Bachelor of Applied Science Degree Offered, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Degrees Offered, Bachelor of Arts Program, Bachelor of Science Program, Management Faculty, Course Descriptions

Management

The mission of the Management Program is to serve the needs of the students of Southern Polytechnic State University, the citizens, and industry within the State of Georgia for instruction in the science and practice of management.

The Management Program offers courses of instruction leading to the master's and bachelor degrees with a major in Management, undergraduate instruction leading to a minor in Management, and survey courses in Economic Principles.

Through excellent classroom teaching and other relevant educational experiences, the Management Program seeks to enhance its students' understanding of the current and developing needs of technology-oriented enterprise, and to prepare them with theoretical knowledge, analytical techniques, and interpersonal skills necessary for increasingly responsible positions within the work environment.

It is the mutual goal of the administration, faculty, staff, and students to offer the highest quality academic programs.

The faculty and staff strive to promote an atmosphere in which open communication and free exchange of ideas can flourish in a tolerant and supportive environment. The program encourages and supports scholarship of various kinds by its faculty, including curriculum and course development, research, consulting, publication, case study development, student research, advising, and active participation in relevant professional associations.

The graduate program is designed for a predominantly part-time student population who work in professional occupations. The program is committed to diversity of both student and faculty with regard to race, ethnicity, and gender.

The program exists in close partnership with its various constituencies. It addresses the needs and concerns of the alumni, and interacts with the business, industrial, and educational communities.

(Bachelor of Applied Science Degree Offered)
This program is designed to cap appropriate associate degree programs with a primarily upper-level, broadly-based component at Southern Polytechnic State University.

Admission to the program requires the completion of an associate of applied science or associate of applied technology degree.  This program provides a general coverage of management and systems together with written and oral communications coursework to lead a candidate into a supervisory role in business or industry.

Core Curriculum
 

* 1 hour from MATH 1113 [A] is counted here.
** Required only of students not taking these courses as a part of the core curriculum.
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(Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Degrees Offered)

This program will serve the needs of those students who desire undergraduate education in management. Emphasis will be upon productivity as it results from the application of technology and creativity to the process of work within industrial and service enterprises.

The objectives of the program are as follows:

• To prepare Southern Polytechnic State University graduates for successful and productive careers in the management of technology-based organizations and enterprises.
• To develop graduates who possess the knowledge and ability to enhance the competitiveness of business and industry within the State of Georgia through the application of technology to production processes.
• To make available a wide variety of undergraduate management courses at Southern Polytechnic State University so that students in other fields may have the opportunity to take advantage of instruction in this field.
• To increase the institution's value to business, industry, and the State of Georgia by increasing the scope of our technology-based instruction to include the field of management.

Bachelor of Arts Program
 

Bachelor of Science Program
 

The Management Program offers students the opportunity to select suggested courses in a concentration or to take courses from all of the concentrations.  The student must complete a total of 18 hours of concentration and/or elective courses. With additional coursework, a student may complete more than one concentration. Students should request the approval of their advisor and program head to take undergraduate courses outside of the management program.

One hour of excess math credit is applied to each concentration.
 

NOTE:  A 2.0 GPA in courses used in the major is required (excluding the international studies minor courses).

Seventeen hours 3000 level or above must be taken in one or more than one of the following areas:
 

Students may choose courses from any program other than Management. Note that some courses require prerequisites that are not included in the 18 hours. Also, note that course cannot be "double counted" for both this area and another part of the curriculum (such as Area F of the Core Curriculum).
 
 

Minor

18

Instead of a concentration, the student can choose to complete any non-management minor and free electives for a total of 18 hours.
 

Management Faculty
 
 

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