Laws regulating business activities, principles governing contracts, negotiable instruments, sales of goods, agencies, partnerships, and corporations.
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.
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.
Integrates preparation of charts, graphs, font selection, and computer-presentation software. Emphasis on effective presentation of documents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Examination of how personal values in business and public life are shaped by world views, ethics, and spiritual formation.
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