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Liberal Studies in Management and Leadership

Through the Management and Leadership curriculum, Otterbein provides a balanced interdisciplinary education in management and leadership. You will gain invaluable skills and concepts in the functional areas of business and management: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and quality or operations management. You will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of and skills in public speaking, interpersonal communication, and interviewing. You will also learn theories and practicies of organizational communication and leardership. The major develops manager-leaders who understand business and who have learned how to enroll people in projects or organization-wide initiatives.

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 of Management
  • BADM 340: Business Finance
  • COMM 100: Fundamentals of Public Speaking
  • COMM 180: Interpersonal Communication
  • COMM 362: Leadership Concepts

Choose one course from:

  • BADM 310: Principles of Marketing
  • BADM 370: International Business and Economics

Choose one course from:

  • BADM 330: Operations Management
  • BADM 495: Quality Management

Choose one course from:

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

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