Bachelor's in Organizational Studies

Organizational Studies is a Bachelor program taught at Pitzer College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

The Organizational Studies major at Pitzer College gives students tools to study administrative, economic, political, sociological, and other factors that affect collective human systems. Students study how organizations operate, how they affect society, and how they are created, maintained, and changed. The major also guides students to investigate an area of interest through field experience or research, with example themes such as public health, arts management, women and work, and labor studies.

The major is structured around breadth, core, and depth requirements using 12 courses grouped from different areas.

Students take four breadth courses, five core courses (including Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, and Research in Organizations, plus additional upper-level Organizational Studies classes), and three depth courses that form a theme or extend work in a breadth field.

The program is also offered to incarcerated students through Pitzer’s Inside-Out Program, and Pitzer partners with Claremont Graduate University for an accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s of Information Science pathway.

Modules

• Principles of Microeconomics (ECON052PZ or equivalent)
• ORST100PZ (Organizational Theory)
• ORST135PZ (Organizational Behavior)
• ORST112PZ (Research in Organizations)
• Social Psychology (PSYC103PZ or its equivalent)
• SOC001PZ or another lower division Sociology class
• ORST050PZ (can be used in lieu of the Social Psychology or Sociology breadth selection)
• ECON052PZ or equivalent
• POST020PZ or POST030PZ (introductory level Political Science course, examples given)
• PSYC037PZ (equivalent course substitute for ORST135PZ, example given)
• MATH052PZ, ECON091PZ, PSYC091PZ, or SOC101PZ (can be used to replace ORST112PZ, examples given)

The minimum requirements for admission in Organizational Studies at Pitzer College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Pitzer College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Pitzer College as pre-requiste for admission in Organizational Studies.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Apply in the fall of your junior year. If accepted, you will start taking classes at Claremont Graduate University during your junior spring semester.

For students pursuing the Organizational Studies and Information Systems, B.A./M.S.I.S. accelerated degree: Students must formally apply in the fall and be admitted into the Information Science Program at Claremont Graduate University in the spring semester of their junior year.

Applicants must demonstrate competence in information technology and be recommended by the Pitzer Organizational Studies Field Group. Students in the joint program must declare their major in Organizational Studies before applying for this program.

Applicants to this program must also demonstrate competence in one or more computer languages before entering the program. Specific requirements for this program can be obtained from Jeff Lewis.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/programs/organizational-studies

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.