Strategic Human Resource Management M.S.

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Major in Strategic Human Resource Management (M.S.)

(Major Code: 5325) Total hours required to complete degree: 31-34 hours

The program is designed to equip students with knowledge and skills related to strategic human resource functions, develop their leadership competencies in order to oversee complex HR operations, enable them to participate in firms’ strategic planning and execution, and foster an international perspective in integrating human capital across the globe. The curriculum is aligned with the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) competence model for HR professionals. The program is ideal for students who aspire to work in mid- or high-level positions that incorporate human resources management. We also work with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to design our curriculum so that students will be able to take their highly coveted Certified Professional Exam (SHRM-CP) or the Senior Certified Professional Exam (SHRM-SCP) at the end of the program. The SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP offer formal accreditation of an individual’s HR knowledge and skills and is universally accepted among HR professionals and most organizations.

Additional Requirements

Students seeking an M.S. degree in strategic human resource management must first establish proficiency in accounting. This proficiency may be established by courses taken in an undergraduate program, by completing advanced standing examinations in these areas, or by taking the following course:

ACCT 6300 - Financial Accounting 3

Core Requirements * (25 hours)

Core requirements for all students in the M.S. in strategic human resource management program include:

Technical Knowledge of HR - Required Core (3 hours)

MGT 6336 - Strategic Human Resources Management 3

Technical Knowledge of HR (Choose 6 hours from the following)

Leadership & Ethics (Choose 3 hours from the following)

Business Acumen - Finance (Choose 3 hours from the following)

Business Acumen - Management (Choose 3 hours from the following)

Interpersonal Relationships, Global, and Communication (Choose 6 hours from the following)

Capstone Assessment (1 hour)

MGT 6154 - Capstone Assessment 1

Additional Requirements

Take six hours of graduate business electives**

*Courses are 3 hours unless otherwise noted. Students cannot have more than 9 credit hours of 5000 level courses across the entire program.

** An elective course may be any graduate-level course in the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business (except 6300 leveling courses), or, with approval from the associate dean of graduate business program, elective graduate courses may be taken outside of the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business.

NOTE: Leveling courses ACCT 6300 , ECON 6300 , FIN 6300 , CIDM 6300 , BUSI 6300 , MGT 6300 , and MKT 6300 are not elective courses and can only be used to meet leveling requirements as part of degree completion.