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B.S. in Organizational Sociology

Organizational Sociology is a specialized area of sociology that deals with the use of sociological (and social psychological) insights to study, understand and analyze the social context of work and the organizational settings in which work takes place.

While the field of organizational sociology is well grounded in theory and research, it is an applied field whose practitioners work in a variety of organizational settings and handle various informal organization, organizational development, employee alienation, motivation, morale, job satisfaction and productivity, leadership, industrial democracy (worker participation in decision decision making, labor relations, unions), organizational restructuring, effectiveness and efficiency, program evaluation, strategic planning, conflict and conflict resolution, organizational power structure, majority-minority relations in organizations, and the relationship between organizations and their community.

The Organizational Sociology program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is designed to educate students in human relations in organizations and the social aspects of industry, for the purpose of producing organizational leaders equipped with good human relations skills. This program will equip students with adequate organizational human relations skills to be able to successfully:

  1. hold leadership positions in business organizations
  2. hold careers in business consulting
  3. hold administrative positions in government/government agencies.

Students may specialize themselves in any area of human relations of their special interests. Such areas may include employee turnover, work alientation, job satisfaction, organizational structure, job discrimination, organizational culture, diversity planning and management, organizational relations (intra, inter and organization-environment) organizational change/restructuring, and conflict-conflict resolution.

Section I. Sociology Courses
Complete all these 18 credit hours.

SOC 1010 Introductory Sociology
ANTH 1050 Introduction to General Anthropology
SOC 2130 Basic Statistics
SOC 2510 Research Methods
SOC 4710 Sociological Theory
SOC 4900 Senior Thesis

 

Section II. Organizational Sociology Courses
Requirements: 21 credit hours.

A. Required Core Courses (12 cr. hrs). Four courses from the following:
SOC 3180 Occupations and Careers
SOC 3080 Work and Society (Required)
SOC 3610 Social Organization (Required)
SOC 4620 Sociology of Formal Organization (Required)
SOC 4620 Social Diversity in Organizations

B. Supporting Core Requirements (9 cr. hrs.) ANTH 4210 plus any other two courses:
ANTH 4210 Cultural Anthropology (Required)
SOC 3450 Social Psychology
SOC 3690 Social Stratification
SOC 3900 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 4100 The Community
SOC 4300 Sociology of Gender
SOC 4500 Law, Family and Public Policy
SOC 4520 Latino/a Migration in the World Economy
SOC 4750 Social Change and Globalization
SOC 4990 Independent Study

 

Section III. Specialization
Complete at least 15 credit hours in any ONE of the following areas. (At least 12 hours must be upper level, 3000 or higher, credits.)

Organizational sociology students in the B.S. program are required to complete 15 credit hours in an area of specialization (cognate field) based on their interests and/or career aspirations. Area of specialization and selected courses to meet specialization requirements are to be determined by the student during consultation with the department's undergraduate adviser. While other options of specializations can be arranged, the department has officially approved the following areas of specialization for organizational sociology. Other desired option by a student must meet the 15 credit-hour requirement as well as be approved by the department chair upon recommendation by the undergraduate adviser and the undergraduate committee.

Note: Students should consult with the undergraduate adviser before taking courses in a specialization area.

Business Management

LAWS 3910 Introduction to Business Law and Ethics
LAWS 3920 Advanced Business Law
PHIL 3170 Ethics in Business
MGMT 3200 Managerial Communication
MGMT 3040 Managerial Decision Making
MGMT 3490 Management
MGMT 3510 Human Resource Management
MGMT 4020 Seminar in Human Resource Management
MGMT 4040 Managerial Leadership
MGMT 4100 Organizational Theory and Practice
MGMT 4150 International Management
MGMT 4220 Legal Issues in Management
MGMT 4250 New Venture Initiation
MGMT 4310 Small Business Management
MGMT 4340 Management of Teams

Marketing Management

MGMT 3040 Managerial Decision Making
MKT 3100 Professional Salesmanship
MKT 3310 Principles of Marketing
MKT 3320 Consumer Behavior
MKT 3360 Advertising
MKT 3370 Marketing Promotions
MKT 3380 International Marketing
MKT 3610 Business to Business Marketing
MKT 4300 Marketing Management
MKT 4320 Sales Management
MKT 4420 Business Demography

Public Administration

PA 2000 Leadership and Administration
PA 2170 Introduction to Public Administration
PA 3180 Elements of Public Administration
PA 4200 Community Organizing and Social Change
PA 4206 Introduction to Health Care Systems
PA 4300 Seminar in Public Policy
PA 4410 Public Personnel Management
PA 4430 Municipal Adminstration
PA 4490 Public Sector Labor Relations
PA 4560 Intergovernmental Management
PA 4600 Administrative Law

Diversity Management and Distributive Justice

MGMT 2010 Minorities in the Private Enterprise System
MGMT 3490 Management
BLST 1400 Issues in Black Communities
BLST 2000 The Black Experience in Society
BLST 3120 The Black Experience in American Politics
BLST 3650 Slavery and Race Relations in the America
CLS 3900 Special Topics in Chicano(a)/Latino(a) studies-As appropriate
SPCH 3750 Gender and Communication
SPCH 4530 Cross-Cultural Communication
HIST 4400 History of North American Indians
HIST 4060 History of Women in the United States
PSCI 3100 Minority Politics
PSCI/CJUS 3920 Topics in Political Science - Federal Indian Law
PSCI 3920 Topics in Political Science - as appropriate
PSYC 4920 Special Topics - Psychology of Native American Women
RELI 3020 Native American Religion
RELI 3200 Islam
UBNS 4010 Multicultural Perspectives in an Urban Context
UBST 3010 Native American Issues

Organizational Communication

SPCH 4210 Small Group Communication and Leadership
SPCH 3120 Persuasive Speaking
SPCH 3130 Speech-Communication in Business and the Professions
SPCH 3140 Advanced Public Speaking
SPCH 3520 Interviewing
SPCH 3700 Interpersonal Conflict
SPCH 3750 Gender and Communication
SPCH 4140 Communication and Human Relations
SPCH 4170 Organizational Communication
SPCH 4180 Communication Leadership, Power and Organizations
SPCH 4530 Cross-Cultural Communication

Native American Community Organization

NAMS 1100 Introduction to Native American Studies
ENGL 2470 Survey of Native American Literature
HIST 4400 History of the North American Indians
HIST 4910 Topics - History of the American Indian Education
PA 4200 Community Organizing and Social Change
PSCI/CJUS 3920 Topics in Political Science - Federal Indian Law
PSCI 3920 Topics in Political Science - Tribal Government
PSYS 4920 Special Topics - Psychology of Native American Women
RELI 3020 Native American Religion
UBNS 3010 Native American Issues
UBNS 3020 Contemporary Native American Issues