Bachelor of Science in
Business Administration

Sharpen skills that will help you achieve maximum learning as you complete your degree program. Taking this course will unlock your undiscovered potential. You will discover your multiple intelligences and your best way to learn. This course will also help you uncover your strengths and build from them, as well as explore the areas where you might change behaviors to ensure your college success.
Credit Hours: 3

This course teaches the students fundamental principles while emphasizing skills development in the practice of public speaking. It covers purposes, methods and steps in preparing speeches, develops communication skills in listening, speech criticism, audience analysis and writing, and provides effective delivery techniques to present a variety of speeches.
Credit Hours: 3

This course offers an introduction to basic writing skills that is especially relevant to academic assignments. It focuses on paragraph development and organization in conjunction with a review of basic grammar and mechanics. The course also covers the construction of multi-paragraph essays, the development of writing style and tone, and techniques for critically editing and revising one',s work.
Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to assure a basic level of computer applications literacy, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, email, and the Internet. The course also covers various types of computer hardware and networking methods. (This course has been designed so that access to a computer is helpful, but not required.)
Credit Hours: 3

This is an introduction to the principles and practices of management, with emphasis on the management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Topics also include effective leadership and motivational techniques, communication, social responsibility and ethics, managing change and conflict, and control.
Credit Hours: 3

This course offers an introduction to written composition especially relevant to academic assignments. It begins with an emphasis on composing stronger expressions at the sentence level and then covers development of multi-paragraph essays, development of writing style and tone, and how to revise and edit one',s work critically. An introduction to academic research is included.
Prerequisite for C02
Credit Hours: 3

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This course presents the basics of written communication in business. It also explores differences in approach and format for various business documents, and covers techniques for planning, researching, organizing, and writing reports.
Credit Hours: 3

This course explores current ethical issues in the business world, including social and professional responsibilities, organizational relationships, employee rights and obligations, workplace discrimination, organizational culture, and ethics in a global economy.
Credit Hours: 3

This course reviews the fundamentals of double-entry bookkeeping and the debit/credit method of recording transactions. The bookkeeping cycle, from recording transactions to preparing financial statements, is included. Emphasis is placed on service concerns operating as sole proprietorships.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite for BU330

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This course focuses on the facilitation of exchange relationships in a dynamic environment through the creation, distribution, promotion, and pricing of goods, services, and ideas. The concepts of market segmentation, buyer behavior, branding, marketing strategies, and services marketing will be stressed, in addition to the processes of planning, organizing, implementing, and controlling marketing activities.
Credit Hours: 3

This is a consumer-oriented overview of the practical application of economic concepts. The course emphasizes decision making about budgeting, savings, consumer strategies, insurance, investing, retirement planning, and estate planning.
Credit Hours: 3

This is an introduction to microeconomics, with emphasis on the functioning of individual markets and their effectiveness for resource allocation. Topics include price and production theory, competition, labor, the distribution of income, and the theory of household behavior.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite for C11, BU310

C17: This is a comprehensive review of mathematical skills and concepts commonly used in academic and vocational applications. Topics include whole numbers, fractions, decimal notation, ratios and proportions, percents, statistics and measurement, geometry, real numbers, and algebra.
Credit Hours: 3

MA240: This course introduces the major concepts of college-level algebra. The course begins with basic concepts such as sets and numbers but quickly moves into intermediate algebra topics, emphasizing concepts most often used in computer science. The student will gain extensive experience in evaluating and manipulating expressions, equations, inequalities, and functions.
Credit Hours: 3

This course examines the broad implications of technological innovation on social organization in terms of personal, political, economic, and environmental issues. Topics covered include technological progress within society, issues of energy use and creation, positive and negative environmental impacts of technology, the use of technology in war and politics, social responsibility, personal health, and economic development.
Credit Hours: 3

This course presents the basic principles of business law as applied to contracts, personal property, sales, negotiable instruments, agency and employment, business organization, insurance and bankruptcy, and real property.
Credit Hours: 3

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This is an introduction to the foundations of statistical analysis, including distributions, measures of location and dispersion, probability, the normal probability distribution, sampling and testing methods, and decision analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: MA140, MA270

This course examines broad social, ethical, and technological trends that affect business operations, exploring some of the effects and implications of business-society interactions related to public issues, ethics and social responsibility, the environment, culture and diversity, and the process of globalization.
Credit Hours: 3

Building on the student',s understanding of basic marketing, this course reviews a few of the bedrock principles and theories of marketing including strategic planning, marketing information, target marketing, the marketing mix, marketing in specialized fields such as service marketing, and global marketing. Developing marketing plans and solving marketing problems in a case study environment is also covered.
Credit Hours: 3

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Focusing on the people in the organization and how they work and behave, this course examines the behavior of individuals, the dynamics of teamwork, the processes of small groups, decision-making, problem solving, and conflict management. The course also discusses how to motivate people and improve employee performance, provide feedback, and use rewards and positive reinforcement.
Credit Hours: 3

This course examines what can or should be done to make working people more productive, satisfied, and focused on achieving their firm',s business objectives. Students also learn how to manage employee performance through human resource planning and development.
Credit Hours: 3

This course examines the principles and procedures for developing accounting information for managerial decision-making. Topics include value-chain and cost analysis, organizational performance measurement, inventory management, financial and operational budgeting, economic pricing concepts, capital investment decision-making and analysis, product quality control systems, customer service cost accounting systems, and the tools for measuring an organization',s financial performance.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: A01

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Providing a basic foundation to equip students for future leadership activities in business, government, and society, this course explores the history, philosophy, theories, and concepts of leadership and its relationship to the management of organizational change. It also demonstrates skills needed to promote change, communicate vision, provide a sense of direction, and inspire employees.
Credit Hours: 3

This course examines the foundational tools of business finance and their applications to controlling the firm',s financial environment, including financial analysis, planning and forecasting, valuation, capital budgeting techniques, and risk management.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: C11, MA260, BU310

This course introduces the managerial applications of Internet technology for a successful Web-based organization. The course examines the application of management principles to electronic business models, including business-to-consumer, business-to-business, and intra-business commercial ventures. It also presents the strategic application of EC principles to the process of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational processes, adding value to current business practices, and driving the development of new value-added activities.
Credit Hours: 3

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This course provides students with a framework to master strategic management problems and issues in rapidly changing business environments. Topics include the strategic management process, the nature of competitive advantage, functional, business, and corporate level strategies, strategy in the global environment, and strategy design and implementation.
Credit Hours: 3

This course introduces the statistical basis of quality control and the application of tools to the design, implementation, and analysis of a quality management system. Topics include continuous improvement, quality measurement, variation, productivity, and the historical development of quality control.
Credit Hours: 3

This course examines ethics and values in business, investigating the moral responsibilities within the organization, reviewing several approaches to examining ethical issues, and examining justice from the perspectives of procedures, compensation, and retribution. The role of moral leadership in business and an examination of ethical dilemmas created by an expanding global economy are also presented.
Credit Hours: 3

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