Bachelor of Business Administration in Management
Total Semester Credit Hours = 120
The Management program prepares students for positions as managers and future executives in business and other organizations. Professional opportunities in management often begin as a “management trainee” in large companies or as an assistant manager in other businesses. Persons with careers in management are found in entrepreneurial, private, public, and not-for-profit organizations. Typical career paths lead students to become upper-level corporate executives, corporate presidents, CEOs and successful entrepreneurs.
Objectives
Students completing the management major should be able to:
- Understand the complexity of managing human dynamics in the organizational setting.
- Recognize major managerial challenges such as the globalization of business, managing a cultural and ethnically diverse workplace, increasing interdependence among organizational units, intensifying competitive dynamics, and the escalating ethical responsibilities of managers.
- Understand the organizational and environmental context in which human resource managers function.
- Understand the organizational, labor, and legal environments in which managers function.
- Incorporate quantitative decision making into solutions of business problems.
- Understand factors that influence individual, group, and corporate behavior and use this knowledge to improve individual and firm performance.
- Develop managerial skills in activities such as: teamwork, motivation, decision making, negotiation, conflict resolution, leadership, and strategic management.
- Understand how strategic decisions are influenced by and also help to create competitive dynamics within and between industries.
- Recognize and assess the impact of environmental factors in decision making, as well as develop conceptual skills.
- Improve both written and oral communication skills.
- Develop competency in the use of enterprise-wide and discipline specific applications to solve business problems and assist in strategic decision making.
Suggested Four-Year Curriculum for Management
Freshman Year
First Semester (15 hrs.)
| ENGL 1301 | College Composition I [TCCN: ENGL 1301] | |
| HIST 1301 | United States History I [TCCN: HIST 1301] | |
| COSC 1307 | Introduction to Information Systems Software [TCCN: BCIS 1305] | |
| MATH 1324 | Mathematics for Business and Economics I [TCCN: MATH 1324] | |
| | Life and Physical Sciences (Core, 3 hrs.) | |
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| HIST 1302 | United States History II [TCCN: HIST 1302] | |
| SPCM 1315 | Fundamentals of Speech Communication [TCCN: SPCH 1315] | |
| MATH 1342 | Statistics [TCCN: MATH 1342] | |
| MANA 1300 | Introduction to Business [TCCN: BUSI 1301] | |
| | Life and Physical Sciences (Core, 3 hrs.) | |
Sophomore Year
First Semester (15 hrs.)
| POLS 2305 | Introductory American Government [TCCN: GOVT 2305] | |
| ECON 2301 | Principles of Macroeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2301] | |
| ACCT 2301 | Principles of Financial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2301] | |
| | Creative Arts (Core, 3 hrs.) | |
| | Language, Philosophy and Culture (Core, 3 hrs.) | |
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| POLS 2306 | Introductory Texas Politics [TCCN: GOVT 2306] | |
| ECON 2302 | Principles of Microeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2302] | |
| ACCT 2302 | Principles of Managerial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2302] | |
| MATH 1325 | Mathematics for Business and Economics II [TCCN: MATH 1325] | |
| ENGL 1302 | College Composition II [TCCN: ENGL 1302] | |
Junior Year
First Semester (15 hrs.)
Second Semester (16 hrs.)
Senior Year
First Semester (15 hrs.)
| MANA 4315 | Managerial Decision Making | |
| MANA 4310 | International Management | |
| | Upper-level COB Elective (3 hrs.) | |
| BLAW 3301 | Business Law and Social Responsibility | |
| COSC 3333 | Management Information Systems | |
Second Semester (15 hrs.)
| MANA 4395 | Strategic Management | |
| | Upper-level COB electives (6 hrs.) | |
| | Upper-level MANA electives (6 hrs.) | |
Note: Total hours must equal at least 120