BA in Human Resources Management
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Curriculum
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Core Courses
Mastering eLearning
Global Business Perspectives
Business Computer Skills
Principles of Accounting 1
Principles of Accounting 2
Strategic Management
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Introduction to Microeconomics
Selection and Placement
Training and Development
Compensation and Benefits
Law 1
Administrative and Personnel Law
Finance for Managers
Principles of Management
Management Information Systems
Business Ethics
Management of Human Resources
International Management
Business Research Skills & Application
Business Plan Research
Continuous Quality Management
Organizational Behavior and Development
Principles of Marketing
Civilization 1: Ancient through Medieval
Introduction to Psychology
Psychology of Leadership
Psychology of the Workplace
ASC1006 - Mastering eLearning
Credits: 1
Helps students new to Florida Tech and online learning to adjust to the university and acquire essential academic and administrative survival skills (online classroom behavior, academic honesty, study skills, etc.) that enhance academic integration into college.
BUS1801 - Global Business Perspectives
Credits: 3
Surveys the functions and operations of business organizations in a global marketplace. Studies the structure, operation, financing, relationships and responsibilities of firms in context of current legal, social, regulatory and environmental issues. Requires critical thinking, communication, research, and individual and group problem solving.
CIS1140 - Business Computer Skills
Credits: 3
Uses commercial software to understand the business functions of computers and develop personal competency in practical application of computers in business. Provides specific knowledge and advanced capabilities in various skills necessary for effective performance in academic and practical environments.
EAC2211 - Principles of Accounting 1
Credits: 3
Introduces the financial environment, financial statements, the accounting cycle and the theoretical framework of accounting measurement, emphasizing mechanics, measurement theory and the economic environment.
EAC2212 - Principles of Accounting 2
Prerequisite: BUS 2211 or EAC 2211
Credits: 3
Continues EAC 2211 Principles of Accounting 1. Emphasizes understanding the role of accounting in product costing, costing for quality, cost-justifying investment decisions, and performance evaluation and control of human behavior.
EBA4498 - Strategic Management
Prerequisite: EAC 2212, EMG 3225, EMG 3301, EMK 3601
Credits: 3
Incorporates all functional business areas dealing with organizational challenges. Emphasizes decision-making processes related to strategy formulation and implementation in global settings.
EEC2303 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
Prerequisite: MTH 1000 or MTH 1001 or MTH 1701 or MTH 1702
Credits: 3
Introduces the concepts that aid in understanding both aggregate economic conditions and the policy alternatives designed to stabilize national economies. Includes the determination of GDP and national income, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, economic growth and exchange rates.
EEC2304 - Introduction to Microeconomics
Prerequisite: MTH 1000 or MTH 1001 or MTH 1010 or MTH 1701 or MTH 1702
Credits: 3
Introduces the neoclassical theory of price determination. Includes supply and demand analysis, production and cost theory, market structures, externalities and public goods, factor payments, income distribution and informational asymmetries.
EHR3335 - Selection and Placement
Prerequisite: EMG 3331
Credits: 3
Focuses on people as strategic resources whose availability and capabilities influence organizational effectiveness. Studies strategies for attracting, assessing, acquiring and withdrawing personnel. Discusses implications of planning and implementing staffing policies.
EHR3340 - Training and Development
Prerequisite: EMG 3331
Credits: 3
Studies the theory and technology of organizational training and development. Includes concepts and applications to training, methodology for training, evaluation, forces shaping future training development, and current practices and needs.
EHR3360 - Compensation and Benefits
Prerequisite: EMG 3331
Credits: 3
Examines the financial reward systems in organizations. Studies the relevant theoretical and legal perspectives. Includes job evaluation, wage surveys, incentives, pay equity, benefits and compensation strategy.
ELA2601 - Law 1
Credits: 3
Investigates the operational responsibilities of individuals in light of political, moral, social, ethical and jurisprudential considerations.
ELA2603 - Administrative and Personnel Law
Prerequisite: ELA 2601
Credits: 3
Studies the effects of administrative and personnel law on the decision-making responsibilities of practitioners. Explores the impact on personnel policies and practices of organizations. Addresses the development, intent and implications of proactive labor legislation from the federal to the local level.
