Course Catalog 2021-2022

Nonprofit Management, BBA

Want to make the world a better place and address challenging social issues with a strong business sense? Our BBA in Nonprofit Management prepares students to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively about issues facing government, for-profit, and nonprofit enterprises.

Our professors inspire student social entrepreneurs to act boldly by exposing them to people who have started social ventures and engaging the community to witness and experience first-hand what is happening right here in Metro Detroit.

Program Learning Outcomes

The following learning outcomes are linked to assignments and activities throughout this program:

  1. CRITICAL THINKING: Professional graduates think critically and apply systems thinking to decision making.
  2. PROBLEM-SOLVING and APPLICATION:  Professional graduates apply functional area concepts and theories appropriately.
  3. PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: Professional graduates communicate effectively by preparing and delivering oral and written presentations using appropriate technologies.
  4. SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY: Professional graduates align personal, professional, and organizational conduct with ethical and professional standards of conduct including an understanding of corporate social responsibility.
  5. VOCATIONAL AWARENESS: Professional graduates demonstrate an understanding of God's ongoing story in the world and their responsibility to God, self, organization, and the world as a part of that ongoing story.
  6. ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT: Professional graduates assess the success of an organization based on the sustainability of both its mission and its economic value creation through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
  7. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Professional graduates integrate entrepreneurial value creation in both their personal and professional lives through the evaluation of benefits and risks of opportunities.
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Requirements for the BBA in Nonprofit Management

General Education Core 35 hours

(The Social and Behavioral Science general education requirement is covered in the major by BUS 2513. The Diversity general education requirement is covered in the major by BUS 3033.)

Business Core 42 hours

(SEN 2013 is satisfied in the major.)

Nonprofit Management Major 30 hours

FIN 3303Nonprofit Financial Management

3

MGT 3723Nonprofit Management

3

SEN 3003Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship

3

SEN 4813Nonprofit Management Internship

3

 

SEN 3023Sustainable Community Development - Urban

3

OR

SEN 3033Sustainable Community Development - International

3

 

HRM 3613Human Resource Management

3

OR

ACC 4323Governmental and Not for Profit Accounting

3

Vocational Emphasis - Choose one from the following: 12 hours

Social Work/Human Services, choose 12 credits of SWK

12

Strategic Leadership, choose 12 credits of LDR

Public Relations/Marketing, choose 12 credits of MCM/MKT

Christian Ministry, choose 12 credits of MIN/THL/BIB

Science-Environmentalism, choose 12 credits of NSC/BIO

Arts and Science, choose 12 credits of an approved emphasis

Electives 13 hours

(PSY 2013 is recommended)

Total Credit Hours: 120