Naveen Jindal School of Management

Human Resource Management (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management

Degree Requirements (120 semester credit hours)

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Faculty

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Professors: Ashiq Ali @axa042200, Gary Bolton @gxb122130, Huseyin Cavusoglu @huseyin, Jianqing Chen @jxc111031, William M. Cready @wmc041000, Gregory G. Dess @ggd021000, Umit G. Gurun @ugg041000, Kyle Hyndman @tdp062000, Varghese S. Jacob @vjacob, Dmitri Kuksov @dgk120030, Nanda Kumar @nkumar, Seung-Hyun Lee @sxl029100, Stanley Liebowitz @liebowit, Zhiang (John) Lin @zlin, Sumit K. Majumdar @skm021100, Syam Menon @sxm021300, Vijay S. Mookerjee @vijaym, B. P. S. Murthi @murthi, Vikram Nanda @vkn150030, Mike W. Peng @mxp059000, Hasan Pirkul @hpirkul, Suresh Radhakrishnan @sradhakr, Srinivasan Raghunathan @sraghu, Ram C. Rao @rrao, Brian Ratchford @btr051000, Michael J. Rebello @mjr071000, Gil Sadka @gxs143630, Sumit Sarkar @sumit, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang @wkt071000, Jun Xia @jxx132030, Ying Xie @yxx124930, Harold Zhang @hxz054000, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng @zxz062000

Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci @mua120030, Nina Baranchuk @nxb043000, Zhonglan Dai @zxd051000, Rebecca Files @rlf092000, Surya N. Janakiraman @suryaj, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. @rkiesch, Atanu Lahiri @axl144730, Jun Li @jxl128031, Ningzhong Li @nxl124130, Lívia Markóczy @lxm055000, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan @nataraj, Naim Bugra Ozel @nbo150030, Young U. Ryu @ryoung, Harpreet Singh @hxs104000, Upender Subramanian @uxs092000, Shaojie Tang @sxt146930, Kelsey D. Wei @kdw061000, Han (Victor) Xia @hxx110930, Yexiao Xu @yexiaoxu, Alejandro Zentner @axz051000, Jieying Zhang @jxz146230, Yuan Zhang @yxz122931, Zhe (James) Zhang @zxz145430, Feng Zhao @fxz082000, Yibin Zhou @yxz066000

Assistant Professors: Sheen Levine @ssl140530, Radha Mookerjee @rvm019000, Alejandro Rivera Mesias @axr150331, Christian Von-Drathen @cxv141430, Guihua Wang @gxw130630, Steven Xiao @sxx150930

Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison @harrison, Jane Salk @jes025000, David J. Springate @spring8

Visiting Professor: Emily Choi @exc113230

Clinical Professors: John Barden @jpb063000, Britt Berrett @brb051000, Abhijit Biswas @axb019100, Shawn Carraher @smc130730, Larry Chasteen @chasteen, Howard Dover @hfd021000, John Gamino @jpg140630, Randall S. Guttery @rxg112530, William Hefley @weh150130, Marilyn Kaplan @mkaplan, Peter Lewin @plewin, Jeffrey Manzi @jxm158130, John F. McCracken @jfm, Diane S. McNulty @dmcnulty, Daniel Rajaratnam @dxr143430, Kannan Ramanathan @kxr087000, Mark Thouin @mxt083000, Habte Woldu @wolduh, Fang Wu @fxw052000, Laurie L. Ziegler @ziegler

Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz @sxa063000, Dawn Owens @dmo130130, Carolyn Reichert @carolyn

Clinical Assistant Professors: Moran Blueshtein @mxb135230, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks @jnh061000, Kristen Lawson @kal110030, Liping Ma @lxm133730, Ravi Narayan @rln130030, Parneet Pahwa @pxp030100, Nassim Sohaee @nxs045000

Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour @sxa130731, Mary Beth Goodrich @goodrich, Chris Linsteadt @ccl019000, Matt Polze @mmp062000, Luell (Lou) Thompson @lot013000

Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury @jdb101000, Amal El-Ashmawi @ahe013000, Ayfer Gurun @axg119030, Maria Hasenhuttl @h1562, Julie Haworth @haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson @txh093000, Jennifer G. Johnson @jxj091000, Hubert Zydorek @hxz120930

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Daniel Karnuta @dxk173030, Joseph Mauriello @jam151430, Victoria D. McCrady @vdm130030

Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz @tabortz, Alexander Edsel @ade012000, Rajiv Shah @rxs079000, Keith Thurgood @klt160130

Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen @rxb073100, Jackie Kimzey @jxk092000, Margaret Smallwood @meg012400, Steven Solcher @sjs107020, Kathy Zolton @kxz121730

Assistant Professors of Practice: Edward Meda @exm150330, Timothy Stephens @tgs170130, Robert Wright @rgw091000

I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours¹

Communication: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses (see advisor)

Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I^{2, 3, 4, 5}

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses^4, (see advisor)

Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)

Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours

Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses (see advisor)

Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours

Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses (see advisor)

American History: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses (see advisor)

Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses (see advisor)

Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours

Choose one of the following:⁶

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{2, 3}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{2, 3}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{2, 3}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{2, 3}

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses (see advisor)

Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Choose two of the following:⁶

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{2, 3}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{2, 3}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{2, 3}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{2, 3}

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses (see advisor)

II. Major Requirements: 69 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

Students must meet all course prerequisites.

Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting²

ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting²

BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law²

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I^{2, 3, 4, 5}

OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics

Choose two of the following:⁶

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{2, 3}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{2, 3}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{2, 3}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{2, 3}

Business Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours

BCOM 1300 Professional Communication⁷

or BCOM 3300 Business Communication⁷

BCOM 4300 Advanced Professional Communication

FIN 3320 Business Finance

IMS 3310 International Business

ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business

MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management

OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management

Human Resource Management Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours

BLAW 3301 Employment Law

OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior

OBHR 4331 Compensation and Benefits Administration

OBHR 4333 Performance Management

OBHR 4334 Talent Acquisition and Management

OBHR 4335 Training and Development

OBHR 4354 Leading Organizational Change

OBHR 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management Upper Level Electives: 9 semester credit hours

A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required, with registration in the following course:

OBHR 4090 Management Internship⁸

Students are required to complete 100 hours of community engagement. Depending on the service and preference for additional electives, the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours.

BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum

or BPS 4396 Social Impact and Community Engagement

or ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or MKT 4360 Social Impact Marketing

Guided Electives:

The following courses fulfill a portion of the remaining Guided Elective semester credit hours:

IMS 4330 Global Human Resource Management

OBHR 4336 Labor and Employee Relations

OBHR 4337 HR Analytics

OBHR 4339 Human Resource Management Technology & Systems

OBHR 4361 The Human Resource Professional

III. Elective Requirements: 9 semester credit hours

Free Electives: 9 semester credit hours

Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives.

The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.

1. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.

2. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.

3. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.

4. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417.

5. In order to make timely degree progress, students should complete MATH 1325 or its equivalent by the end of their first semester at UT Dallas. Students who will not meet this requirement should contact their academic advisor to discuss their degree timeline.

6. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core, major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.

7. JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BCOM 1300 in their first semester. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BCOM 3300 in their first semester.

8. Students may fulfill the internship requirement with OBHR 4090, BA 4090, or OBHR 4V90 (1-3 semester credit hours). The zero semester credit hour courses OBHR 4090 or BA 4090 are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy this requirement.