Major in Management

Bachelor of Arts - Bachelor of Science
The personnel of an organization are key strategic resources in today's organizations, which recognize the importance of considering both the functional and human aspects of modern work life. Effective personnel management requires special knowledge, training, and skills to prepare managers to contribute to the development of organizational structures, staffing requirements, job descriptions, planning and administering employee benefits, and labor relations programs. For these reasons, college graduates with degrees in the management field will continue to be in high demand.

Modern personnel management requires a broad base of knowledge in contemporary business practices and in-depth knowledge of the social, psychological, and legal aspects of internal organizational relations, organizational change, and employment practices. To meet these requirements Aurora University provides the management major with a solid background in the core business areas of accounting, economics, finance, marketing and information systems, as well as in-depth familiarity with the theories of management, the practical aspects of administration, and the contemporary approaches to personnel motivation, organization change, and labor relations.

Through a set of required core courses in business and other electives focusing on management and administrative theory, students are prepared to enter business firms, social agencies, and government service in the areas of personnel management and human relations.

Required Business Core Courses for the BA: 39 semester hours
ACC201 Financial Accounting
ACC202 Management Accounting
BUS201 Business Law I
BUS220 Professional Communication
BUS320 Principles of Management
BUS322 Management Information Systems
BUS323 Principles of Operations Management
BUS330 Principles of Marketing
BUS340 Principles of Finance
BUS499 Senior Seminar in Business Policy
ECN201 Principles of Microeconomics
ECN202 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECN232 General Statistics

Students planning to attend graduate school should consider a BS. For the BS, the following 9 semester hours are required in addition to the semester hours required for the BA for majors in Business Administration, Finance, Management, and Marketing.
BUS351 Operations Research
ECN330 Business Statistics and Forecasting
MTH212 Calculus for Decision Making
or
MTH221 Calculus I

Selected Courses: Choose 12-21 semester hours from BUS, ECN, and ACC. At least 9 semester hours must be taken from the list below:
BUS321 Human Resource Management
BUS324 Diversity in the Workplace
BUS326 Organizational Behavior
BUS351 Operations Research
BUS360 Total Quality Management
BUS428 Labor Relations
BUS431 International Business
BUS440 Small Business: Entrepreneurship
BUS181, 281, 381, 481 Selected Topic (in Business, with permission of the Dean)

Up to 3 semester hours from sociology, psychology and social work may, on the recommendation of the student's business faculty advisor, be accepted toward the total of 12 semester hours.

NOTE: Supporting coursework in psychology, sociology, writing, and philosophy is strongly recommended by the faculty.