Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts
Total Credits Bachelor of Arts: 181-183 credits (90 A.A. + 91-93 B.A.)
The Business Department strives to develop prepared students who demonstrate strong ethical principles, superior critical thinking, effective communication, and robust business acumen. The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration provides students with the essential business skills and knowledge necessary to enter the professional workplace. Specific emphasis is placed on reservation-based enterprises and organizations, experiential learning, business writing and business tools to develop employability skills for the workforce. Areas of instruction include leadership, management, accounting, business law, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship. Students are encouraged to develop their business ideas and interests for establishing their first business idea or existing business venture.
Recommended Experiences for Employability Skills
The Business Department actively supports and supervises internships, job shadowing placements, service learning opportunities, and other work-related experiences for qualified students as they complete their academic study plan. Students must work with their advisors and accept personal responsibility for the planning of their approved coursework.
Career Opportunities
With a career in business administration, organized and motivated managers contribute to key aspects of running a business efficiently and profitably, supporting sustainable business on American Indian reservations and businesses in the private sector. Graduates with a B.A. have the ability to earn advanced degrees in business including the globally recognized Master of Business Administration (MBA) - one of the most sought after degrees by employers in today's job market. Many business administration students enter professions where core responsibilities include project management, often pursuing advanced certification to validate your expertise in running any kind of project.
Student Learning Outcomes
Demonstrating a working knowledge of advanced business principles, students who complete the program will be able to:
- Communicate effectively using oral and written skills by composing professional quality business documents, and delivering professional presentations on business topics.
- Utilize and apply knowledge and skills in the functional areas of business
- Recognize and apply various leadership styles appropriate to Indian Country.
- Apply ethical implications of decision-making in a business and cultural context.
- Analyze financial information and present it in a professional manner.
Recommended Course of Study
Although the required classes don’t have to be taken exactly at the time specified, students must be aware that most of the classes are only offered in the quarter indicated. Students must work with their advisors and accept personal responsibility for planning their course of study. For each course in both programs, a student must earn a "C" or better grade to progress to the next level.
Curriculum
Fall Quarter (Year Three)
| BUMG302 | Advanced Management: Leadership | 3 |
| BUMG311 | Career Planning | 3 |
| BUMG325 | Business Law II | 3 |
| BUMG442 | Advanced Marketing Research | 3 |
| ENGL306 | Writing Research Papers | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Winter Quarter (Year Three)
| BUMG310 | Principles of Finance | 3 |
| BUMG441 | Human Resources | 3 |
ELECTIVE
| NASD OPEN | 3 |
| ELECTIVE | Business Upper Division Emphasis Electives 6 | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Spring Quarter (Year Three)
| BUMG305 | Conflict Resolution | 3 |
| BUMG320 | Advanced Finance: Investments, Analysis | 3 |
| BUMG410 | Production/Operations | 2 |
| ELECTIVE | Business Upper Division Emphasis Electives 6 | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
Fall Quarter (Year Four)
| BUMG425 | Entrepreneurship I | 4 |
| BUMG428 | Tax: Individual & Small Business | 3 |
| BUMG469 | Senior Project/Internship | 3-5 |
| ECON410 | Economic Development on Indian Reservations | 3 |
| ELECTIVE | Business Upper Division Emphasis Elective 3 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16-18 |
Winter Quarter (Year Four)
| BUMG432 | Tax II: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance | 3 |
| BUMG435 | Entrepreneurship II | 4 |
| BUMG443 | VITA Tax Clinic | 3 |
| ELECTIVE | Business Upper Division Emphasis Electives 6 | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Spring Quarter (Year Four)
| BUMG359 | Business Ethics & Social Responsibility | 3 |
| BUMG490 | Business Communications | 3 |
| ELECTIVE | Business Upper Division Electives 9 | 9 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Upper Division Business Emphasis Electives
| BUMG330 | Advanced Marketing: Advertising | 3 |
| BUMG340 | Internet Marketing | 3 |
| BUMG361 | Advanced Electronic Spreadsheets | 3 |
| BUMG406 | Strategic Planning | 3 |
| BUMG455 | Introduction to Public and Tribal Administration | 4 |
| BUMG469 | Senior Project/Internship | 3-5 |
| GNSD350 | Introduction to Grant Writing | 3 |
| NASD252 | History of Tribal Government on the Flathead Reservation | 3 |
| NASD320 | Federal Indian Law | 3 |
| NASD321 | Tribal Administration and Governance in Tribal Operations | 3 |
| NASD339 | Tribal Finance, Accounting and Budgets I | 5 |
| NASD341 | Principles of Tribal Sovereignty | 3 |
| NASD349 | Tribal Finance, Accounting and Budgets II | 5 |
| NASD371 | Tribal Gaming | 3 |
| NASD413 | 638 Contracts and Compacts | 3 |
| NASD445 | Intergovernmental Relations | 3 |
| NASD471 | Cultural Resource Management | 3 |
| NASD475 | Strategic Planning For Tribal Organizations | 3 |
| PSYC225 | Psychology of Advertising and Propaganda | 2 |
Total Credit Hours: 181-183