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

BBA Management

Freshman Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

ENGL 1301	College Composition I [TCCN: ENGL 1301]
MATH 1324	Mathematics for Business and Economics I [TCCN: MATH 1324]
HIST 1301	United States History I [TCCN: HIST 1301]
COSC 1307	Introduction to Information Systems Software [TCCN: BCIS 1305]
	Life and Physical Sciences (Core, 3 hrs.)

Second Semester (15 hrs.)

CMST 1315	Introduction to Public Speaking [TCCN: SPCH 1315]
MATH 1342	Statistics [TCCN: MATH 1342]
HIST 1302	United States History II [TCCN: HIST 1302]
MANA 1300	Introduction to Business [TCCN: BUSI 1301]
	Life and Physical Sciences (Core, 3 hrs.)

Sophomore Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

ACCT 2301	Principles of Financial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2301]
ECON 2301	Principles of Macroeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2301]
POLS 2305	Introductory American Government [TCCN: GOVT 2305]
	Language, Philosophy and Culture (Core, 3 hrs.)
	Creative Arts (Core, 3 hrs.)

Second Semester (15 hrs.)

ACCT 2302	Principles of Managerial Accounting [TCCN: ACCT 2302]
ECON 2302	Principles of Microeconomics [TCCN: ECON 2302]
POLS 2306	Introductory Texas Politics [TCCN: GOVT 2306]
ENGL 1302	College Composition II [TCCN: ENGL 1302]
MATH 1325	Mathematics for Business and Economics II [TCCN: MATH 1325]

Junior Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

GENB 2300	Business Statistics [TCCN: BUSI 2305]
MANA 3315	Organizational Behavior
MANA 3311	Fundamentals of Management
MANA 3370	Business Writing and Oral Presentations
MARK 3311	Principles of Marketing

Second Semester (16 hrs.)

MANA 3300	Critical, Creative and Analytical Thinking in Business
FINA 3311	Principles of Finance
MANA 3170	Build and Manage a Successful Career
MANA 3312	International Business
MANA 3305	Operations Management
MANA 3320	Human Resource Management

Senior Year

First Semester (15 hrs.)

MANA 4315	Managerial Decision Making
MANA 4310	International Management
BLAW 3301	Business Law and Social Responsibility
COSC 3333	Management Information Systems
	Upper-level COB Elective (3 hrs.)

Second Semester (15 hrs.)

MANA 4395	Strategic Management
	Upper-level Soules Elective (3 hrs.)
	Upper/lower division elective (2 hrs.)
	Upper-level MANA electives (6 hrs.)

Note: Total hours must equal at least 120