Ethics
• OB - 321 Organizational Communication
• OB - 336 Topics in Organizational Behavior
• OB - 322 Organizational Leadership
• OB - 324 Group Process and Decision-Making
• OB - 323 Leading Change in Organizations
• OB - 336 Topics in Organizational Behavior
• OB - 361 Human Capital Investments

Please see Organizational Behavior and Leadership Course Descriptions.

Degree Requirements

• Complete 128 semester units of credit.
• Complete the Organizational Behavior and Leadership major requirements.
• Satisfy the Core Curriculum Requirements.
• Achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.