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Courses

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Nutrition Science
  

  • NUTR 49700 - Honors Research Project

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. The completion of the independent honors research project for CFS Honors Program students. Must have an approved Honors Project Proposal. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • NUTR 52000 - Medical Nutrition Therapy

    Credit Hours: 4.00. Application of nutrition principles in the dietary treatment of certain organic, functional, and metabolic diseases. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 53000 - Public Health Nutrition

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Assessment of nutritional needs of the community and the programs that service these needs. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 53400 - Human Sensory Systems And Food Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Overview of human chemosensory (taste, smell, chemesthetic) mechanisms and function, as well as procedural and statistical methods for evaluating the sensory responsiveness of people and the sensory properties of foods. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 53600 - Current Topics In Food Science

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical evaluation of recent literature in the field of food science. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 53800 - Readings In Nutrition

    Credit Hours: 1.00 or 2.00. Critical evaluation of the recent literature in the field of nutrition. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • NUTR 54000 - Food Regulations

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Federal, state, and international regulations pertaining to the quality, wholesomeness, nutrition, and safety of foods; discussion of current topics in food legislation. Typically offered spring semester of odd numbered years.
  

  • NUTR 59000 - Special Problems In Nutrition

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Individual problems dealing with various aspects of nutrition. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Summer Spring.
  

  • NUTR 59500 - Special Problems In Food Science

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Individual research problems dealing with various aspects of research in the food sciences. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
  

  • NUTR 60100 - Functions Of Nutrients: Vitamins

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Readings and discussion with emphasis on molecular aspects and biological functions of vitamins in human nutrition. Prerequisite: NUTR 43500; Corequisite: BCHM 56100 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 60200 - Functions Of Nutrients: Carbohydrates And Lipids

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates as related to human nutrition. Prerequisite: BCHM 56100 , NUTR 43500; Corequisite: BCHM 56200 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 60500 - Nutritional Biochemistry And Physiology I

    Credit Hours: 4.00. (ANSC 62500) Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients in humans and animals emphasizing interactions in bone and gut. Prerequisite: BCHM 30700 , BCHM 30900 , BIOL 20300 , BIOL 20400 , NUTR 31500 . . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 60600 - Nutritional Biochemistry And Physiology II

    Credit Hours: 2.00. (ANSC 62600 ) Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients in humans and animals emphasizing post-absorptive use of nutrients as sources of energy and for the synthesis of macromolecules. Offered weeks 1 - 8. Prerequisite: NUTR 60500 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 60700 - Nutritional Biochemistry And Physiology III

    Credit Hours: 2.00. (ANSC 62700 ) Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients in humans and animals, emphasizing lipid metabolism and transport in the context of cardiovascular function. Offered weeks 9 - 16. Prerequisite: NUTR 60600 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 60900 - Food Lipids

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. (FS 60900 ) Importance of lipids in the diet and food systems with emphasis on changes occurring during processing, preparation, and storage. Nomenclature, physical attributes, and oxidation of lipids as well as properties and characteristics of antioxidants will be major components of the course. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56100 ; Prerequisite: NUTR 45300  or FS 45300 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 61000 - Food Proteins

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (FS 61000 ) Chemical and physical properties, distribution and function, and alteration of proteins in food. Protein toxicology and nutritional quality. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56100  and (NUTR 45300  or FS 45300 ). Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 61100 - Food Toxicology

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Acute, chronic, and genetic toxicology of naturally occurring food substances and their absorption and distribution through the digestive tract, food carcinogens and their mode of action, intentional food additives, and incidental food additives; foodborne pathogenic bacteria, mechanisms of action; presence and significance of fungi, viruses, and parasites in foods; immunological aspects of foods; food-drug interactions; toxicological aspects of food processing. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56200 , NUTR 45300 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 61200 - Obesity: Behavior, Physiology And Policy

