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Nov 21, 2024
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University Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Liberal Studies, Leadership and Sustainable Business Concentration, BA
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BA in Liberal Studies: Leadership and Sustainable Business
Location: AU Seattle
Credits for Degree: 180 quarter credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Classroom
Standard time to completion: 36 months
Program Overview
This concentration prepares students for work in fields such as management, organizational development, human resources, training, business, social entrepreneurship, sustainable systems design, public policy, community development, and leadership in areas from education to health care and social services. Students completing this concentration also acquire the necessary prerequisites for successful graduate study in these fields. Leadership & Sustainable Business engages students in reflective inquiry into the nature of dynamic leadership and resilient organizational life, with a particular emphasis on facilitating systemic and participatory change in a quickly evolving, interconnected and multicultural world. Studies in this area emphasize an ethic of social responsibility and entrepreneurial innovation driving business decisions and functions, along with concern for environmental sustainability and financial resilience within a just global economy.
Current Tuition and Fees
University Tuition and Fees
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Interdisciplinary Core Required Courses (20-28 quarter credits)
Possible coursework for concentration
- Far-From-Equilibrium: Systems Perspectives on Change
- Intersectional Coaching
- Narrating Change: Stories for Collective Action
- Triple Bottom Line Accounting & Financial Management
- Business Systems & Impacts
- Ethics in Professional Settings
Sample Community-Based Learning Experiences:
- Raising awareness about multicultural issues in one’s work team/division
- Doing market research for a café and bookstore
- Assist a family owned business develop a human resources program
- Internship based on a project management initiative at work
Sample Synthesis Projects:
- Developing and implementing a volunteer training workshop
- Lead a change initiative at one’s workplace
- Develop a business plan for a new environmental start-up
- Development of a sustainability transition plan for one’s company
- Development of a triple bottom line accounting system for a family business
- Analysis of toxic waste disposal practices in a local medical facility & drafting a proposed set of waste reduction recommendations
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