Management positions exist at all levels—in administration, marketing, finance, human resources, sales, and more. The management concentration in the business administration at Becker College focuses on effective communication, planning, and problem solving skills, as well as expertise in project and team management. Students enrolled in the management concentration learn how organizations formulate strategies, set goals and objectives, implement plans, and measure results.
Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, committed to social justice, or looking forward to a career at a Fortune 500 company, you will need to understand the fundamentals of business.
Learning Outcomes:
Communication: Students demonstrate effective written and oral communication including informed arguments, persuasion, synthesize complex data, and concepts.
Context: Students demonstrate comfort with and ability to effectively operate in: ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty, and change. Students will be adept at situational awareness. Students understand the historical context of their culture and they will view the world from a global lens acknowledging the diversity of cultures and values. Students demonstrate propositional thinking; they will test and iterate on ideas/solutions based upon feedback and learn from their own failures.
Quantitative: Students use quantitative and analytical methods to address unstructured business problems.
Ethics: Students demonstrate ability to evaluate decisions based on an awareness of relevant stakeholders in the creation of sustainable social, environmental, and economic value.
Cognitive Flexibility: Students demonstrate mastery of various thinking modes, notably analytic, synthetic, convergent, divergent, creative, and critical; and when to employ each type. Student demonstrate awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and will seek continual improvements. Student demonstrate both self and social awareness and management to effectively play various roles on an interdisciplinary team from leader to contributor to participant (role fluidity). These skills are essential for all leadership and management roles.
Value Creation: Students identify, create, shape, and capture value through understanding economic models and the reality of industry disruption cycles.
| Fall Semester | Course Name | Credits | Spring Semester | Course Name | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freshman Year | |||||
| ECON1200 | Global Economics: Micro and Macro Perspective | 3 | MKTG2004 | Marketing I - Creating, Marketing, Branding and Sales Strategies | 3 |
| CORE1001 | Managing Transitions: Change as a Norm | 3 | MATH2101 | Applied Business Statistics | 3 |
| PSYC1001 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 | CORE-ENGL | The New Normal: Exploring Unstructured Problems | 3 |
| MATH1200 | College Algebra | 3 | Humanities and Fine Arts Elective | 3 | |
| MGMT1000 | Introduction to Business Models | 3 | Open Elective | 3 | |
| 15 | 15 | ||||
| Sophomore Year | |||||
| ACCT2100 | Accounting and Finance I - Concepts and Tools | 3 | MGMT2900 | Business Career Exploration | 3 |
| MGMT2400 | Innovating Value & Supply Chains (business elective) | 3 | ACCT3100 | Accounting and Finance II - Financial Decision Making | 3 |
| MKTG3004 | Marketing II - Analyzing Marketing, Branding and Sales Strategies | 3 | Business Elective (2000 Level) | 3 | |
| CORE3100 | Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset | 3 | Open Elective | 3 | |
| ENGL1003 | Writing about Literature | 3 | Science Elective w/ Lab | 4 | |
| 15 | 16 | ||||
| Junior Year | |||||
| MGMT3700 | Business Decision Making: Law, Ethics and Stragies | 3 | MKTG3001 | Marketing Management | 3 |
| MGMT3400 | Human Resource Management | 3 | MGMT4900 | Career Internship | 3 |
| MGMT3205 | Organizational Behavior Or | 3 | MGMT3100 | Managing in the Global Economy | 3 |
| Business Elective (3000+) | MGMT3960 | Budget & Performance Measurement | 3 | ||
| General Education Elective | 3 | Open Elective | 3 | ||
| Humanities and Fine Arts Elective | 3 | ||||
| 15 | 15 | ||||
| Senior Year | |||||
| MGMT4101 | Capstone I (Business Policy) | 3 | MGMT4102 | Capstone II (Business Elective 3000+) | 3 |
| MGMT3800 | Management Information Systems | 3 | MGMT4003 | Developing Business Leadership (MGMT4195) | 3 |
| INFO3300 | Business Analytics Or | 3 | MGMT3890 | Managing Diversity in the Changing Workplace | 3 |
| INFO2500 | Data Visualization Or | General Education Elective | 3 | ||
| Business Elective (2000+) | Open Elective | 3 | |||
| Business Elective (3000+) | 3 | ||||
| Open Elective | 3 | ||||
| 15 | 15 | ||||
| Total Credits: | 121 |