    Credit Hours: 2.00. The topics in this course provide a firm conceptual foundation for graduate students interested in issues related to obesity. Topics include issues ranging from molecular to policy: there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and critical thinking as it is a goal to integrate the sophisticated analyses of the physiological, nutritional, developmental, genetic, sensory, socio-economic, and experiential determinants of food and fluid intake. In addition, topics in this course such as health implications of obesity, epidemiology of obesity, endocrine, energy metabolism/integration, and neurochemistry will provide the opportunity for greater interdisciplinary collaborations. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 61500 - Mineral Metabolism

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Metabolic functions and bioavailability of minerals in human and animal systems. Should be preceded by BCHM 56100 /BCHM 56200 . Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 61600 - Special Topics In Ingestive Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (PSY 61401 ) Explore, in -depth, important and current issues in ingestive behavior: enhance critical thinking skill; and acquire professional skills (e.g., organizational, interpersonal) and develop rapport with scholars in the field. Typically offered in even ending years. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 61700 - Ingestive Behavior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.00. (PSY 61801 ) Fosters an exchange of ideas and promotes greater familiarity among individuals from different laboratories and departments with interests related to ingestive behavior, and gives students opportunities to build their communication skills and lead/mediate discussions at a high scholarly level. Typically offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 62200 - Human Nutrition And Atherosclerosis

    Credit Hours: 1.00. An in-depth examination of the role of nutrition in atherosclerosis. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: NUTR 60100 , NUTR 60200 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 62300 - Human Nutrition And Cancer

    Credit Hours: 1.00. An in-depth examination of the role of nutrition in cancer. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: NUTR 60100 , NUTR 60200 . Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 63000 - Carbohydrates

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (FS 63000 ) Carbohydrates with an emphasis on those of low molecular weight in foods. Structures, reactions, and properties of mono- and oligosaccharides. Introduction to polysaccharides and food gums. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in Organic Chemistry. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 63100 - Polysaccharide Structure And Function

    Credit Hours: 3.00. (FS 63100) Chemical structures, molecular structures, and physical properties of polysaccharides with methods for determining each, and relationships to practical applications. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56100 ; Prerequisite: NUTR 45300  or FS 45300 . Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 63400 - Nutrition And Cancer Prevention

    Credit Hours: 2.00. An in-depth examination of the role of nutrition in cancer prevention. Typically offered in the spring semester of alternate years.
  

  • NUTR 64000 - Human Feeding

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Critical review of the genetic, neural, metabolic, endocrine, sensory, cognitive, and cultural determinants of appetite, food selection, and energy balance. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: physiology, biochemistry. Masters student standing. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • NUTR 69000 - Interdepartmental Nutrition Program Grant Writing

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Fulfillment of grant writing requirements for graduate students enrolled in the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program. Prerequisite: Interdepartmental Nutrition Program graduate students status. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • NUTR 69400 - Introductory Foods And Nutrition Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Instruction and application of concepts for effective oral and written professional presentations in the field of nutrition science. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • NUTR 69500 - Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Provides graduate students an opportunity to further develop and strengthen their skills in organization, preparation, and presentation of scientific information relevant to nutrition and/or foods to an informed audience of students and faculty, as well as constructively evaluate their peers’ presentations. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • NUTR 69800 - Research MS Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
  

  • NUTR 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.

Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
  

  • OBHR 10100 - Introduction Career Development

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Introduction Career Development. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 23000 - Teamwork

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Coupled with an immersion in a team-learning environment, students will be exposed to topics and exercises relating to the nature of teams, team and member assessments, goal setting, communications and meetings, conflict and resolution, and feedback tools. Students will benefit by first-hand experience in an environment that stresses team performance while requiring and providing the students with the ability to enforce individual accountability. The course is designed so that attendance on the first day is mandatory to maintain enrollment in the class. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 29000 - Sophomore Level Problems In Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Arrange with instructor before enrolling. Investigation in a specific organizational behavior/human resource management field. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 30000 - Management Of Human Resources

