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

Management
615-898-2342
Kristie Abston, program coordinator
Kristie.Abston@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.

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

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.) 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

True Blue Core (TBC)	41 hours
College of Business Core	42 hours*
Major Requirements	27 hours
Auxiliary Courses	6 hours*
Business Elective	3 hours
Electives	1-10 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

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

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements: