Evening Options

B.A. Degree Concentration in Organizational Leadership
Like their adult counterparts in Day programs, students in the Evening program may study
part-time or full-time and may mix Evening and Day courses in whatever combination they
wish. Those studying full-time--carrying 12 credits or more in a semester--automatically
qualify for the Ohio Student Choice Grant of $330 per semester. (Among the exceptions:
students already holding a Bachelor's degee and those who had been enrolled full-time prior
to July 1984.) OSCG is not based on financial need; it is given only to Ohio residents
attending private colleges. See the Money section for details.

In the Organizational Leadership program you'll learn a vision-driven approach to the
leadership of people in organizational settings, both profit and non-profit. We concentrate on
the skills that all leader/managers need: critical thinking--incorporating your adult experiences,
and communication skills---with continuous practice in writing and small-group speaking.
You'll experience the principle outcome of the program in the concluding Senior Leadership
Seminar. In this course you'll produce a semester-long research report on a workplace or
community issue of your own choosing. After receiving suggestions from your classmates and
professor, you will then refine the report into an Executive Briefing, an oral presentation
supported by PowerPoint visuals, to an invited audience of faculty, workplace associates, and
acquaintances. This is the kind of presentation you'll need to make in your career for team or
department meetings, community board meetings and larger gatherings. We will provide you a
comprehensive evaluation of content and delivery as a baseline for continuous improvement
after graduation.

Having started at the conclusion of the program, let's go back to the beginning. Here are the
course requirements. Credits are semester credits; 1 semester credit = 1.5 quarter credits.

General Education ............................................53 credits
Click here for the listing of the learning goals that all Wittenberg students meet.

Major and related requirements..........................36 credits

		Credits
SCED 200L	Liberal Studies Colloquium............	4
MGT 225	Financial Accounting......................	4
MGT 260S	Organizational Behavior................	4
MGT 360S	Human Resource Management.......	4
COMM 224	Group Dynamics...........................	4
SCED 300	Issues Elective topic.....................	4
SCED 300	Issues Elective topic.....................	4
SCED 340	Reading in Leadership...................	4
________	Related Elective............................	4
SCED 400	Senior Leadership Seminar............	4

Related courses (applying as General Education):

Psychology or Sociology..........................................	[4]
ECON 190S-Principles of Economics.........................	[4]
Free Electives: courses of the student's choice, including transfer credits not applying to GeneralEducation or the major.	41 Credits
TOTAL DEGREE REQUIREMENT	130 CREDITS

FEATURES OF THE CONCENTRATION:

SCED 200L-Liberal Studies Colloquium In this introduction to the program you encounter a
big idea and learn how to understand its complexities and appreciate them in "the Wittenberg
way." In the process, your professor will help you to review and reinforce your skills in
writing, speaking, and research. Recent topics include American Democracy: Problems and Prospects,
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath (study of the social effects of Hurricane Katrina) and Individualism
and Community in American Public Life.

Management Core Through these courses you will learn to assess and develop your personal
leadership skills and their application to the various functions of an organization. You will
learn the organizational principles and techniques that enable people to achieve at their highest
level. You will also discuss some of the problems hindering that achievement, including
structures improperly aligned with an organization's goals. A special focus is the human
resources area: you will consider the best practices of finding, hiring, training, and motivating
people to achieve goals, and you'll become familiar with the requirements and techniques that
characterize a first-rate human resources operation.

Through our Issues Electives you can also explore topics of particular interest to you. These
have included Team Leadership, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, Organizational
Development, Training and Development Principles, Employment Law, and Writing Effective
Proposals.

Of course, no organization operates without financial resources. We'll show you how to
manage this essential element and how to relate it to organizational goals.

Communication This is the hallmark of our program--a person who can conceive solutions
and new directions and who can also persuade others to put them into action. Our formal
course in Group Dynamics provides a foundation--but the process extends far beyond a single
course. We promote ongoing development in writing, speaking, and listening throughout the
entire degree program.

