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This concentration is fundamentally designed to prepare its graduates for careers in management in all forms of organizations: business and non-business, public or private, foreign or domestic. The objective is to teach the fundamental principles underlying organizations, to emphasize training which will improve student's thought processes, to provide a familiarity with analytical tools of management, and to develop the student's ability to use the techniques involved in analyzing and evaluating managerial problems and in making sound decisions.

Requirements

Management Concentration Required ( 21 units)

Required Courses

• BUS 161A Applied Organizational Behavior(formerly BUS 163)
• BUS 161B Organizational Change and Design(formerly BUS 161)
• BUS 162 International & Comparative Management
• BUS 166 Business and Society

Choose Three of the Following

• BUS 141 Materials Management
• BUS 142 Total Quality Management
• BUS 144 Supply Chain Management
• BUS 145 Global Operations Management
• BUS 146 Project Management
• BUS 147 Service Operations Management
• BUS 148 E-Commerce Management
• BUS 149 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• BUS 150 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
• BUS 163 Management Issues in High Tech Firms (Senior Standing) 
• BUS 167 Managing Environmental Issues
• BUS 168 Global Business and Human Rights
• BUS 169A Honors Seminar (Requires Department Consent)
• BUS 169B Honors Practicum in Organization and Management (Requires Department Consent)
• BUS 181 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• BUS 182 Business Plans for New Ventures
• BUS 191 Decision Making Under Uncertainty
• BUS 183 Global Entrepreneurship
• BUS 198 Consulting for Small Business

NOTE: You may want to consider using your three Management Electives to give yourself some degree of specialization, which may be useful when you interview for jobs after graduation.  If you are interested in Entrepreneurship, High technology or Supply Chain Management, Career Advice sheets for specializing in these areas are available from BSAC or the Department of Organization and Management, BT650

As of fall 2004, all courses within the Management concentration require grades of "c-" or better although courses taken prior do not require the grade minimum. A cumulative 2.0 GPA is required in all Business classes.

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 (See SJSU Studies below)
• 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)

Upper Division Business Core

• COMM 100W or ENG 100WB or LLD 100WB (Requires passing of the WST)
• BUS 130 Fundamentals of Marketing
• BUS 140 Fundamentals of Operations Management
• 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

SJSU Studies

Standard Tracking Schedules

• Freshman Students
• Transfer Students