Go beyond traditional. Reach for transformational.
As a Business Management major, you’ll master the art and science of working with people and leading in a business world that hinges on strategy and decision-making.
And you’ll emerge ready to take the reins on your own managerial career in any organization, large or small.
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I constantly use techniques taught in my Business Communication and Capstone courses. Even after receiving my most recent promotion, I was able to use some of the skills I learned in my negotiation course to obtain a few additional benefits.
Brittany Smythe ’11 BSBA (Business Management)
Business ManagementMajor Overview
This major is designed for students who expect to hold managerial positions in large or small organizations.
Business Management involves two broad domains.The first is working with people: hiring, training, coordinatingand creating an effective environment for the attainment of organizational objectives. The second is laying a foundation for becoming a manager of a business or organizational unit where strategy and decision-making skills are important.
Business Management Advising
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Business Management Sample Coursework Plan
How your Eller experience can play out:
This sample plan is based on 14-17 credits per semester, but each student and their academic plan is unique.Please meet with yourAcademic Advisorto create a custom plan for you. Please note that your General Education requirements, including second language, are determined by when you were admitted to the university. YourAcademic Advisorcan help you navigate the requirements relevant for you. For a full list of official degree requirements, check out theUniversity General Catalog.
First Year
| 1st Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| ENGL 101*First Year Composition MIS 111*Computers and Internetworked Society MIS 112*Computers and Internetworked Society Lab MATH 112College Algebra Concepts and Applications General Education and/or Second Language AttendEller Career ExpoandUA Fall Career Days | 3 3 1 3 3 |
| Total | 13-17 |
| 2nd Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| ENGL 102*First Year Composition MATH 116*Calculus Concepts for Business Majors General Education General Educationand/or Second Language BNAD 100Language and Context of Business AttendCareer ShowcaseandUA Spring Career Days | 3 3 3 3-7 1 |
| Total | 13-17 |
| Summer | |
|---|---|
| Use summer to catch up on math if behind in sequencing based on placement results prior to your first year. |
Sophom*ore Year
| 1st Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| BNAN 276*Statistical Inference in Management ACCT 200*Introduction to Financial Accounting ECON 200*Basic Economic Issues General Education General Education BNAD 200Career Management in Business AttendEller Career ExpoandUA Fall Career Days | 3 3 3 3 3 1 |
| Total | 16 |
| 2nd Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| ACCT 210*Introduction to Managerial Accounting BNAN 277*Analytical Methods for Business BCOM 214*Fundamentals of Business Communication General Education General Education or Ethics** AttendCareer Showcaseand apply forProfessional Admissionsin February, and attendUA Spring Career Days | 3 4 3 3 3 |
| Total | 16 |
| Summer | |
|---|---|
| We highly recommend that students participate in a study abroad and career-related experience. | |
In order to take the following upper-division courses, students must be admitted to the major through a competitive and selectiveProfessional Admissionprocess.
Professional Phase
| 1st Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
MGMT 310AOrganization Behavior and Management AttendEller Career ExpoandUA Fall Career Days | 3 3 3 3 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| 2nd Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
| ECON 300 Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions OSCM 373Basic Operations Management MIS 304Using and Managing Information Systems BMGT Major Elective Course BMGT Major Elective Course AttendCareer ShowcaseandUA Spring Career Days | 3 3 3 3 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| Summer | |
|---|---|
| Use summer to gain career-related experience through internships, study abroad, or volunteering. |
Professional Phase
| 3rd Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
MGMT 402Integrating Business Fundamentals with Ethics and Law in Management
| 3 3 3 3 3 |
| Total | 15 |
| 4th Semester | |
|---|---|
| Course | Units |
MGMT 471Management Policies AttendCareer ShowcaseandUA Spring Career Days, andGraduationin May | 3 3 3 3-6 |
| Total | 12-15 |
| Summer | |
|---|---|
| Enjoy your summer and continue the job search if necessary! |
Note: This is only a sample plan and requirements are subject to change and may vary based on catalog year, placement tests, AP/CLEP credit, transfer work, summer school, etc.
