The LAMP major has three general components:
- A tightly structured group of courses from management, business, and economics (MBE)
- A more flexible collection of allied courses from the other disciplines
- A senior internship for people who are interested and qualify, or additional 300- or 400-level courses in an area of career interest, capped by a senior seminar or research project.
Students intending to go on to graduate study in business (MBA degree) would do well to ensure that beyond the minimum requirements that they also include in their program MBE 306, MBE324 (or PSY 322), and advanced mathematics and computer science courses.
Management group
(27-30 semester hours)- MBE 101 (recommended)
- MBE 112
- MBE 203
- MBE 316
- MBE 201
- MBE 204
- MBE 322
- MBE 202
- MBE 301
- MBE 400
Allied group
(15 semester hours, one course in each category)- Introductory Sociology (SOC 100, 110, 188)
- Introductory Psychology (PSY 201, 255, or 266)
- Statistics (E) (Math 106)
- Literature (any course at the 200 or above level which involves "great works" of literature)
- Organizations (POLS 343; PSY 311, 322, 324; SOC 303, 305)
Students not having prior familiarity with computers are strongly encouraged to take one or more computer science courses.
Design your own senior option
(12-18 semester hours)This part of the major allows students to get more breadth and depth with regard to a specific career or skill interest and is generally undertaken within the last four semesters of one's program. There are two basic options:
Option1: Senior synthesis
(12 semester hours)- nine semester hours of any courses at the 300/400 level (with the exception of computer science courses which may be taken at the 200 level) which are related to a career interest (see below for possible "career concentrations").
- a three-semester-hour "capstone" senior seminar or research course (either MBE 405 or 491). Within the 12 semester hours, at least six must be in MBE courses outside "The Management Group."
Popular "career concentrations" have been in marketing, personnel (human resource management), international business, public administration, finance, advanced accounting, and general supervision.
Option 2: Internship
(18 semester hours)This option allows students who make successful application in the spring semester of their junior year to spend their senior spring semester gaining on-the-job managerial experience. Potential interns are encouraged to select additional MBE courses beyond "The Management Group" related to their internship interest, and they will also take MBE 414 (three semester hours) and MBE 416/417 (15 semester hours). Internships are presently restricted to students who have shown by their academic and extracurricular work that they are capable of maximizing learning from such an experience.