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:

  1. Apply discipline-based methods to analyze, diagnose, and make recommendations regarding leading organizational change. (ULO 3)
  2. 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)
  3. Apply business concepts, strategies and tactics (ULO 2)
  4. Conduct methodological secondary research into business issues. (ULO 3)
  5. 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:

ACCT 141Financial Accounting

3

ACCT 242Managerial Accounting

3

BUSA 102Opportunities in Business

1

BUSA 120Principles of Management

3

BUSA 381Business Law

3

BUSA 501Business Strategy and Execution

3

CIS 190Strategic Use of Information Technology

3

ECON 120Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 220Principles of Microeconomics

3

FINA 305Financial Management

3

MRKT 130Marketing Principles

3

STAT 281Applied Statistics for Management

3

BUSA 501: Writing in the major requirement.

Three to four credits from the following:

MATH 107Applied Mathematics for Management

3

MATH 108Intuitive Calculus with Applications

3

MATH 111Calculus I

4

Leadership Concentration (21 credits)

BUSA 310Business as a Ministry

3

BUSA 505Business Analytics

3

LEAD 310Leadership Theory and Development

3

LEAD 312/HRM 312Leading Organizational Change

3

LEAD 320Learning to Lead

3

Three credits from the following:

COMM 301Persuasion: Theory and Practice

3

COMM 333Business and Organizational Communication

3

COMM 353Crisis Communication and Media Relations

3

HRM 311Organizational 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 343Introduction to E-Commerce

3

CIS 381Information Systems and Managers

3

CIS 411Systems Analysis and Design Concepts

3

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement 0
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar3
Oral Communication3
Created and Called for Community (W)3
Mathematical Sciences (MATH 107, MATH 108 or MATH 111)met/major
Laboratory Science3 or 4
Science, Technology & the World3
Social Science (ECON 120)met/major
European History or United States History 3
Literature3
Philosophy and Religion3
Arts3
First Semester of Language3
Second Semester of Language3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural3
Non-Western Studies2 or 3
Bible3
Christian Beliefs3
Wellness course1
Ethics, World Views, or Pluralism3
QuEST requirements48-50
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration)58-59
Free electives17-14
Total credits 123