Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Human Resource Management

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree is 120.

All candidates seeking this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements, the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) requirements, and the degree requirements, which are listed below. Top

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Human Resource Management must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 9-13 of this catalog. Top

Common Body of Knowledge (CBK)

All students seeking a B.B.A. degree in the College of Business must complete the following Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) courses in addition to the Core Curriculum.

In addition to the Core Curriculum Requirements and requirements from the College of Business Common Body of Knowledge (CBK), all candidates for the degree must complete the following degree requirements. Top

Degree Requirements

A. 15 upper-division semester credit hours in the major:

MGT 3613 Managing Human Resources
MGT 4613 Compensating Employees
MGT 4623 Staffing Organizations
MGT 4663 Training and Developing Employees
MGT 4803 Strategic Human Resource Management

B. 9 additional semester credit hours of human resource electives chosen from the following:

MGT 3023 Understanding People and Organizations
MGT 3123 Organizational Communication
MGT 3253 Interpersonal Communication
MGT 3803 Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
MGT 4213 Designing Organizations
MGT 4643 Human Resources Law
MGT 4813 Current Topics in Human Resource Management
MGT 4633 Labor Relations
MGT 4923 Leading Organizations and Making Decisions
MGT 4953 Special Studies in Management

To substitute another course for one of these human resource electives, a student must submit a petition to the Undergraduate Business Advising Office and receive approval from a Human Resource Management full-time faculty member before registering for the course.

C. 6 semester credit hours of support work:

COM 2113 Public Speaking
ENG 2413 Technical Writing

D. 3 semester credit hours from outside the College of Business from the following:

POL 3703 Personnel Administration in the Public Sector
PSY 3203 Industrial and Organizational Psychology
SOC 3193 The Sociology of Work and Occupations

To substitute another course for a support work course, a student must submit a petition to the Undergraduate Business Advising Office and receive approval from a Human Resource Management full-time faculty member before registering for the course. Top