Core Curriculum

The management track is designed for the working professional employed in the for-profit business arena as well as service organizations, public service, non-profits, and service related industries. The program focuses on teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, and the values and ethical leadership skills essential in today's diverse society and expanding workplace, both locally and globally. The focus of the management program is on building interpersonal skills to effectively manage or supervise, directly or indirectly, the work of others. Communication skills, understanding organizational and individual behavior, and leadership strategies for management and service are cultivated.

LNG 242 Cross Cultural Communication 4 semester credits
An exploration of the ways in which cultural factors including rituals, attitudes, values, beliefs, behavior, and cultural assumptions affect communication. Topics include models of cultural effect, relationship of dominant and non-dominant cultures, religions, traditions, para-language, non-verbal communication, chronemics, and proxemics.

BUS 201 Management Development Portfolio 2 semester credits
A focus on personal development and learning. The student will complete several self-assessment instruments and an instrument focusing on assessing management competencies. Students will explore models related to principle-based time management and executive development. Students will subsequently craft an individual detailed development plan intended to connect their career goals, academic program, and co-curricular involvements.

COM 303 Organizational Communication 4 semester credits
Communication theory in organizational contexts is studied with emphasis on classical structural theory, transitional theories and contemporary theories. Organizational communication perspectives on topics such as organizational climate, information flow, decision making and power are stressed.

BUS 243 Human Resource Management 4 semester credits
A study of human resource management in organizations as it related to job analysis and design, recruitment, selection, training and development, performance evaluation, compensation and labor relations.

AIS 205 Accounting for Managers 4 semester credits
This course examines the accounting procedures used by management to record financial transactions and report their impact on the value of the enterprise. Emphasis is on transaction analysis, the principles of systematic recording, and appropriate reporting formats. The course will also examine the internal analytical techniques used by managers to quantify and qualify accounting data into models for decision making, with special emphasis on the planning and control responsibilities of practicing managers.

BUS 355 Organizational Behavior and Group Dynamics 4 semester credits
Managerial effectiveness is significantly related to the capacity to understand and act on factors related to individual, structural, and group dynamics in an organization. This course focuses on the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within an organization. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between these factors and individual and organizational performance. While generally focusing on foundations of individual and group behavior, specific topics include motivation, job satisfaction, perception, decision making, power and politics, communication, culture, and organizational structure.

ECN 201 Economics for Managers 4 semester credits
A study of microeconomics and its relevance to managerial decisions in for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises. Topics covered include, demand and supply analysis, production and cost analysis, market structure and firm behavior, profit analysis, pricing practices, economic analysis of capital projects, and legal and regulatory environment of business.

HUM 210 Liberal Studies II 4 semester credits
This course deals with the great works from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries with special emphasis on the Dominican intellectual tradition and its contributions to the pursuit of truth.

BUS 325 Managerial Finance 4 semester credits
A study of the forms of business organization, the financial organization of business activities, and financial decision theory.

THL 113 Basic Christian Beliefs 4 semester credits
A study of the essential truths of Christianity from the perspective of the Roman Catholic tradition: revelation, Trinity, grace, salvation, sacraments, and eschatology.

BUS/PHL 348G Thematic Studies: Business Ethics 4 semester credits
A study of ethical theory and principles applied to contemporary problems in business. Special emphasis is on the intersection of business, ethics, law, and public policy.

BUS 301 Conflict Resolution and Negotiation for Managers 4 semester credits
This course will explore theories and models related to conflict resolution in management and interpersonal settings. Through role-playing activities students will practice and develop relevant skills and capabilities. The course will also explore theories related to developing the capacity and perspectives necessary to effectively negotiate under a variety of conditions.

BUS 498 Organizational Strategies 4 semester credits
A culminating experience that offers the integration of all courses taken in business administration, economics, finance, and accounting. This course focuses extensively on business policy and strategy decisions.

BUS 310 Fundamentals of Leadership 4 semester credits
A general introduction to the history and current theories underlying contemporary thought on leadership. The course will expose students to key leadership theories and concepts and their practical application. Additionally, the course will utilize contemporary and historical cases to deepen awareness and illustrate key concepts. Finally, the course will provide students an opportunity to identify leadership in the context of their personal experiences and reflect upon related implications.

BUS496 Advanced Readings and Topics in Management 4 semester credits
A seminar course intended as a capstone learning experience. Students will read and discuss a personalized list of "seminal" written works in management, some contemporary and others from the past. Students will complete a personalized learning project as a part of the course that is aligned with their career goals and that integrates learning from their program.

ENG 348C Thematic Studies: Biographic Arts 4 semester credits
The study of life writings from antiquity to the present with attention to the contribution each individual has made as an artist and historian. The course explores the interplay between fiction adn non-fiction writing.

For those who have started the BUS 201 course, you will take Cross Cultural Communication course at the end of the sequence.