Management, BS - Degree Completion Program

Program Goals & Learning Outcomes

PROGRAM GOAL 1 - DEVELOP EFFECTIVE AND ETHICAL LEADERS

• Students will analyze the effective qualities of a leader using organizational behavior frameworks.
• Students will evaluate personal leadership capacities and areas for future personal growth.
• Students will identify and describe stakeholders across multiple sectors; connect ethical theory to stakeholder values; recognize and interpret societal context that influences stakeholders.
• Students will effectively communicate orally and in writing using various mediums across diverse situations.

PROGRAM GOAL 2 - INNOVATIVE & CREATIVE DECISION-MAKING

• Students will create, analyze and integrate relevant quantitative and qualitative information to develop and evaluate management decisions.

PROGRAM GOAL 3 - DOMAIN CONCEPTS

• Accounting

Students will use accounting concepts and principles in creating and analyzing financial statements of organizations.

• Finance

Students will demonstrate ability to identify relevant information and apply specific knowledge and analysis skills to assess the economic value of real/financial assets or investment opportunities and make appropriate decision to create value.

• Organizational Behavior

Students will work effectively in groups and foster positive team dynamics.

• Technology

Students will describe the intertwined relationship among technology, information, and the organizational structure and operations in order to assess and evaluate the core technology concepts that enable sound organizational decision making.

• Marketing

Students will be able to identify the core concepts of marketing - price, product, place, and promotion. Strategy Students will develop specific and actionable strategic options to enhance the organization’s position through analysis of the changes in its competitive environment, its industry/sector, and its internal resources.

• Strategy

Students will develop specific and actionable strategic options to enhance the organization’s position through analysis of the changes in its competitive environment, its industry/sector, and its internal resources.

PROGRAM GOAL 4 - GLOBAL ORIENTATION

• Students will integrate diverse perspectives (e.g. cultural, religious, economic, political, historical, geographic, and environmental) in decision-making.

Curriculum Overview

Students take 44 units of upper-division management coursework for the major. Students in the BSM program also have the opportunity to earn up to 21 tuition-free units towards some general elective requirements through Interdisciplinary Studies Assessment (ISA).

The McLaren School of Management continually updates its curriculum to satisfy the latest AACSB requirements and to assure that its students receive the full experience of studying at an excellent liberal arts university. Recognizing our students as individuals with unique interests and talents, the faculty have designed the business curriculum to support the focus and breadth each individual student requires.

Course requirements are divided into the following areas

1. University Core Curriculum  
2. Interdisciplinary Studies (including the Interdisciplinary Studies Assessment)
3. Management Core
4. Special Topics

Major Requirements (44 units)