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Business Courses

ACCT 1001 Accounting I (5 cr.)
An introduction to accounting, this course presents the basic techniques and procedures of accounting for organizations. Students completing this course are expected to understand the policies and procedures in an accounting system; be able to prepare basic financial statements; understand the acceptable methods of valuing assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity; and appreciate the value of computer technology in accounting. (Prerequisites: College Algebra, Introduction to Business)

ACCT 2001 Accounting II (5 cr.)
Accounting II is a continuance of the principles learned in Accounting I.  The course presents the basic techniques and procedures of accounting for organizations and corporations.  Students completing this course are expected to have a clear understanding of corporate reporting and the basic elements of managerial accounting.  Development of managerial decision-making skills will be completed through the coverage of cost behavior, job-order, cost-volume-profit analysis, performance planning and budgeting, standard costs and variance analysis, relevant costs, and the statement of cash flows.  (Prerequisite: Accounting I)

BUSI 1001 Introduction to Business (5 cr.)
In this course, students gain a working knowledge of the essential principles and concepts of management theory and practice. This course is structured so that students examine the interrelationships among the major business disciplines and gain a comprehensive perspective with which to organize additional study in management. Practical applications of the manager’s role in planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling are demonstrated and evaluated. (Prerequisites: Foundations for Undergraduate Studies, Developing Student Portfolios, English Composition)

BUSI 2001 Business Law (5 cr.)
This course is designed to provide an overview of legal issues faced by managers, fundamental legal principles, how to understand contracts, and typical issues managers face, e.g., workplace law, contract disputes, intellectual property. Topics covered include: understanding the fundamental legal principles in business and commerce; understanding and analyzing business contracts; legal issues in interviewing, hiring, and firing; developing, using, and defending intellectual property; and the regulatory context. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 2002 Global Business (5 cr.)
A survey of the global business environment in the 21st century, this course introduces the basic concepts of global business activity and theory. Students are introduced to the major foreign environmental forces, focusing on strategic management issues, including competitive, financial, economic and socioeconomic, cultural, political, legal, and labor factors. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 2003 Operations (5 cr.)
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications of business operations management. Students learn about operations as related to the process of transforming resources into products and services. A focus of this course is the responsibility of operations managers to make sound, cost-effective decisions that increase the productivity and competitiveness of both manufacturing and service organizations. The process of planning, implementing, and monitoring operations allows managers to continuously improve in providing high-quality goods and services at low cost. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 3001 Knowledge Management and Organizational Change (5 cr.)
Students learn how information systems enable organizations to systematically identify, acquire, store, analyze, distribute, and reuse information and knowledge from all sources (e.g., internal and external, explicit and tacit) to enhance organizational productivity and competitiveness. This course extends the theory of Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital to the development of learning organizations and evaluates the definition of learning organizations and the creation of environments that facilitate knowledge growth and distribution. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 3002 Ethical Leadership (5 cr.)
This online leadership course helps prepare students to assume a leadership role in the modern organization. The basic principles of leadership, motivational theory, the importance of communication, and current and future trends are introduced. Students assess, discuss, and learn how to apply their own styles of leadership in the workplace and the community. Emphasis is on ethical leadership through personal and interpersonal effectiveness and organizational development.  Students also learn the importance of followership and the similarities between the roles of follower and leader at all levels of the organization. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 3003 Dynamics of Change (5 cr.)
Students examine change as it impacts people, processes, and products. They learn to employ tools for dealing with and managing change. They learn methods for coping with change as an individual, a member of a group, and a member of an organization. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 3004 Entrepreneurship for Small Business (5 cr.)
This course examines the processes required to undertake the creation and maintenance of a successful business enterprise, with an emphasis on small business. Students focus initially on startup basics for a new small business, followed by the details involved in the development of a business plan. Finally, the “nuts and bolts” of day-to-day business management are examined, with issues ranging from legal matters to employment decisions. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 3005 Critical Thinking and Decision-Making (5 cr.)
Students become familiar with the importance of the scientific method as the basis for critical thinking and decision-making. Problem-solving and decision-making based on recognizing problems, gathering data, developing alternatives, and choosing a solution are critical skills for the professional manager. Throughout this course, students apply these skills to a variety of everyday business examples. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

