A Management major provides an excellent foundation for a career in a variety of management fields and for graduate study. Management focuses on developing systems and skills for planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and evaluating organizational performance. This program emphasizes knowledge that contributes to analytical capacity, judgment, breadth, and flexibility of mind; the ability to accept responsibility and to make decisions; skills in interpersonal relations, communication, information management, and project management; and the ability to cope with technological innovations, social problems, economic barriers, and rapidly changing political and international situations. Students are involved with case studies for problem solving and with guest lectures and on-site visits to businesses that bring practicality and experience into the classroom.
In addition to the Core Business Program Outcomes, the following Program Learning Outcomes have been established by Evangel faculty to define the areas of knowledge and skills that students graduating from this major degree program should have developed:
Examines the development and use of management and computer information systems supporting the vision and operation of organizations. Emphasizes general knowledge of various information systems, with specific focus on information knowledge management, system development and evaluation, emerging trends, organizational communication, and the ethical use of information systems.
Junior or senior standing.
Junior or senior standing or MGMT 235.
Blends together research and insights from 3 fields: personality psychology, positive psychology, and human relations. Students will: (1) gain a deeper understanding of human behavior in general, (2) learn about their own personality by taking the Big Five assessment, (3) assess their current level of emotional intelligence through the EQ-i 2.0 assessment, and (4) learn practical actions to further develop their personal and professional relationships. This course is beneficial for students pursuing any major.
MGMT 343 and MGMT 349 or permission of the professor.
Examines ethical concepts applied in the business environment through historical and philosophical perspectives of values in American business and multinational contexts. Through an emphasis on professional conduct and enforcement actions, his course meets ethics requirements for professional certifications for the CPA profession. Cross-listed with PHIL 435 and ACCT 435.
Junior or senior standing.
Junior or senior standing.
Senior standing.
Provides a holistic and strategic exploration of key concepts of project management. The tools and process of managing projects are emphasized. Students will analyze and apply the five phases of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
MGMT 235; and junior or senior standing.
