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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CORE
Take the following courses:
EB-100 Introduction to Management
This course develops an understanding of management principles in the areas of planning, organizing, staffing and control, including but not limited to the aspects of strategy, legal environment, operation/supply chain management.
3 CreditsS
EB-131 Financial Accounting
Introduces fundamental principles and assumptions of accounting as they relate to transaction analysis and basic financial statements.
3 CreditsS
EB-202 Behavioral Analysis of Organizations
The broad focus of the course is to examine how individuals come together to form a successful organization. The course is broken into three major sections: people, organizations, and leadership. The course emphasizes student involvement and engages students in a variety of in-class exercises, case analysis role playing exercises, small group exercises, and an off-campus class experience or two. One or more off-campus experiences are required for the course.
4 CreditsCW,S,WK-SIPrerequisite: Sophomore standing.
EB-371 Human Resource Management.
The early part of the course takes an in-depth look at the fundamental nature of the employer- employee relationship. The fundamental framework is then used to evaluate traditional aspects of Human Resource Management practice: Selection, training, recruitment, performance appraisals, and compensation. Class time involves some lecture, in-class exercises, guest speakers from industry, and case analyses.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: EB202 or PACS202.
EB-379 Bargaining and Conflict Management
Bargaining and Conflict Management provides students with an opportunity to learn about bargaining and conflict-management theory. Students will have the opportunity to explore and apply this theory, and to examine aspects of bargaining style, in a variety of bargaining simulations. The course will also have an international component by utilizing international bargaining simulations as an instructional tool.
3 CreditsS,CSPrerequisite: EB202 or PACS202.
ADDITIONAL COURSES
Take one of the following courses:
PY-101 Introduction to Psychology
An overview of the content and methodology in the field. Topics such as the history
of psychology, physiological psychology, learning and memory, perception, motivation,
child development, personality and social foundations are considered
3 CreditsS
PY-205 Social Psychology
The study of human interaction and interpersonal relationships, including selected
areas of current research and theory such as social perception, interpersonal communication,
attitude formation and change, conformity, aggression, and interpersonal attraction.
3 CreditsS
PY-303 Learning & Conditioning
Explores the issue of how we are changed by experience, using primarily a behaviorist
perspective, applied to animal and human data. Both theory and applied applications
of theory will be considered.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101.
PY-304 Cognitive Psychology
Explores an array of issues in human memory, primarily from a cognitive/information
processing point of view. Major emphasis is on using research data to formulate answers
to both theoretical and applied questions.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101.
CM-130 Introduction to Human Communication
Surveys the fundamental tenets of human communication through application. This course
is concerned with how and why we speak, listen, respond, and strategize through the
uses of verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.
3 CreditsS
CM-230 Interpersonal Communication
Introduces students to the various theories and styles of one-on-one communication.
It emphasizes the transactional approach in the study of the communication process
as it occurs in interpersonal relationships. It explores interaction as a way by which
we come to know ourselves and each other.
3 CreditsH, CSPrerequisites: CM130
CM-340 Intercultural Communication
This course examines symbolic patterns of communication as they relate to issues of
diversity. Interactive skills needed to open channels of communication between and
among people of diverse backgrounds are analyzed and developed. A multi-cultural approach
to the study of human communication serves as a basis for exploring issues of diversity
that include but are not limited to race, gender, class, ability, orientation, religion
and ethnicity.
3 CreditsH, I, SW-GEPrerequisite or Corequisite: FYC-101
CM-405A Women, Work & Identity
Women. Work. Identity. These three words are related in a complex web that many of
us struggle to untangle for our entire working lives. In this course, we identify
and name the components of the relationships among these words--all in the context
of the unique perspective that the communication discipline offers.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: CM130 or CM230 or CM220 or CM365 or permission of the instructor.
PACS-105 Introduction to Conflict Resolution
A survey of the field of conflict, this course explores the causes and consequences
of social conflict. Theory and case studies are used to understand interpersonal disputes,
the intricacies of groups in conflict and international issues and crisis. Emphasis
is given to understanding the basic theoretical concepts of the field and developing
basic conflict resolving skills.
3 CreditsS
PACS-205 Conflict Intervention
The course explores the roles third parties play in managing and resolving conflicts.
Students become familiar with both the central components of intervention design and
the nature and structure of third party roles ranging from managers as mediators to
conflict intervention in community disputes, or third party intervention in international
disputes. The focusing questions of the course center on issues of how and when third
parties can effectively and ethically intervene in conflicts. Research, case studies,
and simulations are used to explore the answers of these questions and to increase
students understanding of how third parties affect the course of conflict.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: PACS105 or PACS108.
