Organizational Leadership Minor

The organizational leadership minor is open to all baccalaureate students and consists of six courses, three of which are required, for a total of 18 credits. To complete the minor, students will complete three additional specified elective courses that are offered within and outside the Business Management Department.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Students will gain fundamental knowledge of the nature and function of leadership, team building, and ethics
Students will acquire an interdisciplinary appreciation of the importance of leadership across one or more fields of study including politics, history, sociology, health care, and management.
Students will develop competencies that will prepare them for further study in organizational behavior and management.

About Academic Minors

Farmingdale State College students are invited to enhance their studies with an "Academic Minor." A minor is a cluster of thematically related courses drawn from one or more departments. In addition to department based minors (e.g. computer programming & info systems), interdisciplinary minors are also available (e.g. legal studies).

Academic minors are approved by the College-Wide Curriculum Committee and the Provost. Students must make application for an academic minor through the department offering the minor in conjunction with the Registrar's Office Specific course work must be determined in consultation with a faculty member in the department offering the minor. A statement of successful completion of the academic minor will appear on the student's transcript at the time of graduation.

A minor is considered to be an optional supplement to a student's major program of study.
Completion of a minor is not a graduation requirement and is subject to the availability of the courses selected. However, if the requirements for a minor are not completed prior to certification of graduation in the major, it will be assumed that the minor has been dropped. Consequently, the student will only be certified for graduation in their primary major.
Only students in 4 year baccalaureate programs can apply for a minor.
A minor should consist of 15 to 21 credits.
At least 12 credits must be in courses at the 200 level or higher.
At least 9 credits must be residency credits.
Specific requirements for each minor are determined by the department granting the minor.
Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 in their minor. Some minors may require a higher GPA.
Students are prohibited from declaring a minor in the same discipline as their major (e.g. one cannot combine an applied math minor with an applied math major). Academic minors may not apply to all curricula.
Students are permitted to double-count courses.
Students are only permitted to take more than one minor with appropriate written approval of their department chair or curriculum Dean.

Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.

Business | Dr. Nanda Viswanathan | business@farmingdale.edu | 934-420-2015

Fall 2026

Subject to revision

Required:
BUS 209 Teamwork & Team Building
BUS 360 Leadership Theories & Practices
BUS 460 Leadership & Ethics
Electives (3) chosen from the following:
BUS 305 Entrepreneurship
BUS 322 International Management
BUS 311 Organizational Behavior
BUS 379-382 Business Internship I
BUS 479-482 Business Internship II
DEN 409 Dental Hygiene Practicum
ECO 262 Managerial Economics
EGL 322 Leadership in Fact, Fiction and Film
HIS 335 Gender and Technology in Historical Perspective
HIS 332 American Military History
HOR 370 Landscape Professional Practices
MLS 325W Laboratory Management and Informatics
NUR 404 Nurse as Advocate and Change Agent
PHI 205 Ethics
PHI 207 Business Ethics
POL 110 Introduction to Legal Studies
POL 399 New York State Legislative Internship
PSY 330 Organizational Training and Development
SMT 440-443 Sport Management Internship I
SMT 445-448 Sport Management Internship II
SOC 303 Sociology of Work & Occupation