Courses
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- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
This course provides an overview of the field of business. The basic vocabulary and concepts of accounting, computer information systems, economics, finance, management, and marketing are discussed. The importance of business, ethics, social responsibility, and international business are threaded throughout the course.
Notes:May not be taken after the student has been accepted to the College of Business.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
Students investigate the nature and history of entrepreneurships. Opportunity searching and creative processes are used to develop new entrepreneurial ideas. Students are exposed to the development of an entrepreneurial business plan. The accounting, finance, management and marketing aspects of entrepreneurship are analyzed. Each student develops and presents a new venture plan.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
Overview of the areas of law affecting business operations. Students are introduced to basic legal rights and social forces affecting business.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: MA 109 and CIS 222.
Survey of problems that production-operations managers face and the quantitative tools that are helpful in solving these problems. Spreadsheets and other software will be used to solve certain types of problems.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or departmental permission.
In-depth examination of laws dealing with computers and the Internet, including: U.S. and international jurisdiction, computer security, intellectual property, electronic commerce, e-discovery, information privacy, freedom of expression, and cyber-crime. Detailed analyses of significant legal case studies plus review of applicable federal and state statutes such as HIPPA, Sarbanes Oxley, CFAA and the Patriot Act.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: MGT 240, junior standing or instructor permission.
The principles and practices of productive employee relations with emphasis upon the selection, development and motivation of employees.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
Focus on developing cognitive and behavioral skills central to becoming a competent communicator in organizational settings. The role of communication in upholding such social values as mutual understanding, cooperation, and respect for diversity within the organizational community will be examined. The course is based on developing knowledge, sensitivity, skills, and ethical competencies.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: MGT 221; Recommended MGT 343.
This course gives students an overview of employment and labor laws with concentration on those affecting business operations. Students will acquire foundational knowledge of state and federal employment and labor laws; will understand legalities of recruitment, development, compensation, evaluation and termination of employees; will examine employee engagement; and learn to assess how organizational culture and leadership styles affect employee performance. Students will refine writing and presentation skills appropriate for upper level course work.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Junior standing.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: MKT 230, MGT 240, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
Businesses and non-profit organizations are confronted with a variety of controversial issues (involving ethical and social responsibility issues), making both strategic and day-to-day decision-making difficult. The course examines contemporary and emerging critical issues facing businesses and non-profit organizations, focusing on recent developments and a review of some “best practices” of organizations who have taken leadership roles. Cross-cultural differences in analyzing ethical and social responsibility issues will also be explored.
Notes:Cross listed with MKT 360.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: MGT 343, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
Study of the administration and design of the wage and salary function of organizations, including the determinants of wages, job evaluation, compensation plans, employee evaluation and the administration of fringe benefits.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: MGT 240, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
The nature of management in the small business environment including the exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of small businesses. Students study the components of a small business plan. The accounting, finance, management and marketing aspects of small business management are analyzed. Each student develops and presents a plan for operating a small business.
- Offered: Every third semester
- Prerequisites: MGT 343, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
Discussion of industrial and manpower management and research in advanced problems. Individual research by students.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: MGT 240, junior standing or instructor’s permission.
The causes and consequences of organizational conflict will be examined, and students will learn strategies for managing interpersonal conflict. Negotiation theory and practice will be discussed, including interpersonal, small group, and collective bargaining practices.
- Offered: Fall Winter
Development of an appreciation for the role of research in problem solving and decision making. Topics covered include science and the scientific method, techniques of defining problems, the nature of hypothesis testing and inferential statistics, research design, measurement and validity, data collection (secondary and primary), surveys, interviews, observation, types of sampling, sample size and statistical calculations.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: College of Business core or instructor’s permission.
A comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the strategic management process. Topics include mission and goals, external and internal environmental analysis, business and corporate level strategies, international strategies, corporate leadership, governance, and corporate entrepreneurship. Application of theory and practice is accomplished through written and oral case analysis.
- Offered: Winter Summer
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor’s permission.
Introduction to challenges in international business; managerial focus on the various aspects of global business, including accounting, finance, logistics, information systems, human resources, marketing, law and ethics. Focus is on building an awareness of the cultural, country, political and geographical variables in international business.
- Offered: Fall Winter Summer
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Junior standing and College of Business permission.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor's permission.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: Limited to students with a superior grade point average, junior standing and College of Business permission.