Leadership and Personalized Studies Major Online Degree Completion Program (BA)
College: College of Arts & Humanities
This version of the Leadership and Personalized Studies major is targeted to students who have at least 60 credits, fulfilled various university requirements (including general education requirements), and need a online pathway to complete their junior/senior-level coursework. Please refer to the Leadership and Personalized Studies program overview to learn more about what makes LPST unique and the right fit for many non-traditional students.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Communication: Effective communication skills include listening, speaking, reading, writing, and information literacy.
- Ethical Reasoning and Action: Individual, social, and environmental responsibility includes civic knowledge and engagement (both global and local).
- History: Recognizing patterns in past events and seeing their relevance to present-day life; demonstrating how contemporary social issues are rooted in past events and political choices; understanding the impacts of the social and physical environments on individual experience; and speculating in informed ways about how present-day trends might affect the future.
- Critical and Creative Thinking: The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas and information; comprehensively explore issues, ideas, objects, and events before reaching a conclusion.
- Intercultural Knowledge: Understanding and empathizing with people from diverse cultures; understanding societies and cultures on their own terms; interacting and working with people from diverse backgrounds; and leading or contributing support to those who lead.
- Interdisciplinary Perspective: The ability to make deliberate connections among various academic disciplines, to comprehend and participate in more than one discipline; the ability to reflect on the nature and value of an interdisciplinary perspective.
Requirements for the Leadership and Personalized Studies Major Online Degree Completion Program
This completely online version of our traditional major offers online-only options within the following concentrations: individually designed topics, social science studies, or leadership and organizational studies. Before being admitted, students must meet the following requirements and apply specifically for this online degree completion version of the Leadership and Personalized Studies major.
Requirements for being admitted into LPSO:
- A minimum of 60 college credits
- Completion of the UW-Parkside Skills requirements
- Completion of the UW-Parkside Foreign Language requirements
- Completion of the UW-Parkside General Education requirements (Students who have fewer than five General Education courses left to take may be considered for admission); or, completion of an associate degree from an accredited, college-parallel program.
- Each student application will be evaluated by admissions counselors and Leadership and Personalized Studies advisors. Students who have not completed some of these requirements may be given conditional admission and are expected to complete all requirements needed for a UW-Parkside degree.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| Required Courses | ||
| LBST 103 | Understanding Social Justice | 3 |
| LBST 300 | Identity and Influence: The American Experience 1 | 3 |
| Introductory Courses 2 | ||
| Courses must be from at least 2 departments: | ||
| Select three from examples below or consult with program advisor: | 9 | |
| Introduction to Anthropology | ||
| Beauty, Bewilderment, and Love: The Humanities through 1500 | ||
| Independence and Mystery: The Humanities from 1500 to the Present | ||
| Introduction to Sociology | ||
| Required Senior Seminar Capstone | ||
| Capstone is to be completed final semester in the major/concentration. | ||
| LBST 498 | Senior Seminar Project | 3 |
| Concentration Courses | ||
| Choose one concentration | 23-24 | |
| Total Credits | 41-42 | |
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Note: LBST 300 will also fulfill the university’s diversity requirement.
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These courses may be General Education courses and are often 100-level courses. Courses identified as prerequisites for desired, advanced coursework should be prioritized.
Note: In order to reach the 120 credits, including the 36 upper division credits, minimally required to earn a Bachelor’s degree at UW-Parkside, Leadership and Personalized Studies majors may need to complete additional coursework in the form of “electives”. Alternatively, students may wish to augment their major with a minor or a certificate from any department on campus as a way to fulfill the remainder of their university requirements.
Elective Courses
If students enrolled in this program have the minimum of 60 credits, and complete the above 42-43 credits, they will still need an additional 18-19 credits to meet the minimum required 120 credits to complete their UW-Parkside degree. Students are also required to meet the 36 upper-division credits required to graduate and are expected to meet that minimum requirement through incoming credits or elective credits. A Leadership and Personalized Studies advisor will help each student identify which online courses will meet the university requirements and pique the student’s interest.
Concentration Options
Students choose from three concentrations within the leadership and personalized studies major: leadership and organizational studies; social science studies; and individually designed.
Leadership and Organizational Studies Concentration
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements 1 | ||
| Skills, Methods, and/or Literacy Courses 2 | ||
| Select two from examples below or consult with program advisor: | 6 | |
| Writing for Business and Industry | ||
| Introduction to Leadership | ||
| Special Topics in Leadership and Personalized Studies | ||
| Social Science Research Methods | ||
| Business Statistics I | ||
| Concentration Courses 3,4 | 18 | |
| Total Credits | 24 | |
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Each course may only count toward one requirement.
