If you have an interest in a particular area of management, you are encouraged to consult with your management advisor. Between you and your adviser, you can customize a group of courses that match your career interest area. Most areas will involve taking additional management courses as well as courses from other departments.  You can pursue most of the interest areas below while completing a management major or a major in another department.

Below you will find some sample customized interest areas. Your combination of courses may differ from those noted below, based on course availability and your specific interest. Although none of the listed career interest areas currently are available as a major or a minor, an abundance of courses are available that represent these different areas. The courses listed below are offered as samples but are for advising purposes only.

 

Accounting Interest Area

These recommended courses will prepare you for most careers in accounting. If you wish to pursue a career as a Certified Public Accountant, additional courses may be necessary depending on the requirements of your state's Board of Accountancy. Students who pursue an interest area in accounting may finish any additional requirements for the CPA in a Master's of Accountancy degree program.

Recommended Courses:
MGT 325 Intermediate Accounting I
MGT 326 Intermediate Accounting II
MGT 327 Cost Accounting
MGT 425 Advanced Accounting
MGT 426 Federal Taxation
MGT 427 Auditing

MGT 470 Business Associations

Additional Recommended Courses:
PHIL  103 Introduction to Ethics

ENGL 243 Professional Writing

Finance Interest Area

Recommended Courses:

ECON 301 Money & Banking
ECON 330 International Trade & Finance

MGT   325 Intermediate Accounting I
MGT   326 Intermediate Accounting II or 426 Federal Taxation
MGT   430 Investments
MGT   470 Business Associations

Additional Recommended Courses:
PHIL  103 Introduction to Ethics
ENGL 243 Professional Writing

Human Resources Interest Area

Recommended Courses:
ECON  210 Economics of Labor
PSYC  242 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
MGT   311 Research Methods
MGT   360 Human Resource Management
MGT   381 Applied Management
MGT   491 Internship

Additional Recommended Courses:
COMM 200 Communication Studies
ENGL  243 Professional Writing

International Business Interest Area

Recommended Courses:
MGT    250 International Business
ECON  330 International Trade & Finance
POLI   252 International Organizations

SOCI  110 Cultural Anthropology

Additional Recommended Courses

One of the following:
   ECON 220 Economics of Developing Areas
   ECON 231 European Economic History
   ECON 260 East Asian Economics
Foreign Language at the Intermediate Level
Study Abroad

Marketing Communications

Recommended Courses:
MGT    441 Advertising
MGT    390 Public Relations
MGT    311 Research Methods
MGT    381/481 Applied Management or MGT 491 Internship
ENGL   241 Journalism
COMM 280 Reasoning or COMM 200 Intro to Comm or COMM 290S Media Literacy

Additional Recommended Courses:

PHIL 103 Introduction to Ethics
ART  101 Studio Foundations

ART  241A Photography

ART  245A Computer Imaging I

Operations

Recommended Courses:
ECON 280 Managerial Economics
ECON 360 Industrial Organization
MGT   311 Research
MGT   327 Cost Accounting
MGT   390 MIS
MGT   491 Internship

Additional Recommended Courses:

COMP 121 Computing for the Arts & Sciences

ENGL  243 Professional Writing

Corporate Law

Recommended Courses:
ECON 365 Law & Economics
MGT   370 Legal Environment of Business

MGT   426 Taxation
MGT   470 Business Associations
POLI  322 Constitutional Law
SOCI 370 Criminology

Additional Recommended Courses:

COMM 200 Reasoning & Communication

PHIL   110 Logic & Critical Reasoning