The Management Concentration offers a wide variety of courses that examine the many challenges facing modern business organizations and provide the tools to meet those challenges. Specific areas of study include entrepreneurship, leadership and decision-making, conflict resolution, human resources, and managing employees. Students who graduate with a concentration in management often pursue careers in consulting or as leaders in the private or public sector.
Requirements
Twenty credits in 300 and 400-level management courses are required for the Management Concentration, including two required courses and two elective courses (five credits each).
Prerequisites
All Bachelor's Degree Program students start out in the following introductory management courses, which are prerequisites to all other courses in the concentration:
- BBUS 300 - Management of Organizations
- BBSKL 300 - Teamwork Skills
Required Courses
- BBUS 472 - Managing Employees
- BBUS 473 - Leadership & Decision Making
Elective Courses
Minimum of two required.
- BBUS 330 - Information Management and Analysis
- BBUS 401 - Work Motivation and Performance
- BBUS 402 - Managing Work Teams
- BBUS 441 - Business Project Management
- BBUS 461 - Business, Government, & Society
- BBUS 462 - Negotiations & Conflict Management
- BBUS 471 - Entrepreneurial Management
- BBUS 475 - Managing Innovation
- BBUS 476 - New Technology & Future Markets
- BBUS 477 - Human Resources Management
- BBUS 479 - Special Topics in Management
- BBUS 490 - Special Topics (check quarterly time schedule for concentration approval)
- BBUS 496 - Organizational Diagnosis & Consulting (maximum five credits for concentration)
Management Faculty
Paul Collins, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Walter Freytag, Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Tim Hargrave, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Manuela Hoehn-Weiss, Assistant Professor
DBA, Boston University
Kevin Laverty, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles