Management concentration

General information

Department	Organization and Management
Office	BT650
Phone	(408) 924-3550

This program is fundamentally designed to prepare its graduates for careers in management in all forms of organizations: business and non-business, public or private, foreign or domestic. The objective is to teach the fundamental principles underlying organizations, to emphasize training which will improve student's thought processes, to provide a familiarity with analytical tools of management, and to develop the student's ability to use the techniques involved in analyzing and evaluating managerial problems and in making sound decisions.

Requirements

Course type	Units
General Education:	48-51 units
Business Pool:	12 units (6 of these units fulfill Core GE requirements)
Non-Business support:	14 units (3 units fulfill Core GE, 6 fulfill Advanced GE requirements)
Lower Division Business Core:	7-10 units
Upper Division Business Core:	24 units (3 units fulfill Advanced GE )
Management Concentration:	21 units
Electives or minors :	Units needed to reach 120 and fulfill all requirements

Concentration Requirements ( 21 units)

Required Courses

Course ID	Course Name
BUS 161A*	Applied Organizational Behavior (formerly BUS 163)
BUS 161B*	Organizational Change and Design (formerly BUS 161)
BUS 162*	International & Comparative Management
BUS 166*	Business and Society

Choose Three of the Following

Course ID	Course Name
BUS 102*	Fundamentals of Hotel Operations
BUS 103A*	Hospitality Facilities Management
BUS 141*	Materials Management
BUS 142*	Total Quality Management
BUS 144*	Supply Chain Management
BUS 145*	Global Operations Management
BUS 146*	Project Management
BUS 147*	Service Operations Management
BUS 148*	E-Commerce Management
BUS 149*	Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
BUS 150*	Fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
BUS 163*	Management Issues in High Tech Firms (Senior Standing)
BUS 164*	Strategies in High Tech Companies
BUS 167*	Managing Environmental Issues
BUS 168*	Global Business and Human Rights
BUS 181*	Introduction to Entrepreneurship
BUS 182*	Business Plans for New Ventures
BUS 191*	Decision Making Under Uncertainty
BUS 183*	Global Entrepreneurship
BUS 198 *	Consulting for Small Business

NOTE: You may want to consider using your three Management Electives to give yourself some degree of specialization, which may be useful when you interview for jobs after graduation. If you are interested in Entrepreneurship, High technology or Supply Chain Management, Career Advice sheets for specializing in these areas are available from BSAC or the Department of Organization and Management, BT650

* As of fall 2004, all courses within the Management concentration require grades of "c-" or better although courses taken prior do not require the grade minimum. A cumulative 2.0 GPA is required in all Business classes.

Business Pool

These courses require a "C-" or better and must be completed and cleared by BSAC in BBC 008 (924-3435) prior to taking any upper-division Business classes.

Note: Students must earn a "C" or better in Math 70 in order for it to fulfill GE requirements.

Course ID	Course Name
MATH 70	Finite Math
ENGL 1B	Composition 2
BUS 20	Financial Accounting
BUS 90	Business Statistics

Non-Business Support Courses

Course ID	Course Name
ECON 1A	Macroeconomics
PHIL 186	(@) Professional Business Ethics
ECON 1B	Microeconomics
	Non-Business Global Perspectives (#) (Click here to see the approved list of courses)

Lower Division Business Core

Course ID	Course Name
BUS 10	Discovering Business (Freshmen Only)
BUS 21	Managerial Accounting
BUS 80	Legal Environment of Business
BUS 91L	Business Computer Productivity Tools (1 unit)

Upper Division Business Core

Course ID	Course Name
COMM 100W, ENGL 100WB, or LLD 100WB	Writing Workshop (Requires passing of the WST)
BUS 130	Fundamentals of Marketing
BUS 140	Fundamentals of Operations Management
BUS 170	Fundamentals of Finance
BUS 187	Global Dimensions of Business
BUS 188	Business Systems & Policy
BUS 189	Strategic Management (Graduating Seniors Only)
BUS 190	Quantitative Business Analysis

General Education (48-51 Units)

Core GE

Section	Course name	Units
A	Basic Skills	9
B	Science (including lab)	6
B4	Math Concepts (Math 70)	3
C	Humanities and Arts	9
D	Social Science(Econ 1B-D1)*	9
E	Development	0-3
F1	American History	0-3
F2, F3	US Constitution CA Government	0-3

* Areas F1-F3 may also fulfill part of Area D

Advanced GE

Section	Course name	Units
S	Self, Society, and Equality in the U.S. (Phil 186)	3
R	Earth and Environment	3
V	Culture, Civilization, and Global Understanding	3
Z	Written Comm. II (100W)	3