Major-Business Management
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Business Management courses develop knowledge and skills in effective communication practices, critical thinking, intelligent problem solving, informed decision making, and responsible action. The focus on communication, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and responsible action expresses the intrinsic connection between professional preparation and a liberal arts education.
Goals:
- To prepare our Business majors with the knowledge, skills, and work ethic needed for career success.
- To instill in our Business majors a commitment to ethical business practices and social responsibility.
- To provide our Business majors with opportunities to apply knowledge and skills learned in courses to field experiences and profession-affiliated student organizations.
- To enhance our Business majors’ ability to become independent learners and thinkers who can take ownership of their careers in a changing business environment.
- The following themes are incorporated across the Business curriculum in support of the above goals:
- Communications skills: writing and presentations
- Decision-making and problem-solving: strategies, tools, and techniques
- Technology applications skills: word-processing, presentation, spreadsheet, database, internet research skills, particular to specific disciplines in the business field
- Globalization and diversity in the U.S. workplace and marketplace
- Team building and collaboration
- Critical thinking and reasoning
- Creative thinking and initiative
- Leadership qualities and skills
- Business ethics
B.A. in Business Management
To be eligible for acceptance into the program for the degree, the student must have completed AC211, AC212, EC201, EC202, BU265, and must have earned a grade of C or better in all courses.
Major requirements (300 Level or Above):
(15 lower-division hours)
- EC 201, 202 – Introductory Economics I and II
- AC 211 – Principles of Financial Accounting
- AC 212 – Principles of Managerial Accounting
- BU 265 Spreadsheet and Database Applications
(27 Hours at 300 level or above)
- BU 300 Management
- BU 306 Quantitative Analysis
- BU 309 Marketing
- BU 310 Finance
- BU315W Business Communication
- BU 407 Management Seminar
- BU 412 Legal Environment of Business
- BU 436 Operations Management
- IB 310 International Business
Other Courses
- BU453 Internship
- Business concentration courses
- General Elective courses
Requirements for a Double Major in Accounting and Business Management: For a double major in Accounting and Business Management, the requirements for each major must be filled. Note: The concentration required for the business major may not be in Accounting.
Requirements for a Double Major in Sports Management and Business Management: For a double major in Sports Management and Business Management, concentration courses cannot be in Sports Management.
NOTE: For a BA degree no more than eight of the seventeen departmental requirements in AC/BU/CS/EC/IB may be transferred or awarded as experiential learning credit. A minimum of eight (8) of the fourteen (14) AC/BU/CS/EC/IB courses at the upper level must actually be taken at Belmont Abbey College. Transfer or experiential learning credit will not be awarded for BU 407.
It is the student’s responsibility to see that all degree requirements for graduation are fulfilled
Concentration Areas
Requirements for concentrations: Students should take concentration area courses during their junior and senior years. Students concentrating in Management, Marketing, International Business, or Banking and Finance should take the corresponding Major requirement course (e.g. BU300, BU309, IB310, BU310 respectively) prior to taking any concentration courses.
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- International Business
- Management
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing
- Motorsports Management
- Sport Management 12 hours
It is the student’s responsibility to verify that all degree requirements for graduation are fulfilled.
Minor in Business Management
Requirements for the minor:
- AC 211, EC 201, BU 300, and two additional upper-level (300 or 400) BU courses (excluding, BU 306 and BU 315).
- A minimum grade of “C” must be earned in each course required for the minor.
- At least three courses, including two upper-level BU courses, must be taken at Belmont Abbey College. A maximum of two courses may be transferred.
NOTE: A minor in Business Management is not available to Accounting majors.
It is the student’s responsibility to verify that all degree requirements for graduation are fulfilled.
Minor in Entrepreneurship 15 hours
Five of the following courses:
- ET 300 The Entrepreneur
- ET 302 Launching New Venture
- ET 303 Financing New Ventures
- ET 401 Social Ventures
- ET 402 Prod Innovation & Development
- BU 412 Legal Environment of Business
- Other "ET" courses that may be offered from time-to-time
All courses must be taken at Belmont Abbey College
It is the student’s responsibility to verify that all degree requirements for graduation are fulfilled.
Faculty
Phyllis Barbour
Lecturer of Business
B.S., Gardner-Webb University
MBA, Queens College, CPA
Dr. Philip Bayster –Professor of Business, Chair of Business, Economics, International Business, Motorsports Management and Sports Management
B.B.A., University of Michigan, M.A., Wayne State University, M.S., MIT, M.B.A., Rutgers University, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Dr. Robert Stokes – Associate Professor of Business and Economics
B.S., University of Florida, M.B.A., University of Missouri, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Dr. Tracy Rishel – Associate Professor of Business, Director of Motorsports Management Program
B.S., Pennsylvania State University, M.S., Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Mr. Jeff Thomas – Associate Professor of Business
B.B.A., University of Michigan Business School, J.D., Harvard Law School
Dr. Travis Feezell – Associate Professor of Business
B.A., University of Wyoming, M.A., University of Wales, Ed.D., University of Idaho
Steve Bostian
Lecturer of Business
B.S., Appalachian State University
M.A., Appalachian State University
Daphne Friday
Lecturer of Business
B.T., Appalachian State University
MBA, Appalachian State University
Leo Gunter
Lecturer of Business
B.S., Clemson University
MBA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Mitch McIntosh
Lecturer of Business
B.A., Belmont Abbey College
MBA, University of South Carolina
M.A., University of South Carolina
Jerome Murray
Lecturer of Business
B.A., Belmont Abbey College
MBA, Pfeiffer University
Ms. Christine Richards
Lecturer of Business
B.A., Indiana University
M.S., Pfeiffer University
