Course Catalog 2023-2024

Nonprofit Management, BBA

Want to make the world a better place and address challenging social issues with a strong business sense? Our BBA in Nonprofit Management prepares students to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively about issues facing government, for-profit, and nonprofit enterprises.

Our professors inspire student social entrepreneurs to act boldly by exposing them to people who have started social ventures and engaging the community to witness and experience first-hand what is happening right here in Metro Detroit.

Program Learning Outcomes

The following learning outcomes are linked to assignments and activities throughout this program:

  1. CRITICAL THINKING: Professional graduates think critically and apply systems thinking to decision making.
  2. PROBLEM SOLVING AND APPLICATION: Professional graduates apply functional area concepts and theories appropriately.
  3. PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Professional graduates communicate effectively by preparing and delivering oral and written presentations using appropriate technologies.
  4. SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY: Professional graduates align personal, professional, and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards of conduct including an understanding of corporate social responsibility.
  5. 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.
  6. ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT: Professional graduates assess the success of an organization based on the sustainability of both its mission and its economic value creation through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
  7. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Professional graduates integrate entrepreneurial value creation in both their personal and professional lives through the evaluation of benefits and risks of opportunities.

Requirements for the BBA in Nonprofit 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 36 hours

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Nonprofit Management Major 36 hours

BUS 4943Business Ethics

3

FIN 3303Nonprofit Financial Management

3

MGT 3723Nonprofit Management

3

POS 2033Introduction to Public Policy

3

SEN 3023Sustainable Community Development - Urban

3

SEN 4813Nonprofit Management Internship

3

Choose one:

BUS 4823Business Strategy and Policy Capstone

3

BUS 4833Independent Study Capstone

3

Choose one:

ACC 4323Governmental and Not for Profit Accounting

3

HRM 3613Human Resource Management

3

POS 3013The U.S. in the Modern World

3

Vocational Emphasis - Choose 12 hours in one of the following fields:

Click here to choose Vocational Emphasis options.

Electives 13 hours

(PSY 2013 is recommended.)

Total Credit Hours: 120