The Reid School concentrates its undergraduate professional courses in the last two years of the four-year degree program. Our curriculum is designed to ensure that students not only gain a broad educational base through a common body of business knowledge but also develop expertise in their chosen field.
As a Human Resource Management major, you will refine your career options by deepening your knowledge in key areas such as recruitment, employee relations, performance management, and organizational behavior. Our faculty continuously monitor courses and curricula to ensure that the competencies and skills taught align with the demands of the professional world.
Acc 201: Principles of Accounting I
An introduction to financial accounting that explains the accounting principles and procedures used to record and report economic events of a business entity. Financial accounting focuses on the preparation of accounting information for users outside the business entity.
Acc 202: Principles of Accounting II
A continuation of the introduction to financial accounting principles and an introduction to managerial accounting. Managerial accounting focuses on the preparation and use of accounting information by management.
BAd 103: Introduction to Software Applications
Survey of the Windows operating system and business software applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software. Fulfills computer competency for Business or Accounting majors.
BAd 301: Business Law
A basic course dealing with the history and operation of the law, the law of contracts, and some description of other important segments of law useful to business students.
BAd 318: Business Statistics
Fundamental concepts and methods of statistics covering frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, statistical quality control, quantitative decision making, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and non-parametric statistics.
BAd 405: Management Information Systems
Examination of information needs of a business and how to plan, design, and implement a system to meet those needs.
BAd 499: Business Policy
A capstone case course with an emphasis on integrating the various functional areas of business. As cases are discussed, consideration is given to topics such as decision making, strategic planning, and organization theory.
Eco 202: Economic Concepts II (Microeconomics)
An introduction to the functions of an economic system with an emphasis on decision-making by individuals and firms in a market economy.
Fin 308: Financial Principles
An introduction to the basic principles, concepts, and analytical techniques of finance. Major topics include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and sources of capital.
Mgt 306: Management Concepts
The study of principles of management focused around a central core of planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and staffing.
Mkt 307: Marketing Concepts
The study of the principles of marketing around the themes of product, price, place, and promotion.
Mgt 308: Organizational Behavior
This course explores the field of organizational behavior from both internal and external perspectives. Key areas include organizational processes, change and development, organizational structures, and outcomes. Organizational theory will be highlighted so that learning can be applied to real world settings and situations.
Mgt 315: Personnel/Human Resource Management
An introduction to the management of human resources in organizations, with emphasis on the role of human resource manager. The course focuses on job design, employee recruitment and selection, assessment and performance, compensation and benefits, legal constraints, retaining human resources, employee development, and employee-management relations.
Mgt 411: Labor-Management Relations
The study of the history of the labor movement in the United States, a survey of the legal framework involved with union/management relationships, and an understanding of the collective bargaining process.
Mgt 420: Seminar in Human Resource Management
A comprehensive course in human resource management with emphasis on the implementation of the latest methods and techniques of HRM programs. It focuses on current issues and changes in the field and their implications to the organization.
