Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Overview
Mazoon College, in view of its mission to address the higher education needs of the community is offering Bachelor’s Program in Organizational Leadership & Supervision (OLS). This program is prepared with the assistance from the Purdue University, Calumet USA. It is one of the leading universities in United States of America established in 1951 and offers university degree in around fifty bachelor’s and master’s degree programs which are organized under six different colleges, such as College of Business, Education, Technology, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics & Science and Nursing. The course will help the graduates to acquire leadership and supervisory skills necessary to become successful in his personal as well as professional life. This program provides a highly individualized, practical, “real-world” approach to supervisory leadership.
Goals:
To develop a personal leadership vision among graduates that promotes the success in their life. It also provides a source of professional talent for leadership positions in industry, government and other organizations.
Program Objectives:
To develop skills such leadership, time management, conflict management and decision making needed for professional growth.
- To provide a broad-based education for those desiring leadership roles in business, government or industry.
- To deliver outstanding knowledge of organizational leadership and supervision required for national and global technology enterprises.
- To emphasize important leadership skills, interpersonal relationships and organization dynamics.
- To provide higher education in organizational leadership and supervision so that graduates grow professionally and remain effective as they advance in careers like human resource, safety and supervision.
- To enhance economic opportunities for its students and community.
- To demonstrate professionalism and ethical behavior in making decisions in leadership and management roles in business, institutional and technical settings.
Graduate Attributes
Graduates of the Organizational Leadership and Supervision program have:
- Knowledge Competency: The broad education in this area will enable the students to understand the theoretical background and use the techniques, skills, and modern scientific and technical tools necessary for professional practice.
- Creative Thinking Skills: By recognizing, appreciating and encouraging the students to come up with innovative ideas that leads to new insights, novel approaches and new way of understanding things.
- Critical Thinking Ability: By imparting knowledge to identify, analyze and solve applied science problems.
- Generic Skills: The emphasis is on developing leadership, interpersonal, team work and emotional skills not only for employment prospects but for the development of whole individual. These skills are very essential for any individual to become successful in his life’s journey.
- Understanding of Professional and Ethical Responsibility: By demonstrating professionalism and ethical behavior in making decisions in leadership and management roles in various settings.
Academic Plan
The program is spread over four years in eight semesters and the students have to complete 120 credit hours. The other courses the students have to study comprises of general management,
Human resources, mathematics or statistics, economics, computer utilization, English composition and speech, humanities etc. The student have to choose seven courses from the specialization area from the given list of courses, which will develop the student analytical, computational, critical and generic skill for their overall development. Student has to also study free elective which they can from the various courses offered as per their area of interest, the course on Omani society and Entrepreneurship has also been included as per the norms of the Ministry of Higher Education.
Semester -1
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| ENGL 10400 | English Composition I | 3 | |
| COM 11400 | Fundamentals of Speech Communication | 3 | |
| MA 14700 | Pre-calculus | 3 | |
| OLS 16300 | Fundamentals of Self-Leadership | 3 | |
| OLS25200 | Human Relations in Organizations | 3 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -2
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| ENGL 22000 | Technical Report Writing | 3 | ENGL 10400 |
| PSY12000 | Elementary Psychology | 3 | |
| STAT 13000 | Statistics And Contemporary Life | 3 | |
| CIS20400 | Introduction To Computer-Based Systems | 3 | |
| OLS13100 | Introduction to Safety & Health Management | 3 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -3
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| OLS37400 | Supervisory Management | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| OLS38400 | Leadership Process | 3 | OLS 16300 and OLS 25200 |
| BHS20100 | Statistical Methods For The Behavioral Sciences | 3 | |
| OLS37500 | Training Methods | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| SOC 100 | Omani Society | 3 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -4
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| ECON21000 | Principles Of Economics | 3 | |
| Major Elective 1 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| OLS35000 | Applied Creativity for Business and Industry | 3 | |
| Free Elective 1 | Free Elective | 3 | |
| OLS 27200 | Job Evaluation | 3 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -5
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| OLS37600 | Human Resource Issues | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| Major Elective 2 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| Major Elective 3 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| OLS45400 | Gender and Diversity in Management | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| BUS 230 | Business Law | 3 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -6
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| PHIL32400 | Ethics For the Professions | 3 | |
| Major Elective 4 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| OLS37800 | Labor/Management Relations | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| OLS47700 | Conflict Management | 3 | |
| Free Elective 2 | Free Elective | 3 | COM 11400 |
| Total semester credit hours: 15 Hours | |||
Semester -7
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| OLS 47400 | Conference Leadership Training | 3 | COM 11400 |
| Major Elective 5 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| OLS48300 | The Common Law of the Workplace | 3 | OLS37800 |
| OLS46800 | Personnel Law | 3 | OLS 25200 |
| Free Elective 3 | Free Elective | 3 | |
| OLS49300 | Senior Project Phase – I | 1 | |
| Total semester credit hours: 16 Hours | |||
Semester -8
| Course Code | Course Title | Credit Hours | Prerequisite |
| MNGT 325 | Entrepreneurship | 3 | |
| Major Elective 6 | Major Elective | 3 | |
| OLS49700 | Senior Project | 2 | |
| ENGL42000 | Business Writing | 3 | ENGL 10400 |
| Major Elective 7 | 3 | ||
| Total semester credit hours: 14 Hours | |||
| Total all semesters credit hours: 120 Hours | |||
Major Elective: student can choose any seven courses from below list.
- OLS33600: Fundamentals of Risk Assessment and Management
- OLS33700: Introduction to Emergency Management
- OLS36300: Fundamentals of Self-Management
- OLS36400: Professional Development Program
- OLS38700: Emergency Planning and Exercises
- OLS57400: Managerial Training and Development
- OLS57600: Advanced Topics in Human Resource Management
- OLS58000: Interpersonal Skills for Leaders
- OLS58100: Workshop in Organizational Leadership and Supervision
- OLS58300: Coaching and Mentoring in Organizations
- OLS58800: Strategic Planning and Marketing for Technology
- OLS58900: Leadership And Ethics
- OLS59000: Individual Research Problems in Supervision and Personnel.
Free Elective:
| Free Electives | |
| Course Code | Course Name |
| SOC10000 | Introduction to Sociology |
| AD25500 | Art Appreciation |
| HIST 10400 | Introduction to Modern World |
| Eco 75 | Economic Development in the Gulf States |
| CS 53 | Introduction to Programming |
| IST 211 | Web Design |
