Bachelor of Arts in Leadership and Professional Studies with a Concentration in Human Resources online

This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to leadership by focusing on what it means to be an effective leader. It provides a broad understanding of the history of leadership, theoretical approaches to leadership, and ethical and practical issues facing contemporary leaders. The course will examine topics such as: understanding the relationship between leadership, culture, and diversity; recognizing leadership traits; engaging people’s strengths; building effective and inclusive teams; developing leadership skills in self and others; establishing a constructive climate; initiating and adjusting to change; and, negotiating conflict. Course participants will assess their leadership traits and skills as well as identify means to improve their own leadership performance.

Leadership skills are increasingly demanded of individuals to lead or transform organizations and communities. This course enables participants to define their own learning goals and apply them to leadership approaches, management, team building, decision–making, communication, financial and technological skills, cultural competency, and ethics in the workplace or on community engagement projects. Critical & transformative models of power, politics, and leadership that attend to difference and diversity in an interconnected world will be highlighted. Through the development and execution of a leadership project this course provides learners with a clinical leadership experience in the workplace, allowing students to apply knowledge, understand leadership in the context of their workplace, and build professional behaviors.

This course is designed to enable students to reflect upon, critique, appraise and synthesize the core experience, knowledge and skills gained in the LPS program. Students will complete and finalize their e-portfolio for the program which will demonstrate their critical perspectives, portable skills, and domain knowledge of leadership. Class projects and activities will enhance career-related skills (such as interviewing techniques, oral presentation, and the ability to state and develop one’s leadership philosophy) and assess the student’s ability to apply their leadership experience, concepts, and theories to create practical, effective, strategic, ethical, and socially just outcomes for various contexts (organizations, communities, workgroups, governance).

Introduction to AI: Applications, Tools, and Social Impact is a course designed to equip students with foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills regarding artificial intelligence (AI). This course will cover the basics of AI technology, its application across various fields, and the ethical considerations it raises. Through the interactive course, students will explore how AI influences daily life, from personalized learning tools to its impact on privacy and data security. By engaging with case studies and current discussions in the field, students will be encouraged to think critically about the integration of AI in educational settings and beyond. UCC Area I (Digital Literacies) Course Objectives: Explore and utilize digital technologies while developing essential skills for ethical and accurate use.

This course studies the development of statistical concepts with applications to various disciplines. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The latter are explained in terms of concepts from probability theory such as normal distribution, t-distribution, sampling theory, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, t-test, Chi square test, analysis of variance and regression and correlation. The software package SPSS is used to perform statistical analysis. Emphasis is on understanding the concepts and problem-solving using modern technology.

Introductory course in the fundamental principles of accounting, the theory of debit and credit, account classification, preparation of working papers, adjusting, closing, reversing entries, and preparation of basic financial statements. Use of spreadsheet and word processing computer applications.

This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.

Designed to acquaint students with the laws of contracts. Examines concepts such as offer, acceptance, consideration, competent parties, legal subject matter, assignments, and third party beneficiaries. Scrutinizes defenses such as statute of fraud, infancy, insanity, and parole evidence.

Introduces basic principles, policies, problems, and successful methods of business organization and management. Emphasizes management’s ability to analyze, plan, coordinate, and control the varied activities of production, personnel, finance, and marketing. Also examines social responsibility and environmental factors affecting business policy and operation.

Introduces basic principles, policies, problems, and successful methods of business organization and management. Emnphasizes management’s ability to analyze, plan, coordinate, and control the varied activities of production, personnel, finance, and marketing. Also examines social responsibility and environmental factors affecting business policy and operation.

This course introduces students to the theories and practices of human capital management, specifically emphasizing the role human resources plays as a strategic partner in supporting, upholding, and delivering a business entities mission and values. Students will develop and apply the critical thinking skills necessary to integrate the myriad of moving parts involved in the human capital planning process by applying them to real life business situations designed to move a company forward. Some sections of this course are writing intensive.

This course is an overview of information systems at different levels of an organization. It addresses current technology, its impact on organizations, and its management. The evolving role of information systems and related technology within a business organization is also studied. The learning process is enhanced by means of critically studying and analyzing, with the support of information technologies and real business cases.

Builds upon the base knowledge and understanding of the principles, policies, practices, and challenges relating to strategy driven human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, performance management and appraisal, compensation, benefits, employee and industrial relations, safety, and career development of an organization’s human resources as learned in MGT 3150.  This course, however, is taught from the point of view of the HR professional and offers an in-depth look at how human resource professionals function across the various roles int he HR department to partner with the C-level to create and maintain an effective, efficient and robust organization