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Required Courses

Required
Behavioral Science
Courses

Required
Business Administration
Courses

The Behavioral Science and Human Resource Management major provides students with a multi-disciplinary approach to studying the connection between people and the workplace. The focus is on what it takes to meet the needs of the people and at the same time contribute to overall organizational effectiveness and efficiency. The major consists of courses from psychology, sociology, business, and economics. Graduates are prepared to enter the field of HRM, management consulting, general management, and/or to pursue graduate study in HRM, organizational behavior, industrial organization, and applied psychology.

BACHELOR OF ARTS
Behavioral Science and Human Resource Management

Requirements of the Major include completion of the following courses with a grade of "C-" or higher:

ACC 230   Financial Accounting
ACC 231   Managerial Accounting
BUS 260   Principles of Management
BUS 362   Human Resource Management (prereq. BUS 260
BUS 382   Management-Labor Relations (prereq. BUS 260) offered for the first time - Fall 2006
BUS 462   Recruitment & Selection (prereq. BUS 362)
ECO 121   Intro to Economics
MAT 111   Statistics (prereq. MAT 102)
PSY 202   Organizational Psychology (prereq. PSY 101)
PSY 204   Social Psychology (prereq. PSY 101)
PSY 303   Psychological Testing (prereq. PSY 101, MAT 111)
One semester of a foreign language at the second semester elementary-level or higher.

Two of the following behavioral science courses:

PSY 203   Learning and Conditioning (prereq. PSY 101)
PSY 205   Theories of Personality (prereq. PSY 101)
PSY 301   Research Methods (prereq. PSY 101, MAT 111)
SOC 302   The Sociology of Work and Occupations (offered biennially)

Two of the following business administration courses:

BUS 110   Business Law I
BUS 310   Corporate Finance (ECO 121, MAT 111)
BUS 350   Marketing
BUS 370   International Business (prereq. BUS 260)
BUS 461   Total Quality Management (prereq. BUS 260, MAT 111)
ECO 221   Intermediate Microeconomics (prereq. ECO 121, MAT 121)
ECO 222   Intermediate Macroeconomics (prereq. ECO 121)
ECO 224   Labor Economics (prereq. ECO 221, ECO 222)

In addition, the student must satisfy the Computer Applications Proficiency Requirement. This can be done in one of three ways: 1) by assessment of skills with the student’s academic advisor, 2) by successful completion of Introduction to Computer Applications Software, or 3) by successful performance on the computer proficiency examination. 

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