Business Management Major
Deena Burris, Assistant Professor, Department Chair
Peter B. Bobko, Associate Professor
Betty T. Kane, Assistant Professor
Darryl Samsell, Assistant Professor
Alvin Gibson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Richard Hackworth, Visiting Assistant Instructor
Vicki Foust, Visiting Instructor
Mini Ranganathan, Visiting Instructor
The Department of Business Management offers majors in business management and computer information systems (CIS). To provide support for students in other majors, the department also offers a business management minor that provides students with an introduction to business concepts and tools and offers additional course work in a variety of interesting areas. This minor is not available to business management majors.
Degrees Offered
The Bachelor of Science degree is offered in business management and computer information systems.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management
The business management major provides students with basic concepts and tools to participate in public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit organizations. More specifically, students learn to analyze, plan, organize, lead and control the work of others so that the organization will achieve its goals. The program prepares students to enter an increasingly global environment and also provides exposure to social, human, cultural, international, political and ethical issues. The major is both conceptually based and career oriented. As such, the department tries to provide curricula to meet the needs of students as revealed in studies and surveys of area and national demand for skills and capabilities. In the words of the Quaker George Fox, the program teaches matters that are "civil and useful." The major is particularly distinctive because it represents a strong professional program, effectively integrated with the more traditional liberal arts, that provides students with important marketable and life-long learning skills.
Business management students choose from one of two tracks: the general track or the pre-MBA track. The general track is designed for students desiring a strong business education but who do not plan to attend an MBA program. The pre-MBA track is designed to prepare students for graduate school, emphasizing those business courses that are often pre-requisites or basic requirements for graduate study in business administration. These courses are also designed to support students participating in the Guilford College-UNC Greensboro Bryan Accelerated MBA program, available during a student’s senior year.
In conjunction with an advisor, a student may choose to emphasize a particular area of study within the department while meeting major or minor course requirements. Areas of emphasis include banking and finance, international management, human resources management, non-profit management, business law and computers and information systems. Students preparing for careers or graduate work in the field of international business are encouraged to pursue a double major in business management and international studies. Students interested in banking or finance should consider a money and finance minor.
Major Requirements
The major requires a minimum of 48 credit hours; eight major and four prerequisite courses are required. The eight major courses are:
1. BUS 215 Business Law |
4 credits |
2. BUS 241 Computers and Management |
4 credits |
3. BUS 249 Principles of Management |
4 credits |
4. BUS 324 Principles of Marketing |
4 credits |
5. BUS 332 Financial Management |
4 credits |
6. BUS 449 Policy Formulation and Strategy |
4 credits |
7. ACCT 311 Cost Accounting |
4 credits |
8. One elective business course at the 300 or 400 level (not required for Pre-MBA Track) |
4 credits |
The four prerequisite courses are: |
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9. ACCT 201 Introduction to Accounting with a grade of C- or better |
4 credits |
10. ECON 221 Macro: US in World Econ with a grade of C- or better |
4 credits |
11. ECON 222 Micro: Public with a grade Policy C- or better |
4 credits |
12. MATH 112 Elementary Statistics with a grade of C- or better or |
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MATH 121 Calculus I with a grade of C- or better |
4 credits |
Total credit hours required for B.S. degree in business management |
48 credits |
Additional requirements for students selecting the Pre-MBA Track |
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12. BUS 347 Production and Operations |
4 credits |
13. BUS 310 Professional Communications |
4 credits |
14. BUS 320 Organizational Behavior |
4 credits |
Total credit hours required for B.S. degree in business management pre-MBA track |
56 credits |
A management internship is strongly recommended.
Many aspects of the business management major must be completed sequentially. Especially:
- ACCT 201 must be completed prior to ACCT 311 (both with grades of C- or higher)
- ACCT 311, ECON 221, ECON 222, MATH 112 or MATH 121 (with grades of C- or higher) must be completed prior to BUS 324
- ACCT 311, ECON 221, ECON 222, MATH 112 or 121 and BUS 241 (with grades of C- or higher) must be completed prior to BUS 332
- Students must complete all required business management courses (215, 241, 249, 324 and 332) with grades of C- or higher before taking the capstone BUS 449 course.
Note: business management majors may not use courses taken at other institutions to satisfy their 300- or 400-level requirements. In addition, BUS 120 and BUS 141 cannot be used toward the major.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems
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The computer information systems major is designed to prepare students for careers in information technology companies or as information technology specialists within industries of their interest. The program provides a sound base of computer competencies as well as opportunities to emphasize the specific computer-related interests of the student. Courses in programming, management information systems, Internet and World Wide Web applications and computer graphics and design are part of a growing list of topics available for students to pursue within the major. Students completing this major will hold a Bachelor of Science in computer information systems upon graduation from Guilford.
The major requires a minimum of 32 credit hours (eight courses). Prerequisites include BUS 141 Introduction to Computers (or equivalent knowledge and skill) and satisfying the college’s quantitative literacy requirement.
Students must take the following major courses:
Major Requirements
| 1. BUS 241 Computers and Management | 4 credits |
| 2. BUS 341 Management Information System | 4 credits |
| 3. BUS 344 e-Business | 4 credits |
| 4. CMIT 140 Introduction to Computer Programming | 4 credits |
5-7. Twelve approved elective credits in advanced topics in management and computing. Special topics courses listed as BUS or CMIT 250, 350 or 450 may be used as elective courses with permission of the business department chair. At least two of the electives must be 300-level or above. Areas of study include application development, World Wide Web, e-business, information systems management, computer hardware and operating systems, networking and telecommunications, and theory and implementation of database management systems. |
12 credits |
CMIT 144 VB.Net |
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CMIT 223 Computer Hardware Construction |
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CMIT 321 Operating Systems |
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CMIT 322 (Inter)Networking Computers |
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CMIT 331 Information Design |
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CMIIT 440 Computer Graphics an Animation or |
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BUS 343 Computer Graphics |
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8. BUS 448 CIS Capstone, another approved capstone course, or a one-semester four-credit senior project approved by the coordinator of the major. |
4 credits |
Total credits hours required for B.S. degree in computer information systems |
32 credits |