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Liberal Studies in Business Psychology

Learn to collect and analyze evidence to make management decisions and solve problems in the workplace. The Otterbein College Business Psychology major combines business, psychology, and communication and you will study personality, social psychology, and organizational psychology within a context of accounting, economics, and management.

You will connect psychology and communication, forming perspectives on organizational structures, interpersonal relationships, small group and team dynamics, forms of research, and organizational assessment. With an emphasis in the study of human thought, growth, and behavior, the business psychology major will prepare you in written and oral communication, research skills, creative problem solving and decision making, change management, quantitative analysis, leadership development, and team development.

Requirements in the Liberal Studies Core (45 credit hours)

  • COMM 361: The Emerging Leader
  • MATH 230: Statistics I
  • SYE - choose one Senior Year Experience course
  • INST 290: Economics and Society
  • INST 300: Composition and Literature: Dilemma of Existence
  • INST 380: Human Nature in Non-Western Religions and Philosophies

Choose one INST fine arts course from:

  • INST 310: Art Forms: Images and Ideas
  • INST 320: Music and Human Nature
  • INST 330: Theatre and Human Nature

Choose one INST science course from:

  • INST 340: Chemistry Affects Our Lives
  • INST 350: Biological Science: Being in Nature
  • INST 360: Energy, Science, and Society
  • INST 400: Earth Science and Humankind
  • INST 410: Our Place in the Universe

Choose one language and culture course from:

  • FREN 105: French Language and Culture
  • GERM 105: German Language and Culture
  • JAPN 105: Japanese Language and Culture
  • SPAN 105: Spanish Language and Culture

Requirements in the Major (45 credit hours)

  • ACCT 200: Financial Accounting
  • BADM 300: Principles in Management
  • BADM 320: Personnel and Human Resources Management
  • PSYC 220: Psychology of Personality
  • PSYC 225: Social Psychology
  • PSYC 290: Critical Thought and Analysis
  • PSYC 340: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • COMM 180: Interpersonal Comunication

Choose one course from:

  • COMM 285: Communication Skills for Organization
  • COMM 380: Organizational Communication

Center for Continuing Studies, One Otterbein College, Westerville, OH 43081, (614) 823-1356.
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