Bachelor's Level Certificates

If you are a business student, the Bachelor's level certificate programs are perfect for you!

In any of the below fields, Olivet Nazarene University will help prepare you for success. You will learn from thought leaders to gain a depth of knowledge and understanding sure make you competitive in the job market. We want to prepare you for a lifetime of learning and achievement in your career.

  • Healthcare Administration
  • Human Resource Management
  • Supervision and Management
  • Global Business

Course Overview

  • Format: Accelerated classes meet online, courses start every 6 weeks 
  • Program Length: 18+ weeks
  • Credit Hours: 9 credit hours
  • Total Tuition Cost: $400 per credit hour

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Accelerated classes meet online, courses start every 6 weeks.

Bachelor's Level Certificates Courses

Healthcare Administration

BUS 360 - Health Care Systems  • 3 hours

Students will get an overview of how health care delivery systems are organized and managed through combined roles of administrators, physicians, nurses, and other clinical and support staff, referred to as the circle of care. The application of managerial concepts and practices in various types of health care settings is highlighted, along with the use of leadership skills in communication and change management.

BUS 361 - Health Care Administration and Management  • 3 hours

This course explores the history, development, structure, and future of Healthcare and Healthcare delivery systems, financing sources, technology, medical terminology, and industry outlook for the Healthcare administration professional. Management skills, including planning, organizing, evaluating, and significant health policy issues, are explored.

BUS 460 - Quality Improvements in Health Care  • 3 hours

This course will explore the manager’s role in monitoring and improving clinical and organizational quality/outcomes. The focus will be on quality improvement practices related to methods, cost- effectiveness, quality of life, and delivery of care are examined. An analysis of the influence of accreditation, regulatory, licensing, and certification requirements on healthcare delivery provides additional perspectives on organizational and patient care.

Human Resource Management

BUS 435 - Human Resource Management  • 3 hours

This course covers the development of current policies, practices, and techniques necessary to ensure effective personnel management in complex organizations. There is an emphasis on the role of operating supervisors, executives, and the union in researching such challenges as employee selection, training, placement, wage and salary administration, promotion, fringe benefits, employee services, and management-labor relations.

BUS 336 - Talent Management  • 3 hours

This course focuses on talent management as a contribution to organizational strategy. Effective talent acquisition, development, performance, and strategic management are the key to leveraging employee talent and creativity in a dynamic workplace. When done correctly, talent management becomes fundamental to an organization's ability to recruit, train, retain, reward, and motivate the right talent in the right ways to execute strategy.

BUS 436 - Legal Environment of HR  • 3 hours

Students will be prepared for leadership and management positions in both the private and public sectors through this course. Students will gain competencies in the areas of employer and employee legal rights in the workplace. Students will gain an understanding of the federal employment laws and how those laws impact organizations.

Supervision & Management

BUS 337 - Supervision & Management  • 3 hours

This course provides you a foundational understanding of the fundamental practices and issues necessary to supervise and manage a business unit with emphasis on productive communications, human relations issues, and the supervisor's role in employee recruitment, selection, training, motivation, planning, and evaluations as well as contemporary concerns of the supervisor.

BUS 436 - Legal Environment of HR  • 3 hours

Students will be prepared for leadership and management positions in both the private and public sectors through this course. Students will gain competencies in the areas of employer and employee legal rights in the workplace. Students will gain an understanding of the federal employment laws and how those laws impact organizations.

BUS 419 - Organizational Behavior

In this course, learners analyze the behavior of people in organizations. Organizational motivation, group behavior, group dynamics, communication, and decision-making are explored in the context of individual and group behavior. Group projects and presentations are assigned.

Global Business

BUS 415/515 Global Business  • 3 hours

The objective of this course is to familiarize learners with the environments facing managers and corporations who are operating in the global economy. Thus, learners should acquire an awareness of, and an appreciation for, the diversity and complexity of the global environment including international trade, cultures, economics, marketing, and communication issues of multinational corporations. More specifically, the successful completion of this course should enable learners to understand and analyze how global forces shape corporate strategy. (Master's Path Course)

BUS 350 - Cultural Responsiveness  • 3 hours

The course reviews the strategies used by organizational leaders to be culturally responsive. The course will examine strategies for successfully working in areas of diversity for urban, suburban, and rural settings. The students will be exposed to and apply theory in various situations to ensure they are prepared for a leadership position in a diverse organizational environment.

BUS 351 - Cross-Cultural Management  • 3 hours

This course explores the challenges of managing a culturally diverse workforce and the complexities of operating in countries with different religions, traditions, and value systems. This course focuses on the ability of managers to lead, motivate, communicate, and negotiate with individuals with varying attitudes toward achievement and work, time and change, wealth and success, gender and the family, religion, and language.

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