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Business Administration (B.S.) Leadership Concentration
Program Overview
The Business Administration Major offers students the opportunity to tailor their curriculum across business disciplines emphasizing career themes such as: l) general management, 2) development of quantitative analysis skills in a business context, and 3) preparation for management of small businesses and 4) stewardship of human resources. Students not choosing a concentration can customize their degree program by selecting upper-level business courses that meet their career goals.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Business Administration (Leadership concentration) program can:
- Apply discipline-based methods to analyze, diagnose, and make recommendations regarding leading organizational change. (ULO 3)
- Recall, recognize, and interpret foundational content related to ACBSP accreditation Common Professional Component—disciplinary areas in which all business majors need to be proficient regardless of their major including Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Management, Law, Economics, Ethics, Information Systems, Global, Quantitative and Integrative (ULO 2)
- Apply business concepts, strategies and tactics (ULO 2)
- Conduct methodological secondary research into business issues. (ULO 3)
- Articulate how the Christian faith informs one’s work life, career, and daily business practices (ULO 4, ULO 5, ULO 6)
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
BUSA 501: Writing in the major requirement.
Three to four credits from the following:
Leadership Concentration (21 credits)
Three credits from the following:
COMM 301 | Persuasion: Theory and Practice | 3 |
COMM 333 | Business and Organizational Communication | 3 |
COMM 353 | Crisis Communication and Media Relations | 3 |
HRM 311 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
Three credits from the following:
300- or 400-level ACCT, BUSA, ECON, FINA, HRM, IBI, LEAD, or MRKT courses
Selected CIS courses*
*CIS courses include:
CIS 343 | Introduction to E-Commerce | 3 |
CIS 381 | Information Systems and Managers | 3 |
CIS 411 | Systems Analysis and Design Concepts | 3 |
QuEST Requirements
Experiential Learning requirement | 0 |
QuEST requirements | Credits |
First Year Seminar | 3 |
Oral Communication | 3 |
Created and Called for Community (W) | 3 |
Mathematical Sciences (MATH 107, MATH 108 or MATH 111) | met/major |
Laboratory Science | 3 or 4 |
Science, Technology & the World | 3 |
Social Science (ECON 120) | met/major |
European History or United States History | 3 |
Literature | 3 |
Philosophy and Religion | 3 |
Arts | 3 |
First Semester of Language | 3 |
Second Semester of Language | 3 |
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural | 3 |
Non-Western Studies | 2 or 3 |
Bible | 3 |
Christian Beliefs | 3 |
Wellness course | 1 |
Ethics, World Views, or Pluralism | 3 |
QuEST requirements | 48-50 |
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) | 58-59 |
Free electives | 17-14 |
Total credits | 123 |