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of theory and techniques used in human resource management within organizations. Emphasis is placed on legal concerns, human resource staffing and development, reward systems, and the role of unions in American society. Techniques studied include job analysis, the use of various recruitment and selection procedures, compensation, administration, and collective bargaining. No credit for students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 33000 - Introduction To Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and organizational structure have on behavior within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. Attention is given to such topics as motivation, leadership, group processes, organizational structure, technological innovation, and conflict management. Emphasis is placed on developing management skills and application of organizational behavior theories. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 39000 - Junior Level Problems In Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Arrange with instructor before enrolling. Investigation into a specific topic area of organizational behavior/human resource management. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 42800 - Human Resources Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of the techniques and practices used in human resource management. Emphasis is on legal requirements, cost/benefit considerations, and strategic needs in managing human resources. Topics include recruitment, selection and placement, compensation, work design, and reactions to work. Specific techniques reviewed include assessment centers, incentive plans, structured interviewing, and autonomous work groups. Current issues and managerial decision making are emphasized. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 42900 - Labor Relations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course focuses on employee-employer relations. Attention is given to topics in legal aspects of union organizing and collective bargaining, labor unions history and structure in the United States, labor management negotiations, dispute resolution procedures, international labor relations, and labor-management cooperation. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 43000 - Labor Relations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the role of unions in American society. Topics discussed include labor management relations, why workers join unions, dispute resolution, and cooperative labor-management programs. No credit for students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 43100 - Human Resources Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of the theory and techniques used in the administration of the personnel function in the modern enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the meaning of work in industrialized societies, motivation and leadership of employees, manpower planning and development, reward systems, the minority worker, and the development of managerial skills. Techniques studied include the use of assessment centers, selection tests, wage and salary administration, job analysis, and man-power forecasting. No credit for students in the School of Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 43200 - Manpower Resources

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Allocation of manpower resources in an industrialized economy with emphasis on public and private policy issues. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • OBHR 44000 - Social Response Of Business

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course surveys areas of social choice faced by organizations. Students have the opportunity to clarify their own positions regarding appropriate organizational responses to such social problems as pollution, civil rights, consumerism, individual privacy, and business-government relations. Teaching techniques include case discussions, films, guest speakers, and student presentations. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • OBHR 44100 - Introduction To Organizational Change And Development

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course orients the student to planned approaches to adaptation and change in organizations. It is based upon applied behavioral science research and concepts which address themselves to “real life” change problems; models of the change-process, change strategies, the change agent, the critical study of organizational change efforts. This course will aid the student in understanding the dynamics of organizational behavior. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 44200 - Introduction To Administrative Decision Making

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory course in organizational leadership which focuses on critical skills which a manager needs to work effectively with others. Topics covered include planning, interpersonal style, effective feedback, group decision making, and inter-group relations. The course will consist of both formal instruction and experiential learning. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • OBHR 47000 - The Management Of Advanced Manufacturing Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides a framework for effectively managing employees in advanced manufacturing organizations. Emphasis is given to (a) understanding the relationship between technology, work system design, employee behavior, and manufacturing effectiveness, and (b) the processes involved in initiating and implementing changes in management policies, products, and technologies. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 49000 - Problems In Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Supervised readings and reports in various subjects. Arrange with instructor before enrolling. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 56000 - Mentoring and Socialization

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Students learn about the employee socialization process through case studies, discussion, and presentations. In addition, students receive practical experience through participation in a mentoring program for new students. Class discussions and presentations evolve from students’ mentoring experiences, and guest speakers provide real-world perspective on new employee programs. The course helps students develop skills in mediation, leadership, conflict management, and communication. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • OBHR 59000 - Problems In Organizational Behavior And Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Advanced study and investigation in a field of organizational behavior and human resource management under the guidance of staff. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 60500 - Research Methods I

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to research methods. This seminar examines the use of research methods to develop empirical tests for theoretical and practical issues. It includes readings and discussions on the philosophy of science, reliability, validity, research design, threats to research, ethics, and other issues in research methodology. Students formulate hypotheses and an original research design to test their hypotheses. Typically offered Spring.
  

