Office Management, B.B.A.

615-898-2902
Virginia Hemby, program coordinator
Virginia Hemby-Grubb@mtsu.edu

NOTE: The Office Management major is in the process of being phased out. New applications are no longer being accepted to this program.

Office Management majors receive preparation to become administrative office managers, word processing managers, and administrative assistants. The program offers preparation for support positions in other business areas such as banking, real estate, and management. The major consists of 30 hours, 50 percent of which must be taken in residence at MTSU.

The program below includes a Business Administration minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Curriculum: Office Management

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

Freshman

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (Math) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (Math)
BCEN 2320 - Document Production 3 credit hours
BCEN 2330 - Word Processing Concepts 3 credit hours
Social and/or Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
Natural Sciences (2 prefixes) 8 credit hours
Humanities and/or Fine Arts 6 credit hours

Subtotal: 32 Hours

Sophomore

ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
HUM 2610 - Foreign Literature in Translation 3 credit hours (Hum/FA)
ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
BCEN 2340 - Microcomputer Word Processing Applications 3 credit hours
COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours * (Soc/Beh Sci)
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours *
QM 2610 - Statistical Methods I 3 credit hours *
Choose 6 hours from:
HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2030 - Tennessee History 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Junior

QM 3620 - Statistical Methods II 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3620 - Operations Management 3 credit hours
BCEN 3010 - Office Management 3 credit hours §
BCEN 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
BCEN 4510 - Business Report Writing 3 credit hours §
FIN 3010 - Business Finance 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours