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

Management
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Deana Raffo, program coordinator
Deana.Raffo@mtsu.edu

A major in Management and Leadership with a concentration in Human Resource Management consists of 27 hours of management courses. All Management and Leadership majors must have 50 percent of the required management and leadership 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.

Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) Program

High achieving students majoring in Management with a Human Resource Management concentration who intend to pursue a master’s degree in Management (M.S.) or Business Administration (M.B.A.) may apply to participate in the Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) pathway. The pathway allows undergraduate students an opportunity to complete select requirements for both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously. Upon successful completion of the ABM pathway, students must submit an application (including application fee) to the graduate program. Additional application requirements will be waived, and the student will be admitted to the program automatically. For more information about the ABM pathway, see the Graduate Catalog.

Academic Map

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

Management and Leadership, 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	6 hours*
Business Elective	3 hours
Electives	1-7 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 and Leadership 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 (6 hours)

MGMT 4950 - Management Applied Experience 1 to 3 credit hours (3 credit hours required) OR
BUAD 4000 - College to Career 3 credit hours
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 hours)

Electives (0-6 hours)

Curriculum: Management and Leadership, 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.