The Organizational Studies (OS) major is designed to provide a broad understanding of the political, social, and economic organizations that make up modern society. Whether thinking about the structure of government bureaucracies, legal systems, economic markets, educational systems, or workplaces, OS offers an interdisciplinary view from which to understand the contemporary world in which complex and formal organizations are ubiquitous. Formal organizations influence how we feel, what we think, and what we can accomplish. As such, the OS major provides both a basic understanding of the field as well as enhances your ability to pursue their more specialized career interests. Sociology organizational studies majors gain a broad background in sociological theory and rigorous methodological training. They are required to take a broad range of courses that use an organizational perspective to analyze their subjects, including courses from community and regional development, communications, economics and history. Want to study how organizations influence how we feel, what we think, and what we can accomplish Organizational studies provides an interdisciplinary way to understand our contemporary world and formal organizations.
The Business and Society track is for students who hold an interest in or wish to pursue careers in management or corporate professions and who are interested in economic institutions and commerce, management and administration, work and workplaces, and labor markets. Courses in this cluster analyze businesses, firms, corporations, and marketsnationally and globallyand their place in society, historically and in the present, from a critical perspective. The BAS track examines the origins of business corporations and economic markets (and relations), the power relations, inequalities, and stratification associated with contemporary business organizations (firms and corporations), why business organizations rely on particular organizational structures to increase their efficiencies and effectiveness, and overviews of the role business and regulatory organizations play in the economy.
