Program: Business Management, BA (Online) - Northwest University

Apr 03, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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:

Demonstrate foundational knowledge of common business principles.
Evaluate practices and issues in business from a Christian worldview.
Evaluate best practices for resolving human resource issues within an organization.
Recommend a business strategy for a company to gain market share.
Navigate a real-life situation utilizing healthy conflict resolution skills.
Utilize design thinking to solve real-world problems.
Evaluate financial statements to improve performance and make sound business decisions.
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

Bible and Theology: 6

Select 6 credits from the following:

BIBL 1053 - The Christian Scriptures 3 credits
BIBL 1563 - Interpreting the Bible 3 credits
THEO 1093 - Foundations of Christian Faith 3 credits
THEO 2293 - Work of God, Work of Humanity 3 credits

Written and Verbal Communications: 9

ENGL 1013 - Composition I: Expository Writing 3 credits
ENGL 1023 - Composition II: Rhetoric and Research Writing 3 credits
COMM 1213 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication 3 credits

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

UCOR 1053 - Life Calling 3 credits

Core Electives: 18

Any college-level courses

Pre-Major Requirements: 3

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

MATH 1313 - Introduction to Statistics 3 credits

Major Requirements: 45

Business Core Courses: 30

BUSM 2553 - Survey of Economics 3 credits
BMGT 3123 - Information Systems Management 3 credits
BUSM 3163 - Business Leadership 3 credits
BUSM 3403 - Business Law 3 credits
BUSM 3523 - Group and Organizational Dynamics 3 credits
BUSM 3563 - Accounting for Managers 3 credits
BUSM 3613 - Managerial Finance 3 credits
BUSM 4563 - Business Ethics 3 credits
BUSM 4583 - Managerial Marketing 3 credits
BUSM 4723 - Project Management 3 credits

Business Management Courses: 15

BMGT 3203 - Human Resource Management 3 credits
BUSM 3363 - Entrepreneurial Business Planning 3 credits
BUSM 4143 - International Business Management 3 credits
BUSM 4263 - Strategic Management 3 credits
BUSM 4443 - Conflict Resolution and Negotiation 3 credits

General Electives: 12-15