Management, B.S.

The Management major focuses on a mix of theoretical and practical management knowledge and skills that will enable students to work as professional managers and leaders of modern organizations. Students learn to address a wide variety of challenges-financial, material, human, legal, political, and environmental-by learning the interpersonal, systems, and strategic skills to build and manage effective business teams.

The Management major consists of 75 credits. All students must complete 39 credit hours of the Business Core, 18 credits of non-business related courses, and 18 credits of Management coursework in one of the four concentrations: Human Resource Management , Entrepreneurship , Sports Management , or General Management .

Required Business Courses

Majors must complete a minimum of 30 credits in the major at Westfield State University in order to graduate.

Required Business Core - 39 Credits

ACCT 0104 - Principles of Accounting I Credits: 3
ACCT 0105 - Principles of Accounting II Credits: 3
FINC 0207 - Financial Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0107 - Software Applications in Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0220 - Production/Operations Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0221 - Business Management: A Survey of Organizational Development and Management Principles Credits: 3
MGMT 0241 - Business Law I Credits: 3
MGMT 0250 - Quantitative Approaches to Business Decisions Credits: 3
MGMT 0308 - Organizational Development & Behavior Credits: 3
MGMT 0321 - Management Information Systems Credits: 3
or ACCT 0345 - Accounting Information Systems Credits: 3
MGMT 0325 - Business Policy and Strategy Credits: 3
MGMT 0338 - International Business Credits: 3
MRKT 0231 - Marketing Management Credits: 3

Non-Business Required Courses - 18 Credits

ECON 0101 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ECON 0102 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ENGL 0103 - Speech Credits: 3
ENGL 0392 - Business and Technical Writing Credits: 3
MATH 0108 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 3
MATH 0115 - Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences Credits: 3 *

Note:

* MATH 0105 or MATH 0106 , Calculus I or II, will also satisfy this requirement.

Management Core

These courses are common between all three possible tracks.

MGMT 0314 - Human Resource Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0344 - Project Management Credits: 3

Human Resource Management Track

These courses make up the Human Resource Management track:

MGMT 0301 - Labor Relations Credits: 3
MGMT 0330 - Advanced Human Resource Seminar Credits: 3

Additional Electives

6 credits total:

MGMT 0398 - Business Internship Credits: 3-15
MGMT 0313 - Collective Bargaining Credits: 3
MGMT 0346 - Leadership Credits: 3
EGST 0205 - Introduction to Gay And Lesbian Studies Credits: 3 *
EGST 0221 - Women in Modern Organizations Credits: 3 *
LSPA 0314 - Spanish for the Professions Credits: 3
PSYC 0353-0356 - Special Topics in Psychology Credits: 3
-when offered as Psychology of Gender
PSYC 0212 - From Disorder to Orientation Credits: 3 *
SOCW 0360 - Diversity and Social Justice Credits: 3
*Only one 200-level course may be counted toward major requirements.

Entrepreneurship Track

These courses make up the Entrepreneurship track:

MGMT 0342 - Entrepreneurship Credits: 3
MGMT 0302 - Small Business Management Credits: 3

Additional Electives

6 credits total:

MGMT 0346 - Leadership Credits: 3
MGMT 0327 - Small Business Institute Credits: 3
MGMT 0355 - Digital and Social Media Credits: 3
MGMT 0398 - Business Internship Credits: 3-15
MRKT 0306 - Logistics Management Credits: 3
MRKT 0337 - Consumer Behavior Credits: 3
MRKT 0336 - Fundamentals of Retailing Credits: 3
MRKT 0309 - Sales and Sales Management Credits: 3
ECON 0320 - Environmental Economics Credits: 3

General Management Track

These courses make up the General Management track:

Any two courses from the following three:
MGMT 0301 - Labor Relations Credits: 3
MGMT 0342 - Entrepreneurship Credits: 3
MGMT 0346 - Leadership Credits: 3

Additional Electives

6 credits total:

COMM 0303 - Persuasive Communication Credits: 3
COMM 0209 - Global Communication Credits: 3
COMM 0222 - Intercultural Communication Credits: 3
COMM 0340 - Organizational Communication Credits: 3
ECON 0305 - Introduction to Econometric Methods Credits: 3
GPS 0340 - Data Collection and Analysis Credits: 3
MGMT 0224 - Business Analytics Credits: 3 *
MGMT 0398 - Business Internship Credits: 3-15
MRKT 0307 - Marketing Research Techniques Credits: 3
PSYC 0200 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology Credits: 3 *
SOCI 0311 - Complex Organizations Credits: 3
*Only one 200-level course may be counted toward major requirements.

Additional Graduation Requirements

All students must meet the University Graduation Requirements and complete a common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in the Common Core .