Curriculum
Program Requirements
Prerequisites are listed in parentheses. Often, professors can be flexible with requirements. For more information, please contact the professor.
1. Core requirements
Two courses are required. Minimum 6 credits.
- Organizational Studies 305 Inside Organizations
- Organizational Studies 310 Formal Organizations and Environments (fulfills ULWR for OS students)
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2. Cluster Requirement
Minimum of four courses total, across both clusters, with two courses in each cluster listed below. 12 credits minimum. Cluster requirements are designed to provide disciplinary variety in the study of organizations, drawing on courses in a number of fields, and ranging across multiple levels of organizational analysis. Please note that some courses may require additional prerequites.
Organizations and Individuals (Cluster A)
Cluster A courses are those that focus mainly on questions and topics concerning the organized behavior of individuals or the behavior of individuals in organizations. They are broader in scope than Cluster C courses below and typically are either 300 or 400 level courses in the LSA curriculum. These courses may address the relations of individuals to larger social structures such as the family or formal organizations, but their concern with these larger structures will typically remain the impact thereof on individual psychology or individual behavior. Most psychology courses concerned with organizations and organized behavior will fall in this cluster, as will some courses in political science, anthropology, communications, and economics. Sociology courses rarely fall in this cluster.
- Anthrcul 330 Culture, Thought, and Meaning
- 1Anthrcul 370/Ling 370 Lang and Discrim: Lang as Soc Stmnt (Ling 210 recommended)
- Anthrcul 374/Ling 374 Language and Culture
- Comm 361 Mediated Communication (comm 101 or 102 recommended)
- Comm 381 Media Impact on Knowl, Vals, and Beh (comm 101 or 102 recommended)
- Econ 401 Interm MicroEcon Thry (Econ 101, 102 ,Math 115)
- Environ 360/Psych 384 Behavior and Environment
- PS 330 Psych Persp on Politics
- Psych 260 Organizational Psychology
- Psych 280 Social Psychology
- Psych 353 Social Development (psych 250 recommended)
- Psych 393 Political Psychology
- Psych 449 DecisionProcesses (introductory statistics recommended)
- Psych 464 Group Processes (psych 260 recommended)
Organizations and Society (Cluster B)
Cluster B courses are those that focus mainly on questions and topics concerning the organization of social groups (e.g., ethnic groups), historical processes (e.g., the rise of capitalism), and/or medium to large social structures (e.g., corporations, national governments, or global governing bodies). They are broader in scope than Cluster C courses below and typically are either 300 or 400 level courses in the LSA curriculum. Although Cluster B courses may at times address the impact of such larger structures and processes on individual behavior or may include attention to particular individuals from U.S. or world history, the primary concern of Cluster B courses is with questions about how social groups, historical processes, and social structures emerge, remain stable, and/or change. Most sociology, political science, and history courses will fall in this cluster, as will some economics and anthropology courses.
- AmCult 345 American Politics & Society
- AmCult 421/Soc 423 Social Stratification
- Comm 351 Struct and Func of Media Sys (comm 101 or 102 recommended)
- Comm 371 Media Cult and Soc (comm 101 or 102 recommended)
- Econ 320 Survey of Labor Econ (econ 101 & 102 recommended)
- Econ 330 American Industries (econ 101 & 102recommended)
- Econ 421 Labor Economics (econ 401)
- Econ 422 The Struct of Labor Mkts (econ 401)
- Econ 431 Indus Org and Perf (econ 401)
- Econ 432 Gov Reg of Industry (econ 401)
- Econ 471 Environ Economics (econ 401)
- Econ 491/Hist 491 Hist of Amer Econ (econ 101 & 102)
- English 319 Literature and Social Change
- History 310/RCSSCI 310 Globalization in History
- PS 300 Contemp Political Issues
- PS 311 Amer Political Proc (100-level polisci course)
- PS 317 Courts, Politics and Society (2 courses in polisci)
- PS 322 Legislative Process (2 courses in polisci)
- PS 363 International Orgnztn & Integr (polisci 160 or jr level)
- RCSSI 311/Soc 311 Contemporary Globalization
- Soc 305 Intro to Sociological Theory
- Soc 315 Economic Sociology
- Soc 450 Political Sociology
- Soc 460 Social Change
- Strategy 411 The Corporation in Society
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3. Senior Field Research and Quantitative Skills Requirements:
Analysis, Research and Practice in Organizations. 7 credits. The field research and quantitative skills requirement is designed to provide both quantitative analytic and experiential learning opportunities for research, analysis, and practice in a wide range of organizational settings. One course required in each area. The research course must be taken in the senior year.
