Jan 29, 2026  
2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC

BASM 301 - Foundations of Management


Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Introduction and orientation to the student-centered applied learning model of the BASM program and its applicability to management and leadership. Topics include personal and professional agency, business and contemporary landscapes, and the relationships between managerial effectiveness, bias, equity, and inclusion.

Prerequisite: Admission to BASM program and Dept. Chair permission.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Apply the educational principles underlying a course of study for an applied bachelor degree in management qualification by developing personal strategies to build the successful habits of professional agency such as metacognition, personal motivation, and stress management.
  2. Establish a personalized inventory of strategies and techniques to support efficient reading, effective listening and inter-personal interactions, curiosity, and critical thinking.
  3. Describe the fundamentals of 21st century management by contextualizing its application to the student’s target profession/ vocation and professional aspirations.
  4. Identify the presence and consequences of bias (implicit and explicit) by investigating the changing socio-economic and technological, landscape and utilizing ethnographies to explore personal attitudes towards learning, work ethic and professionalism.

Course Contents
  1. Educational principles for a Bachelor of Applied Science qualification.
  2. Fundamentals of management and their application to the student’s target profession/vocation and their professional aspirations.
  3. Personalized catalogue of reading, listening, observation and research strategies and techniques to facilitate efficient assimilation and synthesis of program materials.
  4. Ethnographies in shaping attitudes towards learning, work ethic and professionalism.
  5. The presence and consequences of bias (implicit and explicit).
  6. The changing national and local socio-economic, environmental, and technological landscape.
  7. The business and personal impacts of the changing landscape.
  8. Personal strategies to build professional agency and successful habits of metacognition, personal motivation, and stress management.


Instructional Units: 5