PACS-305 Gender and Conflict
This course looks at the intersection of gender and conflict to understand what it
means to say that a conflict is gendered. It uses gender as an organizing concept
to study issues of gender equality, justice, and peace, challenging andinterrogating
dichotomous, oppositionalconstructions of masculinity and femininity to understand
how they contribute to direct, structural, and cultural violence.
3 CreditsS,I,CW,SW-ERPrerequisite: FYC-101 or EN-110 or EN-109
PY-101 Introduction to Psychology
An overview of the content and methodology in the field. Topics such as the history of psychology, physiological psychology, learning and memory, perception, motivation, child development, personality and social foundations are considered
3 CreditsS
PY-205 Social Psychology
The study of human interaction and interpersonal relationships, including selected areas of current research and theory such as social perception, interpersonal communication, attitude formation and change, conformity, aggression, and interpersonal attraction.
3 CreditsS
PY-303 Learning & Conditioning
Explores the issue of how we are changed by experience, using primarily a behaviorist perspective, applied to animal and human data. Both theory and applied applications of theory will be considered.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101.
PY-304 Cognitive Psychology
Explores an array of issues in human memory, primarily from a cognitive/information processing point of view. Major emphasis is on using research data to formulate answers to both theoretical and applied questions.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101.
CM-130 Introduction to Human Communication
Surveys the fundamental tenets of human communication through application. This course is concerned with how and why we speak, listen, respond, and strategize through the uses of verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.
3 CreditsS
CM-230 Interpersonal Communication
Introduces students to the various theories and styles of one-on-one communication. It emphasizes the transactional approach in the study of the communication process as it occurs in interpersonal relationships. It explores interaction as a way by which we come to know ourselves and each other.
3 CreditsH, CSPrerequisites: CM130
CM-340 Intercultural Communication
This course examines symbolic patterns of communication as they relate to issues of diversity. Interactive skills needed to open channels of communication between and among people of diverse backgrounds are analyzed and developed. A multi-cultural approach to the study of human communication serves as a basis for exploring issues of diversity that include but are not limited to race, gender, class, ability, orientation, religion and ethnicity.
3 CreditsH, I, SW-GEPrerequisite or Corequisite: FYC-101
CM-405A Women, Work & Identity
Women. Work. Identity. These three words are related in a complex web that many of us struggle to untangle for our entire working lives. In this course, we identify and name the components of the relationships among these words--all in the context of the unique perspective that the communication discipline offers.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: CM130 or CM230 or CM220 or CM365 or permission of the instructor.
PACS-105 Introduction to Conflict Resolution
A survey of the field of conflict, this course explores the causes and consequences of social conflict. Theory and case studies are used to understand interpersonal disputes, the intricacies of groups in conflict and international issues and crisis. Emphasis is given to understanding the basic theoretical concepts of the field and developing basic conflict resolving skills.
3 CreditsS
PACS-205 Conflict Intervention
The course explores the roles third parties play in managing and resolving conflicts. Students become familiar with both the central components of intervention design and the nature and structure of third party roles ranging from managers as mediators to conflict intervention in community disputes, or third party intervention in international disputes. The focusing questions of the course center on issues of how and when third parties can effectively and ethically intervene in conflicts. Research, case studies, and simulations are used to explore the answers of these questions and to increase students understanding of how third parties affect the course of conflict.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: PACS105 or PACS108.
PACS-305 Gender and Conflict
This course looks at the intersection of gender and conflict to understand what it means to say that a conflict is gendered. It uses gender as an organizing concept to study issues of gender equality, justice, and peace, challenging andinterrogating dichotomous, oppositionalconstructions of masculinity and femininity to understand how they contribute to direct, structural, and cultural violence.
3 CreditsS,I,CW,SW-ERPrerequisite: FYC-101 or EN-110 or EN-109
Secondary Emphasis Credit Total = 18
Six credits must be at the 300/400-level. Any course exception must be approved by the advisor and/or department chair.
The secondary emphasis is for use by students with POEs in other departments. We do not allow a student with a POE in ABE to use one of our own secondary emphases, e.g. Accounting w/secondary emphasis in Finance.
The secondary emphasis is shown on the POE forms using the words "w/secondary emphasis in" (e.g., Communications w/secondary emphasis in Marketing). We suggest that using "and" to connect two disciplines - e.g., Communications and Marketing - implies that the student is a "dual major" and has completed the designated POE in Marketing and sufficient work in the other discipline that a faculty member of that department would approve the POE.
NOTE: prerequisites for 300/400 courses will NOT automatically be waived.