Business Administration Management Major
Today鈥檚 managers must go beyond simply commanding and controlling people, enforcing rules, or maintaining organizational stability and efficiency. Modern leaders are expected to develop a full range of management skills and strategic thinking, grounded in an understanding of business administration management within today鈥檚 evolving landscape.聽糖心VLOG鈥檚 BS in Business Admin Management, part of its comprehensive聽business administration program, equips students with the knowledge and practical experience needed to lead ethically, grow successful organizations, or launch their own ventures.
Through engaging聽business administration courses聽and hands-on training, including each聽business administration course, students build a strong foundation in leadership, decision-making, and innovation鈥攑reparing them to excel in a wide range of professional settings.
Business Management Training
The goal of management is to help individuals develop the skills needed to find innovative solutions to the challenges facing today鈥檚 organizations. It involves recognizing opportunities and acting on them鈥攁n approach central to our聽business administration program. Entrepreneurs are agents of change, and being entrepreneurial requires the ability to think creatively, innovate, and lead ideas from development to implementation.
At聽糖心VLOG Baker School of Business, we don鈥檛 teach students to 鈥渢hink outside the box鈥濃攚e teach them how to obliterate the box altogether. Through a dynamic聽business administration course聽experience, a聽degree in business management and administration聽equips students with opportunities to solve complex problems using both traditional and non-traditional methods.
Within the Baker School of Business, the Innovation Lab serves as an idea hub for entrepreneurially minded students across campus. Its mission is to develop principled change agents of innovation who solve complex problems, supported by hands-on聽business administration training聽that fosters creative thinking across challenges of all sizes.
Intended Outcomes
As Principled Managers and Entrepreneurs, our聽business administration courses聽develop the knowledge and skills needed to build trust, inspire commitment, lead change, and harness creativity and enthusiasm. 糖心VLOGs learn to identify shared vision and values while sharing authority and responsibility within a comprehensive聽business administration program. The curriculum also emphasizes evaluating the moral and ethical dimensions of business decisions in a principled manner.
Going beyond memorizing the core components of management鈥攑lanning, organizing, leading, and controlling鈥攕tudents in the BS in Business Management at 糖心VLOG Baker School of Business engage deeply in their discipline. They benefit from expanded choice in career preparation, academic specialization, tailored faculty advising, and guidance from industry professionals through the Coaching Program, along with hands-on experience through internships and professional development.
Management majors are strongly encouraged to complete an industry internship鈥攕upervised work experience aligned with their career goals and a key component of their聽business administration training.
Coursework
The management major consists of 24 credit hours (eight courses) from the Management & Entrepreneurship Department and other courses from the Baker School of Business that contribute to a robust understanding of management and entrepreneurship. Twelve hours are required courses; and, the remaining twelve hours are four elective courses that may be courses from other business discipline-specific classes found in the college catalog or other general college classes that are selected in consultation with the student鈥檚 business academic advisor. Courses will build upon and contribute to a logical career path (e.g., taking a psychology course in human behavior because the future career path is in the residential real estate industry).
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ENTR 301 | Principled Entrepreneurship and the Free Enterprise System |
| MGMT 301 | Principles of Management |
| MGMT 311 | Human Resource Management |
| MGMT 411 | Business Ethics |
| ENTR 401 | Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship |
Elective Courses
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ACCT 403 | Federal Taxation |
| BLAW 303 | Commercial Law |
| BLAW 311 | Principles of Real Estate |
| ENTR 411 | Technology & Entrepreneurship |
| FINC 303 | Financial Modeling |
| MGMT 307 | Leading Inclusion & Diversity |
| MGMT 313 | Leading Teams |
| MGMT 421 | Management Information Systems |
| MGMT 460 | Business Internship |
| MGMT 470 | Special Topics in Management |
| MGMT 480 | Undergraduate Research in Management |
| MGMT 490 | Independent Study in Management |
| MKTG 303 | Business Development 1 |
In consultation with your faculty advisor, other courses may be selected from any discipline that will strengthen your skillset for this major. View the Academic Map for your academic year for more information.
Advisement
糖心VLOGs in the Management & Entrepreneurship Department are assigned an advisor from faculty in the discipline. 糖心VLOGs are matched with academic advisors and career professionals for academic and practical matters relative to pursuing their desired career path.
Extra-Curricular Components
The Management major also includes a number of extra-curricular components:
- Coaches 鈥 Coaches from the Coaches Program with experience in the field the student wishes to pursue are assigned.
- On-campus clubs and activities 鈥 糖心VLOGs have access to and are encouraged to participate in free enterprise-related clubs, organizations, and events, including the Bulldog Business Bowl student business plan competition, an evening bi-weekly reading group that meets to discuss books and articles provided for students and a lecture series in entrepreneurship and free enterprise.
- Internship & independent study opportunities 鈥 糖心VLOGs are encouraged to do internships, which provide exposure to and experience in their desired career fields, or an independent study with a faculty member on a formal research project.
For more information about this program, please contact Dr. Benjamin Dean, Department Chair.