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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Senior standing and faculty advisor/co-op coordinator or Dean's approval. This course provides a mechanism to earn credit for relevant workexperience, on the job. Those already working in the field can earn credit for their on-the-job training and effort. Students will be required to complete a portfolio and make a presentation to earn this credit. The equivalent of three months full-time work is required. MAN 3949 may not be repeated for credit. The portfolio of work will be reviewed by a faculty member for relevance to the studies, nature/quality of the work and the student's individual contributions. MAN 3XX1 SUSTAINABILITY IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AIR, WATER, LAND, CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY 3 credits Prerequisites: General Education science requirement (Environmental Science, Chemistry, Biology, Tropical Ecology, Earth Science, Geology, Meteorology, or Oceanography) and admission to the Sustainability Management BAS Program. This course is intended to provide an overview of principles of sustainability regarding the natural environment. Topics covered include effects and mitigation of air, land, and water pollution, soil erosion and resource extraction, climate change, and threats to biodiversity. 47 contact hours. MAN 3XX2 SUSTAINABILITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: GREEN CONSTRUCTION AND URBAN PLANNING 3 credits Prerequisite: ARC 2461 and MAN 3786 and admission to the Sustainability Management BAS Program. This course is intended to provide an overview of concepts of green construction methods and urban planning. Topics covered include sustainable building construction techniques, sustainable neighborhood development, and sustainable urban practices in future land use planning, transportation design, recycling, storm water, and waste management. 47 contact hours. MAN 3XX3 SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS STRATEGIES 3 credits Prerequisites: Admission to the Sustainability Management BAS Program. This course is intended to provide an overview of concepts, tools, and techniques to build and operate a sustainable organization. Topics covered include the role of leadership in sustainability, organizational design issues, capital investment, costing, and risk management systems, incentives and rewards, measurement of social, environmental, and economic impacts, green marketing concepts, and internal and external reporting. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Technology and Management BAS program or permission of the Dean. This course will introduce the student to business ethics as a process of responsible decision making in the workplace. The student will analyze various ethical issues and dilemmas that face corporations today to provide the student a basic foundation tin business ethics. The student will build an ethical decision making model based on an acquired understanding of corporate social responsibility. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission to the Technology Management or International Business BAS program. This course presents the basic concepts, principles, and techniques associated with leading cultural diversity in the global marketplace. Emphasis will be on the students developing an understanding of the interplay between leadership, cultural diversity, and the global business models. Students will also gain an understanding of how these concepts relate to and are applied in regional markets like Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisites: MAN 3504 or PLA1763 or permission of the Dean. This course presents the advanced concepts, principles, and techniques of Six Sigma Methodology. Emphasis will be on students developing a solid philosophical, conceptual, and practical view of Six Sigma methodologies as they are applied to the business objectives. This course will create greater understanding of the concept of Six Sigma, through methodology, organizational roles, and improvements in the organization. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: MAN 3504 and Admission to the Technology Management or International Business BAS program. This course presents the basic concepts, principles, and techniques of procurement and outsourcing. Emphasis will be placed on students developing a basic knowledge set while centering them in the real themes, demands, and opportunities of an evolving and dynamic international business environment. This course will incorporate basic principles of procurement and outsourcing as they relate to the core aspects of international management practices. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission into the College of Technology and Management BAS program. This course presents the basic principles and techniques used to manage process improvement. Today's managers need to understand how to engage people in process improvement, as well as how to critically understand and apply the associated methodologies. Process improvement is complicated and dynamic, encompassing a variety of approaches traditionally recognized as Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean, Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, and many others. The potential benefits of process improvements create not only lucrative opportunities for today's organizations, but they are a necessity for survival in the competitive world marketplace. Businesses must be able to better manage and control their process improvements in order to achieve their strategic objectives. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course focuses on addressing the issues and strategies of managing the human resource (HR) areas of transnational firms. This will include comprehending local employment laws, adapting HR management practices to local situations, understanding how to effectively recruit, develop and train talent in global enterprises, reviewing performance appraisals and addressing labor relations in multinational organizations. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Technology and Management BAS program or permission of the Dean. This course will provide the student with the basic knowledge needed to craft, implement and execute strategies for managing a business enterprise. It provides also the opportunity for the student to understand how developing strategic management goals and plans will impact the company's competitive advantage and strategic resource fit within specific industries. Another area that will be covered is an overview of culture leadership with strategy and culture. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission to the Management and Organizational Leadership BAS program or permission of the Dean. This course introduces students to how organizations can deal with societal challenges associated with energy and the environment. This course is intended for students with little or no background in science or mathematics, and will focus on organizational applications and opportunities for sustainability/green initiatives. This will include availability and cost requirements of energy, as well as the effects of energy use on our environment. Students will explore organizational energy and environmental models that are increasingly overlapping in the global marketplace. This course will highlight applications and opportunities for today's managers to link operating decisions to environmentally and energy focused practices. 47 contact hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: Admission to the Management and Organizational Leadership BAS program or permission of the Dean. This course integrates social and environmental values in a management context in order to further the student's understanding of human, natural, and financial sustainability issues The student will evaluate sustainability and environmental philosophies on a broad scale. The student will understand international policies and regulations, human welfare, politics, environmental racism, hazardous waste and pollution, global warming, and other key sustainability/green issues. The student will work to develop skills in conducting cost-benefit, payback, and life cycle analysis to justify projects and evaluate their impact on sustainability/green issues. By increasing the student's understanding, he or she will be better prepared to direct a company, community, or country in ways that restore and enhance stakeholder value while insuring the continued sustainability of the environment as a whole for current and future generations. 47 contact hours.
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