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Management for Business Majors Minor


COLLEGE: College of Business Administration
DEPARTMENT: Department of Management and Information Systems
Room A432, Business Administration Building
E-mail: mis@kent.edu
Tel: 330-672-2750
Fax: 330-672-5006
Web: http://www.kent.edu/business/departments/index.cfm

The Management minor provides a basic core of management courses, with emphasis on strategic management, leadership and the management of employees. Students gain an overview of managerial functions and expertise that will add value to the career preparations provided by their major programs.

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

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MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS MAJORS MINOR REQUIREMENTS  (18 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
  MIS 34165

34175		 Dynamics of Leadership (3)
or
Learning to Lead (3)		 3
    34180 Human Resources Management
 3
  Choose one from each curricular area: 12
  COMM 20001 Interpersonal Communication (3)  
    25863 Business and Professional Communication (3)  
  ENG 30064 Argumentative Prose Writing (3)  
    30065 Expository Prose Writing (3)  
  MIS 34054 Using IS for Business Problems (3)  
    34185 Individual and Group Behavior in Organizations (3)  
  PSYC 31773 Industrial Psychology (3)  
    41282 Personality (3)  
TOTAL: 18

Requirement to declare the management minor:
Minimum 2.500 cumulative GPA; or if new freshman, no established GPA is required.

Requirement to graduate with the management minor:
Minimum 2.500 GPA (including all attempts for 30000 and 40000 level coursework) is required in the minor courses.

NOTE: To earn a College of Business administration minor, students must complete at least two courses in the minor at Kent State University on a graded basis. At least one of these courses must be at the upper-division (30000 or 40000) level.