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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Survey of organizational behavior and organization theory. Initially, the course covers fundamental issues such as theory construction, the difference between theoretical and non-theoretical models and theory testing as a basis for analyzing management models. The second part of the course focuses on micro issues such as theories of work motivation, leadership and selected topics such as tokenism and political behavior. The third part of the course deals with macro issues such as organizational structure, technology/work design, intra-organizational conflict, and the organizational/environmental interface. Throughout the second and third parts of the course, both theory application and theory evaluation are emphasized. Prerequisites: Economics 101 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. An introduction to the study of marketing as an exchange process: the theoretical underpinnings of how transactions in the marketplace are initiated, motivated, facilitated, and consummated. Topics include the basic role marketing plays in the economy; the ways marketing is planned and executed; students gain experience in applying marketing theory by competing in a computer simulation. Prerequisites: Economics 101 or the permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4. The issues of strategic interaction and information asymmetry have come to the forefront of virtually every functional field in economics and business. This course represents an introduction to how game theory is used as a tool to model and to solve questions of strategy as they arise in a variety of economic situations and events in the world. Modeling topics to be covered are strategic and extensive form games, Bayesian decision-making, and evolutionary stability. Possible applications include bargaining, international collective action, the credibility of macroeconomic policy, learning, and signaling. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Economic theory is mainly concerned with relations among variables. Econometrics is concerned with testing the theoretical propositions embodied in these relations to show how the economy operates, and with making predictions about the future. Topics covered in this course include the general linear model, qualitative variables and time series analysis. Prerequisites: Economics 101-102, 290, and Math 115 or 121.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Conceptual approach to auditing process, procedures, communications and professional environment which includes auditing standards, legal responsibilities and professional ethics. Prerequisites: Business 341-342.
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4.00 Credits
Application of financial theories introduced in Financial Management (Business 351) to actual business problems using quantitative and qualitative techniques. Presented with debatable alternatives, students analyze, choose, and defend their ideas and a course of action. Financial theories are reexamined in conjunction with their related cases. Case topics include financing current operations, long-term financing, investment decisions, signaling with dividend and debt policies, and mergers and acquisitions. Contemporary corporate financial issues are examined, as well as financial ethics. Extensive creation of computerized financial spreadsheets. Students are organized into teams for case preparation. (Course not offered in 2008-2009; see Business 485.) Prerequisites: Business 351.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. This is a Global Capital Markets course, structured to provide a financial background in the fixed income area of the finance. An understanding of fixed income capital markets includes an understanding of foreign exchange rate determination and interest rate determination, and derivatives, and these topics will introduce the course. Fixed income securities such as money market instruments and bonds will then be presented, alongside the derivatives that relate to these underlying securities. More complex instruments, such interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, and CMOs/CLOs will also be addressed. Prerequisites: Business 351.
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2.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 2 Course will focus on derivatives (forward markets, futures markets, options markets, and swap markets) on underlying positions in the foreign exchange market, the fixed income market, and stocks. Students will be introduced to how these instruments can be used to manage risk and how they are priced, including the Black & Scholes Pricing Model. Prerequisites: Business 351 and acceptance into the summer study abroad program for Business 483.
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2.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 2 or 4. Degree Requirements: F11. The internship program provides an experiential approach to the learning process and affords economics and business students the opportunity to work in both business and nonprofit organizations for academic credit. Internship placements are designed to complement learning goals and career plans by allowing the student to apply theoretical principles learned in the traditional classroom. Placements are arranged by the Director of Career Services and work schedules are arranged by the student and the on-site supervisor. Typically students work on specific projects related to their career interest and compatible with the goals and interests of the sponsoring organization. Other requirements of the internship include submission of a resume and application, interview with the on-site supervisor, participation in classroom seminars which focus on long-term career planning and job search skills, completion of written self-assessment assignments made by the faculty director, and the writing of a comprehensive paper. Internships are available to second-semester junior and senior economics or business majors with possible availability to majors from other departments. Arrangements for internships are made the semester prior to the actual experience. Under special circumstances, the number of credit hours may vary from 1 to 6, but under no circumstances will more than 8 credits be allowed to count toward the credits required for graduation. Prerequisites: Courses appropriate to the specific internship experience.
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1.00 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer. Credits: 1. This internship course is available for students unable to take the class component of Business 460. The program provides an experiential approach to the learning process and affords economics and business students the opportunity to work in both business and nonprofit organizations for academic credit. Students are encouraged to explore areas of possible career interest through internships. Students must work directly with a professor in the Economics/Business Department on an internship that applies the theoretical work taught in classes by that professor. There are requirements for the sponsoring organization and for the student. The student must submit a resume, an application, an interview with the on-site supervisor, and provide a journal, an essay, and any other assignments required by the supervising professor. This internship program is limited to majors in this department. The course must be taken pass/fail.
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