EMG3225 - Finance for Managers
Ability to use computer spreadsheets and financial business calculator. Prerequisite: BUS 2212 or EAC 2212
Credits: 3
Introduces the principles of corporate financial management. Emphasizes the time value of money in investments of real or financial assets. Covers planning for current assets and liabilities, and long-range capital. Passing grade in EST 2703 is recommended.
EMG3301 - Principles of Management
Requirement(s): Successful completion of 30 credit hours in Florida Tech Online. Prerequisite: COM 1102
Credits: 3
Introduces management as a discipline and process. Includes evolution and scope of management, decision-making, planning, strategy, organizing, staffing, leading, control, change, and the importance of management in the global environment and ethical considerations of management decisions.
EMG3327 - Management Information Systems
Prerequisite: EMG 3301
Credits: 3
Studies the important uses of information technology in organizations. Includes information requirements and flow, system design and analysis methodologies, the generation and accumulation of data for decision-making, and the implementation and control of information systems.
EMG3328 - Business Ethics
Prerequisite: COM 1102
Credits: 3
Studies general moral principles and their application to ethical issues and problems pertaining to business activities, and the nature of the corporation in contemporary society.
EMG3331 - Management of Human Resources
Prerequisite: EMG 3301
Credits: 3
Covers the principles and systems related to the management and leadership of human resources. Includes legal and administrative law issues; health, safety and security; selection and placement; job analysis; training and development; compensation and benefits; and job analysis systems.
EMG3340 - International Management
Prerequisite: EMK 3601
Credits: 3
Covers a broad spectrum of issues critical to developing a sound base of international business skills. Includes the assessment of foreign business practices, understanding international financial and trade practices and the impact on decision-making, and strategy development and implementation.
EMG4005 - Business Research Skills & Application
Credits: 3
Introduces business research methods and techniques for composing and formatting an industry analysis. Emphasizes written communication for the business discipline and how to use library and census databases. Requires synthesis of information from multiple sources and production of senior-level business analysis. First in a two-course sequence.
EMG4006 - Business Plan Research
Prerequisite: EMG 4005
Credits: 3
Focuses on applying business research methods learned in to produce a new venture concept and actionable business plan as second in a two-course sequence. Emphasizes critical thinking and business analysis tools (marketing, and operational, financial, organizational and strategic analysis). Introduces business presentation techniques.
EMG4410 - Continuous Quality Management
Prerequisite: EMG 3301
Credits: 3
Provides a contemporary approach to organization and management philosophy, theory, concepts and applications. Focuses on improving quality, productivity and competitive position through a realistic, relevant and sweeping view of the body-of-knowledge needed by operating managers to improve systems and processes.
EMG4412 - Organizational Behavior and Development
Prerequisite: EMG 3301 or PSY 3541
Credits: 3
Studies human behavior in organizations. Blends newer concepts of behavior theory with classical organizational theory. Includes methods for bringing change to organizations.
EMK3601 - Principles of Marketing
Requirement(s): Successful completion of 30 credits hours in Florida Tech Online. Prerequisite: COM 1102, EEC 2303
Credits: 3
Provides the fundamental principles in the marketing of goods, services and ideas. Includes planning, pricing, promotions and distribution. Focuses on global marketing, marketing ethics and managing the marketing function.
HUM2051 - Civilization 1: Ancient through Medieval
Prerequisite: COM 1102
Credits: 3
Introduces civilization from its early development to the European Renaissance. Emphasizes the interpretation of primary texts that reflect the intellectual and historical changes in society. The first of two interdisciplinary courses.
PSY1411 - Introduction to Psychology
Credits: 3
Overviews psychological processes, including both areas in which psychology is a natural science (physiological psychology, sensation and perception, basic learning and cognition) and a social science (motivation, human development, personality, social interaction, psychopathology and psychotherapy).
PSY3541 - Psychology of Leadership
Prerequisite: PSY 1411
Credits: 3
Examines the research and application of the essential competencies of effective leadership such as managing conflict, facilitating communication and leading groups and teams.
PSY3543 - Psychology of the Workplace
Prerequisite: BUS 2703 or CRM 3012 or EST 2703 or PSY 2512 or PSY 3012
Credits: 3
Covers the many ways psychology is applied in organizations to improve performance and quality of work life. Includes employee selection and personnel law, performance management, training, motivation, job attitudes, stress, teamwork, leadership and organizational development.