  • OBHR 60600 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. Independent empirical research in organizational behavior and human resource management, including the submission of a written report. Prerequisite: OBHR 60500 . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 63100 - Human Resource Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An overview of selected human resource activities/systems for the future human resource professional. Emphasis will be placed on building skills in areas that will provide a foundation for future coursework in human resources management. Topics covered include planning and forecasting human resource needs, job analysis, design and evaluation of training systems, design of performance appraisal systems, and safety and health in the workplace. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  

  • OBHR 63300 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 2.00 (West Lafayette) 3.00 (Calumet, North Central) Introduction to human resource management for general managers. Emphasis is on the impact of human resource components (e.g., staffing, rewards, labor relations) on the performance of the firm. Case analyses and computerized databases are used to illustrate major components of human resource decision making. Not open to students with credit in MGMT 63100 /OBHR 63100 . Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64000 - Industrial Relations I

    Credit Hours: 2.00. An in-depth examination of human resource management in the context of union-management relations. Emphasis is on understanding how and why unions form, the legal context, and changing competitive environment for labor management relations. Covers the dynamics of the collective bargaining process, including the determinants of bargaining power, preparation of labor contract demands, and negotiation tactics. The course culminates with an extended mock negotiation exercise. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64100 - Industrial Relations II

    Credit Hours: 2.00. An examination of union-management relations topics that build on material addressed in OBHR 64000 . Topics include causes of strikes, impasse resolution techniques, grievance and arbitration procedures, public sector labor relations, labor-management cooperation, and international labor-management relations. Emphasis is on how changes in the competitive environment have created the need for changes in the traditional union-management relationship. Films, cases, exercises, and guest speakers are utilized. Prerequisite: OBHR 64000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64200 - Compensation And Reward Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The first course in a two-course master’s-level sequence focusing on the use of rewards to achieve organizational objectives. Special emphasis is given to compensation as a particularly salient reward. Designed for HR professionals, the course examines the relationship between rewards and organizational characteristics to achieve effective reward practices. Lectures, discussions, case studies, and guest speakers are used to build competence in job evaluation, skill-based pay, and setting pay levels. Prerequisite: OBHR 63100  or OBHR 63300 , MGMT 67100  or STAT 51200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64300 - Compensation And Reward Systems II

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Continuation of OBHR 64200 . The second course in a two-course master’s-level sequence that focuses on the use of rewards to achieve organizational objectives. Included are the use of rewards to attract, retain, and motivate employee behaviors in cost effective methods. Includes pay for performance programs, employee benefits, job design, promotion, recognition, and other rewards. Lectures, discussions, case studies, and guest speakers are used to build professional competence in these areas. Prerequisite: OBHR 63100 , OBHR 64200  or OBHR 63300 , MGMT 67100  or STAT 51200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64400 - Staffing Tools

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Provides an in-depth analysis of the methods used in staffing and selection processes. Methods used to evaluate individuals as well as methods used to evaluate selection and promotion tools will be studied. Emphasis on the processes of designing, administering, revising, and evaluating selection programs that comply with government regulation as well as add value to the organization. This course is designed for the future HR professional. Concurrent Prerequisite: OBHR 63100  or OBHR 63300 , MGMT 67100  or STAT 51200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64500 - Staffing Systems

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Examines all aspects of the staffing process beginning with applicant recruitment and ending with termination and outplacement. Emphasis on building skills that the general manager will need to evaluate, design, and implement these activities. Designed for the future manager, as well as the future HR professional. Topics will be addressed from an individual perspective, as well as an organizational perspective. Prerequisite: OBHR 63100  or OBHR 63300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64600 - Human Resource Information Systems I

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Designed to gain an understanding of and appreciation for the use of information systems as a tool for managing human resources. The course will introduce and master, and then apply to HR problems, a set of topical hardware and software solutions. The class project, an HRIS consulting assignment with a major corporation, will commence. Prerequisite: OBHR 63100  or OBHR 63300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 64700 - Teams, Technology And Human Capital

