Electives for HR career?

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<p>I'm currently studying and only 10 classes away from graduating with a BBA. My current major is management with a minor in HR. I need 5 electives and I'm not sure what to take. Since I want to develop a career in HR I would like to know what a good choice is? </p>

<p>The college I am currently going to offers marketing, finance, other HR classes, and other business topics.</p>

<p>I'm only 1 class away from the management major and one class away from the minor. I decided I wanted to do HR after almost completing the major, so that is why it's not currently my major and my minor instead.</p>

<p>I am planning on eventually getting a masters of human resource degree or similar degree. </p>

<p>So my question is what electives would be good to take for a student wanting to develop a HR career?</p>

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<p>What classes are offered? I took the following to complete my BSBA in HRM: Strategic Human Resource Management, Labor Law and Negotiations, Compensation and Benefits, Managing Diversity in the Workplace, Selection, Training and Development, Fundamentals of Occupational Health and Safety, and an independent study of an area in HR of my choice (I chose teamwork promotion in healthcare teams from an HR perspective).</p>

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<p>My minor in HR consisted of: Staffing organizations, Training and Development, Compensation, Labor Relations, and Global HRM.</p>

<p>My Management Major consisted of HR management, Project, Small business, Operations, business and society, organizational behavior, management, and the capstone for bus admin. </p>

<p>I’ve already taken e-business, marketing, professional communications, business law, ethics, economics, finance and accounting. </p>

<p>The classes that are offered are:</p>

<p>Accounting:
Intermediate Accounting
Federal Taxation
Government and non for profit accounting </p>

<p>Business:
Purchasing and materials management
Public relations
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Cost and price analysis
Contract admin and management
Contract and purchasing negotiation techniques
Managing project risk
Technology and Innovation in entrepreneurship
e-business security and controls
Business Policy
managing project teams
project estimating and budgeting
management and growth in entrepreneurship </p>

<p>Introduction to Criminal Justice
Then other Criminal Justice classes</p>

<p>A few English classes including oral communications and technical communications. </p>

<p>Finance:
personal financial planning
financial management
Investments (perquisite first)
Financial risk analysis
Commercial bank management (prerequisite first)</p>

<p>Spanish and French </p>

<p>Health service admin classes </p>

<p>There is a health care human resource management, but I wasn’t really planning on going into health care. I actually don’t want to go into health care. </p>

<p>Legal Study Classes</p>

<p>Marketing:
Consumer behavior
Retail management
marketing communication
bus log management
international marketing
e-marketing
strategic market pricing
principles of advertising and sales
strategic marketing</p>

<p>And some sociology classes. </p>

<p>There is also a SHRM essentials of HRM and a Learning Certification Prep but I don’t know if these two classes would count as a creditable class or not for graduation.</p>