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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
    Aug 23, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog

Applied Leadership, BA


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In collaboration with the School of Business, the School of Graduate and Continuing Studies offers a BA in Applied Leadership. The program prepares adult learners who are seeking a degree-completion program to move into areas of greater responsibility and accountability in their organizations through an interdisciplinary curriculum that explores human behavior and its application to leadership. This curriculum is rooted in Christian virtues and practices and includes relevant theory and principles.

In addition to the requirements of the major, students also must satisfy the requirements of the degree-completion Core curriculum.

Core Requirements


FOUNDATIONS

Community and Commitments: 2 hours

Foundations of Christianity I: 4 hours

Foundations of Christianity II - at least 2 hours

  • Course listings for this category may be found here .  

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

Foundational Writing

OR

Health and Movement: 1 hour

  • PER 1XX

World Languages I: 3 hours

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Complete coursework totaling at least 18 semester hours from at least five of the six Knowledge and Understanding categories, including at least 2 semester hours from each of the following categories: Arts, Oral Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric; Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences. 

Course listings for each category may be found here .     


World Languages II: 0-4 hours
Arts, Oral Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric: 2-6 hours
Humanities: 2-6 hours
Mathematical Sciences: 0-4 hours
Natural Sciences: 0-6 hours
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 2-6 hours

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION

Engaged Citizenship Commitments
Complete at least one tagged course in all three areas. These courses may also satisfy other core requirements. The full list of approved courses may be found here .

  • Diversity and Difference
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Global Regions and Cultures

Contemporary Challenges and Enduring Questions: 4 hours

  • Course listings for each category may be found here .

Total Semester Hours: 36-44


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