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
- Anthrcul 347 Race and Ethnicity
- 1Anthrcul 370/Ling 370 Lang and Discrim: Lang as Soc Stmnt
- Anthrcul 374/Ling 374 Language and Culture
- Comm 361 Mediated Communication
- Comm 381 Media Impact on Knowl, Vals, and Beh
- Econ 401 Interm MicroEcon Thry
- Environ 360/Psych 384 Behavior and Environment
- PolSci 330 Psych Persp on Politics
- Psych 260 Organizational Psychology
- Psych 280 Social Psychology
- Psych 353 Social Development
- Psych 393 Political Psychology
- Psych 449 DecisionProcesses
- Pubpol 330 Microeconomics for Public Policy
1May fulfill Race & Ethnicity requirement, depending on term and section.
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 371 Media Cult and Soc
- Complxsys 281/PS 281 Emergent Challenges
- Econ 320 Survey of Labor Econ
- Econ 330 American Industries
- Econ 402 Macroeconomics
- Econ 421 Labor Economics
- Econ 422 The Struct of Labor Mkts
- Econ 431 Indus Org and Perf
- Econ 432 Gov Reg of Industry
- Econ 471 Environ Economics
- English 319 Literature and Social Change
- History 310/RCSSCI 310 Globalization in History
- PolSci 300 Contemp Political Issues
- PolSci 311 Amer Political Proc
- PolSci 317 Courts, Politics and Society
- PolSci 322 Legislative Process
- PolSci 363 International Orgnztn & Integr
- Pubpol 320 Politics, Pol Institutions & Pub Policy
- RCSSCI 302 Contemp Soc Culture & Theory
- Soc 303 Race and Ethnic Relations
- Soc 305 Intro to Sociological Theory
- Soc 315 Economic Sociology
- Soc 417 Social Networks
- Soc 450 Political Sociology
- Soc 461 Social Movements
- 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)
2Fulfills Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
B. Senior Field Research: (3 credits minimum)
- Orgstudy 410 Advanced Research Methods in Organizational Studies. (OS senior cohort only)
- 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.
- Acc 272 Principles of Accounting II
- Acc 315 Cost Accounting
- Acc 471 Accounting Principles
- Anthrcul 439 Econ Anthro and Development
- CAAS 418/PS 324 Black Americans & the Polit System
- CAAS 450 Law, Race, and Hist Process I
- CAAS 451 Law, Race, and Hist Process II
- Comm 454 Media Economics
- Comm 484/PS 484 Mass Media and Pol Behvr
- Complxsys 250 Soc Systems and Energy
- Econ 310 Money and Banking
- Econ 340 International Economics
- Econ 370/Environ 375 Natural Resource Economics
- Econ 398 Strategy
- Econ 481 Government Expenditures
- 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
- Environ 475 Environmental Law
- History 343 Rise of the Corporation
- Hist 476/LHC 412 American Business History
- HMP 602 Survey of the US Health Care System
- LHC 305 Legal Environ of Business
- LHC 306 Law of Enterprise Organization
- Ling 305 Advertising Rhetoric
- Mkt 300 Marketing Management I
- MO 314 Managing Change
- MO 315 Management of Personnel
- MO 317 Teamwork in Organizations
- MO 321 Leadership in Organizations
- MO 324 Social Capital and Networks
- MO 470/Strategy 470 Mgmt of Professional Service Firms
- OMS 311 Operations Management
- Orgstudy 395 Current Issues in Org Studies**
- Orgstudy 495 Special Topics in Org Studies**
- Orgstudy 498 OS Honors Research II (OS honors students only)
- Orgstudy 499 Independent Study
- PolSci 368 Coop & Confl in International Systems
- PolSci 369 Pol of Internatl Econ Rel
- PolSci 432 Law and Public Policy
- PolSci 486 Pub Opinion, Political Particip, and Pressure Groups
- Psych 356 Educational Psychology
- Psych 411/WS 419 Gndr & Grp Proc in Multicul Cntxt
- Psych 488/Soc 465 Soc Analysis of Deviant Behavior
- RCSSCI 315 International Grassroots Development
- RCSSCI 365 Excellence, Equity & Politics of Educ
- SM 332 Organizational Behavior in Sports Orgs
- Soc 440 Sociology of Work
- Soc 447/Womenstd 447 Sociology of Gender
- Soc 454 Law and Social Org
- Soc 458 Sociology of Education
- Soc 475 Intro to Medical Sociology
- Thtremus 385 Perform Arts Mgmt
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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
**These courses may always count in Cluster C, and thus appear on the Cluster C list, but may be eligible to count alternatively in Cluster A or B as determined by the topic each term.
Electives (as needed)
Students may choose electives from any requirement area on the OS curriculum list as needed to reach the overall 37 credit requirement for the OS concentration.
Orgstudy courses NOT counted toward the concentration
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