Management, Human Resource Management Concentration, B.B.A.

Management
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Jill Austin, program coordinator
Jill.Austin@mtsu.edu

A major in Management with a concentration in Human Resource Management consists of 27 hours of management courses. All Management majors must have 50 percent of the required management courses in residence at Middle Tennessee State University.

This concentration provides students with HRM-focused knowledge and skills in the areas identified by the profession as most critical, such as compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion, employee and labor relations, employment law, human resource information systems (HRIS) and measurement of HR, planning and talent management, recruitment and selection, and training and development.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Management, Human Resource Management Concentration, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

General Education	41 hours
College of Business Core	42 hours*
Major Requirements	27 hours
Auxiliary Courses	10 hours*
Electives	0-6 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the General Education curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill General Education requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

General Education (41 hours)

General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.

The following courses required by the program meet General Education requirements:

MATH 1630 or MATH 1810 (Math)
ECON 2410 (Soc/Beh Sci and core course)

College of Business Core (42 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core which requires 42 hours with a 2.00 GPA.

Major Requirements (27 hours)

Management Major Core (15 hours)

LEAD 3010 - Leadership Skills and Development 3 credit hours
MGMT 3640 - Managing Key Performance Indicators 3 credit hours
MGMT 3810 - Human Resource Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3940 - Ethical Leadership in Business 3 credit hours
MGMT 4680 - Organization Behavior 3 credit hours

Human Resource Management (12 hours)

MGMT 4640 - Talent Acquisition and Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 4650 - Training and Development 3 credit hours
MGMT 4660 - Compensation Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 4690 - Strategic Innovations in Human Resource Management 3 credit hours

Auxiliary Courses (10 hours)

MGMT 4950 - Management Applied Experience 1 to 3 credit hours (3 credit hours required) OR
BUAD 4000 - College to Career 3 credit hours
MGMT 1500 - First-Year Seminar 1 credit hour OR
Elective 1 credit hour
MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours
Business Elective 3 credit hours

Electives (0-6 hours)

Curriculum: Management, Human Resource Management

Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.