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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, MARKETING
AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
MAJOR CONCENTRATION DEGREE
OFFERED

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION General Business BS

Management
Marketing

ENTR/Small Bus.
Mgmt.
Chair: David Abrahams

Professor: Falih Alsaaty

Associate Professor: David Abrahams, Caren Goldberg

Assistant Professors: Minnette Bumpus, Ella Carter, Angela Kline, Richard Lowery III

Lecturers: Archie Morris, James Lashley,

MISSION
This Department provides business education that equips graduates with global knowledge and
experiences, leadership capabilities, technological competence, and analytic skills to compete in the global
marketplace.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Management, Marketing and Public Administration offers a Bachelor of Science degree
in Business Administration with four concentrations: Management, Marketing and General Business, and
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management. In addition, the Management Concentration offers two
specialty tracks, Small Business/ Entrepreneurship and Industrial Relations.

The Department of Management, Marketing and Public Administration place special emphasis on
excellence in teaching. Research in teaching methodology and the learning process as a means of enhance
teacher’s excellence and to improve instruction is encouraged. Computer applications in all disciplines
stressed.

Entering students are expected to successfully satisfy the requirements for the business mathematics
proficiency course by taking BUAD-100 (Business Mathematics) or BUAD PRO (Business Mathematics
Proficiency Examination). All majors are required to earn at least a “C” grade in all courses in their
major program. Graduating seniors are encouraged to take the national standardized Graduate
Management Admission Test (GMAT) during the FALL semester of their senior year. After completing
Expository Writing (ENGL 101) and Argument and Research (ENGL 102), students must take and
successfully pass the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination. Transfer students who
completed their English composition requirements at another institution must

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