The management major provides training in analyzing problems, making decisions, delegating assignments, training and supervising employees, budgeting, and coordinating. This major provides the skills needed to secure an entry-level position, as well as the tools needed by top management to lead an organization. The management area encompasses operations, entrepreneurship, management information systems, strategy, and international business.
Management majors can pursue a specialization in general management, strategy/entrepreneurship, or ecommerce technology. The general management specialization provides students with broad exposure to several management subfields. Strategy/international business/entrepreneurship specialization provides training to be an entrepreneur in a global economy. The ecommerce technology specialization prepares students to develop skills necessary to help businesses compete and develop strategies for web-based interactions among companies, employees, customers, and suppliers.
Major Specific Courses
52:533:365 Strategic Human Resource Management
52:620:369 Multinational Business
52:623:___ ecommerce elective
52:533/620/623 area elective
52:533/620/623 area elective
52:533/620/623 area elective
52:___:___ advanced business elective
52:___:___ advanced business elective
Major Specific Elective Requirements
Management Electives 52:533/620/623: Students are required to complete 9 credits in management (620), human resource management (533), or ecommerce and information technology (623) elective area courses at or above the 300 level. The student is not required to
complete all 9 credits from a single area, but may choose to complete
all three area elective courses (9 credits), from one of the designated
areas below, for a management area concentration:
Human Resource Management: Completion of 9 credits in 533 area courses at or above the 300
level.
Management Information Systems: Completion of 9 credits in 623 area courses at or above the 300
level.
Entrepreneurship and Strategy: 9 credits from:
52:620:483 Entrepreneurship: New
Venture Creation (required)
52:135:310 Raising Capital for Entrepreneurs
52:620:315 Corporate
Restructuring and Turnarounds
52:620:320 Total Quality
Management
52:620:326 Supply Chain
Strategy
52:620:486 Developing
a Consulting Business
52:620:487 Independent
Study in Management (related)
52:620:488 Strategic
Management of Technology
52:620:489 Corporate
Reorganization and Turnaround Strategy
52:620:490 Mergers and Acquisitions
52:620:491 Special Topics: Social
Entrepreneurship
No more than 3 credits from:
52:630:355 Personal
Selling
52:630:361 Digital
Marketing Strategy
52:630:385 Marketing
Research
Advanced Business Electives:
Students are required to complete 6 credits in any school 52 (subject
010, 135, 390, 533, 620, 623, or 630) course at or above the 300 level.
