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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to microeconomic concepts and analysis. The course focuses on competitive market dynamics including individual and firm behavior through the study of market structure and economic decisions regarding production, pricing, and personnel. Labor markets and labor unions are addressed as well as regulatory and distributional issues. Prerequisite: BUS-280.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on budgeting and planning. Emphasis is on the use of accounting information to plan and redirect allocations to support business decisions. Managerial Accounting is designed to follow Principles of Accounting. Prerequisite: BUS-271.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the principles and processes of entrepreneurship and small business management. Students learn to identify characteristics of entrepreneurs; identify business innovations; conduct feasibility analyses; develop formal business plans; and finance, organize, and operate a small business.
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3.00 Credits
This course includes preparation for various kinds of both written and oral business communication. The course will develop and sharpen the critical thinking and writing skills, including report/proposal preparation and presentation, needed in the workplace. Strategies for effective communication will also be explored. Prerequisite: EN-102.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a full range introduction to project management. It covers the origins, philosophy, methodology, and involves actual applications and use of tools such as MS Project. Among the concepts covered are project initiation, task definition, scheduling, budgeting, risk analysis, and control. The System Development Cycle is used as a framework to discuss project management in a variety of situations. Illustrative cases are used and project leadership and team building are covered as integral aspects of good project management. Prerequisite: BUS-278 or permission of department chair.
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3.00 Credits
Computer-based information systems and online information systems to increase individual and organizational efficiency and productivity constitute the foundation of this course. Specifically, topics that relate to operational, knowledge worker, management and executive-level computerbased information and online systems will be analyzed and discussed. These topics include information systems for database management, transaction processing, knowledge worker, office automation, management information, decision support, and executive support. The course also includes system security, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery, system upgrading, and client/server issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the principles that guide a firm's financial resources management. The primary philosophy around which this course is organized is wealth maximization and the decision criterion used to achieve such a state. Topics such as capital management, fixed-asset investment, cost of capital, capital structure, long-term finance, mergers, leasing, and multinational finance are covered. In addition, accounting terminology and concepts relevant to financial analysis and decision making will be presented. Prerequisites: BUS-270, MA-110 or MA-114.
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3.00 Credits
Human Resource Management is a course with dual purposes. First, the development of employer-employee relations in both the private and public sector in order to facilitate organization productivity. Second, the management of scarce human resources in terms of planning and development techniques in both the private and public sector will be covered. Wage and salary administration, forecasting employment needs, recruiting and selection, evaluation, and training issues will be the focus of discussion and lecture.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to legal reasoning; ethical norms; the legal process and the American legal system; administrative law process and the role of business people in that process; the study of selected areas of public and private law, such as securities regulation, antitrust, labor, product liability, contracts, and consumer and environmental law; and international dimensions of the legal environment of law. The purpose of the course is to establish legal literacy and to develop an understanding of legal dynamics, particularly in the business world. Prerequisites: EN-102, BUS-173 or BUS-278.
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3.00 Credits
This course stresses the decisions that managers make in increasing productivity in a world economy, productions and operations management examines the processes by which goods and services are produced. Specifically, identification of customer needs, strategic decisions for meeting customer needs, and tactical decisions for meeting customer needs are discussed. Strategies, techniques and problems in forecasting, statistical quality control, total quality management, inventory management, scheduling, maintenance and reliability, product, process, technology, location, layout, and purchasing are the core topics of this course. Prerequisites: MA-128 and BUS-278.
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