LEAP: Leadership Education for Adult Professionals

Business Management

The School of Business and Management offers the major in Business Management. This program is designed to allow adult professionals to earn a degree while remaining in their career. Since many adults desire to earn their degree but are unable to attend classes during regular class hours, courses are offered during nontraditional hours through accelerated formats.

The Business Management major is designed to assist individuals who are in a broad variety of professional arenas by ensuring that program graduates can:

• Demonstrate the elements of effective communication in a variety of interpersonal and organizational settings;
• Demonstrate understanding of ways that individuals and groups influence organizational behavior;
• Understand and demonstrate management theories, principles, processes and skills;
• Comprehend and apply components of human resource planning, personnel selection, motivation and evaluation as these factors affect organizations;
• Understand and analyze principal decision-making resources that leaders use in organizational management;
• Communicate an understanding of ethics and apply ethical decision-making in organizations; and
• Understand and develop lifelong learning attitudes and skills.

Program Requirements

General Education Requirements (58 credits)

• Humanities (18 credits)
  • ENGL 1013 Expository Writing
  • ENGL 1033 APA Research Writing
  • ENGL xxx3 Literature - Select one course from the following
    • ENGL 2003
    • ENGL 2113 British Literature I or
      ENGL 2123 British Literature II
    • ENGL 2213 American Literature I: Pre-Civil War Period or
      ENGL 2223 American Literature II: Civil War to Present
    • ENGL 3413 World Literature I or
      ENGL 3423 World Literature II
  • COMM - Choose one of the following
    • COMM 1212 Fundamentals of Speech Communication
    • COMM 1223 Speaking Before Groups
  • Fine Arts - Select one course from the following
    • ARTE 1022 Art Appreciation
    • ARTE 1302 Introduction to Drawing or
      ARTE 1322 Introduction to Painting or
      ARTE 1342 Introduction to Photography
    • DRAM 2012 Introduction to Theatre
    • DRAM/MUSI Performing Arts (see course descriptions for applicability)
    • MUSI 1012 or
      MUSI 1022
  • Language Arts - Select one course from the following
    • ENGL 2043 Creative Writing
    • ENGL 2313 Structure of English
    • ENGL 2653 Critical Thinking and Writing
    • ENGL xxx3 Any Course in Literature
    • Any Biblical or Modern Language Course
    • Any Communication Course except COMM 1212 or COMM 1223
• Science & Mathematics (10 credits)
  • Must include one quantitative reasoning course and one lab science
• Social Science (15 credits)
  • BUSM 1003 Foundations for Success
  • HIST xxx3 Any Course in History
  • 3 additional areas (selected from the following)
    • Church History or Political Science
    • Economics
      • BUSM 2303 Principles of Microeconomics or
        BUSM 2353 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • Geography
    • Philosophy (except PHIL 2703)
    • Physical Education
    • PSYC 1013 General Psychology
    • SOCI 1113 Survey of Sociology
• Biblical Studies (15 credits)
  • BIBL 1103 OT History and Literature
  • BIBL 1203 NT History and Literature
  • BIBL 2003
  • BIBL 3523 Bible Concepts of Leadership
  • THEO 3533 Studies in Christian Thought

Major Requirements (39 credits)

• BUSM 3203
• BUSM 3403 Business Law
• BUSM 3523 Group and Organizational Dynamics
• BUSM 3543 Organizational Communication
• BUSM 3563 Accouting for Managers
• BUSM 3573 Managerial Microeconomics
• BUSM 3583 Issues in Management
• BUSM 3613 Managerial Finance
• BUSM 4001 Sigma Career I
• BUSM 4011 Sigma Career II
• BUSM 4021 Sigma Career III
• BUSM 4563 Business Ethics
• BUSM 4583 Managerial Marketing
• BUSM 4603 Business Practice and Evaluation
• MATH 2003 Introduction to Statistics

General Electives (27 credits)

• Select from any area of study.