The Human Resource Management major at LaGrange College helps students learn how to lead people with confidence and purpose. Through hands-on classes, real-world simulations, and an internship, students discover how to build strong teams, solve workplace challenges, and create positive, healthy organizations. This program is perfect for any major—whether you dream of managing a medical office, running a creative studio, leading a business, or starting your own.
HR skills open doors in almost every career. Graduates can pursue roles like HR Assistant, HR Specialist, or business owner, and they gain leadership experience that strengthens any profession that works with people. In a world powered by service and teamwork, knowing how to support and develop others sets you apart.
At LaGrange College, learning is personal. Professors know your name, mentor your goals, and connect what you study to the life you want to build. You’ll graduate prepared not just for a job, but to make an impact—because here, you are more.
Class options include:
MGMT 2200 Foundations of Business (existing)
The course is designed around a business simulation called BizCafé, in which entrepreneurial teams managing all aspects of a small coffee shop for nine weeks, developing creative, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and gaining insights into the integrative approach required in today’s business world.
MGMT 3370 Management / Organizational Behavior (existing)
The course explores the art and science of management and examines behaviors at the individual, group, and enterprise levels that advance or hinder work in organizations. The focus will be on understanding how to effectively manage performance and change in today’s complex business environment.
MGMT 3100 Human Resource Management (new) (no prerequisite)
Course Description
This course is designed to provide an overview of human resource management as a business function covering a broad range of topics to include performance management, talent management, staffing, employee relations, compensation and benefits, strategic alignment, organizational design, and common legal issue human resources professionals face.
MGMT 3110 Staffing (new) (no prerequisite)
Course Description
This course is designed to cover human resources’ role in staffing an organization by exploring key elements associated with strategic alignment, employee forecasting, job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, performance management, termination, and the common legal issues associated with staffing.
Potential Careers and Outcomes
With a degree in Human Resources, graduates are prepared for careers that shape workplace culture, guide talent development, and support the success of businesses and the people within them.
- HR Assistant
- HR Administrator
- HR Generalist
- HR Specialist
- HR Manager