Technical Leadership
Build upon your technical degree and transform your credits into a bachelor's degree as you grow into your career.
Why Study Technical Leadership?
As a technical leadership major, build upon your community college or technical college degree with the knowledge and skills needed to take on leadership and supervisory positions in your field of expertise. You will gain a broad general education while specializing in one of seven emphasis areas to enhance your professional abilities. Employers are searching for individuals with technical expertise as well as the communication and critical thinking skills needed to lead workgroups, teams, and departments.
Build upon your technical expertise and become a skillful communicator, manager and team builder as a technical leadership major at USD.
Degrees & Offerings
Technical Leadership (B.S.)
Bachelor’sThis interdisciplinary bachelor's degree is open to students who have earned a technical degree and seek to move into leadership and supervisory positions. Students earning a B.S. in Technical Leadership complete all general education requirements (30 hours), as well as one emphasis area (minimum 11 credit hours of coursework), internship course or a capstone course specific to the technical leadership. Emphasis areas are communication and leadership, healthcare leadership, management, personnel supervision, regulatory affairs, small business entrepreneurship, and web design. Courses in these areas range from Organizational Behavior and Theory and Human Resource Management to Intercultural Communication and Team Building and Group Decision Making.
Program Details
Undergraduate
College
Contact
Faculty & Staff
John Dudley
Specialty
Literary Naturalism
Jessica Messersmith
Specialty
Pediatric Audiology
Katherine Price
Karen Bumsted
Lara Carlson McGoey
John Volbrecht
Pathway to Advancement in the Workforce
Earn More with a Bachelor's Degree
Tuition & Costs
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SD Residents, SD Advantage* & Child of Alumni
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Out-of-State
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Tuition (30 cr.)
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9432
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12942
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Fees (30 cr.)
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1659
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1659
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Books (estimate)
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1200
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1200
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Housing
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4890
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4890
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Food Service
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4194
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4194
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Total
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* SD Advantage: The in-state rate is available to new undergraduate students who are residents of South Dakota, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas (starting Summer 2024), Minnesota (starting Summer 2024), Missouri (starting Summer 2024), Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming and children of alumni of USD.
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Financial Aid
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Scholarships
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