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Spring 2025 Trine Course Catalog

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Applied Management (120 hrs.)

The applied management major is designed for students who have already acquired hands-on training in a professional or specialized area. Prior training may qualify for transfer credits, reducing the time and cost required to earn the degree. Not only does this allow students to graduate faster, but it also increases their earning potential.


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Mission

The goal is to equip students with the quality educational tools needed to develop a career of leadership in the applied management profession, provide them with a depth of studies that prepares them to meet the contemporary needs of the business and community they will serve as professionals, and to enable them to be contributing citizens of local, regional and international communities with a valuable and diverse knowledge.



Outcomes

Our program assures that students attain the following outcomes:

  1. Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving abilities in an organization context.
  2. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
  3. Demonstrate quantitative reasoning through analysis, synthesis, and interpretation of data.
  4. Demonstrate responsible, appropriate, and effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools to access, manage, integrate, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information.
  5. Prepare to seek and grow in a professional career path:
    1. Demonstrate a knowledge base specific to applied management.
  6. Demonstrate ethical acumen both personally and professionally.

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements - 39 hours

Communication – 12 hrs.

ENG 133Technical Communication

3
Or
ENG 143College Composition

3
 
HUM 203Humanities Seminar

3
SP 203Effective Speaking

3
COM 213Business Communication

3

Humanities and Social Science – 9 hrs.

ECO 213Microeconomics

3
ECO 223Macroeconomics

3
 
Or
 
ECO 203Survey of Economics

3
Social Science Elective (3)

3
 
Humanities Elective (3)

3

Mathematics and Science – 12 hrs.

MA 113College Algebra

3
 
MA 173Essential Calculus

3
Or
MA 163Applied Math w/Business Concepts

3
 
MA 253Statistics

3
Science Elective (3)

3

Other – 6 hrs.

BA 213Business Spreadsheets

3
PSY 113Principles of Psychology

3

Additional Requirements - 81 hours

Take one of the below:

BA 101University Experience for Ketner School of Business

1
BA 102University Experience-Business Students

2
UE 101University Experience

1

*UE 111 Online Learning Orientation for students in the online program

Business Core – 37 - 39 hrs.

AC 203Accounting I

3
AC 213Accounting II

3
BA 123Business Concepts

3
BA 201Professional Development & Strategies

1
BA 3113Business Internship

3
BA 453Global Strategic Management

3
FIN 303Managerial Finance

3
FIN 353Personal Finance

3
LAW 203Business Law & Ethics

3
MGT 353Designing Operations

3
MGT 363Organizational Behavior

3
MGT 483Capstone

3
MK 203Marketing

3

BA 3111 - BA 3113: Advisor will determine the appropriate class anywhere between BA 3111 and BA 3113 (1 -3 credits worth of internship work)

Concentration Requirements - 30 hrs.

Business courses with approval of Advisor or Chair – Student must be transferring in all 27 hours of a technical field/concentration. If a student can’t transfer in all 27 hours, it must be a field that can be completed at Trine such as Criminal Justice. If the student does not have 27 hours and it can’t be completed at Trine, the transfer credits can’t be accepted as an applied management concentration. They should be considered as a normal transfer evaluation.

Technical Field/Concentration Courses

27
Business Elective/Technical Specialty (3)

3

Business Elective/Technical Specialty: AC, ENT, FIN, HR, LAW, LDR, MGT, MK

Electives – 12-14 hrs.

Free Electives (12-14)

12-14

Total Credit Hours: 120