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OLS Term Calendar: Three Sessions per Year
- Spring 2025 | Jan 21—May 4, 2025
- Summer 2025 | May 12—Aug 24, 2025
- Fall 2025 | Sep 2—Dec 21, 2025
If you are an Organizational Leadership admitted student, contact your program advisor for permission numbers to take classes.
If you are not yet an admitted student, you can still take classes!
Contact orgleadership@csudh.edu or 310-243-3646. To register for a class, call 310-243-3741 (Option 1) or login to my.csudh.edu.
Spring 2025 Schedule
| Course | Title | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLS 300.55 | Ethos Liberal Arts & Role of Work | Examines the relationship between liberal arts and sciences education and the competencies required to function effectively in social and occupational settings. Readings and assignments emphasize integration and application of skills, knowledge, perspectives, and values acquired through liberal arts and sciences. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| OLS 490.55 | Seminar in Occupational Leadership | Required of all applied studies majors. Interdisciplinary analysis of leadership in selected occupational areas. Creation and presentation of student portfolios demonstrating occupational accomplishment. Three hours of seminar per week. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| POL 335.55 | International Politics | Introduction to international relations. Students will learn theories, concepts, principles, and practices of international politics. Topics include war/peace, international political economy, and international institutions. Global issues such as terrorism, human rights, the environment, and global health will also be examined. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| PUB 315.55 | Labor Management Relations in Government | Developments in public employee unionization, collective bargaining laws and strategies, bargaining as a technical and political process, strikes and impasse machineries, employee organizations and public policy, administrative implication of public service unionism. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| MGT 312.55 | Organizational Behavior | Causes and consequences of individual and group behavior in business, organizational communications, interpersonal relations, and conflict resolution; cases and role-playing. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| COM 372.55 | Crisis Communication | An introduction to crisis communication theory and application. The course will cover crisis communication theory, crisis management strategies, and various case studies. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| THE 320.55 | Speech Skills & Techniques | Effective and persuasive oral communication in a variety of situations: formal address, group discussion interviews, chairing of meetings, and others. Of particular value for Liberal Studies majors, managers, and businesspersons. | 1/21/2025—5/4/2025 |
| ENG 350.55 | Advanced Composition | Continued study of writing processes and rhetorical communication, with emphasis on literacy within and across disciplinary contexts and how to negotiate the attitudes and conventions of various discourse communities. May not be counted toward major/minor in English.Satisfies Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). Graded A-C/NC. | 1/21/2025—5/10/2025 |
| HIS 376.55 | Film as History | The historical analysis of films as manuscripts and source materials for social and intellectual thought in the twentieth century. Emphasis to vary from semester to semester, for example: Film as History: The Great Depression; or Film as History: Latin America. | 1/21/2025—5/10/2025 |
Summer 2025 Schedule
*ENG 350 will meet the GWAR requirement, and HIS 376.55 will meet both OLS major course requirements and Upper Division Humanities.
