Bachelor of Science in Business Courses

This course provides a study of the legal system and the related topics necessary for all managers and entrepreneurs, including business tort and crimes, contracts, sales, agency, employment law, credit, and bankruptcy. Additionally, this course reviews the three basic structures of business: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.

The course is designed to explain the substantive parts of financial management. The student will learn the theory of financial management and how to apply it in the business world. The learners will understand the importance of the identification and interpretation of various types of information provided by financial statements and used by both corporate managers and investors during the decision-making process. The underlying theme is the valuation of financial assets and business projects, whether they be investment projects or business policies such as extending credit to customers.
Learners will gain knowledge of managerial finance including financial risk and rate of return measurements and use of capital budgeting techniques to make data-driven decisions.

This course explores economic theories and tools and how they are applied to business. It investigates the principles and concepts of microeconomics and macroeconomics. The course introduces microeconomic analysis applied to practical business problems and decision-making and on monetary and fiscal policies that affect industries, markets, and firms.

A theoretical and practical analysis of principles, techniques, and uses of accounting in the planning and control of business organizations. Topics
include a review of the accounting cycle and financial statements, effects upon General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), time value of money concepts, accounting for cash, receivables, inventory, property, and equipment, and intangible assets. Emphasis is placed on the use of the computer as a tool to provide critical information for decision making.

The objective of this course is to familiarize learners with the environments facing managers and corporations who are operating in the global economy. Thus, learners should acquire an awareness of, and an appreciation for, the diversity and complexity of the global environment including international trade, cultures, economics, marketing, and communication issues of multinational corporations. More specifically, the successful completion of this course should enable learners to understand and analyze how global forces shape corporate strategy. (Master's Path Course)

This course allows learners to evaluate the manager's role in ensuring best practices for the application of technology in organizations. It presents the significant components and technologies employed in information systems, their impact on business processes, and the contribution they make to
competitive advantage. Learners will assess tools and skills about communication, policy, security, management, and technology.

The primary emphasis of this course is on the role of accounting in the processes of management decision-making for planning and control. Topics include relevant cost analysis, standard costing, and analysis of variances; budgeting and responsibility accounting, and planned capital expenditures.

In this course, learners study marketing theory that presents a strategic overview of marketing concepts. Learners learn how to plan and implement marketing strategies and policies. Topics include consumer behavior, feasibility, and budgeting within the domestic and global economy.

Organizational Behavior is an interdisciplinary field drawing from numerous disciplines including psychology, sociology, economics, organization theory, statistics, and others. This course will analyze the behavior of people in organizations. Organizational motivation, group behavior, group dynamics, communication, and decision-making are explored in the context of individual and group behavior. Learners are exposed toorganizational behavioral science theories and their applications in different management settings and a variety
of organizations. (Master's Path Course)

This course provides a practical introduction to the tools needed to perform fundamental analysis of critical organizational data related to issues of quality control and decision-making. Topics covered include graphic and tabular summarization, measures of central tendency and dispersion, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis and variance, nonparametric methods, and regression analysis.

This course will explore how ethical values influence individual and business effectiveness, compare and contrast major ethical theories, and apply ethical reasoning to develop sound business decisions. This course will focus on ethical problem solving and the application of ethical principles to issues of moral perplexity. (Master's Path Course)

The development of current policies, practices, and techniques necessary to ensure effective personnel management in complex organizations are covered. There will be an emphasis on the role of operating supervisors, executives, and the union in researching such challenges as employee selection, training, placement, wage and salary administration, promotion, fringe benefits, employee services, and management-labor relations.

The focus of this course will be on clarifying the distinction between management and leadership by the examination of different models of leadership and the integration of ethical principles into various functional topics. The course presents leadership and management theories/concepts that have emerged over the past several decades. Also, learners will survey contemporary perspectives of networking, coaching, organizational culture, diversity, learning organizations, strategic leadership, and crisis leadership. Special attention will be paid to examining the role that leaders play in identifying and implementing change in organizations. (Master's Path Course)

This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management, including design, planning, control, and continuous improvement. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and service-rendering organizations. Topics include operations strategy, process design, capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. (Master's Path Course)