All students enter as Foundational Business Managements majors, and must go through a competitive and selectiveProfessional Admissionprocess to gain entry to the upper-division professional majors. The above plan is designed on the assumption that a student tests into College Algebra on the PPL Math Placement Exam; students who test lower than College Algebra should refer to theFive-Semester Planand work with theiracademic advisorto learn how they can adjust their schedule to meet their educational goals.
* Eller Foundation Courses:You need to take these classes before you apply for admission into the professional program. Professional Admission is required before enrolling in 300- and 400-level core and major courses. Students transferring directly into the upper division who do not have a BCOM 214 equivalent completed will be required to take BCOM 315 before graduation instead.
** Business Emphasis Areas:You must take one ethics course to complete your degree. This class does not need to be completed before applying for Professional Admission.
Students can meet the Second Languagerequirement by demonstrating second semester proficiency through examination or taking any of a variety of second semester language courses. Each student needs to meet a minimum of 120 total credits.Students are strongly encouraged to take BNAD 100 and BNAD 200 to develop their professional knowledge and competencies required for success in the upper division. Please consult with your Advisem*nt Report and your academic advisor.
Business ManagementCohort Schedules
View Business Management major cohort schedules by semester:
Business Management Sage Cohort
| SAGE COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:15 | BCOM 314R* | BCOM 314R* | ||
| 9:30-10:45 | MGMT 330 | BCOM 314R* | MGMT 330 | BCOM 314R* |
| 11:00-12:15 | MGMT 310A | FIN 311 | MGMT 310A | FIN 311 |
| 12:30-1:45 | MKTG 361 | MKTG 361 |
Business Management Silver Cohort
| SILVER COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:45 | MGMT 330 | MGMT 330 | ||
| 11:00-12:15 | FIN 311 | FIN 311 | ||
| 2:00-3:15 | MGMT 310A | BCOM 314R* | MGMT 310A | BCOM 314R* |
| 3:30-4:45 | MKTG 361 | BCOM 314R* | MKTG 361 | BCOM 314R* |
* Students will take BCOM 314R at one but not both times.
Business Management Sage Cohort
Sage COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8:00 - 9:15 | BCOM 314R* | BCOM 314R* | ||
9:30 - 10:45 | MGMT 330 | BCOM 314R* | MGMT 330 | BCOM 314R* |
11:00 - 12:15 | MGMT 310A | FIN 311 | MGMT 310A | FIN 311 |
12:30 - 1:45 | MKTG 361 | MKTG 361 |
Business Management Silver Cohort
Silver COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9:30 - 10:45 | MGMT 330 | MGMT 330 | ||
11:00 - 12:15 | FIN 311 | FIN 311 | ||
2:00 - 3:15 | MGMT 310A | BCOM 314R* | MGMT 310A | BCOM 314R* |
3:30 - 4:45 | MKTG 361 | BCOM 314R* | MKTG 361 | BCOM 314R* |
Business Management Sage Cohort
Sage COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8:00 - 9:15 | OSCM 373 | OSCM 373 | ||
9:30 - 10:45 | MIS 304 | MIS 304 |
Business Management Silver Cohort
Silver COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 - 3:15 | OSCM 373 | OSCM 373 | ||
| 3:30 - 4:45 | MIS 304 | MIS 304 |
*ECON 300 is pre-enrolled for all students and is a fully online iCourse for the Fall 2021 semester.
Business Management SageCohort
sage COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:15 | MGMT 402 | |||
| 2:00 - 3:15 | ECON 330 | ECON 330 |
Business Management SilverCohort
silver COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 - 3:15 | ECON 330 | ECON 330 | ||
5:00-6:15 | MGMT 402 |
** All third semester Business Management students will be required to take a ENTR 485 that will be held one day a week either Tuesday, or Thursday at 8 a.m. or 3:30 p.m. for a 2 and 1/2 hour period.
Business Management SageCohort
| Sage COHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 10:45 | MGMT 471* | MGMT 471* | ||
| 11:00-12:15 | MGMT 471* | MGMT 471* |
Business Management SilverCohort
| SilverCOHORT | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 - 3:15 | MGMT 471* | MGMT 471* |
Business Management Elective Course Options
The following Business Management electives are available:
*Please note that course offerings can change each semester. The information below shows potential offerings but does not guarantee an offering in any specific semester.
