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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
Freshman Year
First Semester |
Credit Hours |
ENGL 1301: English Composition I |
3 |
HIST 1301: U.S. History I |
3 |
TECH 2323: Intro. to Computer Applications |
3 |
MATH 1324: Math for Bus. and Econ. I |
3 |
BIOL, PHYS, or CHEM * |
4 |
Total Hours |
16 |
Second Semester |
Credit Hours |
ENGL 1302: English Composition II |
3 |
HIST 1302: U. S. History II |
3 |
SPCM 1315: Fundamentals of Speech |
3 |
MATH 1325: Math for Bus. and Econ. II |
3 |
BIOL, PHYS, or CHEM* |
4 |
Total Hours |
16 |
Sophomore Year
First Semester |
Credit Hours |
POLS 2305: U.S. Government |
3 |
ECON 2301: Macroeconomics |
3 |
ACCT 2301: Princ. of Financial Acct. |
3 |
ENGL 2322: World Literature |
3 |
MATH 1342: Statistics |
3 |
Total Hours |
15 |
Second Semester |
Credit Hours |
POLS 2306: Texas Government |
3 |
ECON 2302: Microeconomics |
3 |
ACCT 2302: Princ. of Managerial Acct. |
3 |
Fine and Performing Arts |
3 |
Humanities |
3 |
Total Hours |
15 |
Junior Year
First Semester |
Credit Hours |
BLAW 3301: Bus. Law and Soc. Resp. |
3 |
MANA 3370: Business Writing and Oral Present. |
3 |
MANA 3311: Managing People in Organizations |
3 |
MANA 3330: Mgmt. Inform. Systems |
3 |
Management elective |
3 |
Total Hours |
15 |
Second Semester |
Credit Hours |
MANA 3305: Operations Management |
3 |
MARK 3311: Principles of Marketing |
3 |
FINA 3311: Principles of Finance |
3 |
Upper-division business electives |
3 |
MANA 3320: Human Resource Management |
3 |
MANA 3170: How to Get a Job |
1 |
Total Hours |
16 |
Senior Year
First Semester |
Credit Hours |
MANA 4315: Managerial Decision Making |
3 |
MANA 4310: International Management |
3 |
Management elective |
3 |
Upper-division CBT electives |
6 |
Total Hours |
15 |
Second Semester |
Credit Hours |
MANA 4395: Strategic Management |
3 |
Upper-division CBT electives |
3 |
Upper-division electives |
6 |
Total Hours |
12 |
Note: Total hours must equal at least 120