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Business Administration (B.S.) Technology and Operations Management 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 program (Technology and Operations concentration) can:
- Use the operations strategies and quantitative tools which enable organizations to carry out their missions efficiently and effectively. (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:
Technology and Operations Management Concentration (21 credits)
Six credits from the following:
CIS 181 | Computer Programming I | 3 |
CIS 191 | Web Development: Client Side | 3 |
CIS 251 | Hardware and Software | 3 |
CIS 283 | Business Systems Applications | 3 |
CIS 284 | Computer Programming II | 3 |
CIS 291 | Web Development: Server Side | 3 |
CIS 343 | Introduction to E-Commerce | 3 |
CIS 381 | Information Systems and Managers | 3 |
CIS 411 | Systems Analysis and Design Concepts | 3 |
CIS 415 | Data Communications and Networking | 3 |
CIS 490 | Topics in Computer Information Science | 3 |
Six 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 courses taken as part of the nine credits does not meet this requirement):
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 (BUSA 358) | met/major |
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 | 45-47 |
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) | 58-59 |
Free electives | 20-17 |
Total credits | 123 |