CORE CURRICULUM: All students take a set of eight core courses, which provide a solid foundation of business knowledge and skills. These include, but are not limited to: Foundations of HR Management, Quantitative Methods and Metrics, Financial Management, Information Technology, Organizational Behavior, and Business Writing.

CONCENTRATIONS: Students apply knowledge from the core curriculum towards one of four areas of concentration: Human Capital Management; Organizational Effectiveness; Global Talent Management; or Learning, Development, and Executive Coaching.

CAPSTONE: The Capstone experience allows students to synthesize the knowledge which they have acquired either through an extensive business simulation conducted in the Special Projects course or by completing a Thesis. The Special Projects simulation is programmed to simulate a profit or nonprofit organization that is in manufacturing or service. Typical decision variables involve wages, replacing employees, hiring, promoting from within, training costs for promotions, fringe benefits, budget for other activities, safety, employee participation programs, grievances, human resources information systems, performance appraisal programs, affirmative action program, production levels, overtime, employee morale, turnover, and absenteeism. The Thesis must demonstrate the student’s ability to conduct comprehensive research and articulate original ideas and thought processes that make a practical contribution to the existing body of knowledge in the field of human resources.