Management Major

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Major Lead: Kevin Lo

The Management major prepares students to assume leadership roles essential to meet the challenges and uncertainty confronting today’s organizations.

The program is structured to equip students with the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and tools necessary to facilitate the performance of organizations.

The curriculum focuses on the theoretical frameworks and practical applications for exploring and explaining human behavior in the workplace, providing a broad perspective to go beyond accepted ways of interacting and working with others. Through classroom emphasis on critical thinking and independent judgment, students learn to be an active investigator of organizational life while developing the conceptual and problem-solving skills that an organizational leader needs to plan, organize, and inspire a group or an entire organization.

Please visit the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) department page for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes

It is expected that Management majors upon graduation will be able to:

Apply concurrently organizational behavior and management theory to practice in the classroom, organization, and society
Analyze and synthesize how cognitive, behavioral, and emotional outcomes at the individual, team and organizational levels contribute to the sustainability of organizations.
Demonstrate competence in integrating skills relevant to effective management professionals in making timely and ethical decisions required to lead complex organizations.
Learn to lead, communicate, and work effectively with diverse individuals and teams through a broad, interdisciplinary foundation.
Develop a fuller awareness and appreciation of self, others, society and the world through the Jesuit values of moral and ethical leadership, social justice, and service to others.

Major Requirements (72 units)

Business Core

The business core and foundation courses cover the basic business topics needed for a career in business. Consistent with the direction of business today, the business core at the McLaren School of Management highlights issues related to the global business environment, diversity and ethics. Oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning, information literacy, and critical thinking are also stressed throughout the curriculum.

All Business majors must complete a set of business foundation and core courses, as well as the required University Core Curriculum . Students admitted to the McLaren School of Management’s Honors Program take the Honors Program core. Please see School of Management Honors Program . The required foundation courses are also used to satisfy University Core Curriculum requirements (see faculty adviser). Students must maintain at least a 2.0 cumulative grade point average in their foundation and business core coursework.

Management Requirements (20 units)

Students take 20 units of upper division, non-core business coursework.

Required (12 units)

Complete 12 units from the following:

Frequency of course offerings varies. Please check course schedule each semester.

Electives (4 units)

Complete 4 units from the following upper division electives:

BUS 311:379 and/or
BUS 397:479

Senior Culminating Course (4 units)

BUS 447 - Management in Practice

Curriculum Map

Freshman Year

Fall	Units
Rhetoric and Composition	4
Core B1: MATH 106 - Business Statistics	4
Core E: ECON 112 - Principles of Macroeconomics	4
Elective	4
BUS 100 - Launch into Business	2
Total Semester Units	18
Spring	Units
Core A2: Rhetoric and Composition	4
Core E: ECON 111 - Principles of Microeconomics	4
BUS 201 - Principles of Financial Accounting	4
Elective	4
Total Semester Units	16

Sophomore Year

Fall	Units
BUS 202 - Principles of Managerial Accounting	4
BUS 204 - Foundations of Analytics	4
Core	4
Core	4
Total Semester Units	16
Spring	Units
BUS 205 - Applied Business Technology	2
BUS 302 - Marketing Principles	4
BUS 304 - Foundations of Organizational Behavior	4
BUS 305 - Principles of Finance	4
Core	4
Total Semester Units	18

Junior Year

Fall	Units
BUS 301 - Business Law	4
BUS 308 - Systems in Organizations	4
Upper-Division Major	4
Core	4
Total Semester Units	16
Spring	Units
Upper-Division Major	4
Upper-Division Major	4
Core	4
Core	4
Total Semester Units	16

Senior Year

Fall	Units
Upper-Division Major	4
Core	4
Core	4
Elective	4
Total Semester Units	16
Spring	Units
BUS 403 - Entrepreneurial Strategy	4
Upper-Division Major	4
Elective	4
Elective (if needed)	4
Total Semester Units	16

*This information is subject to change, the curriculum map is a sample, and students should consult with the department for any updated information.