Program: Technology Management (TCMG) (B.S.) - Kansas State University - Modern Campus Catalog™

Mar 06, 2025

2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog

Technology Management students take courses in the diverse areas of management, accounting, and marketing; as well as in other essential business areas. The technology concentration courses can be done in any of a number of technical disciplines. Technology management graduates are prepared for supervisory and management positions in a variety of technical areas, ranging from aviation and manufacturing to sales and product development.

Bachelor’s degree requirements (124 credit hours)

Area of technology concentration (39-43 credit hours)

The block of technology courses must demonstrate a breadth and depth of course work in one area of concentration. Courses accepted for transfer to K-State are college-level and academic in nature. Courses not accepted for transfer in the technology concentration include remedial courses, continuing education units, business courses, and personal-interest courses.

Arts and sciences (54–58 credit hours)

Communications (14–15 credit hours)

Written

ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I-Salina campus Credits: (3)
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II-Salina campus Credits: (3)
ENGL 302 - Technical Writing-Salina campus Credits: (3)

Oral

COMM 105 - Public Speaking IA-Salina campus Credits: (2)
or
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I-Salina campus Credits: (3)
COMM 311 - Business and Professional Speaking-Salina campus Credits: (3)

Quantitative (15–16 credit hours)

Computer elective Credits: (3)

CMST 108 - PC Desktop Software Credits: (3)
MATH 100 - College Algebra-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MATH 205 - General Calculus and Linear Algebra-Salina campus Credits: (3)
or
MATH 220 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I-Salina campus Credits: (4)
STAT 325 - Introduction to Statistics-Salina campus Credits: (3)

Natural sciences electives (7 credit hours)

One lab course required. Choose two natural science elective courses (including one lab) from the following list:

BIOCH - All courses
BIOL - All courses
CHM - All courses
GEOL - All courses
PHYS - All courses

Social sciences and humanities (12 credit hours)

Social sciences electives Credits: (6)
Humanities electives Credits: (6)

ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics-Salina campus Credits: (3)
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics-Salina campus Credits: (3)

Restricted electives (optional) (4 credit hours)

Students may take additional hours from any of the above fields to meet the 124 hour requirement of the degree.

Business and management (27 credit hours)

BUS 251 - Financial Accounting Credits: (3)
BUS 252 - Managerial Accounting Credits: (3)
BUS 315 - Supervisory Management Credits: (3)
MANGT 366 - Information Technology for Business-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MANGT 420 - Management Concepts-Salina campus Credits: (3)

Choose four courses from the following:

BUS 320 - Total Quality Management for Technology Credits: (3)
CET 410 - Managerial and Engineering Economics Credits: (3)
FINAN 450 - Principles of Finance-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MANGT 390 - Business Law I-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MANGT 421 - Introduction to Operations Management-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MANGT 530 - Industrial and Labor Relations-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MANGT 595 - Business Strategy Credits: (3)
MANGT 596 - Business, Government, and Society Credits: (3)
MKTG 400 - Introduction to Marketing-Salina campus Credits: (3)
MKTG 542 - Professional Selling-Salina campus Credits: (3)