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UMUC Bachelor’s Degrees
Supplemental Major Courses (9-12 s.h.)
To complete the 36 semester hours required for the major, students
must take two or more of the following courses:
BMGT 340 Business Finance (3)*
BMGT 380 Business Law I (3)
BMGT 381 Business Law II (3)
BMGT 391 Motivation, Performance, and Productivity (3)
BMGT 464 Organizational Behavior (3)
BMGT 465 Organizational Development and Change (3)
BMGT 484 Managing Teams in Organizations (3)
HRMN 302 Organizational Communication (3)
HRMN 363 Negotiation Strategies (3)
HRMN 365 Conflict Management in Organizations (3)
HRMN 367 Organizational Culture (3)
HRMN 390 Contemporary Compensation Management (3)
HRMN 392 Stress Management in Organizations (1)
HRMN 404 Managing Diversity in Organizations (3)
HRMN 406 Employee Training and Development (3)
HRMN 463 Public-Sector Labor Relations (3)
HRMN 486A Internship in Human Resource Management
Through Co-op (3)
HRMN 486B Internship in Human Resource Management
Through Co-op (6)
HRMN 494 Strategic Human Resource Management (3)
MRKT 310 Marketing Principles and Organizations (3)*
*Strongly recommended, especially for students who plan to go on
to graduate school.
Additional Required Coursework (12 s.h.)
Students must take the following courses; credit may be applied to
general education, minor, or elective requirements, as appropriate.
ECON 201 Principles of Economics I (3)
ECON 203 Principles of Economics II (3)
MATH 107 College Algebra (3) or
A higher numbered mathematics course
Students must take one of the following courses to complete the
general education requirement in computing:
ACCT 326 Accounting Information Systems (3)
IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations (3)
Recommendations
The following courses are recommended; credit may be applied to
general education or elective requirements, as appropriate:
COMM 390 Writing for Managers (3)
COMM 393/393X Technical Writing (3)
COMM 394/394X Business Writing (3)
Minor in Human Resource
Management
The human resource management minor complements the skills
the student gains in his or her major discipline by examining the
human resource functions in a private- or public-sector
organizational setting. These functions include human resource
planning, recruitment, selection, and placement; employee
appraisal and compensation; employee training and career
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development; management of labor relations; and development
of a human resource department implementation plan.
Objectives
A student graduating with a minor in human resource
management will be able to:
• Conduct effective human resource planning for technological
innovation in a global environment.
• Describe the importance of internal and external
organizational environments and the interrelationships for
human resource functions.
• Explain the processes of job analysis, staffing, appraisal and
compensation, career training, and development.
• Identify various performance appraisal systems and critically
evaluate their pros and cons.
• Demonstrate cohesive team-management skills in decision
making, communications, motivation, and interpersonal
behavior by focusing on the group dynamics that occur
within an increasingly diverse workforce.
• Discuss the history of union/management relations and
associated major federal, state, and local legislation; executive
orders; and court decisions.
• Describe the interaction among management, labor, and the
federal agencies.
• Utilize various processes and tools for bargaining, negotiating,
and resolving disputes.
• Demonstrate information literacy through the use of
commonly accepted quantitative and qualitative analytical
research methods to evaluate human resource initiatives and
solve problems.
• Develop effective written and oral communications consistent
with the business and professional environment.
Requirements for the Minor
A minor in human resource management requires the completion
of 15 semester hours in human resource management; at least 9
of which must be earned in courses numbered 300 or above.
Specific course requirements are listed below. If a specific course
required for the minor is taken instead to satisfy the requirements
for the major, another course in the same discipline should be
substituted to fulfill the required minimum number of semester
hours for the minor. Any course used to replace an upper-level
course should also be classified as upper level.
Human Resource Management Coursework (15 s.h.)
Required Foundation Courses (6 s.h.)
Students must take the following foundation courses:
HRMN 300 Human Resource Management (3)
HRMN 400 Human Resource Management: Analysis and
Problems (3)
Supplemental Minor Courses (9 s.h.)
Students must take three of the following courses, for a total of
9 s.h.:
BMGT 364 Management and Organization Theory (3)
BMGT 380 Business Law I (3)
2004-2005 Undergraduate Catalog