Business Management B.S.

Program Features

45 credits

Required courses:

MGT 200	Principles of Management	3 credits
MGT 204	Principles of Marketing	3 credits
MGT 211	Financial Accounting Fundamentals	3 credits
MGT 212	Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals	3 credits
MGT 225	Business Law I	3 credits
MGT 250	Quantitative Business Analysis	3 credits
MGT 352	Human Resource Management	3 credits
MGT 355	Business Ethics	3 credits
MGT 452	Organizational Strategy	3 credits

Concentration courses:

Fifteen credits from one of the following areas:

Accounting:

Select any five of the following:

MGT 331	Intermediate Financial Accounting I	3 credits
MGT 332	Intermediate Financial Accounting II	3 credits
MGT 333	Intermediate Managerial & Cost Accounting	3 credits
MGT 335	Tax Accounting I	3 credits
MGT 336	Tax Accounting II	3 credits
MGT 431	External/Financial Auditing	3 credits

Finance:

Select any five of the following:

MGT 307	Financial Management II	3 credits
MGT 342	Investment Analysis	3 credits
ECON 314	International Finance	3 credits
ECON 332	Forecasting Methods	3 credits
ECON 411	Public Finance	3 credits
ECON 412	Money And Banking	3 credits

Management:

Select any five of the following:

MGT 333	Intermediate Managerial & Cost Accounting	3 credits
MGT 351	Operations Management	3 credits
MGT 353	Small Business Management	3 credits
MGT 354	Retail Management	3 credits
MGT 359	Labor History & Industrial Relations	3 credits
MGT 362	Globalization & International Management	3 credits
MGT 453	Organizational Leadership	3 credits
MGT 454	Organizational Behavior	3 credits
ECON 332	Forecasting Methods	3 credits

Marketing:

Select any five of the following:

MGT 354	Retail Management	3 credits
MGT 370	Consumer Behavior	3 credits
MGT 371	Advertising Management	3 credits
MGT 375	Innovation & New Product Development	3 credits
MGT 470	Marketing Research	3 credits
MGT 471	Marketing Management & Strategy	3 credits
ECON 332	Forecasting Methods	3 credits

Entrepreneurship:

All of the following are required:

MGT 353	Small Business Management	3 credits
MGT 363	Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation	3 credits
MGT 370	Consumer Behavior	3 credits
MGT 375	Innovation & New Product Development	3 credits
MGT 453	Organizational Leadership	3 credits

Co-requisite courses:

ECON 111	GE: Principles of Macroeconomics	3 credits
ECON 112	GE: Principles of Microeconomics	3 credits
MATH 110	GE: General Statistics	3 credits
MATH 130	GE: Applied Algebraic Methods	3 credits
ENGL 205	Workplace Writing	3 credits
CMST 111	GE: Introduction to Communication	3 credits
CPSC 100	GE: Personal Computers and Their Uses	3 credits
PSY 100	GE: General Psychology	3 credits

MATH 110, MATH 130 or advisor-approved substitutes

Additional requirements:

Majors must complete a minimum of five management (MGT) courses at East Stroudsburg University.
Majors must attain a major GPA of 2.5 or higher in all management (MGT) courses taken at East Stroudsburg University.
Incoming students are admitted as Pre-Business Management majors. In order to be admitted to the Business Management degree program and be permitted to take upper level (300/400) management courses, pre-business management students must satisfy the following entrance-to-major requirements:
- Complete all eight required co-requisite courses
- Complete the following entrance-to-major lower-level business courses: MGT 211, 212, 225, 250
- Complete a minimum of 45 total semester hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.25.
Transfer students (both from other colleges and other majors) must meet the above requirements. If they do not, they are admitted into the pre-business management program.
Please see the University requirements in the Undergraduate Catalog.

Program Curriculum Plan

(Subject to change by the University without notice)

Freshman Year

Fall

ECON 111	GE: Principles of Macroeconomics	3 credits
CMST 111	GE: Introduction to Communication	3 credits
	Social Science General Education	3 credits

MATH 110	GE: General Statistics	3 credits
	Or
MATH 130	GE: Applied Algebraic Methods	3 credits

CPSC 100	GE: Personal Computers and Their Uses	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Spring

ENGL 090	Composition Skills	3 credits
	Or
ENGL 103	English Composition	3 credits

ECON 112	GE: Principles of Microeconomics	3 credits
PSY 100	GE: General Psychology	3 credits

MATH 110	GE: General Statistics	3 credits
	Or
MATH 130	GE: Applied Algebraic Methods	3 credits

	Natural Science General Education	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Sophomore Year

Fall

MGT 211	Financial Accounting Fundamentals	3 credits
MGT 225	Business Law I	3 credits
	Fine Art General Education	3 credits
	Fine Art General Education	3 credits
	Social Science General Education Elective	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Spring

MGT 212	Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals	3 credits
MGT 250	Quantitative Business Analysis	3 credits
ENGL 205	Workplace Writing	3 credits
	Fine Art General Education	3 credits
	Social Science General Education	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Junior Year

Fall

MGT 200	Principles of Management	3 credits
MGT 204	Principles of Marketing	3 credits
MGT 301	Financial Management I	3 credits
	Fine Art General Education	3 credits
	Free Elective - Level 300/400	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Spring

MGT 301	Financial Management I	3 credits
MGT 352	Human Resource Management	3 credits
MGT 355	Business Ethics	3 credits
	Concentration Course 1	3 credits
	General Education Elective	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Senior Year

Fall

	Concentration Course 2	3 credits
	Concentration Course 3	3 credits
	Elective	3 credits
	Elective	3 credits
	Elective	3 credits
	Total Credit Hours:	15

Spring

MGT 452	Organizational Strategy	3 credits
	Concentration Course 4	3 credits
	Concentration Course 5	3 credits
	Elective	3 credits
	Elective	1 credit
	Total Credit Hours:	13

Total Credit Hours: 120

For more information, contact the department by calling 570-422-3251 or visit www.esu.edu/cbm.

For assistance or special accommodations, call 570-422-3954.