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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: junior status This course will focus on the science of leadership, the history of leadership studies, and the theories that support practices within contemporary organizations. In addition, students will examine their own personal leadership potential through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. Business entities will be considered not just as a collection of individual workers, but rather as a true community that fosters the growth of people and supports the common good of the larger society. The use of lectures, exercises, readings, and in-class discussion will help students strengthen their own leadership skills.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENG 112, MGT 300 This course provides an overview of the business environment and challenges that startup enterprises committed to growth and going public face. It explores the functional roles and responsibilities that successful start-ups have traditionally emphasized from venture capital stage to post-IPO (Initial Public Offering) stage. It also provides the student with a practical exposure to the fast-paced, instant feed-back world of the entrepreneur through the use of an interactive start-up simulation software package. The course examines the roles and expectations of the various stakeholders who constitute the community of work whose common good the firm is committed to serve.
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3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENG 112, MGT 300, and permission of the Director of the Business Program. This is a clinical experience with a managerial/entrepreneurial emphasis in a retail store environment. The students will be assigned functional (Finance, Marketing, Purchasing, etc., depending on class size) managerial roles and will perform all duties relevant to their position, maintain their functional operating manual, and attend a weekly meeting of the store's management team. At each weekly meeting, the students will provide a written management summary report of the week's activities in their respective functions, which they will present orally. Two special topic projects oriented toward the store's growth or more effective management will be assigned by the practicum instructor to be completed either individually or as a team. In executing their managerial roles, students will strive to attain results that promote the common good of all stakeholders.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENG 112, MGT 300, ECO 221 This course provides an overview of the theories of international trade, foreign investment and economic development. It examines why firms go abroad and emphasizes the seven dimensions along which firms can globalize. Globalization involves more than mere geographical considerations; it is the expansion of the firm's family of stakeholders to include foreign peoples and their human needs. Therefore, this course also explores the impact of international trade and foreign investment on the economic development efforts of third-world countries.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENG 112, senior standing and permission of the Director of the Business Program. This capstone course for the Business Program integrates the broad concepts, methods, and issues of strategic management with principles of natural law and virtue in the pursuit of truly ethical business strategy and practice. The strategic management focus is on the current methods of building, sustaining and extending competitive advantage through value creation for stakeholders. Characteristics of the good company are generally defined from the functional performance perspectives, and, more specifically, from the perspective of the company's commitment to and solidarity with all of its stakeholders. Students will research and analyze industries and individual companies in detail in pursuit of those that can be defined as strategically and ethically good.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENG 112, senior standing, and permission of the Director of the Business Program. This is a pass/fail applications experience that requires the student to spend 100+ hours in a non-paid position. The student intern works under the supervision and guidance of a mentor in a business, governmental, or non-profit organization. The student maintains a daily journal and prepares a formal report on how the various topics studied in the Business curriculum are practiced in the organization. Regular meetings are held with the internship director to discuss the student's observations. The mentor will also evaluate the student's performance. Practical and specific knowledge and skill should be developed during the internship.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credit Hours This course is an overview of the fundamental principles of general and organic chemistry as well as biochemistry. Topics include: the metric system; density; chemical equations and reactions; gas laws; proteins; carbohydrates; and acids and bases. The course includes a laboratory component and is designed for non-science majors and nursing students.
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3.00 Credits
1 - 3 Semester Hour(s) Prerequisite: ENG 112 Requires written approval of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Special topics to be indicated. The course may include seminars, conferences, workshops, class activity or independent study focused on a particular topic or current issue in the natural sciences.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Prerequisite: ENG 112 This course is a review of the nature, background and content of Greek mythology and the related mythology of the Romans. It also includes a survey of the characteristics of Greek and Roman religion and a consideration of the survival, transformation and later use of Greek and Roman mythology. The intent of this course is that the student acquires knowledge of the nature, content, and use of selected Greek and Roman myths and of their relation to selected aspects of Greek history and culture. A research paper will be required.
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3.00 Credits
3 Semester hours Same as GRE 111 This course is the first semester of elementary Classical Greek grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. It also includes an introduction to Greek history and culture and a selection of readings in translation. Graduated passages will be read and analyzed in class almost daily. At the successful completion of this course, the student should be able to correctly read passages and to form selected simple English phrases and words into Greek.
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