Course Descriptions
Required courses for major.
MGT 320 - The Legal Environment of Business (4)
Laws regulating business activities, principles governing contracts,
negotiable instruments, sales of goods, agencies, partnerships,
and corporations.
MGT 330 - Economics for Managers (4)
The market system and the structure and functioning of the economy
in the United States. Macroeconomics concepts, including growth,
inflation, employment, interest rates, fiscal policy and monetary
policy, supply, demand, and opportunity costs. Microeconomic concepts
and tools are used to study market power (perfect competition,
monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly), elasticity,
income distribution, environment, and other social areas.
MGT 340 - Principles of Marketing (4)
Markets, consumer behavior, pricing, promotion, and distribution
of products and services. Management issues related to enabling
an organization profitably to acquire and satisfy customers and
matching the wishes and desires of the customers with those of
the organization.
MGT 350 - Data Presentation (2)
Integrates preparation of charts, graphs, font selection, and computer-presentation
software. Emphasis on effective presentation of documents.
MGT 375 - Group and Organizational Behavior (3)
Primary emphasis on group and individual behavior and their influence
on each other and on an organization's effectiveness. Focus on
human aspects in organizations, including leadership, groups, conflict,
and decision-making.
MGT 390 - Organizations and Environments (3)
Emphasis on the organization as an open system. Organizational
diagnosis, using a systems approach, examines organizational structure,
design, governing regulations that shape business operations, contingency
theory, and the impact of the environment on organizational effectiveness.
MGT 410 - Accounting for Managers (5)
How managers use accounting data in financial decision-making and
in delineating alternative courses of action. Emphasis on both
financial and managerial data and on preparing and using financial
statements and reports.
MGT 420 -Management (4)
Basic concepts and theory of management with an emphasis on planning,
organizing, staffing, motivation, and control. Within these areas,
vision, mission and objectives of organizations are covered. Also
included: motivational theories and their application to individual
and group functioning in organizations.
MGT 430 - Human Resources Management in Public and Private Sectors
(4)
Objectives and problems relating to human resources management
in public and private organizations. Includes recruitment, selection,
performance appraisal, training and development, compensation,
grievances, and discipline.
MGT 450 - Financial Management (5)
Principles of managing and controlling the finances of corporate
enterprises. Includes financial institutions and markets, financial
statement analysis, the time value of money, risk and return, cost
of capital, valuation, capital budgeting, management of working
capital, and financial planning. Prerequisites: MGT 330, 410.
MGT 480 - International Business (4)
Introduction to and summary of doing business in the international
marketplace. Includes globalization, political economy, trade theory,
investment in foreign countries, and global monetary systems; and
entry, organizational strategies and business operations in the
global environment.
MGT 491 - Strategic Management (4)
A capstone course integrating knowledge and theories from a variety
of business disciplines. Applying this knowledge to a study of
organizational problems primarily through the case method. Prerequisites:
MGT 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 375, 390, 410, 430, 450, 475.
Option courses in major. Select two of the following four courses
for a total of 7 quarter hours.
MGT 434 - Entrepreneurship (3)
A survey of what it takes to start and operate a business. Legal,
managerial, accounting, marketing, and financial aspects of getting
a business up and running. Development of a business plan for startup
organizations.
MGT 456 - Urban Planning (3)
Ideological, political, legal, economic, social factors, and interest
groups and how they interact with and affect planning for primarily
urban environments. The underlying forces for growth and change;
who benefits and who loses. Includes legal and social issues in
planning, housing, homelessness, traffic, zoning, urban renewal,
economic development, energy planning, and land-use planning.
MGT 460 - Fiscal Administration (4)
Financial administration and activities of public agencies. Includes
principles of public finance, budgeting, revenue sources (including
tax structures), revenue forecasting, debt administration, and
fund management.
MGT 477 - Electronic Commerce (4)
Tools and technologies needed for participating in electronic commerce.
Business opportunities, challenges, and strategies for leveraging
the emerging national and global information infrastructure. Security,
privacy, ethics, and business practices.
Information System courses may be offered as option courses in
the future
MGT 380 - Database Analysis and Design (3)
Analysis and design of databases for business. File systems, database
management functions, hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented
data models. Normalization, SQL queries and entity relationship
diagramming. Issues in distributed databases and simultaneous access.
MGT 482 - Systems Analysis & Design (4)
Concepts, skills, methodologies, techniques, tools, and perspectives
essential for systems analysts to successfully develop information
systems. Includes project identification and selection, project
initiation and planning, analysis, logical design, physical design,
implementation, and maintenance.
MGT 486 - Information Systems Management (3)
An overview of information systems in organizations. Strategic
issues, organizational structure for information systems, ethical,
and societal issues. Also included: hardware and software for business,
data organization, telecommunications and networking, inter- and
intranet. Types of information systems in various organizations
are studied.
MGT 487 - Management Science (4)
Quantitative methods for managerial decision-making. Includes linear
programming, integer programming, decision-making under uncertainty,
utility theory, waiting line and inventory models, simulation,
transportation and assignment problems.
The following required general-education courses are taught
by members of the religion faculty.
RELB 305 - Biblical Perspectives (4)
Designed to foster knowledge and understanding of those historical
concepts and themes of the Bible that relate most directly to effectiveness
in business practices and public life.
RELB 310 - Ethics and Personal Values (4)
Examination of how personal values in business and public life
are shaped by world views, ethics, and spiritual formation.
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