Bachelor's Degree
Organizational Leadership
The Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership prepares students to gain a solid theoretical and practical education in the principles of effective leadership. Students are provided with an education to facilitate and enhance their professional employability within their respective field of study or continue on to graduate study. The program emphasizes understanding leadership issues and applying the exercise of ethical leadership in complex social, culturally diverse, team and organizational settings.
You Will Learn to:
- Compare and justify the need for leadership and management concepts
- Explore and examine leadership roles
- Discuss the knowledge, methods, and techniques needed to develop and motivate followers, resolve conflict and disputes
- Examine and distinguish organizations as complex systems and the implications of workplace diversity, organizational change and corporate culture
- Select and apply techniques to continually improve an organization by using critical thinking, problem solving, and various research methods to support decisions
- Through service learning, students will synthesize and interpret the impact social responsibility plays on significant political and social issues
- Differentiate and compare principles of management, leadership, administration, and supervision
Emergency Operations Concentration
The concentration in Emergency Operations provides students an opportunity to explore and apply leadership concepts to various agencies' collaborative response to safeguarding communities. In addition, it works to show that public policy, organizational management and leadership drvie the response to these events.
Non-Profit Organizations Concentration
The concentration in Non-profit Organizations provides students insight into the strategies, framework and usefulness of these organizations. It examines the philanthropic philosophy of leadership of those seeking to transforming and improving life within the community.
Government Concentration
The concentration in Government allows students to explore and apply how the leadership process can influence the different levels of government and current structures. Students can further expand their knowledge on how policy is created through governmental leadership.
Graduate Success Rate
Based on our most recent One-Year Graduate Survey, 82.9% of Central Penn graduates were employed in their chosen field or continuing their education within one year of graduation.
Middle States Accreditation
Central Penn College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Ph: 267-284-5000). The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
Disclosure
This program was first offered in 2012. Due to the age of the program, information on graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the program and other important information is not available at this time.