This course deals with the cultural, economic, political, legal, commercialand social context in which multinational corporations, especially American businesses, operate in emerging regions. This includes consideration of factors that shape or reflect the operational realities of management and marketing in emerging regions.
Units: 3
Usually offered: Summer
Reserved for: Summer Global Cohort admit students
This course provides a project based, integrative course that brings together all aspects of business. Students are challenged to integrate accounting, marketing, finance, operations and management skills into one project. Classroom activities focus on consulting skills and help students develop a framework for analyzing current business processes with a problem solving aim. Each student consulting team will work with a local small business owner. Professional guidance and mentoring for each team will be provided by local business professionals and Eller alumni, in addition to Eller faculty and staff.
Units: 3
Usually offered: Spring
This course will provide students with both academic and real-world knowledge and experience in creating social impact. We will examine a variety of organizational structures including nonprofit, for profit, and hybrid organizations such as B corps, looking for best practices in social innovation. We will study how leaders create positive change by cycling through the social impact cycle, and we will learn about local organizations of various kinds and sizes and evaluate their efforts to innovate in addressing complex issues.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
After completion of the course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of managing effective non-profit organizations including: understanding nonprofit organizations, governing and leading, accountability, capacity, strategic planning, managing staff and volunteers, and fundraising. You will learn through visiting and meeting influential non-profit leaders in the community, reading, and hands on projects.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall
This course will provide students with real-world knowledge and experience in management consulting for nonprofit organizations. Specifically, students work in teams and use their business expertise to consult on projects with nonprofit organizations in the community. This action-based course provides students with the opportunity to work with organizations making a positive impact on the Tucson community. Students will learn through hands-on experiences with actual clients to develop resume building experiences and skills valued in the work place. Focused application of consulting, business-related research, and client management will be the emphasis of this course.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Law of Contracts; Principal-Agency (Employer-Employee) relationships; Unincorporated Business Associations-Partnerships; Limited Partnerships; Limited Liability Companies; Corporations; Property Rights and other subjects such as negotiable instruments; Wills and Probate of Estate.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
An integrative, case-oriented course focusing on problems and policies in the procurement, development, compensation, and motivation of personnel.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Spring
To understand the theory and processes of negotiation to negotiate successfully in a variety of settings comfortable and adept in future negotiations.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
This course is designed to help students acquire the skills and knowledge to become more effective managers of people in organizations. Students will learn effective people management practices, explore how these practices fit with an organization's strategy and structure, and equip students with some basic skills for applying these practices. Increasingly, the task of managing and developing people is shared between human resources and general managers. Therefore, whether a student's functional concentration is marketing, finance, information technology, operations management, or human resources, understanding how to manage people, and how an organization's context affects the effectiveness of people management practices, is critical for a manager's and their organization's performance.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Broaden perspectives on globalizing business and international integration. Enhance analytical and communication skills in approaching and resolving international issues.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
This course focuses on the management and organization of healthcare delivery, particularly in the United States. The course examines the salient features of the healthcare context, the unique challenges these features produce for managers in that industryand solutions that organizations have used to address those challenges. Micro to macro challenges and solutions are explored, with a particular emphasis on the ways that leadership, human resources, culture, operations, organization designand strategy influence the quality, safetyand costs of care and the patient experience.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
The objective of this class is to enhance your understanding of what makes leaders effective in organizational settings. Although there are many different ways of defining leadership effectiveness, the majority of these definitions suggest that effective leaders are those that: improve the performance and attitudes of employees; motivate people to perform "above and beyond the call of duty;" and enhance organizational effectiveness. Thus, during the first half of this class, we will: (a) explore the criteria of leadership effectiveness, (b) identify those leader behaviors that have been found to be the most important ones for enhancing leadership effectiveness, and (c) explore how you can improve your own leadership "style." However, since leadership is dynamic, much of the material in the second half of the class will be directed at understanding some of the challenges that leaders face in different types of organizational and cultural environments.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