BUSI 4001 Business Capstone Project–Strategic (5 cr.)
A capstone course is designed to bring together the knowledge gained through the entire program and permits the student to demonstrate competency and mastery in the various course competencies. The major course project in this capstone course is a strategic case study. Students are expected to apply and integrate a variety of skills, tools, and knowledge to assess the strategic issues in a real-world case analysis and arrive at recommendations for change and/or improvement. This course is designed to permit students to demonstrate their understanding and competency in complex problem identification and solution. (Prerequisite: All core business and upper-division business courses)

ECON 1001 Macroeconomics (5 cr.)
This is an introductory course in macroeconomics that covers basic economic principles and their application to the macro economy. Topics covered include the principles of economic decision-making; definition and measurement of gross domestic product, national income, employment, inflation, and other variables commonly used by economists; factors affecting economic growth; description and application of models used to evaluate the effects of policies and changes in external variables on the economy; the roles of fiscal and monetary policies; the banking system; and the effects of globalization and international trade. (Prerequisite: College Algebra)

ECON 1002 Microeconomics (5 cr.)
The principles of microeconomics explain how in a market economy the price system answers the fundamental economic questions: What goods and services are produced and distributed, and how and for whom? The behaviors of households that supply factors of production—natural resources, labor, and capital—to firms, and that purchase consumer goods and services from firms, are examined. Also examined are firms that maximize profit through their decisions about acquiring factors of production, controlling costs of production, choosing the optimal level of output, competing with other firms under different market structures, and making investment decisions about entering new markets. (Prerequisite: College Algebra)

ECON 2001 International Economics (5 cr.)
This course covers the analytical frameworks and empirical data used to understand the increasingly dynamic world economy. Focus is on economic analyses that are of particular importance to business decision-makers in a global economy. This course also focuses on the economic conditions that impact firms’ decisions about capital allocation, pricing, and employment. (Prerequisite: College Algebra, Introduction to Business)

FNCE 3001 Financial Management (5 cr.)
The principles of finance are examined from an applied perspective of the difficult strategic and operational decisions that exist in the business environment. The general objective of this course is to provide decision-makers with the financial and managerial finance theory, concepts, and tools necessary to make better financial management decisions as well as to conduct sound financial analysis. (Prerequisites: College Algebra, Introduction to Business)

HRMG 3001 Human Resource Management (5 cr.)
This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of human resource management. Traditional topics such as job analysis and design, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, training, staffing, career management, compensation, benefits, health and safety, and employee relations are examined. Technology-based resources are also evaluated. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

ISYS 3001 Information Systems in Enterprise (5 cr.)
An introduction to enterprise information systems, this course reviews their characteristics, their impact on the enterprise, their role in organizations, and their current architectures, enabling tools, and project cycles. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

MRKT 3001 Marketing (5 cr.)
Students examine basic marketing functions and the execution of successful marketing processes. They gain a fundamental understanding of marketing concepts, practices, terminology, associated technologies, and practical applications including customer relationship management. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

STAT 2001 Statistics (5 cr.)
This course examines the fundamentals of probability and descriptive and inferential statistics. Hypothesis testing, simple regression and correlation analysis are covered, with emphasis on the application of these techniques to business decision-making. The analysis and application of statistics in cases are stressed. (Prerequisite: College Algebra)

Finance Concentration Courses

FNCE 4101 Corporate Finance (5 cr.)
Students gain an understanding of the decisions made by finance managers in organizations. These decisions include choosing between competing investment opportunities; valuing assets; measuring risk and return; financing the firm’s operations; making dividend policy and capital structure decisions; and valuing financial instruments. (Prerequisites: Financial Management)

FNCE 4102 Financial Institutions and Markets (5 cr.)
This course investigates the following financial markets: money, bond, mortgage, stock, foreign exchange, and derivative security markets. Students learn about the operation and regulation of commercial banks, thrift institutions, insurance companies, securities firms, investment banks, finance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds. (Prerequisite: Corporate Finance)

FNCE 4103 International Finance (5 cr.)
This course introduces students to the field of international finance. Primarily, emphasis is on international financial markets and the macroeconomics of international financial flows. Topics include foreign exchange, international securities markets, and international banking. (Prerequisite: Financial Institutions and Markets)

Human Resource Management Concentration Courses

HRMG 4201 Strategic Human Resource Management (5 cr.) 
Students learn to align human resource management functions and activities with corporate strategic goals. Strategies—such as incentive cash and/or stock compensation programs, employee ownership, and non-monetary rewards—are compared and contrasted. The impact on employee motivation and retention is also examined. (Prerequisite: Human Resource Management)

