UT Dallas 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Naveen Jindal School of Management

Human Resource Management (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management

Degree Requirements (120 semester credit hours)

View an Example of Degree Requirements by Semester

Faculty

Professors: Ashiq Ali, Gary Bolton, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Kyle Hyndman, Varghese S. Jacob, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Gil Sadka, Sumit Sarkar, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng

Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Lívia Markóczy, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, Young U. Ryu, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou

Assistant Professors: Sheen Levine, Radha Mookerjee, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Steven Xiao

Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk, David J. Springate

Visiting Professor: Emily Choi

Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Marilyn Kaplan, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John McCracken, Diane S. McNulty, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu

Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert

Clinical Assistant Professors: Moran Blueshtein, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Kristen Lawson, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Nassim Sohaee

Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson

Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Jennifer G. Johnson, Hubert Zydorek

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Daniel Karnuta, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady

Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah, Keith Thurgood

Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen, Jackie Kimzey, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton

Assistant Professors of Practice: Edward Meda, Timothy Stephens, Robert Wright

Students must meet all course prerequisites

I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours

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.

Communication: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses

Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I1, 2

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses

Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses

Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours

Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses

Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours

Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses

American History: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses

Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses

Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours

Choose one of the following:

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2

or BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2

or ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2

or ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses

Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Choose one of the following:3

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2

or BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2

or ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2

or ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2

And select 3 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses

II. Major Requirements: 73-76 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting1

ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting1

BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law1

OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics

Complete the following courses if not already completed as part of the Core Curriculum Requirements

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I1, 2 (Required for all JSOM undergraduate students. May elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417 for MATH 1325.)

Choose two of the following if not completed in Core Curriculum:

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2

BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2

Business Core Courses: 28-31 semester credit hours

BA 1105 Professional Development (JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BA 1105 in their first semester)

or BA 3105 Professional Development (Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BA 3105 in their first semester)

BCOM 3300 Business Communication

FIN 3320 Business Finance

IMS 3310 International Business

ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business

BUAN 3301 AI in Business

MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

OBHR 3330 Human Resource Management in Business

OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management

Experiential Learning

A capstone course is required for all undergraduate JSOM students.

OBHR 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Human Resource Management4

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

OBHR 4090 Management Internship5

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

or OPRE 4391 Social Impact and Sustainable Community Engagement

Major Related Courses: 24 semester credit hours

BLAW 3301 Employment Law

OBHR 4331 Compensation and Benefits Administration

OBHR 4334 Talent Acquisition and Management

OBHR 4335 Training and Development

OBHR 4337 HR Analytics

OBHR 4342 People Relations

OBHR 4339 People Technology Leadership and Artificial Intelligence

OBHR 4354 Leading Organizational Change

Guided Electives: 9 semester credit hours

IMS 4330 Global Human Resource Management

OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior

OBHR 4336 Labor and Employee Relations

OBHR 4361 The Human Resource Professional

Students in the Jindal Undergraduate Research Scholars program should take BA 3350, OPRE 4V91, and/or an Individual Study based on the major to satisfy JURS program requirements. These credits may be applied to the general concentration.

III. Elective Requirements: 2-5 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. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.

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

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

4. BPS 4395 can be taken instead of OBHR 4395 only if OBHR 4395 is not available.

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

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