General Business
In addition to general education, pre-business, and business core courses, students intending to concentrate in general business should complete the following course work:
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Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management, Marketing and Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, BUS 211, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Causal factors at work in the cyclical process; time series and index numbers. National and regional data sources.
Techniques of forecasting; applications to business conditions, prices and sales.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites, at least junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter, occasionally 1 section in Spring/Summer
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Collecting, analyzing and controlling cost of manufacturing a product or rendering a service. Particular emphasis on
cost accounting systems, allocations, and providing different costs for different purposes in helping shape business strategy.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting and Elective Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites, at least junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Introduction of accounting theory and focus on problems associated with acquisition, maintenance, depreciation and
replacement of assets. Also includes income statement, balance sheet, current assets, investments, plant assets, and natural resources.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting and Elective Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 321, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Continues with accounting theory and practice. Intangible assets, long-term investments, long-term debt, stockholders'
equity, pension plans, leases, income taxes, changes in financial position, analysis of statements, and current accounting issues are covered.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, BUS 211, and their prerequisites; at least junior standing
Offered: 44444
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Basic concepts (applicable to all taxpayers) of tax management, exempt incomes, deductions, cost recovery, tax accounting methods, credits, property transactions, tax research and planning. Introduction to income taxation of corporations.
Credits: 2
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, and their prerequisites; at least junior standing
Offered: occasionally 1 section in Spring/Summer
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Accounting cycle; governmental accounting; budget process; principles of fund accounting; accounting for educational institutions, health care and welfare organizations; use of accounting data.
Credits: 2
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 201, BUS 202
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Preparation to participate in the volunteer income tax assistance (VITA) program. Training in tax return preparation, and interpersonal and computer skills. Preparation of income tax returns.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, BUS 330, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Methods of determining organizational requirements for information, and for reducing available data to develop needed additional information. Use of computer to perform hands-on data analysis required.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 338, and its prerequisites
Offered: occastionally 1 section in Spring/Summer
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Management of advertising, media, preparation of advertisements, use of research, campaigns, budgets, advertising agencies.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, prior or concurrent BUS 330, and a course on psychology
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Study of macro and micro consumer behavior. Emphasis on basic determinants of how and why consumers purchase needed products and services. Analysis of current consumer movement and of consumer buying problems.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Organization Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, prior or concurrent BUS 341, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Organization, training, motivation, and direction of employees. Designed to be helpful to any student who may be called upon to supervise work of others.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Organization Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, prior or concurrent BUS 341, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Economic, social and legal problems in negotiating the collective bargaining agreement. Detailed consideration of issues of collective bargaining and administration of the contract through grievance procedures and arbitration. Basis exploration of compensation planning and administration.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Organization Behavior/Human Resource Management and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 341, and their prerequisites; at least junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Examination of the creation, management, and impact of teams in the contemporary work world. Different types of teams are discussed with an emphasis on problem-solving teams (e.g. process involvement teams, re-engineering teams, special project teams). Addresses issues of selection, role assignment, team facilitation, group dynamics, conflict and empowerment. Project management issues such as planning and controlling large-scale projects are also addressed.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Organization Behavior/Human Resource Management and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 250, ECN 201, ECN 202
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Business-related problems in such areas as ethics, social responsibilities, pollution, crime, urban crisis, discrimination, education and politics.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Finance Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Types and distinguishing features of securities available to today's investor. Overview of the institutional framework which affects security trading. Concepts of efficient and inefficient market theories. Computer application of valuation and rates of return.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Finance Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 313, 363, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Emphasis on linear programming as a tool for constructing optimal portfolios and the Capital Asset Pricing Model for analyzing price change of securities. Review of empirical literature and applications; examination of computer applications.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, 201, 202, 211, and their prerequisites
Offered: Rarely
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Major financial decisions faced by individuals. Housing and home financing, insurance, retirement, and death planning. Introduction to various personal computer software package.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 313, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Management of service operations; forecasting, routing, service facility design and layout; service quality; queuing theory; capacity planning; data envelopment analysis; yield management. Case studies used to enhance real world application of the methodologies discussed.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for all concentrations
Pre-requisites: At least junior standing
Offered: Every term
Instructional Format: Independent
Description: Business Internship Program job assignment, planned by student, supervisor, and coordinator. Duties will relate to student’s academic program. May be repeated once for credit.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management and Marketing Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 313, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: Rarely