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Human capital-people and their collective knowledge, skills and abilities-is the lifeblood of organizations. Today’s managers must be equipped to leverage technology effectively, which requires an understanding of how technology alters the social dynamics of work. Drawing on an interdisciplinary, socio-technical framework, this course develops an understanding of the interplay between information and communication technologies and human capital, and applies this knowledge to timely work topics, including change management, knowledge management, virtual and alternative work structures, ethics and fairness, distance leadership and control, security, privacy, and trust. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 65000 - International Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Explores the international dimensions of human resource management. Focuses on the human resource policies and practices that are adhered to in various regions of the world. The process of expatriating and repatriating managers to and from the U.S. is examined. International issues faced by a manager working for a multinational organization in the U.S. are studied. Prerequisite: OBHR 63100  or OBHR 63300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 66200 - Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Examines organizational leadership responsibilities, forms of leadership, the acquisition, use, and consequences of power, critical leader skills, and how corporate environments shape leadership. Emphasis on self-discovery and development of managerial leadership knowledge and skills. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 66900 - Negotiations In Organizations

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Decision making examines organizational context, stages, creativity, biases, and group processes. Negotiations examine strategies for preparing and conducting negotiations. The principal focus is on individual and interpersonal aspects of each. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 68100 - Managing Behavior In Organizations

    Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Individual and group behavior are the central components of the study of behavior in organizations. Focus is on the managerial application of knowledge to issues such as motivation, group processes, leadership, organizational design structure, and others. The course employs cases, exercises, discussions, and lectures. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 68300 - Individual Behavior In Organizations

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This seminar provides an analysis of theory and research on individual and group behavior in organizations. Readings and discussion focus on motivation, attitudes and job satisfaction, employee participation and turnover, stress, leadership, group processes, and other issues. Typically offered Fall.
  

  • OBHR 68400 - Research In Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Focuses on research methods, theories, and issues in HR management. A doctoral-level course designed for students interested in a research and teaching career in HR or organizational behavior. Objectives are to learn the primary theories and theoretical issues in each major area in HR, to learn the primary research methods and methodological issues, to attain a comprehensive reading list of the literature, to learn about publishing and the article review process, and to develop ideas for potential research projects. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OBHR 69000 - Advanced Problems In Organizational Behavior And Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 2.00 to 4.00. Advanced investigation in a specific organizational behavior or human resource field at the graduate level. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OBHR 69100 - Special Problems In Organizational Behavior And Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Advanced investigation in a specific management field at the graduate level. For students in the master’s programs in management who are registered in the master’s program summer session. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing and Management majors only. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
  

  • OBHR 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Organizational Leadership and Supervision
  

  • OLS 10000 - Introduction To Organizational Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1.00. Transitional course to orient the Organizational Leadership and Supervision freshman to the department and Purdue. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 25200 - Human Relations In Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the concepts that provide a foundation for the understanding of individual and group behavior in organizations. Special emphasis on typical interpersonal and leadership relationships. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 27400 - Applied Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to applied leadership in the context of organizational functions, structures, and operation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 28400 - Leadership Principles

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Mastery of the basic knowledge managers need to effectively lead individual employees. Includes primary measures of performance success, leadership strategies, core leadership actions, and a comprehensive theory that explains how the strategies and actions cause positive attitudes and increased performance. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 29900 - Organizational Leadership And Supervision

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Variable topics in organizational leadership. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 32500 - Meeting Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An applications-oriented course in presenting technical information and conducting problem-solving and decision making meetings. Special emphasis on leading and facilitating interactive meetings, as well as structuring information for effective presentations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 33100 - Occupational Safety And Health

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A presentation of the aspects of occupational safety and health that are essential to the organizational leaders. Special emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of the economic, legal, and social factors related to providing a safe and healthy work environment. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
  