Leadership Focus Our Readings in Leadership course presents the challenge of moving
beyond the management of processes into the role of leading people toward strategic goals.
Aided by models of successful leaders, you will engage in a self-examination of your current
leadership skills and the development of a more dynamic, future-oriented concept of yourself
and the organizations in which you participate. This process is not an academic abstraction but
a real look into the mirror: you will assess your current skills, explore concepts of effective
leadership in real situations, and implement a plan for improving your skills.

Senior Project See above concerning our Seminar/Executive Briefing capstone experience. As
a graduate of our program, you should have a clear understanding of a strategic vs. a task view
and a mature sense of what it takes to initiate strategic change. You should have the
confidence and skills to make a properly researched report, supported by clarifying visuals, to
any group you're likely to encounter in the workplace or in your professional and community
life. Our program is your path from the cubicle to the front of the room!

Here's a sampling of recent topics that our students have presented:

Using Activity-Based Accounting To Increase Efficiency in Manufacturing
Efficient and Legally Compliant Archiving for the Clark County Commissioners
Stemming Turnover in a High-Stress Background Check Operation
Assessing the True Cost of Emergency Medical Services in a Fire Department
Physician Recruitment in an Environment of Shortage in Specialties
Transforming Waste in a Machining Process into Increased Profit
Establishing a Volunteer Component for a County Emergency Management System
Introducing Sexual Harassment Policies into the Church Setting
Positioning the Customer at the Center of Wittenberg Enrollment Management Practice

@witt@home: Our Distinctive Delivery Format This "blended learning" mode of instruction
combines classroom meetings and interactive online components, using the Moodle platform,
that you complete on your own schedule. Classes meet for about half the frequency of
traditional classroom courses. As we said, the online components are highly interactive, requiring
regular postings to your instructors and classmates--and closely integrated with the
classroom meetings. We have found that this mode provides the level of convenience that our
hyper-busy adults need for effective learning while maintaining the face-to-face experience that
typifies the Wittenberg approach. With rare exceptions, all courses in the major concentration
use the @witt@home format; several of the General Education courses do so as well.

A Word about Computer Skills Merely by engaging in the @witt@home process (yes, we
provide gentle instruction to new students) you'll gain facility in this important area. We will
also teach you PowerPoint--and our Oral Communication Center provides out-of-class support
for those who need it. For other common applications, many of our students choose as their
General Education Mathematics course COMP121Q-Computing for the Liberal Arts and
Sciences. COMP 121Q takes you through such common applications as word processing,
spreadsheets, and database development and introduces you to programming so that you'll
have a basic understanding of how the systems you use are constructed.

As for computing facilities, Wittenberg is lavish in its attention to student needs. Our largest
student lab hosts 75 pc's and supporting equipment 24/7, and you'll find other labs throughout
the campus. Click Computing Services to see the array of equipment and services that the
University provides and the procedures for student access to them.


EVENING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

For adults with short-term goals, we offer 16-credit Certificate programs that you can complete
in a single year. All credits from these programs apply to the Organizational Leadership
concentration as well, so that the Certificate can be either a stand-alone experience-e.g., for a
student who already holds a degree-or a step on the way to the degree. We offer the
following Certificates:

Human Resources Management
Leadership Presentation Skills
Organizational Leadership

To earn a Certificate, you must take at least 12 of the 16 credits at Wittenberg. Here are the
requirements of each program. Issues topics must be approved by the Director as appropriate
for each program.

Human Resources Management:

Financial Accounting or Leadership topic--4
Organizational Behavior--4
Human Resource Management--4
Issues Elective topic--2
Issues Elective topic--2

Leadership Presentation Skills:

Public Speaking or Group Dynamics--4
Readings in Leadership--4
Issues Elective topic--2
Issues Elective topic--2
Issues Elective topic--2
Topic: Presentation As a Leadership Skill--2

Prerequisite to the program: ENGL 101E: Expository Writing--4

Organizational Leadership:

Management Core course--4
Dynamics of Organizational Leadership--4
Related Elective--4
Issues Elective topic--2
Issues Elective topic--2

Upon completion of your program with a GPA of 2.0 or higher, you will receive a certificate
signed by the Dean of SCE and the Director of Adult Leadership Programs.