HRMG 4202 Human Resource Development and Change (5 cr.)
This course addresses the process of human resource development and organizational change, including training and development, leadership development, and performance improvement through topics such as learning principles, interventions, employee orientation and socialization, performance management and coaching, and diversity. (Prerequisite: Strategic Human Resource Management)

HRMG 4203 Human Resource Management: Analysis and Problems (5 cr.)
The role of human resource management is examined in the areas of performance appraisal systems, compensation, and labor-management issues. The role of federal regulations, including equal opportunity, sexual harassment, discrimination, and other employee-related regulations, is reviewed. (Prerequisite: Human Resource Development and Change)

Information Systems Concentration Courses

ISYS 4301 Business Process Design (5 cr.)
The concepts and methodology for business process design are presented in this course. Emphasis is placed on how information systems serve as enablers for business process design. Students learn how to analyze business processes and redesign them for dramatic results. This course includes case studies that provide practical application of the concepts and methodologies. (Prerequisite: Information Systems in Enterprise)

ISYS 4302 Management of Technology (5 cr.)
This course examines the key concepts in management of information technology and the role of technology managers. It presents management of technology from both a process and a system perspective, and investigates major technical issues involved in innovation and implementation. (Prerequisite: Business Process Design)

ISYS 4303 Case Study: Project Management (5 cr.)
This course explores the theory and practice of how to manage projects. Topics include effective project management styles, critical factors for project success, organizational support systems that enhance projects, project authority, and ethics in project execution. Students develop a comprehensive strategic plan for managing technology, using a project management approach. (Prerequisite: Management of Technology)

Management Concentration Courses

FNCE 4101 Corporate Finance (5 cr.)
Students gain an understanding of the decisions made by finance managers in organizations. These decisions include choosing between competing investment opportunities; valuing assets; measuring risk and return; financing the firm’s operations; making dividend policy and capital structure decisions; and valuing financial instruments. (Prerequisite: Financial Management)

HRMG 4201 Strategic Human Resource Management (5 cr.)
Students learn to align human resource management functions and activities with corporate strategic goals. Strategies—such as incentive cash and/or stock compensation programs, employee ownership, and non-monetary rewards—are compared and contrasted. The impact on employee motivation and retention is also examined. (Prerequisite: Human Resource Management)

MGMT 4401 Management and Organizational Behavior (5 cr.)
The focus of this course is on human behavior in the context of the organization in a domestic and/or a trans-national setting. Students gain an understanding of the concepts of human and organizational functioning, with emphasis on application of these concepts to managerial problems and solutions in both domestic and trans-national settings. Students examine individual perception, attribution, and learning; differences in personality; career development; motivating and rewarding employees; and making effective decisions. This course also provides an overview of ethics and the ethical issues faced by domestic and trans-national organizations and managers, social responsibility, communications, motivation, and leadership. By focusing on the elements of national culture, students examine the impact culture has on leadership and management as well as the day-to-day operational issues endemic to trans-national and global businesses. Finally, students investigate the management of diversity in the workplace, especially in a trans-national and global setting. Learning is accomplished through a diagnostic approach employing text readings, individual and case analyses, quizzes and exercises, and a final individual organizational plan. This course is ideally suited to current and potential managers either currently operating in an international environment or contemplating doing so. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Business)

Marketing Concentration Courses

MRKT 4501 Marketing Management (5 cr.)
This course is designed to instruct students in creative decision-making for marketing mix, channels of distribution, and industrial and international marketing. Special emphasis is on the development, organization, implementation, and control of the marketing plan. (Prerequisite: Marketing)

MRKT 4502 International Marketing (5 cr.)
Students are introduced to the world of international marketing. Students explore cultural, legal, technological, and financial aspects of various countries. In addition, students learn to apply the tools of the marketing management process to the international environment. (Prerequisite: Marketing Management)

MRKT 4503 Case Study: Services Marketing (5 cr.)
Students evaluate the difference between product and service marketing, service marketing mix, total quality management, customer perceptions of services, and pricing of services. Students develop a comprehensive market plan in the context of real-world service challenges. (Prerequisite: International Marketing)

Portfolio

GNED 1001 Developing Student Portfolios (1 cr.)
This course provides students with a framework for developing a student portfolio. Students learn about the value of creating a student portfolio and how it is used to communicate and demonstrate their academic accomplishments. Students are introduced to tools and techniques that help them to develop, manage, and maintain their portfolios. They demonstrate the ability to apply the structure and methods presented in this course by composing a high-level design and comprehensive outline for a student portfolio.

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