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These courses provide foundational skills needed to begin research and exploration required in a concentration.
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18 credit concentration where at least 9 credits occur at the 300/400-level. No more than 6-credits may be earned through Independent Study courses. Selection must include courses from at least two different departments or disciplines.
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In consultation with a Leadership and Personalized Studies Advisor, design a concentration with specialized focus, where the majority of coursework occurs in recognized Leadership and Organizational Studies areas such as Accounting, Business, Communication, Criminal Justice, Ethnic Studies, History, Marketing, Management, Political Science, Professional Studies, Statistics, or related. Information on our online course offerings are available here: https://www.uwp.edu/learn/courseschedule/?classType=DE
Social Science Studies Concentration
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements 1 | ||
| Skills, Methods, and/or Literacy Courses 2 | ||
| Select two from examples below or consult with program advisor: | 5-6 | |
| Introduction to Leadership | ||
| Report Writing for the Social Sciences | ||
| Statistics for the Social Sciences | ||
| Social Science Research Methods | ||
| Concentration Courses 3,4 | 18 | |
| Total Credits | 23-24 | |
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Each course may only count toward one requirement.
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These courses provide foundational skills needed to begin research and exploration required in a concentration.
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18 credit concentration where at least 9 credits occur at the 300/400-level. No more than 6-credits may be earned through Independent Study courses. Selection must include courses from at least two different departments or disciplines.
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In consultation with a Leadership and Personalized Studies Advisor, design a concentration with specialized focus, where the majority of coursework occurs in recognized Social Science disciplines such as Communication, Criminal Justice, Geography, History, Political Science, International Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Economics, Ethnic Studies, or related. Information on our online course offerings are available here: https://www.uwp.edu/learn/courseschedule/?classType=DE
Individually Designed Concentration
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements 1 | ||
| Skills, Methods, and/or Literacy Courses | ||
| Select two from examples below or consult with program advisor: 2 | 5-6 | |
| Writing for Business and Industry | ||
| Introduction to Leadership | ||
| Special Topics in Leadership and Personalized Studies | ||
| Report Writing for the Social Sciences | ||
| Statistics for the Social Sciences | ||
| Social Science Research Methods | ||
| Business Statistics I | ||
| Concentration Courses 3,4 | 18 | |
| Total Credits | 23-24 | |
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Each course may only count toward one requirement.
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These courses provide foundational skills needed to begin research and exploration required in a concentration.
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18 credit concentration focusing on your chosen designed topic where at least 9 credits occur at the 300/400-level. No more than 6-credits may be earned through Independent Study courses. Selection must include courses from at least two different departments or disciplines.
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In consultation with a Leadership and Personalized Studies Advisor, design a concentration with specialized focus, where the coursework uniquely targets an interdisciplinary concept or project. Information on our online course offerings are available here: https://www.uwp.edu/learn/courseschedule/?classType=DE
General University Degree Requirements (Bachelor's Degree)
In addition to individual program requirements, students must also fulfill the following requirements:
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Skills | 7-8 |
| General Education | 36 |
| Foreign Language** | 6-8 |
| Ethnic Diversity | 3 |
| Total | 52-55 |
** Transfer students in sustainable management, and health information management and technology collaborative, online degree-completion programs, the business management online degree-completion program, and the flexible option degree-completion program will be exempt from the university’s foreign language requirement. See appropriate academic section for further information.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Reading and Writing | ||
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Reading | 3 |
| Computational Skills | ||
| Select one of the following: | 4-5 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Elementary Statistics | ||
| College Mathematics with Applications | ||
| College Algebra I | ||
| Total Credits | 7-8 | |
Degree Requirements
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Minimum Total Credits | 120 |
| Upper Level Credits (300 level or above) | 36 |
| Residency | 30 |
Cumulative Degree GPA: 2.0 minimum
| Year 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall Semester | Credits | |
| MATH 102 | Quantitative Reasoning | 4 |
| ENGL 100 | Fundamentals of English | 3 |
| Introductory Language | 4 | |
| COMM 107 | Communication and the Human Condition | 3 |
| Credits | 14 | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Reading | 3 |
| COMM 105 or COMM 205 |
Public Speaking for the 21st Century or Oral Interpretation |
3 |
| COMM 108 | Media and Society | 3 |
| Introductory Language | 4 | |
| Credits | 13 | |
| Total Credits | 27 | |