General Business
    Electives to constitute a concentration (12 semester hours beyond the “free” 8000-level RCB electives) or a major (18 semester hours) in general business must be a set of 8000-level courses offered by the Robinson College of Business other than those in Groups A, B, or C in the MBA program. (One of the free electives will count toward the general business major to complete the 21-hour requirement.)
 Written petitions to take an elective outside the Robinson College of Business may be submitted to the Office of Graduate Student and Alumni Services. Such petitions should be filed before the course is taken.

Health Administration
    A concentration in health administration consists of 12 hours from any of the 8000-level health administration courses for which prerequisites have been satisfied except for HA 8450, HA 8620, HA 8810, HA 8820, and HA 8990.

Hospitality Administration
    A concentration in hospitality consists of any 12 hours chosen from this list:
     HAdm 8100 Hospitality and Tourism Management
     HAdm 8400 Financial Management Applications for              Hospitality Enterprises
     HAdm 8500 Economic and Cultural Impact of Travel                  and Tourism
     HAdm 8600 Trends in the Food Service Industry
     HAdm 8700 Trends in the Hotel Industry
     HRM 8150 Human Resources Management
     Mk 8800 Services Marketing

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 Graduate Student and Alumni Services 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 GSAS 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 GSAS.
    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 Performanc                                            Management
     HRM 8900 Field Research in Human Resource                                    Management
     HRM 8990 Strategic Human Resource Management
     Mgt 8450* Organizational Development and Change
     Mgt 8560* Quality Management
     *Students may choose one, but not both, of 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 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 in their first semester in the program.
    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.