Management, B.B.A.

Department of Management
615-898-2736
Jill Austin, program coordinator
Jill.Austin@mtsu.edu

A major in 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.

Students interested in careers in human resources management are encouraged to choose their management electives from the following list: MGMT 4490 , MGMT 4500 , MGMT 4510 , MGMT 4620 , MGMT 4640 , MGMT 4650 , MGMT 4660 , MGMT 4690 , MGMT 4830 , MGMT 4950 , MGMT 4990 .

Students interested in careers in supply chain management are encouraged to choose their management electives from the following list: MGMT 3705 , MGMT 3710 , MGMT 3715 , MGMT 3720 , MGMT 3725 , MGMT 3730 , MGMT 3750 , MGMT 4700 , MGMT 4810 , MGMT 4950 , MGMT 4990 .

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.

Academic Map

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

Management, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

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 General Education courses are required for this major:

MATH 1630 or 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 2.000 GPA. ECON 2410 is included in the core and will also satisfy 3 hours from the Social/Behavioral General Education requirement.

Major Requirements (27 hours)

MGMT 3640 - Introduction to Management Science 3 credit hours
MGMT 3810 - Human Resources Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3940 - Business Ethics 3 credit hours
MGMT 4680 - Organization Behavior 3 credit hours
MGMT 4710 - International Business 3 credit hours
MGMT upper-division electives 12 credit hours

Auxiliary Courses (7 hours)

MGMT 1500 - First-Year Seminar 1 credit hour OR
Non-business elective 1 credit hour
ACTG 3020 - Managerial Accounting 3 credit hours OR
FIN 4110 - Cases in Finance 3 credit hours
Business elective 3 credit hours

Electives (6 hours)

Total hours in program: 120

Curriculum: Management

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)
COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
Natural Sciences (2 prefixes) 8 credit hours
ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours (Soc/Beh Sci) *
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours *
Elective 3 credit hours
MGMT 1500 - First-Year Seminar 1 credit hour OR
Elective 1 credit hour

Subtotal: 30 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)
Humanities and/or Fine Arts (2 prefixes) 6 credit hours
Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
Elective 3 credit hours
BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 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

BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
BUS 3000 - Dale Carnegie Communications and Human Relations Seminar 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3620 - Supply Chain Operations 3 credit hours
MGMT 3810 - Human Resources Management 3 credit hours §
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
FIN 3010 - Business Finance 3 credit hours
MGMT 3940 - Business Ethics 3 credit hours §
BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours AND
BIA 3621 - Introduction to Business Analytics Lab 0 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Senior

MGMT 3640 - Introduction to Management Science 3 credit hours §
MGMT 4680 - Organization Behavior 3 credit hours §
MGMT 4710 - International Business 3 credit hours §
MGMT upper-division electives 12 credit hours §
Business elective 3 credit hours
ACTG 3020 - Managerial Accounting 3 credit hours § OR
FIN 4110 - Cases in Finance 3 credit hours §
BUAD 4980 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours §