General Management : Indiana University Southeast

General Management

Are you looking to leverage your managerial skills more effectively in order to achieve your goals and objectives?

Our post-bac certificate in general management will sharpen your ability to motivate, budget, communicate, organize, lead, discipline, strategize and reward, in the effort to help your organization run as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Required Courses

Students are required to take 15 credits from the following list in order to obtain a post-bac certificate in general management.

Required Courses (15 credit hours)
Dept./Course #	Title	Credit Hours
BUS-D 300	International Business Administration	3
Prerequisites: ECON-E 200 and junior standing. Foreign environment for overseas operations; U.S. government policies and programs for international business; international economic policies; and management decisions and their implementation in international marketing, management, and finance.
BUS-W 301	Principles of Management	3
Designed to synthesize knowledge of principles and functions of management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling, and decision making.
BUS-W 311	New Venture Creation	3
Prerequisite: Junior Standing. This course helps students identify viable career options in entrepreneurship, expand their basic knowledge of the entrepreneurial process, and develop a repertoire of venture management skills.
BUS-W 320	Leadership and Ethics	3
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Students are introduced to ethics concepts and leadership skills, with a particular emphasis on demonstrating how ethics and leadership are complementary areas of emphasis for an effective leader. Ethics and leadership must be considered together in order to produce leaders who have the foresight to consider issues of responsibility, accountability, and the full impact of their actions, as well as a skill set that will empower them to implement their vision.
BUS-W 430	Organizations and Organizational Change	3
Prerequisite: BUS-Z 302, BUS-W 301. Analysis and development of organizational theories with emphasis on environmental dependencies, sociotechnical systems, structural design, and control of the performance of complex systems. Issues in organizational change, such as appropriateness of intervention strategies and techniques, barriers to change, organizational analysis, and evaluation of formal change programs.
BUS-Z 440	Personnel and Human Resource Management	3
Prerequisites: SPCH-S 121, PSY-P 101 or PSY-P 102, ENG-W 231 or ENG-W 234, and a minimum of 45 credit hours. Nature of human resource development and utilization in modern organizations. Establishment and operation of a total human resource program. Includes recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, reward systems, benefit programs, role of personnel department, and role of government.

Admission Process

To apply for a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, you must submit the following:

Application for Undergraduate Admission
A one-time, non-refundable application fee of $35. This fee is not required if you have previously applied for undergraduate admission at any Indiana University campus.
Official transcripts from the college/university awarding your bachelor's degree.

Please visit the IU Southeast Office of Admissions website or call (812) 941-2212 or (800) 852-8835 (Ind. or Ky.), or visit in person for application deadlines, reciprocity guidelines, financial aid and other questions.

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Advising

Please contact Kris Bloos, academic advisor in the School of Business at kbloos@ius.edu or (812) 941-2362 for more detailed information on the admissions process and course requirements.

Kris Bloos

Academic Advisor

Hillside Hall 221A
Phone: (812) 941-2362
kbloos@ius.edu

Financial Aid

Students enrolled in this stand-along certificate program are not eligible for financial aid. Students are eligible for certificate courses if they are enrolled in another degree-seeming program.