Human Resource Management
Admission to the HRM concentration or major requires formal approval by the faculty of the Beebe Institute. Other M.B.A. students or students in other master's programs must file a written request with the Office of Academic Assistance to transfer to HRM. Students' records are then sent to the institute for review.

Each HRM student's courses for the concentration or major must be selected from the list below in consultation with the HRM faculty adviser and a copy of these course selections filed with the OAA for review and approval. Progress toward the degree beyond the M.B.A. core and required courses, including clearance for graduation, cannot be confirmed without an approved program of study. This program should be planned before the student takes a non-required course. Any changes in the program must be approved by the faculty adviser and a copy of the changes sent to the OAA.

Required course for the HRM concentration or major:

HRM 8150

Human Resources Management

To complete the concentration, nine semester hours chosen from the courses listed below are required. To complete the major, 15 semester hours chosen from the courses listed below are required.

Choices of HRM electives:

	HRM 8210	Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
	Econ 8220	Human Resources and Labor Markets
	HRM 8230	Legal and Ethical Environment of Human Resource Management
	HRM 8290	Applied Research Methods in Human Resource Management
	HRM 8410	Collective Bargaining
	HRM 8430	Human Resources Recruitment and Selection
	HRM 8470	Compensation Management
	HRM 8490	Job Analysis and Performance Management
	HRM 8900	Field Research in Human Resource Management
	HRM 8990	Strategic Human Resource Management
	Mgt 8450*	Organizational Development and Change
	Mgt 8560*	Principles of Quality Management

*Students may choose one, but not both, ot these courses.

Information Systems
The M.B.A. concentration and major in information systems require courses that presume the knowledge of a procedural or an object-oriented programming language. Examples of acceptable programming languages and their corresponding Georgia State undergraduate CIS courses include Visual BASIC (CIS 3210), COBOL (CIS 3220), C/C (CIS 3260). There are other courses that satisfy this program requirement, but they do have prerequisites. Such courses are CIS 3215, CIS 3270, and CIS 3280. Students that choose any of these latter courses must first satisfy the prerequisites. Descriptions and prerequisites are shown in the Georgia State University Undergraduate Catalog. The catalog is available from the Georgia State University Bookstore and on the web at www.gsu.edu; click on Students then Catalogs.

Procedural and object-oriented programming languages must be distinguished from software such as spreadsheets (Lotus, Excel), word processing (WordPerfect, Word), operating systems (Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT, Unix), or database retrieval (Oracle). Mastery of such software does not provide the background knowledge that is necessary for these courses.

Information systems students whose transcripts do not show completion of a procedural or an object-oriented course with a minimum grade of C will be required to take one of the undergraduate CIS courses listed above. It is recommended that this requirement be fulfilled before taking any graduate-level CIS courses.

IS students who have financial aid should refer to "Courses Eligible to Count Toward Graduate Students' Financial Aid" in the "Financial Information" chapter before registering for the first time with graduate status.
 
Electives to constitute a concentration (12 semester hours) in information systems are chosen from the 8000-level offerings of the Department of Computer Information Systems, IB 8680 or IB 8710 provided the relevant course prerequisites have been satisfied.
 
Electives to constitute a major (18 semester hours) in information systems are chosen from the 8000-level offerings of the Department of Computer Information Systems, IB 8680, or IB 8710 provided the relevant course prerequisites have been satisfied.
 
MBA Career Paths are additional options and include (1) Accounting Information Systems Design and Assurance, (2) Information Systems Consulting, and (3) International Business and Information Technology. See the descriptions of career paths later in this section.