2008-09 Catalog - Saint Mary's College of California

Business Administration CurriculumBusiness AdministrationThe major in business administration is designed to broadly educate students in the business sciences. Students receiveexcellent preparation for professional management positions in financial services, manufacturing operations, consumermarketing, human resources, and strategic planning. The major also prepares students for graduate school in businessadministration or law school. In addition, the department offers an honors concentration in financial services and amarketing concentration for those who wish to add focus and intensity to their program. The department also offers aninternational concentration for students who are interested in a career with international exposure.FacultyEric J. Kolhede, Ph.D., Professor, ChairNorman S. Bedford, Ph.D., ProfessorNeal Bischel, M.S., M.B.A., ProfessorRebecca Carroll, Ph.D., ProfessorJohn C. Cassidy, Ph.D., Associate ProfessorTom Cleveland, Ph.D., Transamerica Professor of Financial ServicesMary Coe, M.B.A., Adjunct Assistant ProfessorLarisa Genin, D.B.A., Assistant ProfessorWilliam Halpin, J.D., Adjunct ProfessorJo Ann Heydenfeldt, Ph.D., LecturerYung Jae Lee, Ph.D., Associate ProfessorSamuel Lind, Ph.D., Associate ProfessorBarbara McGraw, J.D., Ph.D., ProfessorAlan Ross, J.D., LecturerNelson Shelton, Ph.D., LecturerDonald W. Snyder, Ph.D., ProfessorMelinda R. Thomas, J.D., Associate ProfessorDiana Ting Liu Wu, Ph.D., ProfessorMichelle Zak, Ph.D., Adjunct ProfessorLearning Outcomes• Communication Skills: Develop graduates whose oraland written communications are clear, persuasive andprofessionally delivered.• Research & Quantitative Skills: Develop graduates withstatistical skills to analyze and generate viable solutions for complexbusiness problems.• Strategic Management Skills: Develop graduates ableto formulate integrative strategic plans that enable an organizationto manage change effectively and enhance its performance.• Functional Area Skills: Develop graduates able to applyprinciples of financial, marketing, and operations management tosolve business problems.• Political / legal / ethical skills: Develop graduates ableto make business decisions that are legally and ethically responsibleand reflect the interests of all stakeholders.• Management / Human Resources Skills: Develop graduateswho understand human behavior in organizations, appreciatediversity, and are able to apply organizational and managementtheory to become effective leaders and productive team members.• Global Context of Business: Develop graduates whounderstand the role of global business in the operational andstrategic success of business organizations.• Information Technology Skills: Develop graduates whounderstand the role of information systems in the operational andstrategic success of business organizations.Major RequirementsBusiness Administration majors must take Accounting 1 and 2,Economics 3 and 4, Math 3 or 27 (or the sequence of Math 13 – 14),and BusAd 40 prior to the junior year. A grade of C– or better must beearned in each of these courses. All of these lower-division coursesmust be completed prior to enrolling in the upper-division courses forthe major.A student majoring in business administration must maintain a cumulativegrade point average of at least 2.0 both in the major and overall.The majority of the courses required for the major must be taken atSaint Mary’s College. The following upper-division courses, if requiredfor the student’s program, must be taken at Saint Mary’s College:Business Administration 100 (A,B,C), 121, 125, 126, 140, 181, 182.67