Skill Development/Field Experience
MGNT4900: Management and Administration Senior Seminar
Pre-requisites: Completion of 90 credit hours toward the BSMA degree with grades of C or higher.
Credit Hours: 3 (1.5-6.5-3)
The Senior Seminar provides a forum for carrying out the BSMA degree requirement for either an internship or a research project in a rigorous academic and intellectual framework.
MGNT 4990: Independent Study in Management & Administration
Pre-requisites: Requires prior approval of the supervising instructor and the department head
Credit Hours: 1 to 3 (0-3-1) or (0-6-2) or (0-9-3)
Independent investigation of a topic through a research project or a program of directed readings. Topics will be developed by the student and the sponsoring faculty member.
Management & Leadership Courses
MGNT 3000: Principles of Management
Prerequisite: 45 hours with 3 hours in BUSA, ACCT, or ECON
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
Management functions and processes as applied to organizations and to individuals in organizations. Topics to be covered include strategic thinking and organization design, ethics and social responsibility, diversity, global influences, leadership, motivation, human resource management, and organizational change.
MGNT 3050: Human Resource Management
Prerequisite: 45 hours with 3 hours in BUSA or Permission of Professor
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course examines the role of managers as human resource professionals. Key management functions of recruitment, selection, development, appraisal, retention, compensation, and labor relations are examined. Implications of legal and global environments are appraised and current issues such as diversity, discrimination, sexual harassment policies, and rising benefit costs are analyzed. The student will 318 be exposed to practical situations, problem solving, and application of laws affecting human resource issues.
MGNT 3100: Principles of Marketing
Prerequisite: 45 hours with 3 hours in BUSA, ACCT, or ECON
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
Examination of the ways organizations satisfy consumer and organizational needs and wants for products and services. Emphasis is placed on how the elements of the marketing mix are used to provide customer satisfaction in the marketing of goods and services.
MGNT 3200 Financial Management
Prerequisite: 45 hours including MATH 1111 and 3 hours in BUSA, ACCT, or ECON or Permission of Professor
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
Introduction to managing an organization's financial resources with the aim of achieving its business objectives, emphasis on defining objectives, understanding and evaluating resources, and making financial decisions in an environment of uncertainty.
MGNT/HUSV 3341 Applied Statistics
Prerequisite: Minimum of 45 hours completed including Area A mathematics requirement
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course is an introduction to managerial and administrative decision making utilizing statistical analysis. The emphasis will be on use of basic descriptive statistics, probability, and inferential statistics including estimation and hypothesis testing using contingency tables, analysis of variance, and regression. Specific examples will utilize Microsoft Excel, emphasizing decision making using datasets drawn from both business and nonprofit environments
MGNT 3400 Management Information Systems
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours including BUSA 2101 or CSCI 1101
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
Introduces students to the study of organizations as systems supported by information processing. Students will learn to distinguish needs for information at different levels in organizations. They will learn to evaluate information system decisions. They will analyze business information problems using formal methods.
MGNT 3500 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours with 3 hours in BUSA, ACCT, or ECON or permission of professor
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course explores fundamentals of entrepreneurship and managing the small business operation, including management, marketing, and finance. The course is intended to prepare students to launch and manage new and existing small businesses with an emphasis on practical application. The course will include case studies, profiles of effective entrepreneurs, market research methods, and business plan development.
MGNT 3600 Managerial Economics
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours and ECON 2106
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course will introduce students to how firms make managerial decisions to maximize profits and will equip students to understand the problems faced by a manager as well as how to solve those problems strategically and efficiently. Students will evaluate the theory and application of economic concepts such as cost, production, markets, and pricing decisions undertaken by firms. The course will conduct an analysis of the structure and performance of the market by investigating the four market structures of perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. Students will gain a strong understanding of economic concepts and the application of these concepts in the real-world business environment through case-studies.
MGNT 3700 Personal Financial Planning for Professionals
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours with grades of C or better in MATH 1001 or above, ACCT 2101, and ECON 2105 or 2106
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course is designed as an introductory course to the Personal Financial Planning profession. In addition to covering an overview of the profession, the course will focus on time value of money, personal financial statement analysis, cash and debt management, housing, and education funding. An overview of other areas of the profession will be provided in order to provide students a comprehensive understanding of the overall personal financial planning process.
MGNT 4400 International Economics
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours and ECON 2105
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course will introduce students to basic global economics issues and their applications. Students will gain an understanding of global economics issues and markets such as international trade, trade deficits, exchange rates, capital flows etc; look at the role of various organizations and international institutions in the global economy; and examine the impact, integration and markets of Latin American countries and countries such as India and China in the world economy.
MGNT 4500 International Management
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours and ECON 2105
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An introduction t globalization and the cultural, economic, political, and legal environments of international business including an overview of risks, challenges, and opportunities of competing in the global marketplace. This course will introduce students to the theory and applications of international management. The students will advance their understanding of global firms and markets so that they 321 can make managerial decisions and solve problems strategically and efficiently. This course will analyze the structure of multinational businesses and markets.
COMM 3950: Organizational Communication
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in both ENGL 1102 and completion of a 2000 level English course.
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
Contemporary theory and intellectual traditions applied to the study of organizations and the role of organizations in society and cultural practices.
Special Topics Courses
MGNT 4080: Special Topics in Management & Administration
Prerequisite: 45 credit hours, with 3 of these hours in BUSA, ACCT, or ECON
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
This course provides for the advanced study of emerging issues or specialized content in areas of management, leadership, finance, entrepreneurship, technology and other topics related to Management & Administration. Course may be repeated when topics are different for a maximum of six credit hours towards graduation.
Additional Lower Level Courses
BUSA 1105: Introduction to Business
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An integrative study of the functional areas of business, including finance, operations, marketing, and human resources.
BUSA 2101: Introduction to Business Computer Systems
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
A survey of Management Information Systems and the application of computers in business and related areas, including hardware, software, data, procedures, human resources, an operating environment, an electronic spreadsheet, a database management system, a presentation management system, and the Internet.
BUSA 2105: Communicating in the Environment of Business
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An analysis and practical applications of the external and internal communications of business organizations.
BUSA 2106: The Environment of Business
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An introduction to the legal, regulatory, political, social, ethical, cultural, environmental, and technological issues which form the context for business, including an overview of the impact of demographic diversity on organization.
Recommended Lower Level Electives
POLS 1101: American Government
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An introduction to the basic institutions, structure, and processes of the American political system. (Successful completion satisfies the legislative Constitution requirement.)
POLS 2201: State and Local Government
Prerequisite; POLS 1101
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An examination of the structure, organization and functions of state and local governments. The role of state and local governments in the federal system will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to Georgia government.
MATH 2101: Introductory Statistics
Prerequisites; MATH 1001, MATH 1111 or any higher level MATH course.
Credit Hours: (3-0-3)
An introduction to non-calculus based statistics, including descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, hypothesis testing, estimation and sample size, correlation, simple regression, and chi-square and F-tests. Students must provide a graphing calculator.