Business Management Majors

Deena Burris, Assistant Professor, Department Chair
Peter B. Bobko, Associate Professor

Alvin Gibson, Assistant Professor

Betty T. Kane, Assistant Professor

Richard Hackworth, Assistant Professor

Darryl Samsell, Assistant Professor
Vicki Foust, Visiting Instructor
Mini Ranganathan, Visiting Instructor
Ernest Green, Visiting Instructor

The business 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 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 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.

Business management students choose from one of two tracks: General Track or 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.

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For the Pre-MBA Track, click here

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems

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.

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