Communication
Choose COM 1101 or WRI 1001 (Dependent on Placement Test Score).
Composition and Rhetoric
First Year Writing 2
Writing About Literature
2000-Level Course
COM1101 - Composition and Rhetoric
Prerequisite: COM 0100 or COM 0110 or WRI 0100 or WRI 0110
Credits: 3
The first of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on writing essays using various rhetorical modes: persuasion, description, comparison and analysis. Presents basic methods of library research, as well as the MLA documentation system. Students write one research paper and several essays.
WRI1001 - First Year Writing 2
Prerequisite: WRI 1000
Credits: 3
Continues work begun in WRI 1000. Includes study in rhetorical analysis and the conventions of various genres. Also includes intensive instruction in writing and revision of work that culminates in a research paper.
COM1102 - Writing About Literature
Prerequisite: COM 1001 or COM 1101
Credits: 3
The second of two courses in college-level writing skills. Focuses on reading and analyzing poems, plays and short works of fiction. Students write several essays and one research paper on literary topics.
2000-Level Course
Choose one 2000-level (or higher) communication course.
Credits: 3
Mathematics
Statistics
College Algebra
EST2703 - Statistics
Prerequisite: MTH 1000 or MTH 1001 or MTH 1701 or MTH 1702
Credits: 3
Emphasizes mathematical concepts. Includes measures of central tendency and spread; probability; binomial, normal and t distributions; statistical inference; and linear regression and correlation.
MTH1701 - College Algebra
Requirement(s): Passing grade on placement exam or prerequisite course. Prerequisite: MTH 0111 or MTH 1011
Credits: 3
Real-number system; arithmetic operations with polynomials, special products and factoring; linear, fractional and quadratic equations; inequalities, exponents, radicals and absolute values; functions and graphs; and complex numbers, logarithms, logarithmic and exponential functions. Credit can only be applied toward business, communication, humanities, management, psychology or computer information systems degrees at Florida Tech.
Humanities
Choose two of the following:
1000-Level Course
1000-Level Course
Choose two 1000-level (or higher) humanities course.
Credits: 3
Humanities Core
Choose one of the following:
2000-Level Course
2000-Level Course
Choose one 2000-level (or higher) humanities course.
Credits: 3
Physical/Life Sciences
Choose two of the following:
1000-Level Course
1000-Level Course
Choose two 1000-level or higher (BIO, CHM, EDS, ENS, MET, OCN, PHY, SPS) courses.
Credits: 3
Business Electives
Choose two of the following:
3000/4000-Level Course
3000/4000-Level Course
Choose two 3000-level or higher (BUS, EAC, EBA, EEC, EHC, EHR, EMG, EMK, EST) courses.
Credits: 3
Free Electives
Choose one of the following:
Available Electives
Available Electives
Credits: 3
Elective courses available will vary depending upon your individual situation.
Total Courses
Core Courses
121 credits
Total
121 Credits
FALL 2 – 2016 | ||
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Application Deadline | 10/12/2016 | |
Start Date | 10/24/2016 | |
SPRING 1 – 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 1/2/2017 | |
Start Date | 1/9/2017 | |
SPRING 2 – 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 2/22/2017 | |
Start Date | 3/6/2017 | |
SUMMER 1 – 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 4/19/2017 | |
Start Date | 5/1/2017 | |
SUMMER 2 – 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 6/21/2017 | |
Start Date | 7/3/2017 | |
FALL 1 – 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 8/16/2017 | |
Start Date | 8/28/2017 | |
FALL 2 - 2017 | ||
Application Deadline | 10/18/2017 | |
Start Date | 10/23/2017 | |
SPRING 1 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 12/27/2017 | |
Start Date | 1/8/2018 | |
SPRING 2 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 2/21/2018 | |
Start Date | 3/5/2018 | |
SUMMER 1 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 4/18/2018 | |
Start Date | 4/30/2018 | |
SUMMER 2 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 6/20/2018 | |
Start Date | 7/2/2018 | |
FALL 1 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 8/15/2018 | |
Start Date | 8/27/2018 | |
FALL 2 - 2018 | ||
Application Deadline | 10/10/2018 | |
Start Date | 10/22/2018 |
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