Business Education, Non-teaching (Training and Development), B.S.

Department of Business Communication and Entrepreneurship

Students who seek to graduate without meeting licensure requirements are not required to take the courses for the Secondary Education minor and should complete the requirements below.

The non-teaching Training and Development option requires 50 percent of the major hours 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: Business Education, Non-teaching (Training and Development)

Curricular listings include General Education 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 1400 - Introduction to Business 3 credit hours
BCEN 2330 - Word Processing Concepts 3 credit hours
Humanities and/or Fine Arts 6 credit hours
Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
Natural Sciences (2 prefixes) 8 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
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 *
BCEN elective 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

MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3620 - Operations Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
BCEN 3010 - Office Management 3 credit hours §
BCEN 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
BCEN 4450 - Training Strategies for Business Systems and Technology 3 credit hours §
BCEN 4510 - Business Report Writing 3 credit hours §
BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
Nonbusiness elective 6 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Senior

BCEN 4810 - Internship Program 3 credit hours § OR
BCEN upper-division elective § 3 credit hours
BCEN 4200 - Problems in Business and Marketing Education and Entrepreneurship 1 to 3 credit hours § (3 credit hours required)
BCEN 4410 - Managerial Media Presentations 3 credit hours §
BCEN 4660 - Corporate Communication 3 credit hours §
Nonbusiness electives 7 credit hours
BUAD 4980 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours §
FIN 3010 - Business Finance 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 28 Hours

Total hours in program: 120

NOTE:

*A 2.25 GPA in these courses is required for admission to the Jones College of Business.
§Admission required