Business Management Major
Deena Burris, Assistant Professor, Department Chair
Peter B. Bobko, Associate Professor
Betty T. Kane, Assistant Professor
Richard Hackworth, Assistant Professor
Darryl Samsell, Assistant Professor
Alvin Gibson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Vicki Foust, Visiting Instructor
Mini Ranganathan, Visiting Instructor
Ernest Green, Visiting Instructor
The Management department 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 concentration that provides students with an introduction to business concepts and tools and offers additional course work in a variety of interesting areas. This concentration 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 our 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, our 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.
The program of study offers close faculty-student rapport, a strong emphasis on both written and oral communication skills, exposure to international issues in all areas of business management, computer applications, field internships, and special topics courses. Students preparing for graduate and professional schools benefit from the program's strong library and research emphasis, broad-based integration of international topics, focus on qualitative and quantitative analysis and problem solving, and extensive use of the case study method.
In conjunction with an advisor, a student may choose to emphasize a particular area of study within the department while meeting major or concentration course requirements. Areas of emphasis include banking and finance, international management, human resources management, marketing management, 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 concentration.
Requirements:
Eight major and three prerequisite courses are required (44 credit hours). The eight major courses include BUS 215, 241, 249, 324, 332, 449, ACCT 301 and one elective management course at the 300 or 400 level. The three prerequisite courses include ACCT 201, ECON 221, and either MATH 112 or 121 (a grade of C- or better is required). A management internship is strongly recommended.
Note: business management majors may not use courses taken at other institutions to satisfy their 300- or 400-level requirements.
Many aspects of the Business Management major must be completed sequentially. Especially:
- ACCT 201 must be completed prior to ACCT 301 (both with grades of C- or higher)ACCT 301, ECON 221, MATH 112 or MATH 121 (with grades of C- or higher) must be completed prior to BUS 324ACCT 301, ECON 221, 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.
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.
Requirements:
A minimum of 32 credit hours is required.
Prerequisites include BUS 141: Introduction to Computers (or equivalent knowledge and skill) and satisfying the college's quantitative literacy requirement (i.e., pass the quantitative literacy exam or any Guilford math course, or transfer an approved math course)
Students must take the following major courses:
- CMIT 100: Introduction to Computer Programming
- CMIT 201: Data Structures and Algorithms or CMIT 202: Data Structures and Algorithms for CIS
- BUS 241: Computers and Management
- BUS 341: Management Information Systems
- Three approved elective courses in advanced topics in Management and Computing. Special topics courses listed as CMIT 250, 350 or 450 may be used as elective courses.At least two of the electives must be 300 level or above. Areas of study include:
- Computer hardware and operating systems (e.g., CMIT 321: Perspectives in Information Systems)
- Networking and telecommunications (e.g., CMIT 322: [Inter]Networking Computers)
- Special topics in computing and computer programming listed as CMIT 250, 350 or 450
- World Wide Web applications (e.g., BUS 344: E-Commerce)
- Theory and implementation of database management systems (e.g., CMIT 342: Database Systems)
- BUS 448: CIS Capstone, another approved capstone course, or a one-semester four-credit senior project approved by the coordinator of the major.