| Course | Title | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANT 346.55 | Anthropology of Work | Examination of the significance of work in contemporary societies. Cross-cultural comparisons of workers' life styles. Impact of changing cultural conditions on work patterns. | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 |
| COM 358.55 | Communications Graphics | Learning methods for producing various forms of visual communications, including fliers, informational graphics and logos, newsletters, magazines, and newspapers, in correlation with desktop publishing, page design, typography selection, copyfitting, photo sizing, and cropping. Two hours of lecture, two hours activity per week. | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 |
| HRM 316.55 | Labor and Industrial Relations | The Labor/Management process in private sector organizations; development of employee organizations; collective bargaining; contract administration; labor law, labor economics; role of the NLRB and the FMCS; case analysis and role-playing. | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 |
| HIS 348.55 | Labor in American Society | The role of labor in the political, economic, and social life of the U.S., including the growth of organized labor, rival ideologies, legal decisions, and contributions of various ethnic groups, from the colonial period to the present. | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 |
| COM 300.55 | Organizational Communication | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 | |
| PUB 300.55 | Foundations of Public Administration | Analysis of the role of public administration within the American political system and of the concordant functions and responsibilities of public sector administrators; discussion of administrative ethics; overview of public sector administrative and managerial processes. | 5/12/2025—8/24/2025 |
Fall 2025 Schedule
| Course | Title | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLS 300.55 | Ethos of the Liberal Arts and the Role of Work | Examines the relationship between liberal arts and sciences education and the competencies required to function effectively in social and occupational settings. Readings and assignments emphasize integration and application of skills, knowledge, perspectives, and values acquired through liberal arts and sciences. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| OLS 490.55 | Seminar in Occupational Leadership | Required of all applied studies majors. Interdisciplinary analysis of leadership in selected occupational areas. Creation and presentation of student portfolios demonstrating occupational accomplishment. Three hours of seminar per week. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| MGT 416.55 | Leadership | An in-depth analysis of theories and practice of leadership. Course is designed to give the student an understanding of the leadership skills, styles, and behavior in a variety of managerial roles. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| ENG 352.55 | Writing and Speaking Skills for Management | Principles and skills of effective communication within organizational management. This course concentrates on eliciting desired responses through various types of business communication in writing. May be counted only once toward major/minor and twice for elective credit. Graded A-C/NC. Repeatable course. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| SOC 315.55 | Sociology of Work | Sociological analysis of work in industrial society. Examination of the labor force, industrial organization, occupational roles, and careers. Consideration of impact of technological change. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| PUB 307.55 | Public Sector Ethics | Introduction to government ethics, providing opportunities to develop ethical competence for careers in government and serves as a foundation for further study of government ethics. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
| COM 365.55 | Introduction to Public Relations | Public relations practices and principles as applied to government, education and industry. | 9/2/2025—12/21/2025 |
* Schedule subject to change | Updated 1/21/2025
Spring 2025 Textbooks
OLS 300.55 • Prof. Todd Bush
- 21st Century Ethical Toolbox by Weston. ISBN: 9780195309676. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Copyright Year: 2008.
- Whole New Mind by Pink. ISBN: 9781594481710. Publisher: Riverhead Trade. Copyright Year: 2006.
OLS 490.55 • Prof. Todd Bush
- World Is Flat (Upd & Exp Rel 3.0) by Friedman. ISBN: 9780312425074. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Copyright Year: 2007.
- Good to Great by Collins. ISBN: 9780066620992. Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers. Copyright Year: 2001.
- Strengths Finder 2.0 (w/Access Code). ISBN: 9781595620156. Author: Clifton. Publisher: Gallup Press. Formats: BryteWave Format. Copyright Year: 2007.
- Designing Your Life by Burnett. ISBN: 9781101875322. Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright Year: 2016.
POL 335.55 • Prof. Hyo Joon Chang
No bookstore supplied material. See your instructor for any custom material.
PUB 315.55 • Prof. Aretha Costley
DO NOT PURCHASE: Materials will be provided digitally to all enrolled students through Canvas and will be billed on your myCSUDH Portal account. See faculty for more details.
MGT 312.55 • Prof. Lei Lai
- Organizational Behavior (18th Ed.) by Robbins. ISBN: 9780134729329. Publisher: Pearson. Copyright Year: 2019.
COM 372.55 • Prof. Jennifer Peters
- Mimic Crisis Communications. ISBN: 978-1-956963-34-2. $69.99. https://join.stukent.com/join/26A-A31
THE 320.55 • Prof. Shaunte Caraballo
No books required for this course.
ENG 350.041 • Prof. Frank Pisano
DO NOT PURCHASE: Materials will be provided digitally to all enrolled students through BryteWave/Redshelf.com and will be billed on your myCSUDH Portal account. See faculty for more details.
HIS 376.55 • Prof. Reza Yeganehshakib
No books required for this course.