Management

CERTIFICATE MAJOR
Curriculum Code No. 3156

Department of Business Studies
Penn 401 • Phone (215) 968-8227

This program is designed to prepare students for entry level management and management-trainee positions. Students will understand the principles of managing people in an organizational setting.Successful completion of this program will allow students to combine specific knowledge with management skills and earn positions such as construction manager, human resource and training manager, purchasing manager, food service manager, or transportation company manager.

Students who complete this program will

• demonstrate a knowledge of the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling that are used in an organizational forum;
• employ the managerial use of accounting data including the use of terminology and procedures through the accounting cycle;
• appraise economic growth and its impact on a business; and
• define the basic elements of contract and agency law.

Certificate Course Requirements

^A Course requires prerequisite.

Since the individual circumstances and backgrounds of students vary, all students planning to complete this certificate program must meet with their assigned academic advisor to develop a planned sequence of courses to meet their individual needs.