A. Quantitative Skills: (4 credits)
- 2Sociology 210 Elementary Statistics
- 2Statistics 350 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
- 2Statistics 400 Applied Statistical Methods
- 2Statistics 405/Econ 405 Introduction to Statistics (math 116 or 118)
- 2Economics 404 Statistics for Economics (econ 101, 102 & math 115)
B. Senior Field Research: (3 credits)
- Orgstudy 410 Advanced Research Methods in Organizational Studies. (senior
standing, at least one OS core course, and quant. skills)
- Orgstudy 490 Advanced Research Team
- Orgstudy 497 OS Honors Research I (OS Honors students only)
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4. Interest Cluster (Cluster C). 3 courses required, minimum of 9 credits.
Cluster C courses in the organizational Studies Curriculum are intended to allow concentrators to pursue their curriculum pathway interests in a more specialized way. Cluster C courses should have an organizational theme and can be of either the A or B variety, but are almost always more narrow and focused in their content. Cluster C courses can and do often come from a variety of departments both in LSA and in various University of Michigan schools and colleges.
- Amcult 339/Anthrcul 339 Amer Relig Mvmnts (anthro 101 recommended)
- Anthrcul 439 Econ Anthro and Development
- CAAS 418/PS 324 Black Americans & the Polit System (CAAS 201 recommended)
- CAAS 450 Law, Race, and Hist Process I (caas 201 recommended)
- CAAS 451 Law, Race, and Hist Process II (caas 201, 450 recommended)
- Comm 454 Media Economics (comm 351 or 371 recommended)
- Comm 473 Cross-Cultural Communication (comm 351 or 371 recommended)
- Comm 484/PS 484 Mass Media and Pol Behvr (comm 361 or 381 recommended)
- Comm 485/Soc 463 Mass Comm and Public Opinion (comm 361 or 381 recommended)
- Econ 340 International Economics (econ 101 & 102 recommended)
- Econ 360 Developing Economies (econ 101 & 102 recommended)
- Econ 370/Environ 375 Natural Resource Economics (econ 101 recommended)
- Econ 398 Strategy
- Econ 438 Economics of Health Services (econ 401)
- Econ 481 Government Expenditures (econ 401)
- Environ 361/Psych 385 Psych of Env Stewardship
- Environ 365 International Environ Policy
- Environ 367 Global Enterpr & Sustainable Devlpmnt
- Environ 370/UP 423 Intro to Urban & Environ Planning
- Environ 449 Org Theory & Change
- Hist 476/LHC 412 American Business History
- HMP 602 Survey of the US Health Care System
- HMP 620 Und Strc & Mgmt Non-Prof Hlth Orgs
- LHC 305 Legal Environ of Business
- LHC 306 Law of Enterprise Organization
- LHC 321 Corporate Social Responsibility
- Ling 305 Advertising Rhetoric (Ling 210 recommended)
- Mkt 300 Marketing Management I
- MO 300 Behavior Theory in Management
- MO 314 Managing Change (MO 300 or psych 260 recommended)
- MO 315 Management of Personnel (MO 300 or psych 260 recommended)
- MO 324 Social Capital and Networks (MO 300 or psych 260 recommended)
- MO 470/Strategy 470 Mgmt of Professional Service Firms (MO 300 or psych 260 recommended)
- ORGSTUDY 498 OS Honors Research II (OS honors students only)
- ORGSTUDY 499 Independent Study
- PS 313 Pol Mobil & Policy Change
- PS 360 Problems in World Politics
- PS 368 Coop & Confl in International Systems (polisci 160 or junior level)
- PS 369 Pol of Internatl Econ Rel (polisci 160 or junior level)
- PS 486 Pub Opinion, Political Particip, and Pressure Groups (1 course in polisci)
- Psych 411/WS 419 Gndr & Grp Proc in Multicul Cntxt
- Psych 467 Current Topics in Organizational Psychology (psy 260 recommended)
- Psych 488/Soc 465 Soc Analysis of Deviant Behavior
- RCSSI 222/Soc 222 Strategies and Social Interaction
- RCSSI 315 International Grassroots Development
- RCSSI 365 Excellence, Equity & Politics of Educ
- Soc 440 Sociology of Work
- Soc 447/WS 447 Sociology of Gender
- Soc 452 Law and Social Psychology
- Soc 454 Law and Social Org
- Soc 455 Religion and Society
- Soc 458 Sociology of Education
- Soc 475 Intro to Medical Sociology
- SocWk HB 502 Org. Comm, Soc Strct & Processes
- SM 332 Organizational Behavior in Sports Orgs
- Thtremus 385 Perform Arts Mgmt(permission of instructor)
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Courses that vary between clusters depending on section and term.**
- OS 395 Current Issues in Org Studies
- OS 495 Special Topics in Organizational Studies
1May fulfill Race & Ethnicity requirement, depending on term and section.
2Fulfills Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
**The OS advisor will indicate each term how students may count these three courses.
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