Degree: Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences
Major: Management
Hours: 120

ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ University's Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Management combines skills learned in the classroom with the professional experience many pursuing a business degree already possess. This is a flexible, career-focused online program designed for students with diverse backgrounds and prior technical credits, associate degrees or military training.
The objective of this program is to prepare you or management jobs through courses in the fundamentals of management. Your courses will also include practical experience working in a business or organization. Upon graduation, you will have a wide variety of career options. If you are patient, trustworthy, empathetic and adaptable, you will make an excellent manager.
Leadership/Communication Strategies: The Leadership and Communications Strategies course aims to equip students with the essential communication and leadership skills necessary for navigating the professional world. The course will focus on techniques for: conveying ideas and information effectively, becoming a credible influential leader, creating conditions in which individuals and teams thrive, developing measurable goals, and achieving actionable outcomes.
Personal Productivity: Personal productivity is a course based on the FranklinCovey framework, designed to empower individuals to significantly enhance their personal and professional effectiveness by focusing on five key decision-making principles that optimize their time, attention, and energy. This course integrates theoretical foundations with practical applications to develop students' abilities to make effective decisions, manage time efficiently, and achieve sustainable productivity in both personal and professional contexts.
Principles Organizational Behavior/Management: Includes the study of organization behavior concepts such as leadership, motivation, individual behavior, group behavior and communication. Their use in U.S. and multinational organizations in management practice is examined in the context of today's legal, social and ethical environment.
Production Management: A survey of the production function and the analytical tools used to solve problems associated with the development and operation of a production system. Analytical tools include: linear programming, critical path scheduling, waiting line, statistical quality control and forecasting.
Human Resource Management: A behavioral approach to the management of the human resource in business enterprise. The fundamentals of human relations and organizational behavior will be used to structure an understanding of the managerial problems of recruitment, selection, training, promotion and termination of personnel. Supervision of the work force will be considered as an examination of theories of motivation, communication and leadership.
Graduates of this online program will be prepared with technical or vocational experience for leadership roles, focusing on skills like strategic planning, human resources and project management. You will also be able to transition into roles like business analytics or consultants in sectors such as healthcare, technology and finance.
General manager, HR director, office manager