Management, B.S.

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This major is administered by the School of Business and Economics .

In the management major, you complete courses in core content from accounting, business, and economics, as well as courses specifically related to management. Upon completing the management major, you will be prepared to lead in the business world.

Successfully complete a minimum of 69-71 credits in the Core and Management requirements as described below. Completing these requirements will satisfy both the Communication in the Major and Capstone Experience.

Core

In general, try to complete the core classes in approximately this sequence. The courses near the beginning of the list serve as prerequisites for courses near the end of the list.

Calculus, 3-5 credits

Take one of:

MATH 109 - Mathematics for the Social and Management Sciences 4 cr.
MATH 111 - Applied Calculus 4 cr.
MATH 225 - Calculus I 5 cr.

Note

If you anticipate doing advanced study in a field such as Actuarial Science, you should take MATH 225 .

Economics, 6 credits

ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 cr. and
ECON 111 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 cr.
or
ECON 200 - Principles of Economics 3 cr. and
an additional 3 credits in 200-400-level Economics coursework. You may not take ECON 497 or ECON 498 to satisfy this requirement. Classes you take as part of other requirements of the major do not satisfy this requirement.

Accounting, 6 credits

Statistics, 3-4 credits

MATH 255 - Elementary Statistical Methods 4 cr. or
other approved statistics course:
ECON 243 - Economic and Business Statistics 3 cr.
FOR 321 - Natural Resources Data Analysis 4 cr.
HS 301 - Fundamentals of Biostatistics 3 cr.
MATH 354 - Applied Statistics 4 cr.
MATH 357 - Probability and Statistics II 3 cr.
PSYC 300 - Statistics for Psychologists 4 cr.
SOC 351 - Social Statistics 4 cr.

Business, 22 credits

BUS 100 - Introduction to Business 1 cr.
BUS 325 - Organizational Behavior 3 cr.
BUS 330 - Principles of Marketing 3 cr.
BUS 340 - Business Law and Ethics 3 cr.
BUS 350 - Principles of Finance 3 cr.
BUS 360 - Principles of Production-Operations Management 3 cr.
BUS 370 - Management Information Systems 3 cr. *
BUS 380 - Principles of Business Analytics 3 cr.

Note

*If you are completing an Accounting major, you may substitute ACCT 370 .

Internship, 3 credits

Take one of:

ACCT 497 - Internship in Accounting 1-15 cr.
BUS 497 - Internship in Business Administration 3-15 cr.
ECON 497 - Internship in Economics 1-15 cr.

Management

Successfully complete 24 credits of Management requirements in addition to the Core.

Required Management courses, 9 credits

BUS 322 - Business Leadership for Managers 3 cr.
BUS 324 - Human Resource Management 3 cr.
BUS 326 - Organizational Theory 3 cr.

Focused Management electives, 9 credits

Choose three courses from the list below:

ACCT 321 - Cost Accounting 3 cr.
BUS 321 - Entrepreneurship 3 cr.
BUS 323 - Organizational Strategy 3 cr.
BUS 327 - Managing Global Organizations 3 cr.
BUS 328 - Training and Development 3 cr.
BUS 329 - Project Management 3 cr.
BUS 390 - Ethics in Business 3 cr.
BUS 490 - Special Topics in Business Administration 1-15 cr.
DAB 440 - Analytics and Decision Making 3 cr.
ECON 370 - Managerial Economics 3 cr.
PSYC 345 - Industrial Organizational Psychology 3 cr.

General electives, 6 credits

Successfully complete an additional 6 credits in SBE, 200-level or above, not including ACCT 497 , ACCT 498 , BUS 496 , BUS 497 , BUS 498 , ECON 200 , ECON 497 , or ECON 498 . Courses taken to satisfy other requirements for the major do not count towards this requirement.

Communication in the Major, 6 credits

Capstone Experience, 3 credits

BUS 480 - Management Capstone 3 cr.