Introduction to Business - BUS100

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course provides a background on business and management. Students will discuss human relations, organizational structure, communications, technology in business, and strategic planning.

 

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Principles of Accounting I - BUS112

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course is an introduction to the basics of accounting procedures. Topics include, accounting techniques and cycles, billings, balance sheets, and financial statements.

Sales and Marketing - BUS120

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course introduces the student to effective methods for marketing products and services. Direct mail, print time and other advertising techniques are discussed. Problem solving relative to customer relations is addressed. Consumer profiled, organizational personalities, and demographics are presented as components of market research and analysis.

Principles of Accounting II - BUS122

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS112

This course expands the students knowledge of preparing balance sheets and financial statements. The student will prepare general ledger entries, prepare payroll, and discuss budget control.

Principles of Management - BUS135

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course presents management theory and the functions of planning, organizing, directing, staffing and controlling. This course also focuses on the application of management principles to realistic work-related situations.

Business Law - BUS200

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: Student must take any 100 level course beforehand

This course is an introductory to law and ethics and outlines the ethical responsibilities managers face when conducting business. This course includes vulnerability to lawsuits and litigation. American and international perspective and interpretations of laws and ethical standards are discussed.

Human Resource Management - BUS210

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent

This introductory course concentrates on human resource management issues confronting organizations. These issues include organizational practices and legal aspects of recruitment, selection, training, orientation, and performance appraisals. Labor relations are discussed.

Business Communications - BUS220

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course prepares the student for communication in the workplace. The student will prepare memorandums, letters, proposals, presentations, newsletters, and flyers. Discussions will focus on information exchange in and outside of the organization. Students presentations will be critiqued on message intended and message received.

Operations Management - BUS235

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent

This course addresses the management of operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Diverse activities such as production process, raw materials purchase, scheduling, and quality control will be discussed.

International Business - BUS240

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent

This course discusses how the global economic, political , and cultural environment affects domestic and international businesses, international operations and dependency, and public policy decisions.

Principles of Economics - BUS250

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS100 or Equivalent

This course examines supply and demand, market demand and elasticity, cost theory, market structures, pricing theory, and consumer behavior. Regulation, antitrust policy, and income distribution are also discussed.

Microeconomics - BUS302

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS250 or Equivalent

In this course, students learn to apply an analytical approach to the study of how individuals and societies deal with the fundamental problem of scarce resources. This approach is applied to everyday decisions faced by individuals as they try to maximize their utility, to businesses that try to maximize profits and to the whole of society as it attempts to use its resources efficiently.

Business Ethics - BUS360

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course analyzes basic principles of business ethics, moral reasoning and the capitalistic market economic system. Topics include a framework for moral reasoning, government regulation, ethics of bribery, price fixing, pollution, resource depletion, product safety, consumer protection as well as rights and duties of employees and corporations.

Business Administration Senior Project - BUS490

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: Student must have completed 160 out of 180 Qtr Credit hours before becoming eligible to take this course

Students will work under the supervision of a faculty advisor to further refine and develop their skills and knowledge through a student-created independent project. Project proposals must be submitted to the faculty advisor of the student's choosing and approved by the advisor and the dean before the student may register for this course. Faculty committee will determine the student's final grade for the project.

Financial Management - BUS300

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent

This course teaches the concepts and skills of financial planning within a business. Concepts covered include how to use financial statements and how to plan appropriate action. Specific topics are preparing budgets, analyze investment options, and assess risk and return of financing business endeavors.

Taxation Principles - BUS320

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent

This course provides a sufficient understanding of the tax environment to evaluate business transactions. Fundamental tax concepts are applied to a variety of business, investment, employment, and personal transactions. Topics include business formation, capital expenditures, employee and executive compensation, international and multi-state operations and disclosure.

Managerial Accounting - BUS340

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course covers financial accounting concepts and managerial accounting topics. The course introduces finance and its importance and relevance to business operations. It covers the internal financial environment of a business. Topics include financial statements analysis, cost accounting, job order costing, and process product costing.

Advanced Financial Management - BUS400

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS340

This course continues materials in BUS340 and adds topics such as capital budgeting, capital structure and leverage, distributions, dividends, current asset management and financing. Hybrid financing, mergers, LBOs, and holding companies.

Accounting Information Systems - BUS420

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course focuses on the impact of information technology on accounting including developments in the Internet, electronic commerce, EDI and databases. Additionally, the course provides information on developing, implementing, and maintaining an accounting information system. It also addresses the increasingly competitive business environment and techniques to reap the most value at the least cost.

Business Forecasting and Simulation - BUS440

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course examines the application of economics theory and methodology needed by business managers to forecast both technical and non-technical needs. Topics include tools and techniques for analysis, consumer and firm behavior, product demand, evaluation of decisions, technology benefits and challenges and interactions between firms and the marketplace.

Personal Financial Management - BUS450

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course introduces the student to the concepts, tools, and applications of personal finance and investments. The course assumes little or no prior knowledge of the subject matter and focuses on helping the student understand the process of financial planning and the logic that drives it.

Financial Management - BUS300

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS122 or Equivalent

This course teaches the concepts and skills of financial planning within a business. Concepts covered include how to use financial statements and how to plan appropriate action. Specific topics are preparing budgets, analyze investment options, and assess risk and return of financing business endeavors.

International Business Strategies - BUS305

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: BUS240 or Equivalent

This course focuses on the strategies and structures of international businesses. Topics include cultural differences, economics and politics of international trade and investment, functions and form of the global monetary system, and assessment of the special roles of an international business's various functions.

Entrepreneurial Leadership - BUS325

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

Through the study of successful leaders and their companies, students learn techniques to move a company from mediocre to great. Topics include goal setting, culture development, vision, profits, technology, effects of change, discipline, and necessary leadership qualities.

New Venture Creation - BUS375

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course provides research and knowledge about the entrepreneurial process. Materials will include the driving forces of entrepreneurship: opportunity recognition, team, resource requirements, and effective business plan. Topics include equity creation, recognizing opportunities, effect of the internet, attitudes and behaviors, rewards and incentives, ethics, finance, and business plan.

Business Law: Legal Environment for Business - BUS405

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: Student must take at least one 100 level Business course prior to taking BUS 405

This course addresses the changing dynamics of business in the legal system. Covered are the basic theories of business law including the legal environment and legal theory and structure of the legal system. The course goes beyond the basic concepts and addresses challenging issues such as contract law, Uniform
Commercial Code (UCC), and copyright, trademark and protection of intellectual property.

Organizational Theory and Development - BUS415

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course examines the field of organizational development and provides a background in organizational development theory and application. Topics include history of organizational development theory, models for organizational structure and change, and advances in organizational development theory.

Diversity in the Workplace - BUS425

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course examines the management of a diverse workforce and the benefits of creating this diversity. Topics include understanding human behavior in an organization, changing marketplace realities, employment systems, affirmative action, behavior modification for employees and other topics related to a multicultural workforce.

Competitive Strategies - BUS430

Credits: 4.5
Prerequisites: None

This course addresses the complex future faced by existing businesses. Materials will cover strategic and organizational issues, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, technological change, strategic alliances, and the challenges of creating and serving markets around the world. Topics include strategic goals, competitive environment, value chains, focus strategies, ethics, diversification, globalization, cooperation and competition, organization design practices, and implementing change.