Curriculum in Business Administration

For the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

The Department of Business Administration offers eight separate undergraduate concentrations: marketing, organizational administration, production, management science, industrial distribution management concentration, management information systems, entrepreneurship, and food and agribusiness management.

Marketing encompasses those business activities directly related to the process of placing meaningful assortments of goods and services in the hands of the consumer. The marketing student is concerned with the efficient performance of marketing activities and with their effective coordination with the other operations of the firm. Organizational administration is concerned primarily with the effective utilization of human resources within the business organization. Attention is focused on the organization as a social system and the forces that affect this system, such as the behavior of individuals and groups, economic conditions, and technology. Production and operations management is concerned primarily with the efficient utilization of the organization's material resources. Attention is focused on the design and improvement of productive capacity and the coordination of the productive process with other system activities. The Industrial Distribution Management concentration stresses the distribution and logistics function in the industrial sector of the economy, with particular reference to business to business relations. Problems in the management of industrial distribution businesses, both as suppliers to and customers of manufacturers and other businesses, receive special attention. The concentration in management information systems permits students to acquire the skills necessary to analyze management's needs for information and identify efficient and effective methods to provide management with such information. Entrepreneurship is the study of the emerging and rapidly growing business organization. It is intended for students who hope to start and own their own businesses. The concentration in food and agribusiness management emphasizes management in one of the most challenging and important sectors in the U.S. and world economies. Food and agribusiness executives will need to be trained to apply innovative management thinking to deal with technological change, global business ventures, and changing food habits and tastes among consumers.

Requirements for the degree are: BADM 311-Individual Behavior in Organizations, or BADM 312-Organizational Design and Environment; BADM 374 -- Management Decision Models; PSYC 201 -- Introduction to Social Psychology; and one of the following concentrations:

Hours	Marketing Concentration
6	BADM 322—Marketing Research, and -- BADM 325 --Consumer Behavior
3	Choose one of the following:
	ADV 483—Audience Analysis
	BADM 321—Principles of Retailing
	BADM 323 —Marketing Communications
	BADM 326—Pricing Policies
	BADM 327—Marketing to Business and Government
	BADM 382—International Marketing
	BADM 420—Advanced Marketing Management

Hours	Organizational Administration Concentration
12	A student must take four courses, three of which must be BADM 311--Individual Behavior In Organizations, BADM 312--Organizational Design and Environment, and BADM 313--Human Resource Management In addition, choose one of the following:
	BADM 325—Consumer Behavior
	BADM 380—International Business
	BADM 381—Multinational Management
	LIR 434—Employee Benefit Plans
	LIR 440—The Economics of Labor Markets
	LIR 441—Economics of Human Resources
	PS 320—Introduction to Public Administration
	PS 321—Principles of Public Policy
	PS 383—International Organization
	PSYC 354—Small Group Behavior
	PSYC 355—Industrial Social Psychology
	PSYC 373—Cross-Cultural Psychology
	PSYC 375—Personnel Psychology
	SOC 457—Sociology of Technology

Hours	Production Concentration
6	BADM 375—Business Process Management and BADM 376 -- Enterprise Process Integration and Dynamics
3	One course from the following:
	BADM 353—Information System Analysis and Design
	BADM 312—Organizational Design and Environment
	BADM 313—Human Resource Management
	BADM 378—Logistics Management
	BADM 395—ESM - Senior Research: Enterprise Software Management
	PSYC 358—Human Factors in Human-Machine Systems
	PSYC 456—Human Performance and Engineering Psychology

Hours	Management Science Concentration
9-10	Recommended sequences among the mathematics courses might be MATH 415, 482, and 466; or MATH 415, 461, and 466; or MATH 415, 463, and 466. Selected courses may include:
	3 BADM 420—Advanced Marketing Management
	3 MATH 415—Linear Algebra
	3 MATH 461—Introduction to Probability Theory, I
	4 MATH 463—Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Probability, I
	3 MATH 464—Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Probability, II
	3 MATH 466—Introduction to Probability Theory, II
	3 MATH 482—Linear Programming

Hours	Industrial Distribution Management Concentration
	A student must take the following courses:
2-4	BADM 395A Senior Research—Practicum in Industrial Distribution Management, or 395B—Practicum in Manufacturing (taken during summer of junior year)1
2-4	BADM 394—Senior Research
3	BADM 375—Business Process Management
3	IE 412—Applications of Operations Research to Industrial Systems
3	BADM 376—Enterprise Process Integration and Dynamics
3	BADM 322—Marketing Research
3	BADM 324—Purchasing and Supply Management
3	BADM 327—Marketing to Business and Government
3	BADM 378—Logistics Management
3	GE 101—Engineering Graphics and Design
3	PHYS 140—Practical Physics: How Things Work—A Course for Nonscientists
2-4	Students must take any one of the following courses:
	4 BADM 445—Small Business Consulting
	4 BADM 446—Entrepreneurship: Small Business Formation2
	3 BADM 313—Human Resource Management
	3 BADM 326—Pricing Policies2
	3 BADM 395—Senior Research: Transportation and Supply Management
	3 BADM 328—Business to Business Selling
	3 BADM 432—Introduction to Management Information Systems
	3 BADM 353—Information Systems Analysis and Design
	3 FIN 422—Case Studies in Corporate Finance2
	3 FIN 423—Financing of Emerging Businesses
	3 IE 330—Industrial Quality Control2
	3 PSYC 245—Industrial Organizational Psychology

Hours	Management Information Systems
12	A student must take four of the following courses1:
	BADM 350—IT for Networked Organizations
	BADM 432—Introduction to Management Information Systems
	BADM 352—Database Design and Management
	BADM 353—Information Systems Analysis and Design
	BADM 354—Management of Data Communications
	BADM 395—JG -- E-Business Management
	BADM 395—MX -- E-Commerce Applications and Web-based Systems
	BADM 395—ESM Enterprise Software Management
	BADM 459—Management Information and Control Systems
	BADM 453—Decision Support Systems
	BADM 454—Enterprise Computing Management

1. Substitutions may be approved by the head of the Department of Business Administration for no more than two of the required courses. Acceptable substitutes include CS 400, 401, 402, and 411.

Hours	Food and Agribusiness Management
	Students must take the following two courses and a summer internship:
3	BADM 438—Agri-food Strategic Management
4	BADM 439—Agri-food Management Practicum
6-7	Students must also select two courses from the following list:
	ACE 443—International Agricultural Finance
	ACE 430—Food Marketing
	ACE 328—Commodity Futures and Options
	ACE 455—International Trade in Food and Agriculture

Hours	Entrepreneurship
	Each student must complete the following courses:
4	BADM 445—Small Business Consulting
4	BADM 446—Entrepreneurship: Small Business Formation
4	BADM 447—Legal Strategies for the Entrepreneurial Firm
3	FIN 423—Financing Emerging Businesses

Advising Notes

-Students wishing to concentrate in production are advised (not required) to fulfill the college mathematics requirement with MATH 220 and 230, or MATH 235.

-Courses used to fulfill concentration requirements may not be taken on a credit-no credit basis.

-Beyond the required courses in composition, general education, the business core and major, at least 16 elective hours must be selected from outside business administration, accountancy, or finance (10 hours for students majoring in industrial distribution management).