Bachelor of Applied Technology in Industrial Management: Generalist

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The mission for the Bachelor of Applied Technology program at Brazosport College is to educate, train, and develop successful business leaders and managers who are prepared to utilize technology and leadership skills to the competitive advantage of their enterprise. This program builds upon a general education core, and other courses completed in the freshman and sophomore years. Due to the nature of the Bachelor of Applied technology degree, a combination of “academic” and “workforce/technical” classes can be applied to the lower-division requirements. While the upper-division requirements remain the same, a student’s specialty in their lower-division hours allows them to show their knowledge and expertise in a particular field of study. The program is designed to add general management and business skills for someone with a specialized coursework so they can better achieve their long-term career goals. Students who didn’t specialize in a technical area and earned an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science may select the Generalist specialty of the BAT degree. The breadth of the coursework enables students to lead and manage by utilizing a wide variety of business, finance, technology, and people management skills.

The upper-division classes are offered online and do not require attendance on campus. Industrial Management courses are delivered in combination of 8-week terms and 16-week semesters allowing students five opportunities to begin coursework throughout the year as well as the ability to focus more on individual courses. Faculty members bring industry experience to the classes as well as their excellent educational credentials. Students from a wide variety of backgrounds participate in the program bringing the diversity of their experiences to the course discussions.

Finally, we offer the country’s first program that allows eligible seniors to take up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework from a partnering university which is applied towards your undergraduate degree requirements and provides you with up to a one-year head start on your graduate studies. The graduate programs make their curricula available entirely online.

Lower Division Requirements

The program requires completion of an Associate of Arts (AA) or an Associate of Science (AS) or an Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) Degree Program with a minimum of 60 semester hours, including completion of the General Education Core Curriculum.

Beyond the AA or AS requirements, an additional 6 semester hours of lower division electives are required, including:

ENGL 2311 Technical and Business Writing OR POFT 2312 Business Correspondence and Communication
One Course From:
- POFI 1301 Computer Applications I
- ITSC 1301 Introduction to Computers
- BCIS 1405 Business Computer Applications
- BCIS 1305 Business Computer Applications
- COSC 1301 Introduction to Computing

Upper Division Requirements

An additional 54 major credits are required to complete the BAT degree.

TMGT 3303 - Communications and Conflict Resolution for Technical Managers Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3305 - Management and Organizational Behavior Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3307 - Operations Management Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3311 - Information Technology in Enterprise Management Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3325 - Legal Issues, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3340 - Quality Assurance, Management and Improvement Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3350 - Applied Technical Statistics Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4301 - Industrial Cost Estimating and Control Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4304 - Decision Analysis and Risk Management Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4396 - Managing Technology Projects Credit Hours: 3 OR TMGT 4398 Strategic Management

Upper Division Electives

Choose eight courses from the following:

TMGT 3353 - International Business Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3354 - Leadership Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 3355 - Ergonomics and Human Factors in Workplace Safety Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4305 - System Safety Engineering Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4310 - Human Resources Management Credit Hours:
TMGT 4312 - Management of Technological Resources Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4341 - Production and Materials Management Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4350 - Industrial and Environmental Safety Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4395 - Principles of Marketing Management Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4396 - Managing Technology Projects Credit Hours: 3
TMGT 4398 - Strategic Management Credit Hours: 3