Program Overview
The Business Administration Major offers students the opportunity to tailor their curriculum across business disciplines emphasizing career themes such as: l) general management, 2) development of quantitative analysis skills in a business context, and 3) preparation for management of small businesses and 4) stewardship of human resources. Students not choosing a concentration can customize their degree program by selecting upper-level business courses that meet their career goals.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Business Administration program can:
- Apply foundational content related the Common Professional Component.
- Apply marketing concepts, strategies and tactics.
- Develop a comprehensive corporate financial analysis report.
- Articulate their awareness of their self-identity and vocational calling.
- Articulate the importance of Christian principles, ethics, personal and company values, and socially responsible business practices.
Entrepreneurship concentration graduates can also apply principles related to project management, marketing, and financing to prepare a complete and fundable business plan.
Human Resource Management concentration graduates can also:
- Apply foundational content related to Acquiring, Growing, and Keeping a pool of qualified and satisfied employees.
- Apply theoretical principles of human behavior to foster appropriate interpersonal interaction in the workplace.
Leadership concentration graduates can also apply discipline-based methods to analyze, diagnose, and make recommendations regarding leading organizational change.
Technology and Operations Management concentration graduates can also:
- Contribute to societal discourses on management science and information technology issues and controversies emanating from advances in management science or information technology
- Use the operations strategies and quantitative tools which enable organizations to carry out their missions efficiently and effectively.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
BUSA 459: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.
Three to four credits from the following:
Human Resource Concentration (21 credits)
Three credits from the following:
Three credits from the following:
| ECON 315 | The Economics of Wages and Employment | 3 |
| HRM 346 | Employee and Labor Relations | 3 |
| HRM 351 | Working Internationally | 3 |
| HRM 356 | Compensation and Benefits Management | 3 |
| HRM 426 | Topics in Human Resource Management | 3 |
Six credits from the following:
300- or 400-level ACCT, BUSA, ECON, FINA, HRM, IBI, LEAD, or MRKT courses
Selected CIS courses*
*CIS courses include:
| CIS 343 | Introduction to E-Commerce | 3 |
| CIS 381 | Information Systems and Managers | 3 |
| CIS 411 | Systems Analysis and Design Concepts | 3 |
| CIS 412 | Systems Analysis and Design Applications | 3 |