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General Information

The concentration provides the academic foundation for careers concerned with the acquisition, development, and effective utilization of the human resources of the individual organization and economic system as a whole. This area of study is concerned broadly with many problems of human resource management, including recruitment and staffing, training, management and employee development, employment and union-management relations, wage and salary management, evaluation of employee performance, national human resource policies and programs, organizational behavior, development, and leadership. The concentration qualifies graduates for positions in private and public sector organizations.

Requirements

Human Resource Management Concentration (18 units)

Required Courses

• BUS 150** Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
• BUS 154** Workforce Planning, Staffing and Training
• BUS 157** Legal and Regulatory Issues in Human Resource Management
• BUS 158** Compensation and Reward Systems
• BUS 159**#Senior Seminar in HR Management

Choose one of the Following

• BUS 151** Labor Relations
• BUS 152** Human Resource Information Systems
• BUS 153** Management of Diversity
• BUS 155** Performance Management and Development
• BUS 156** International Issues in HR Management

Prerequisites

BUS 150 or instructor consent is a prerequisite all Human Resource Management classes.
#BUS 150, BUS 157, and 158 are prerequisites to BUS 159. BUS 159 requires graduating senior status.
BUS 157 & 159 are for Human Resource Management only.
@ BUS 91L is a prerequisite to BUS 152.

**As of fall 2004, all courses within the concentration require grades of "C-" or better. In order to graduate, a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better is required in all business courses.

Business Pool

These courses require a "C-" or better prior to Fall 2009 and "C" or better beginning in Fall 2009 and must be completed and cleared by BSAC in BC 008 (924-3435) prior to taking upper-division Business

• MATH 71 Business Calculus (For Freshmen and Transfer Students admitted Fall 10 or later)
• ENGL 1B Composition
• BUS 20 Financial Accounting
• BUS 90 Business Statistics

Non-Business Support

• ECON 1A Macroeconomics
• ECON 1B Microeconomics
• PHIL 186 (@) Professional Business Ethics
• Non-Business Global Perspectives

Lower Division Business Core

• BUS 10 Discovering Business(Freshman, only)
• BUS 21 Managerial Accounting
• BUS 80 Legal Environment of Business
• BUS 91L Business Computer Productivity Tools(1 unit)

(Accounting students must take BUS 122A in lieu of BUS 21)

Upper Division Business Core

• COMM 100W Writing Workshop (Requires passing of the WST)
• BUS 130 Fundamentals of Marketing
• BUS 140 Fundamentals of Operations Management 
• BUS 160 Fundamentals of Management and Organization Behavior
• BUS 170 Fundamentals of Finance
• BUS 187 Global Dimensions of Business
• BUS 188 Business Systems Integration
• BUS 189 Strategic Management(Graduating Seniors Only)
• BUS 190 Quantitative Business Analysis

General Education (48-51 Units)

Core GE

* Areas F1-F3 may also fulfill part of Area D

Advanced GE

Standard Tracking Schedules

• Freshman Students
• Transfer Students