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 (16 hrs.)

ENGL 1301	College Composition I [TCCN: ENGL 1301]
HIST 1301	United States History I [TCCN: HIST 1301]
TECH 2323	Introduction to Computer Applications
MATH 1324	Mathematics for Business and Economics I [TCCN: MATH 1324]
	BIOL, PHYS, or CHEM*

Second Semester (16 hrs.)

ENGL 1302	College Composition II [TCCN: ENGL 1302]
HIST 1302	United States History II [TCCN: HIST 1302]
SPCM 1315	Fundamentals of Speech Communication [TCCN: SPCM 1315]
MATH 1325	Mathematics for Business and Economics II [TCCN: MATH 1325]
	BIOL, PHYS, or CHEM*

Sophomore Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

POLS 2305	Introductory American Government [TCCN: GOVT 2305]
ECON 2301	Principles of Economics I [TCCN: ECON 2301]
ACCT 2301	Principles of Financial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2301]
ENGL 2322	English Literature to the 1780's [TCCN: ENGL 2322]
MATH 1342	Statistics [TCCN: MATH 1342]

Second Semester (15 hrs.)

POLS 2306	Introductory Texas Politics [TCCN: GOVT 2306]
ECON 2302	Principles of Economics II [TCCN: ECON 2302]
ACCT 2302	Principles of Managerial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2302]
	Fine and Performing Arts
	Humanities

Junior Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

BLAW 3301	Business Law and Social Responsibility
MANA 3370	Business Writing and Oral Presentations
MANA 3311	Managing People in Organizations
MANA 3330	Management Information Systems
	Upper-division CBT Elective

Second Semester (15 hrs.)

MANA 3305	Operations Management
MARK 3311	Principles of Marketing
FINA 3311	Principles of Finance
	Upper-division Management Electives
MANA 3320	Human Resource Management

Senior Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

MANA 4315	Managerial Decision Making
MANA 4310	International Management
	Upper-division Management Electives
	Upper-division CBT Elective

Second Semester (13 hrs.)

MANA 4395	Strategic Management
	Upper-division Management Electives
	Upper-division Electives
MANA 3170	How to Get a Job

Note: Total hours must equal at least 120