Human Resource Management Minor
Information about minor in Human Resource Management
The competitive advantage derived from the more effective use of Human Resource Management (HRM) policies, practices, and procedures is the focus of the HRM minor. The HRM minor is relevant to a wide variety of students University-wide who want to learn to better manage a firm’s human resources. This includes, among others, students who will become line managers and need to implement HR policies as they hire and manage the performance of their employees, entrepreneurs and need a fundamental knowledge of HRM to run their companies more effectively, and heads of not-for-profit organizations and need to understand the basics of HRM because they will rarely be able to hire an HR staff. The curriculum of the HRM minor covers a range of topic areas taught from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Students will be exposed to a wide array of HR functional areas including staffing, performance management, training, compensation, employer-employee rights and responsibilities, and human resource information systems.
REQUIRED COURSES: 21 HOURS
ACCT 23020 Introduction to Financial Accounting
COMM 25863 Business and Professional Communication
M&IS 24163 Principles of Management
34180 Human Resource Management
44183 Developing and Training Human Resources in Organizations
44191 Seminar in Human Resource Management
44195 Advanced Topics in Human Resource Management
ELECTIVE COURSES: 3 HOURS
Choose 1 course from the following
M&IS 34165 Dynamics of Leadership
34185 Individual and Group Behavior
