Organizational Leadership, BS

Departmental/Program Major Courses (33 credits)

“C” or higher required in all OLS courses

• OLS 25200 - Human Relations In Organizations
• OLS 27400 - Applied Leadership
• OLS 28400 - Leadership Principles
• OLS 34600 - Critical Thinking And Ethics
• OLS 37600 - Human Resource Issues
• OLS 38600 - Leadership For Organizational Change And Innovation
• OLS 38800 - Leadership Through Teams
• OLS 45000 - Project Management For Organizational And Human Resource Development
• OLS 47700 - Conflict Management
• OLS 48400 - Leadership Strategies For Quality And Productivity
• OLS Experiential Requirement ⁹ - Credit Hours: 3.00

Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (68 credits)

• Mathematics Foundation Selective ¹ (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core) (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 5.00
• Possible Second Mathematics Foundation Selective if needed ¹ (See Supplemental Information)
• Lab Science Foundation Selective ² (satisfies Science for core) (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Science Foundation Selective ³ (satisfies Science for core) (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Professional Specialization Selective ⁴ (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Professional Specialization Selective ⁴ (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Professional Specialization Selective ⁴ (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• TECH 12000 - Design Thinking In Technology (satisfies Science, Technology & Society and Information Literacy for core)
• TECH 32000 - Technology And The Organization
• TECH 33000 - Technology And The Global Society
• Written Communication Foundation Selective ⁵ (satisfies Written Communication for core) (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• English Selective ⁶ (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00

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• ENGL 42000 - Business Writing or
• ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing

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• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• Communication Selective ⁷ (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• CNIT 13600 - Personal Computing Technology And Applications
• IT 23000 - Industrial Supply Chain Management
• MGMT 20010 - Business Accounting

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• IT 34200 - Introduction To Statistical Quality or
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods

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• IT 45000 - Production Cost Analysis or
• MGMT 20100 - Management Accounting I

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• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics or
• AGEC 21700 - Economics

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• PSY 12000 - Elementary Psychology (satisfies Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science for core) or
• SOC 10000 - Introductory Sociology (satisfies Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science for core)

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• Humanities Foundation Selective ⁸ (satisfies Human Cultures Humanities for core) (See Supplemental Information) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Free (4 cr) and Technical Electives (15 cr)

Free ¹¹ (4 cr) and Technical Electives ¹⁰ (15 cr) (See Supplemental Information)

University Core Requirements

(http://www.purdue.edu/provost/initiatives/curriculum/course.html)

• Human Cultures Humanities

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• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science -  PSY 12000 - Elementary Psychology or
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science -  SOC 10000 - Introductory Sociology

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• Information Literacy -  TECH 12000 - Design Thinking In Technology
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology & Society Selective - 
  TECH 12000 - Design Thinking In Technology
    

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• Written Communication -  ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition or
• Written Communication -  ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition

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• Oral Communication -  COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

Program Requirements

Note

*Fulfills University Core

1) Students must earn a C or higher in all OLS courses.

2) 120 credits listed above are required for the OLS Bachelor of Science degree.

3) 2.0 Graduation GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.

4) 32 credits of upper division courses (30000 level or higher) must be taken at Purdue University, West Lafayette.

5) ANY COURSE TAKEN AT PURDUE CAN BE ATTEMPTED NO MORE THAN THREE TIMES (INCLUSIVE OF W, WF, I AND IF).

See below for all supplemental Information

Degree Requirements

The student is ultimately responsible for knowing and completing all degree requirements.

myPurdue Plan is knowledge source for specific requirements and completion

OLS Supplemental Information

All prerequisites must be met

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program.  For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor:

American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical. A Critical Course is one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.

Expired Course

Any course without a link to its description is one that has been expired.  However, this course could fulfill the degree requirement historically.