Nov 15, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Business Management, BA (Online)


School Business; Center for Online and Extended Education
Academic Award Bachelor of Arts
Credits Required 120 semester credits
Faculty Lead Todd Nelson
CIP Code 52.0201
Available Online

Degree Requirements


The School of Business offers the major in Business Management designed to allow adult professionals to earn a degree while remaining in their career. Since many adults desire to earn their degree but are unable to attend classes during regular class hours, courses are offered through an online accelerated course format.

Graduates with a degree in Business Management are able to:

  1. Demonstrate foundational knowledge of common business principles.
  2. Evaluate practices and issues in business from a Christian worldview.
  3. Evaluate best practices for resolving human resource issues within an organization.
  4. Recommend a business strategy for a company to gain market share.
  5. Navigate a real-life situation utilizing healthy conflict resolution skills.
  6. Utilize design thinking to solve real-world problems.
  7. Evaluate financial statements to improve performance and make sound business decisions.
  8. Develop a career plan to actualize their unique calling in Business Management.

 

Contact the Center for Online and Extended Education Enrollment Office for an information packet.

Core Curriculum Requirements: 60


Humanities: 9


6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see course descriptions  for applicability)

  • ENGL xxx3 Any Literature course 3 credits
  • HIST xxx3 Any Course in History 3 credits
  • 3 additional credits selected from the following 3 credits
    Art (ARTE), Bible (BIBL), Drama (DRAM), English (ENGL), History (HIST), Language (LANG), Music (MUSI), or Theology (THEO)

Social Sciences: 9


6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see course descriptions  for applicability)

  • Select a minimum of two disciplines from the following:

Business Administration (BUSM), Communication (except COMM 1213), Economics, Education (EDUC), Exercise Science (EXSC), Geography (GEOG), Information Technology (INTC), Management (BMGT), Marketing (BMKT), Philosophy (PHIL), Political Science (PSCI), Psychology (PSYC), Sociology/Anthropology (SOCI), or User Experience Design (UXDE)

Science and Mathematics: 6


  • MATH xxxx - College-level Mathematics 3 credits
  • SCIE xxxx - Science course with Lab 3 credits

Formation and Calling: 3


Core Electives: 18


Any college-level courses

Pre-Major Requirements: 3


Pre-Major requirements may be applied to the Core Curriculum requirements

General Electives: 12-15


Any college-level courses

Total: 120 Semester Credits