Human Resource Management, BBA
The Human Resource program prepares graduates with a blend of business fundamentals and human resources knowledge needed to serve as a human resources professional. The curriculum will prepare graduates for a career in the human resources industry, including the skills in the areas of training and development, compensation, employment law, benefit management, and risk management. The program provides readiness preparation for graduates to be employed by for-profit, nonprofit, or government organizations as a human resources professional. This program can be completed fully online, or through a combination of online and seated classes.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Business Administration, Human Resource program will be able to:
- Develop and evaluate training and development programs using best practices in professional instructional design, including the ability to meaningfully gauge the impact of training programs.
- Analyze and apply processes and procedures surrounding compensation management.
- Identify and apply relevant employment and labor laws to a given human resources initiative.
- Rigorously assess the scale of business risks associated with a given human resources initiative, including and exceeding those posed by compliance needs.
Program Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are linked to assignments and activities throughout this program:
- CRITICAL THINKING: Professional graduates think critically and apply systems thinking to decision making.
- PROBLEM SOLVING AND APPLICATION: Professional graduates apply functional area concepts and theories appropriately.
- PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Professional graduates communicate effectively by preparing and delivering oral and written presentations using appropriate technologies.
- SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILTY: Professional graduates align personal, professional, and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards of conduct, including an understanding of corporate social responsibility.
- VOCATIONAL AWARENESS: Professional graduates demonstrate an understanding of God's ongoing story in the world and their responsibility to God, self, organization, and the world as a part of that ongoing story.
Requirements for the BBA in Human Resource Management
General Education Core 35 hours
(The Social and Behavioral Science general education requirement is covered in the major by
BUS 2513. The Diversity general education requirement is covered in the major by
BUS 3033.)
Business Core 42 hours
Human Resource Management Major 30 hours
Electives 13 hours
Total Credit Hours: 120