Management Concentrations

Management Concentration

A concentration in management can provide you with the skills you need to succeed in future business enterprises. The concentration is designed to help you learn how to deal with the people-based challenges you will encounter in a management position.

Management Degree Checksheet

Concentration Course Requirements (18 Semester Hours)

Required Courses (6 semester hours)
MGMT 4242 Organizational Behavior OR PSYC 3241
MGMT 4482 Managerial Negotiation

Elective Courses (12 semester hours)
     Select four from:
          MGMT 4272 Managing the Family Business
          MGMT 4342 Organizational Change & Development
          MGMT 4343 Organizational Leaders & Leadership
          MGMT 4252 Entrepreneurship
          MGMT 4352 Management in a Global Economy
          MGMT 4402 Human Resource Management
          MGMT 4422 Labor Relations
          MGMT 4952 Topics in Management

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management Concentration

The emerging high-technology and service industries have created a demand for entrepreneurs who can provide dynamic leadership in creating new enterprises. Equally important is the need for individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit to enter older, more mature industries. If you intend to enter a family business, work in the small business sector, start your own business, or buy an existing business, you should consider a concentration in entrepreneurship and small business management.

Management Degree Checksheet

Concentration Course Requirements (18 Semester Hours)

Required Courses (9 semester hours)
     MGMT 4242 Organizational Behavior OR PSYC 3241
     MGMT 4252 (WI) Entrepreneurship
     MGMT 4262 (WI) Small Business Management

Elective Courses (9 semester hours)
     Select three from:
          MGMT 4272 (WI) Managing the Family Business
          MGMT 4352 Management in a Global Economy
          MGMT 4402 Human Resource Management
          MGMT 4482 Managerial Negotiation
          MKTG 4362 Retail Management
          MKTG 4752 Advertising and Promotion Management
          MKTG 4662 (WI) Marketing Research
          MKTG 4732 Consumer Behavior
          FINA   3824 Financial Analysis and Planning
          OMGT 4743  Logistics & Materials Management

In the entrepreneurship course, you will be required to develop a venture or business plan. Unique to this concentration is the small business management course in which you will actually work with an existing business under a program sponsored by the Small Business Administration's Small Business Institute (SBI).

International Business Concentration

The international business major in the School of Business is a highly structured program that is best suited to students in their first semester of the freshman year. There are certain requirements that are unique to this major including a full semester study abroad and the fulfillment of a foreign language requirement.

Study Abroad

All international business majors are required to study abroad for a minimum of one full semester. Summer study abroad cannot be used to satisfy this requirement. One of the primary goals of the full semester study abroad is to enhance the student's proficiency in the chosen foreign language within its cultural context. It is recommended that students study abroad during the second semester of their sophomore year or the first semester of the junior year. Immediately upon their return from the study abroad, students are required to sit for a foreign language competency examination through the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. It is the student's responsibility to arrange the study abroad through the ECU International Programs Office.

World Regions

The full semester study abroad must be completed in an approved nation within the student's chosen world region. There are four world regions from which a student can choose -- Africa/Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Each student must choose the language of preference within the appropriate world region. The study abroad must be completed within the nation whose native tongue is the student's preference.

Management Degree Checksheet

Courses in the 27-semester hour international business concentration include:

Six courses beyond the one common body of knowledge international perspectives course requirement
(18 semester hours) - select six:

ACCT	4451	International Accounting
FINA	4454	International Finance
MKTG	3852	Cultural Environment of International Business
MKTG	4992	International Marketing
MGMT	3352	International Business
MGMT	4352	Management in a Global Economy
POLS	2020	Introduction to International Relations OR
ANTH	2010	Societies Around the World

Foreign Language Requirement

Intended majors are required to have a minimum competency in a foreign language such that they could test out of taking the Level 1 course at ECU. Intended majors also are strongly encouraged to complete the Level 4 of the appropriate language by the first semester of their sophomore year and/or prior to the semester of the student's study abroad. The language test (ACTFL), which is administered upon the student's return from the full semester study abroad, is available in four competency areas -- writing, speaking, listening, and reading. Using the ACTFL guidelines, students will be required to score intermediate-high on listening and reading and intermediate-mid on speaking and writing.

Free electives (9 semester hours) --courses chosen by the student. May be used to take language courses if necessary.

Choose 9 s.h. based one of the following World Regions chosen by the student (not more than two courses from any one dept):

Students choose three courses from more than twenty-five available within four world regions including Africa/Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

World Regions and Courses Available

Africa /	Middle East:	Latin America:		Asia:		Europe:
ANTH	3003	ANTH	3016	ANTH	3002	AMID	2700
COMM	3180	ANTH	3017	ART	3920	COMM	3180
COMM	3390	ANTH	3018	COMM	3180	COMM	3390
ECON	3353	COMM	3180	COMM	3390	ECON	3353
FORL	2624	COMM	3390	ECON	3353	ECON	4373
GEOG	2110	ECON	3353	GEOG	2110	FORL	2620
GEOG	3050	FORL	2661	GEOG	3051	FORL	2660
HIST	3670	GEOG	2110	HIST	3611	FORL	2680
HIST	3810	GEOG	3049	HIST	3620	GEOL	3047
PHIL	1690	GEOG	3056	HIST	3630	HIST	3435
POLS	3260	HIST	3711	HIST	4610	HIST	3450
POLS	3293	HIST	3760	PHIL	1690	PHIL	1690
POLS	3295	HIST	3780	POLS	3280	POLS	3234
PSYC	3314	PHIL	1690	POLS	3293	POLS	3235
		POLS	3270	POLS	3295	POLS	3236
		POLS	3293	PSYC	3314	POLS	3293
		POLS	3295			POLS	3295
		PSYC	3314			PSYC	3314

For more information about the major in international business contact:

Dr. Tope Bello, Department of Management
3106 Bate Building, School of Business
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Telephone 252-328-4856
E-mail: bellot@ecu.edu