Undergraduate Public Administration

Edward S. Ageno School of Business
Undergraduate Programs

Based on a curriculum designed to allow students maximum transfer credits from other colleges and universities. The BBA is a management degree program and is the undergraduate equivalent of the MBA. An essential element of the degree is an eleven-course core curriculum on the theory and practice of business. While studying the core subjects, you'll also explore a wide spectrum of business-related issues. A few of them are: how to run a business (including your own, should entrepreneurship be your goal); how to understand the changing definition of profit in today's global marketplace; and an in-depth examination of the causes of business success and failure. Your BBA degree will be useful to you in any company you enter.

For students with an area of special interest, the degree offers seven concentrations, listed below. You may also design your own program, depending on your interests and career goals, through the general course of study. Completion of 123 units is required for the bachelor of business administration degree program.

All degree-seeking undergraduate students must complete their English, mathematics, computer and critical thinking basic proficiency requirements within their first 27 units at Golden Gate University. Diagnostic tests are given during the first week of ENGL 10A/B, ENGL 1A and MATH 10/20/30 to ensure your placement in the proper courses (see course descriptions for details).

Each course listed carries three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted. A cumulative grade point average of 2.00 (C) or higher is required in all courses taken at Golden Gate University, as well as in the courses designated as required for the major.

The BBA requires completion of 33 units of lower-division coursework, 21 units of liberal studies core, 33 units of business core, three (3) units of additional requirements and 33 units of electives. Students may choose one of the following seven concentrations in place of the thirty-three units of electives: finance, human resource management, information technology, international business, management, marketing or operations and supply-chain management.

LOWER-DIVISION REQUIREMENTS - 33 units

Basic Proficiencies - 21 units
· CRTH 10 Critical Thinking
· ENGL 1A Expository Writing
· ENGL 1B Research Writing
· UGP 100 Gateway to Success
· MATH 30 College Algebra
· MATH 40 Statistics

One of the following:
· COMM 35 Speech Communication
· COMM 40 Understanding Communication

Major Foundation - 12 units
· ACCTG 1A Introductory Financial Accounting
· ACCTG 1B Introductory Managerial Accounting
· ECON 1 Principles of Microeconomics
· ECON 2 Principles of Macroeconomics

LIBERAL STUDIES CORE - 21 units

Arts
· ARTS 105 Contemporary Arts and Culture or any other ARTS course offered
History
· HIST 88 Business in World History or any other HIST course offered
Humanities
· HUM 156 Business and Civilization or any other HUM course offered
Literature
· LIT 150 Business in Literature or LIT 160 Business in Movies or any other LIT course offered
Philosophy
· PHIL 125 Ethics in Personal and Professional Life or any other PHIL course offered
Science
· SCI 125 Science, Technology and Social Change or any other SCI course offered
Social Sciences
· SOSC 88 Leadership and New Social Demands or any other SOSC course offered

BUSINESS CORE - 33 units
· ENGL 120 Advanced Business Writing
· FI 100 Financial Management
· ITM 125 Management Information Systems
· MGT 100 The Manager as Communicator
· MGT 140 Management Principles
· MGT 141 Organizational Behavior
· MGT 156 Management Policy and Strategy
· MGT 173 Human Resource Management
· MGT 179 Introduction to International Business
· MKT 100 Principles of Marketing
· OP 100 Principles of Operations Management

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS - 3 units
· MATH 104 Applied Regression Analysis

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CONCENTRATION - 33 Units

Interaction with public administration is inevitable. From the moment you are born to the day you pass away, a government agency is there to certify your existence or demise as official. This engagement has even expanded. Today's public administrators have to deliver public services in close coordination and partnership with businesses and community-based organizations, domestically and internationally. Thus, there is a compelling need to deepen your critical understanding of governance institutions, policy-making, budgeting legal and regulatory processes, succession planning and business-government-civil society relations.
Required Courses - 15 units
· PAD 100 Public Policy and Administration

Any four from the following:

· PAD 102 Policy Making and Analysis
· PAD 104 Privatization and the Public Sector
· PAD 105 Public Budgeting Techniques and Processes
· PAD 106 Administrative Law and Justice
· PAD 197 Internship: Public Administration
· PAD 198 A-ZZ Special Topics in Public Administration
· PAD 199 Directed Study in Public Administration

Electives - 18 Units
· Six courses (18 units) from any upper- or lower-division courses.