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 Beginning in the fall, students will now be offered
majors in Organizational Leadership and in Liberal Arts, in addition
to the 10 majors already available in Lincoln.
“As part of our ongoing effort to return to our roots as a four-year
degree granting university, I am very pleased to announce that
Lincoln College will be bringing two new bachelor’s degree options
to our Lincoln campus,” Lincoln College President David Gerlach
said.
Gerlach explained that both degrees have been offered at the
College’s Normal campus through its Accelerated Bridge to Education
(ABE) program for nontraditional students, but will now be offered
to traditional four-year students on the Lincoln campus as well.
Lincoln College will continue to offer both degrees through its ABE
program as well.
With the additional degree offerings, students on the Lincoln campus
will be able to pursue bachelor’s degrees in:
• Business Management;
• Community and Human Services;
• Conservation Biology;
• Contemporary Jazz Studies;
• Criminal Justice;
• Exercise Science;
• Liberal Arts;
• Organizational Leadership;
• Radio, Television and New Media;
• Sport Management;
• Theatre; and
• Vocal Performance
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“Both of these degrees have been very popular in our ABE program
and we saw that we could help meet the demand for these programs by offering
them to traditional students at the Lincoln campus as well,” Gerlach explained.
“The nice thing about both of these programs is that they prepare students for
careers in a broad range of fields, which will complement some of our more
specialized degrees and give incoming students a good mix to choose from.”
Students in the Liberal Arts degree program will take a core
curriculum consisting of nine credit hours each in communications, humanities
and social sciences, coupled with six credit hours each in the areas of critical
reasoning and analytical methods and science, technology and environment. They
will also complete six hours of senior coursework, including a capstone seminar
and either a senior research project or a senior internship.
Students majoring in organizational leadership will take 12 hours of foundation
courses focused on management, psychology and minority relations; followed by 24
hours of courses in such topics as human resources management, professional
writing, values and choices, persuasion, critical thinking, economics, and
contemporary philosophy and politics.
They will also take 21 hours of courses in leadership, conflict management,
workforce diversity, organizational behavior, organizational leadership and
organizational development.
Their studies will culminate in three credit hours studying advanced leadership
philosophy and practice.
[Mark Gordon
Public Relations and Media Manager
Lincoln College] |
