BBA in Management, Business Management Concentration

Overview
Our Bachelor of Business Administration in Management program prepares you to be a business manager and leader. The business management concentration will give you the flexibility to select from a wide array of management and related business courses to enable you to build a concentration that is tailored to your interests in the management field.

Our curriculum gives you the real-world skills of business management though the guidance of seasoned and accomplished faculty. Our faculty members are established leaders in their fields and also bring extensive industry experience to the classroom. Both theory and its real-world application are taught for both domestic and global markets.

As a part of our programs we also offer practical work experience in paid or credit-granting management internships offered through our Cooperative Education program.

Program and Courses
The Business Management program prepares students for careers in the management and leadership of business, both domestically and globally. Students, as leaders and managers, learn how to recognize, analyze, respond and strategically plan for such environmental factors as changing laws, accounting, financial and economic challenges, technological changes, union activities, cultural issues, and domestic and international trends. You will learn the formal and systematic management methods of directing and motivating group efforts toward achieving the organization's primary objective, the optimal allocation of resources.

As there are many opportunities in management covering a wide field of industries, Pace University offers you several avenues of study. The Management major is designed for students who wish a flexible curriculum and opportunity to specialize in one of four areas of concentrations. Through formal and systematic study of management, students will learn methods of directing and motivating group efforts to the members of your group and team to assure proper allocation of limited resources. So, in addition to completing the core course requirements, courses that establish a firm basis on which to develop your specialty, you have the choice to decide which area of concentration you most enjoy and at which you will be most successful.

The Business Management concentration prepares students for managerial careers. It focuses on the actions of managers in establishing objectives and planning for their accomplishment, integrating the actions of people and operations, and measuring the timely achievement of plans.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

University Core (60)
Business Core (30)

Major Requirements (27-34 credits)
(MGT 250, 355 and 490 (9) are applied to the Business Core.)
MGT 250 Managerial and Organizational Concepts (3)
MGT 355 Management Science and Production
Management Concepts (3)
MGT 490 Business Strategy (3)
MGT 322 Organizational Behavior (3)
Area of Concentration: (15 credits)

Free Electives (17 credits required)

Business Management Required Concentration Courses

Required Concentration Course (3)
Select ONE course from the following:
MGT 340 International Management
MGT 341 Comparative Management Systems
MGT 342 The Human Dimension in International Management
MGT 347 International Management Field Study

Elective Concentration Courses (12)
Select at least two courses (6 credits) from Group I. The remaining two courses (6 credits) may be taken from Group I or Group II.

Group I: General Management Courses
MGT 316 Venture Initiation and Entrepreneurship
MGT 330 Business and Society
MGT 349 International Management Seminar
MGT 357 Global Operations Management
MGT 362 Human Resources Management
MGT 364 Organizational Theory and Development
MGT 365 Managerial Negotiations
MGT 366 Leadership Principles and Practices
MGT 489 Seminar in Management
MGT 340 International Management

Group II: Specialized Business Courses
MGT 307 Hotel Management
MGT 308 Travel and Tourism Management
MGT 309 Restaurant and Club Management
MGT 315 Small Business Management
MGT 318 Management and the Family Business
MGT 354 Quality Assurance and TQM
MGT 394A Management Internship
MGT 485 Long Range Planning
FIN 307 Managerial Finance
LAW 310 Employment Law
MAR 331 Managerial Marketing

One International Management Environments Course:
MGT 343 (Asia), MGT 344 (Latin America) or MGT 345 (Europe)
MGT 341 Comparative Management Systems, MGT 342 Comparative Management Systems, or MGT 347 International Management Field Study, if not used to satisfy International Management course requirement.

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