Human Resource Management, B.S.

The Human Resources Management major enables students to apply concepts, theories, and methods to organizational processes, with an emphasis on human resources functions. With a solid course background in business, psychology, and related disciplines, students in this major will be prepared to assess and explain organizational phenomena from multiple disciplinary lenses; to understand the importance of various technologies for and their effects on human resources functions; and to develop an awareness of multicultural and global issues that relate to organizational behavior. This major will prepare students for direct employment in such human resources functions as: worker selection, worker evaluation and career development, benefits administration, human relations, training, employment law, and program and institutional evaluation, as well as for graduate work in human resource management or organizational psychology programs.