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: General multivariate techniques such as multiple regression, multivariate analysis of variance, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, principal components; business research methods such as sample survey, questionnaire construction and analysis. May include time series forecasting and/or statistical quality control.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 201, BUS 202, BUS 381, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Technology and methods underlying financial record keeping systems; flow charting of financial and cost data movements; attention to accounting applications of computing systems and computer-assisted decision models. Designing and implementing databases for financial and managerial decision-making purposes. This course includes extensive use of cases.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 323, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Advanced federal income tax concepts, related to corporations, shareholders, "S" corporations, partnerships, trusts and estates.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 211, BUS 320, prior or concurrent BUS 322, prior or concurrent 421, and their prerequisites; senior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Financial and operational auditing theory, objectives, and procedures required for careers in public, managerial, and governmental accounting. Auditing procedures and standards, internal control, statistical sampling, audit of electronic data processing systems, audit reports, professional ethics, and auditor's legal and societal environment.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 322, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Accounting for business combinations and consolidated statements, partnerships, installment sales, segment and interim reporting, and other topics.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, BUS 330, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Strategies involved in marketing of services. External environmental and internal control factors as applied to professional, financial, educational, entertainment, health care, governmental, religious, non-profit, and other organizations, institutions and agencies.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 201, BUS 202, BUS 211, BUS 330, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: International marketing and its role in multinational firms. Appraising international marketing opportunity; product, price, promotion and distribution policies; analysis of the foreign market environment.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Marketing and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 332, ECN 201, ECN 202, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Nature of new product innovations and their importance to the firm. Development processes with organizational methods for achieving new product success.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Marketing Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 332, BUS 338, ECN 202, a marketing elective, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Application of marketing theory to contemporary marketing problems. Project approach utilized to develop student's ability to integrate all major areas of marketing. Students assigned to groups that work with local organizations with specific marketing concerns.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for General Business Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 330, and BUS 361
Offered: 1 section Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Introduction to entrepreneurship concepts. Emphasis on the process of creating and starting new ventures. Designed to help students recognize and evaluate the feasibility of potential business opportunities.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for International Business Concentration and Elective for General Business Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 385 and its pre-requisites; junior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall or Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: This course is designed to integrate and build on the student’s previous course work by extending the study of management to issues affecting individuals and businesses that operate across national boundaries. This course will examine the global manager’s environment, the cultural context of global management, formulating and implementing strategy for international and global operations, global human resources management, and other issues involved with managing people in an international context. While many examples may be based on U.S. firms, the focus of the course will be on those problems faced by organizations attempting to conduct business across borders.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management, Marketing, and Required Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: COM/ENG 338; senior standing
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: Experiential focus on developing skills necessary for effective management. Self-presentation, interpersonal influence, counseling, feedback and performance appraisal, process observation, bargaining and negotiating.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 341, BUS 344, and their prerequisites; senior standing
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Approaches and practices to select, train and compensate employees to ensure organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction. Topics include recruitment methods and tools including measurement of validity and reliability, staffing tools such as the employment interview and training systems (e.g. needs analysis, development, and evaluation) as well as compensation systems that attract, retain, and motivate good employees. Lecture, discussion, and project management format.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 344, BUS 443, and their prerequisites; senior standing
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Examination of contemporary developments and trends (hot topics) that affect organizational behavior and human resource management and the exploration of how to affect organization-wide change. Projects include in-depth interview with practicing human resource manager, in-basket exercise, challenge team building. Capstone course for the OB/HRM concentration.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Finance and Elective Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Linking facts, theory, and systematic implementation through study of actual decision situations, financial problems, and business scenarios. Stress on working capital planning and management, capital structure analysis and planning, capital budgeting, and episodic financial decision; computer solutions.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Finance Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and its prerequisites
Offered: Rarely
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Basic processes, principles, tools and concepts of working capital management. Cash management, inventory management, financial forecasting, financial ratios in predicting bankruptcy, interest rate risk, and foreign exchange risk; accounting for each topic and applications of quantitative techniques.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Finance Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 363, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: History, theory, institutional structure, and contribution to the economy of options and futures markets. Roles of arbitrage, hedging and speculation as tools in routine operations of domestic and multinational corporations.
Credits: 3
Category: Required for Finance Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall, 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Balance of payments, history of international monetary system, exchange rate determination, foreign exchange exposure, hedging strategies and international capital markets. Cost of capital, capital budgeting, capitalization policies, and techniques for dealing with exchange rate exposure and working capital issues.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Accounting, Finance and Operations Management Concentrations
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and their prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Winter
Instructional Format: In-class and online
Description: For accounting and finance students. Uses and interpretation of public accounting statements and economic data from the markets. Use of quantitative methods to analyze, forecast, and examine market reactions to data. Emphasis on real world cases and communication of results through brief written reports and presentations.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Finance Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 361, and its prerequisites
Offered: 1 section in Fall
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Analysis of managerial strategies prudent for banks, credit unions, life and property and casualty insurance companies, investment and finance companies, and pension funds. Liquidity policies and asset-liability management techniques.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 371, and its prerequisites
Offered: Rarely
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Distribution models, scheduling, inventory control, facility planning, production systems analysis (using computer simulation), flexible manufacturing. Discussion of real-world cases; use of computer software to solve more challenging problems; multiple criteria decision making.
Credits: 3
Category: Elective for Operations Management Concentration
Pre-requisites: BUS 181, BUS 211, and their prerequisites
Offered: Rarely
Instructional Format: In-class
Description: Introduction to various tools and techniques of modern quality management, with emphasis on applications. Management issues, including total quality management, Deming's fourteen points for management effectiveness, international standards, and related issues. Statistical tools such as statistical process control, problem solving strategies for quality improvement, experimental design, and Taguchi methods.
