Management Major

The Management major prepares students to lead organizations in an increasingly competitive and complex world.  While an organization must hold a core value proposition at the heart of its enterprise, be it a service or a product that it provides to its customers, the ability to deliver that value proposition in a profitable way depends heavily upon the effective leadership, management and execution by individuals and teams.  The courses in the Management major cover the range of issues that managers and leaders will encounter in their careers including motivation, project management, decision-making, teams, negotiations, ethics, organizational design, and human resource management, to name a few.  These skills are not only essential, but are also applicable within a variety of functional areas and organizational settings.  In fact, research has found that usually the skills covered in the Management major determine how high and how quickly an individual will rise within an organization.

Required Courses

Major Requirements:

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Management Core (two from the following):

  • MNO 3371- Human Capital and Talen Management
  • MNO 4361-Project Management
  • MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture

Electives (two from the following list): 

  • MNO 3373- Negotiations
  • MNO 3375- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership
  • MNO 4330- Introduction to Consulting and Change Management
  • MNO 4325- Design Thinking for Organizations
  • MNO 4361- Project Management (if not taken for core)
  • MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture (if not taken for core)
  • MNO 4375- Organizational & Workforce Analytics
  • CISB 2379- Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities
  • CISB 4397- Entrepreneurship-Starting a Business
  • CISB 4398- Managing the Entrepreneurial Business
  • ITOM 4307- Business Modeling with Spreadsheets

Two business electives from any combination of Cox Departments, including Management. 

 

Recommended Courses for Specific Career Goals:

(*-Indicates Cox courses that may be used towards electives for the Management Major. Courses outside of Cox will not count towards the business electives. )

Management majors make significant contributions in a number of organizations through various roles and job titles.  Given the flexibility of the management major, students have the ability to tailor course choices depending on their specific career goals.  Below are some recommended course selections for the more popular career choices for management majors. 

These are not meant to be a degree plan, nor an exhaustive list, but rather a menu from which to select a path towards a desired career.  Students must ensure that the courses they select will fulfill all the requirements listed above for the BBA in Management major.

Consulting

  • *MNO 4330- Introduction to Consulting and Change Management
  • *MNO 4361- Project Management
  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations
  • *ITOM 4307- Business Modeling with Spreadsheets
  • *STRA 4370- Strategic Management
  • *MKTG 3345- Sales and Distribution Management 

Human Resources

  • *MNO 3375- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership 
  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MNO 330- Management Consulting and Organizational Change
  • *MNO 4371-Leadership and Culture

Global Management

  • *MNO 330- Management Consulting and Organizational Change
  • * MNO 3375Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership 
  • * MNO 4371-Leadership and Culture 
  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MKTG 3348-International Marketing 
  • *FINA 4329-International Finance
  • SOCI 3340- Global Society 
  • CEE 1326- Introduction to Global Development

Small/Startup or Family Business

  • *MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture 
  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MNO 4361- Project Management 
  • *CISB 2379- Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities
  • *CISB 4398-Managing the Entrepreneurial Business 
  • *MKTG 3345- Sales and Distribution Management 
  • *MKTG 3343- Consumer Behavior
  • *STRA 4370- Strategic Management in a Global Economy

Management in a Sports Enterprise Setting

  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture 
  • APSM 2310- Contemporary Issues in Sport Management 
  • APSM 3340- Applied Management Skills in Sports and Fitness 
  • APSM 4372- Sports Facility & Event Management 
  • APSM 4371- Revenue in Sports

Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Management

  • *MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture 
  • *MNO 4361- Project Management 
  • *MNO 3375- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership 
  • SOCI 2300- Social Problems 
  • SOCI 3321- Nonprofit Organizations 
  • AMAE 3301- Nonprofit and Arts Leadership
  • AMAE 3385-Social Impact Investing

Technology Management

  • *MNO 4361- Project Management 
  • *MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture 
  • OREM 1360- Introduction to Management Science
  • OREM 3308- Engineering Management
  • OREM 2360-Engineering Economy
  • CEE 1326-Introduction to Global Economy

General Management

  • *MNO 4361- Project Management 
  • *MNO 4371- Leadership and Culture 
  • * MNO 3373- Negotiations 
  • *MNO 3375- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership 
  • PSYC 3341- Social Psychology
  • PSYC 3365- Organizational Psychology