Program Information
The Bachelor of Arts in Management provides students with a unique selection of specialized courses that address current, emerging, and future areas of management and leadership practice. Specifically, this degree offers students a solid foundation in essential management concepts, leadership approaches, techniques, practices, and strategies, all of which are designed to strengthen employee engagement, boost morale, and accelerate organizational performance.
With an emphasis on developing a strong portfolio of specialized knowledge and practical skills for managers and leaders in a variety of business environments, the Bachelor of Arts in Management offers a solid foundation upon which students can build as they progress in their personal and professional development and in their careers. Students will learn to organize, motivate, and lead individuals in diverse public and private business enterprises. Students can also choose from a menu of course options and pathways that allow them to tailor their studies around their unique professional aspirations and career interests.
Throughout their course of study, students will have the opportunity to learn from and interact with faculty who are themselves business owners, specialists, experts, and consultants in their fields. The faculty and staff who work with students in the Bachelor of Arts in Management program are deeply committed to students’ academic success and to their personal and professional development.
The Bachelor of Arts in Management is designed to facilitate accelerated degree completion that complements the student’s schedule and career strategies. The Bachelor of Arts in Management also provides preparation for success at the master’s degree level and the opportunity to complete pathways to a wide variety of graduate degree programs at Golden Gate University.
Student Learning Outcomes
Institutional / GE Learning Outcomes
- Written Communication: Write clearly and coherently for professional audiences, including contexts that involve AI-mediated drafting and collaboration.
- Oral Communication: Speak clearly and deliver clear, organized presentations appropriate to audience and context.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Interpret quantitative information, evaluate statistical claims, and use computational tools to analyze problems.
- Critical Thinking: Analyze arguments, weigh evidence, and evaluate claims - including those produced by AI systems - with appropriate critical awareness and rigor.
- Information & AI Literacy: Locate, evaluate, and ethically use information from human and AI sources to support inquiry and decision-making.
- Ethical Reasoning: Identify ethical dimensions of professional and personal dilemmas and decisions, including those raised by emerging technologies, and apply principled frameworks to navigate and address them.
- Human & Social Understanding: Apply psychological, social, and economic perspectives to analyze and interpret behaviors, ways of thinking and systems.
Disciplinary Learning Outcomes
- Written Business Communication: Produce clear, professional written communications that support business analysis and decision-making.
- Oral Communication and Professional Interaction: Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills through persuasive speech, and in providing clear directions, instructions, and guidelines within a business setting.
- Quantitative Reasoning and AI in Management: Apply quantitative methods, supported by digital tools and artificial intelligence, to interpret and analyze data and inform management practices and organizational decision-making.
- Ethics: Demonstrate ethical decision-making in business and develop strategies, practices, and policies that advance ethical management practices and corporate social responsibility.
- Information Literacy for Business Analysis and Decision-Making: Locate, evaluate, and apply relevant information using research methods, digital tools, and artificial intelligence to support business analysis and organizational decision-making.
- Functional Knowledge in Management: Integrate and apply core knowledge across functional areas in communications and marketing, human resource management, and management to develop solutions to complex organizational challenges.
- Leadership: Demonstrate effective leadership by communicating strategic direction and guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives in dynamic business environments.
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Develop innovative approaches and solutions to existing or emerging challenges in business management that draw on disciplinary perspectives in ethics, behavioral and social sciences, society and culture.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Management
The degree requires completion of 120 units as follows:
- General Education - 30 units
- Major: Directed Electives - 36 units
- Major: Free Electives - 24 units
- Core Course: Capstone - 3 units
- Free Electives - 27 units
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.
Declaring Minors
Students may declare up to two minors for their bachelor’s degree programs. Students seeking to declare more than two minors will be required to appeal to the dean for approval.
Students will not be permitted to declare minors at the point of application but may do so following admission or prior to degree conferral. Students should make their minor declarations through their assigned academic advisors by submission of the Declaration of Minor form.
Students’ diplomas will list the minors that they had successfully completed at the time their degrees were conferred. Students may not declare additional minors after their degrees have been conferred.
Bachelor’s degree-seeking students may declare the minors shown below. Note: students may not declare minors that are the same as their majors.
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