The purpose of this course is to help students think about the design, structure, and management of organizations. This course will introduce students to organization theory—a field that draws on ideas from the disciplines of sociology, psychology, economics and political science.The goal is to teach students to think about and understand organizations using concepts that organization theory provides.The course is designed to encourage students to actively and critically use these concepts to diagnose, design, manage, change and generally make sense of the organizations in which they now—or will in the future—participate.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Application of behavioral science knowledge to group functioning in organizations with emphasis on perspectives from organizational behavior, social psychology and sociology.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Spring
In this course you will focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on contemporary healthcare challenges and opportunities. Through a series of readings, case studies, discussions, guest speakers, and assignments, you will explore a number of contemporary healthcare problems and identify entrepreneurial solutions to these problems.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Examines employee training and development as a systematic planned strategy for continuous expansion of employee competence, broadly defined , in order to meet organizational and individual goals.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
The sales function and its relationship to the total marketing program; sales strategies and objectives; development and administration of sales organizations; control and evaluation of sales operations.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
The goal of the class is to expose students to various topics in management through laboratory simulations and demonstrations. The class will be organized in modules, each containing a laboratory simulation, analysis of results and output, class discussion and a written report.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
In the 21st century, Africa(along with Asia and Latin America)is often referred to as one of the emerging markets of the world. This recognition has cast Africa as occupying the last frontier market of modern international business and global capitalism. AFAS 463 Doing Business In/ With Africa is designed to provide cultural grounding and competency in Africa for students and professionals interested in conducting business and/or working with government agencies and non-profit organizations in Africa. Its focus, therefore, is the cultural aspect of the international business environment of Africa.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Summer;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, quality management programs.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Persuasion is central to organizations and business.Whether you are a supervisor trying to motivate an employee, a salesperson trying to land a client, a CEO inspiring organizational members toward a new vision, a marketing professional trying to create a product niche, or an entrepreneur attempting to garner financial support for a new venture, persuasion lies at the heart of organizational processes. This course is designed to develop student understanding of the role of persuasion in organizations and business settings.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory models under uncertainty, scheduling.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall; Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling and updating systems. Topics include strategy and competition, supply chain management, project management, facilities layout and location, quality and assurance, and reliability and maintainability.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Spring;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Critical examination of various research activities taking place in the field of management and organizational behavior.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
This class is about the science and practice of becoming a better influence "detective", being a more effective agent of change, and better defending against influence attempts used against us when they are not desired. This class integrates research from organizational behavior, psychology, decision making, behavioral economics, marketing, advertising, and other disciplines to gain a more complete understanding of influence in a variety of organizational contexts
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall,Spring
Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Survey of research on topics that have to do with gender and organizations. Topics include social determinants of career choice, perceptions and performance of men and women as managers, occupational sex segregation, work and family issues, implications of technological change for women's employment, affirmative action and comparable worth.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Integration of marketing, production and management functions. Pro forma statements. Development of venture capital.
Units: 4
Usually offered:Fall,Spring
Reserved for: Entrepreneurship students; Must be admitted into the NVD Program in order to take this course.
Application of behavioral decision frameworks to managerial and organizational decisions. Emphasis on recognizing common decision making errors and how to avoid them in order to improve decision making.
Units:3
Usually offered: Fall, Spring
Grading:Regular
Focusing your business and entrepreneurial skills on social and/or environmental problem solving.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
This is an applied consulting class. This course will be provided to give students an insight into the inner-workings of the university, while demonstrating methods of improvement applicable to individual colleges. Course may count as a Business Management major elective. Please see the Business Management advisor for substitution.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring
Introduction to the major theories and research findings of social psychology. Specific topics covered in the class include the self, social cognition, attitudes, interpersonal relations, group processes, prejudice, and aggression.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring, Summer
Application of the principles of psychology to industrial and social organizations, including personnel, human factors, organizational and consumer psychology.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Fall, Spring, Summer;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
Theories and research regarding large-scale organizations and their relations to the individual and society.
Units: 3
Usually offered:Spring;Only available for students admitted to the MGMT major prior to Fall 2020.
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