Online Bachelor of Arts in Management 

At Ottawa University's Kansas City campus, a student can build upon earlier undergraduate coursework, certifications and life learning by completing a major in management. The online Bachelor of Arts in Management major provides the student with an opportunity to advance professional/technical study completed at a community or technical college, as well as selected national or state certifications.

Through this major, the student will explore the conceptual frameworks of management and gain practical skills needed to supervise personnel and help organizations run efficiently, effectively and ethically. The student will learn how to analyze systems, interpret data, set priorities, administer human resources, improve customer service, adapt to internal and external changes, and understand the manager's role in accomplishing organizational goals. Communication, problem solving and decision-making are key skills stressed in this major.

Liberal Arts Courses (LAS Program): The LAS program at Ottawa University not only ensures all students fulfill basic institutional expectations but also provides the learning community with a strong element of intellectual unity. The program is, first of all, concerned with the breadth of the student's competencies and addresses knowledge from across a rich range of human knowledge and inquiry. The program makes a particular effort to address the dimensions of value, both ethical and aesthetic, and their relationship to more objective ways of knowing.

Required Management Courses (6 courses)

• Human Resource Administration
• Management
• Business Ethics
• Behavior in Organizations
• Managerial  Accounting or
• Planning and Budgeting
• Seminar in Applied Management

Required Liberal Arts Courses (3 courses)

• Proseminar
• Individual in Society
• Graduation Review

Overall Graduation Requirements

TRACK I: MANAGEMENT
128 semester credit hours required for graduation (each course at Ottawa University is 4 semester credit hours):

•  12 semester credit hours in Liberal Arts
•  76 semester credit hours in Electives
•  40 semester credit hours major: 24 semester credit hours required in Management (including Capstone Seminar - see above), and
   minimum of 16 semester credit hours in Management-related electives.(Note: 48 semester credit hours of the 128 must be 300/400 level)

TRACK II: MANAGEMENT WITH AN EMPHASIS
128 semester credit hours required for graduation (each course at Ottawa University is 4 semester credit hours):

NOTE: This major is very attractive to community college students, because the community college major can serve as the emphasis mentioned below.

•  12 semester credit hours in Liberal Arts
•  68 semester credit hours in Electives
•  48 semester credit hours major: Minimum of 18 semester credit hours in Management courses, minimum of 15 semester credit hours
   in emphasis, and 15 semester credit hours in emphasis or Management (including Capstone Seminar). (Note: 48 semester credit hours
   of the 128 must be 300/400 level)

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