Certificate in Management Foundations

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The management foundations certificate helps prepare students for supervisory and midlevel management positions and enables employees in public- and private-sector organizations to upgrade their skills with the theory and practical knowledge necessary to advance to a higher level. With appropriate choice of courses, this certificate may be completed while pursuing the Bachelor of Science in business administration.

Note: Courses may be applied to only one certificate; some prerequisites may need to be fulfilled before beginning certificate courses.

Three required courses:

• BMGT 364 Management and Organization Theory (3)
• MRKT 310 Marketing Principles (3)
• HRMN 300 Human Resource Management (3)

A finance course chosen from the following: 3

• FINC 330 Business Finance
• FINC 331 Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager

A supporting elective chosen from the following: 3

• BMGT 317 Decision Making
• BMGT 335 Small Business Management
• BMGT 365 Organizational Leadership
• BMGT 380 Business Law I
• BMGT 464 Organizational Behavior
• BMGT 465 Organizational Development and Transformation
• BMGT 484 Managing Teams in Organizations
• BMGT 496 Business Ethics
• HRMN 302 Organizational Communication
• HRMN 367 Organizational Culture
• IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations

A second supporting elective chosen from the above list: 3

Total credits for certificate in Management Foundations: 18