Residency Requirement for Major Coursework

Tennessee is widely recognized for its leadership role in implementing some of the most innovative and exciting curricular changes occurring during the last forty years of management education. The curriculum coursework is divided into four components – general education, pre-business core, business core, and major. The 59 hours of general education focus on all aspects of human endeavor – written and oral communications; mathematics; social, behavioral, and natural sciences; humanities; foreign language; ethics; and the arts. General education courses span the student’s entire academic career. The pre-business core courses (14 hours) are taken during the student’s second year. The pre-business core provides students with the fundamentals of business education, introducing the tools, the environment, and the functions of contemporary business practices. Building on the pre-business core foundation, the business core (23 hours) consists of integrated contemporary business management modules in supply chain management, demand management, lean operations, information management, and integrated process management; discipline-specific courses in financial management and business strategy; and coursework on global and legal issues. As business management perspectives change, the topics in the business core will, by design, adapt. Simultaneously, students are completing the coursework (24 hours) required by their chosen major. The College of Business Administration offers nine majors – accounting, economics, enterprise management, finance, human resource management, logistics, marketing, public administration, and statistics. Within the 24 hours of their major, students may study two areas of emphasis – their major with a collateral or their major with a dual concentration. With a collateral, students complete 15 hours in their major and 9 hours in their collateral area (with the exception of economics and statistics majors, who complete 18 hours in their major and 6 hours in their collateral area). With a dual concentration, students complete 12 hours in each area of emphasis. See the chart in this section for details of the collateral and dual concentration options for each major. A minimum grade of C must be earned in every course counted toward the major, including major, collateral, or dual concentration courses. Upon the completion of this curriculum, students are awarded a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.