  • OLS 34500 - Critical Thinking In Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on systems thinking and the understanding of research design and measurement theory used in solving organizational and human resource development problems. The emphasis is on applied methodology rather than on statistical issues, with the intent of the student becoming an effective consumer of information. The students will learn how to report findings in a practical and influential manner. Includes the importance of knowledge management issues in organizations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 34600 - Critical Thinking And Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A course in complex problem solving and creative thinking with an emphasis on the ethical impacts of these solutions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 35000 - Creativity In Business And Industry

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the ways an individual can become more creative and how they can develop an environment which encourages creativity from employees. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 35100 - Innovation And Entrepreneurship

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An in-depth study of innovation in existing organizations, as well as entrepreneurship in start-up businesses, franchises, family-owned firms, and other business formats. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 36200 - Cooperative Education Program

    Credit Hours: 2.00. Supervised work experience directed toward professional development in supervisory or related leadership positions. Rotational work-study periods planned and coordinated by department staff in conjunction with the student and the employing organization. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 36400 - Professional Development Program

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey course covering many professional and personal facets relative to entering the work force upon graduation. Major areas addressed include resume preparation, interviewing techniques, development of job-search plans, social skills, and analysis of career fields and opportunities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 37500 - Training Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles, practices, and methods of employee training. Introduction to systematic training program design, development, and evaluation. Emphasis is on the supervisor as a trainer. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 37600 - Human Resource Issues

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis and discussion of case problems concerning typical leadership and personnel situations that impact upon the supervisor/manager. Emphasis directed toward development of attitude, philosophy, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills within the working environment. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 37800 - Labor And Management Relations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to, and overview of, the fundamental concepts of labor relations, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution procedures. An international comparative analysis is used to assess some of the legal, economic, and political structures of labor relations. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 38400 - Leadership Process

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An in-depth study of a sequence of manager actions that influence employees to achieve desired performance results. How these manager actions are transformed by employees into desired performance is also covered. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 38600 - Leadership For Organizational Change And Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to and overview of fundamental concepts of leading organizational change and innovation. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 38800 - Leadership Through Teams

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The group process, team development and exploration of dynamics that impact group and team performance. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 39900 - Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. Hours and subject matter to be arranged by staff. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  

  • OLS 44000 - Leading With Integrity

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An investigation of ethical problems in business practice. Topics include personal morality in profit-oriented enterprise; codes of ethics; obligations to employees and other stakeholders; truth in advertising; whistle-blowing and company loyalty; regulation, self and government; the logic and future of capitalism. Emphasis on business law and legal impacts on ethical decision making. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 45000 - Project Management For Organizational And Human Resource Development

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to project management concepts and practices in the context of human resource development projects. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 45400 - Gender And Diversity In Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. The work force of the future will represent multiple differences including gender, race, culture, ethnicity, physical abilities, and age. Following this broad-based perspective of diversity, this course will focus on using knowledge of diversity to develop the leadership potential of individuals in organizations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 45600 - Leadership In A Global Environment

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Exploration of leadership strategies for organizations engaged in international business. Includes understanding of cultural differences and diverse business practices, and challenges of competing in a global marketplace. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 46700 - Service Learning

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Service learning is a reflective experience in which students are actively engaged in the community and integrate that experience into the classroom. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 47400 - Conference Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Understanding the role of facilitating group discussion in business and industry conferences. Special emphasis on developing group facilitation skills. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 47600 - Compensation Planning And Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. Planning and implementation of a total compensation system, including job analysis, job evaluation, salary survey and analysis, benefits and development of a structured pay system. Includes behavioral implications and legal compliance issues. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 47700 - Conflict Management

    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the methods for dealing with innerpersonal, interpersonal, and political disputes by means generally outside the traditional court system. Students will investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of conflict assessment, negotiation, problem solving, mediation, and arbitration. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  

  • OLS 47900 - Staffing Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3.00. An applications-oriented study of key concepts in staffing organizations, including principles and issues in conducting job analysis; preparing job descriptions/specifications; and screening/selecting employees. Special emphasis on the design, validation, and operation of high-volume staffing systems. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
 

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