Business
- This course surveys business and industry in the United States with global growth strategy. Emphasis is placed on building Communication and Quantitative skills, including Excel spreadsheets, and an Ethical Foundation. The course introduces students to concepts in Management, Organizational Structure, Human Resources, Marketing, International Business, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Accounting, and Economics, and encourages students to explore career paths. Required of all Business majors.
Course Syllabus - This course surveys briefly the American legal system and the basic law of contracts. Reference is made to typical business transactions and, by a study of pertinent cases, how the various principles of contract law apply to them.
Course Syllabus - This course surveys the American legal system and the basic law of contracts as it relates to business in the 21st century. Reference is made to typical business transactions both traditional and electronic, and by a study of pertinent cases, how the various principles of contract law apply to them. Additionally, this course examines at how courts, legislatures, and regulators confront the major legal issues that the Internet poses. Major topics include: how legally-enforceable contracts are made online; how courts determine jurisdiction over online transactions; intellectual property rules as they relate to digital assets such as music, video, and online texts; control over Internet domain names; liability of intermediaries such as Internet Service Providers and search engines; and online privacy protections.
- Discusses the problems involved in efficient handling of personal finance and consumption expenditure, including consumer protection, taxation, insurance, home financing, and methods of borrowing and
investing money. Topics covered will include: goal setting; budgeting; banking and basic financial transactions; building, maintaining and repairing credit; credit report and scores; home/auto ownership; current regulations and practices governing consumer financial transactions, potential risks faced by individuals and families, banking services and products, insurance and investment, and planning for retirement.
Course Syllabus - This course focuses on communication skills expected of college graduates entering into business fields. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to produce professional, clear, concise, evidence-driven, persuasive writing, spoken communication, and visual/graphic communication. The course will emphasize the importance of being purpose-oriented and audience-aware. Examples of work to be done include writing e-mails, drafting business memos, internal and external business communications, listening skills and interpersonal communication.
Prerequisites: ENG 101, ENG 201 and BUS 104
Course Syllabus - This course covers the total structure and character of modern business from initial organization through grouping of essential functions into operating departments. Management and the decision-making process, financing, operations, and marketing considerations are studied, with actual cases used to illustrate problems in small and big businesses.
Course Syllabus - The world environment of business enterprise is surveyed broadly in this course. Emphasis is placed on foreign trade and investment problems, patterns and opportunities. The performance of business functions in an international context and basic terminology of international business are examined.
Prerequisite: BUS 104 and ECO 201 - A survey of the fundamental quantitative concepts and tools used in the field of business is presented in this course. Topics in the course include annuities, present value, compound interest, markup and markdown, graphing, equations, inventory, depreciation, breakeven cost, revenue, elasticity, inequalities, and certain aspects of linear-programming.
Prerequisite: MAT 150, MAT 200 or MAT 206 (for Business students only)
Course Syllabus - This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills required to harness the power of data analytics for effective storytelling in the business context. Students will learn how to collect, analyze, and interpret data to create compelling narratives that inform decision-making and drive business success. The digital age of business requires an understanding of data. This course will give students the right tools to stay relevant. It offers the theoretical understanding of data necessary for students to adapt to the many changes in business, while equipping them with the skills they will need to perform vital daily functions.
Students will participate in Simternship rounds to apply their skills in a simulated real-world business environment. By the end of the course, students will be able to walk into any company and help make data-driven business decisions.
Prerequisite: MAT 150 or MAT 209
Corequisite: CIS 100 or CIS 140 - This course is designed to develop the student?s ability to make decisions as a manager. Cases are used to present the student with a variety of management problems. Students participate in oral and written case analysis which requires identification of the problem, proposal of alternative solutions to it, and the choice of one solution based on criteria of profitability and productivity. Students also participate in a management simulation game.
Prerequisite: BUS 210
Course Syllabus - This course introduces the foundational concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in various industries. Students will learn about various AI technologies, how AI is integrated into daily work tasks, and the potential of AI to innovate business practices.
Prerequisite: BUS 104 for business majors; Second semester standing for non-business majors - This course has been designed to prepare the students for further work in decision-making either on the job or in other institutions. The course will make use of computer programs in the construction and solutions of problems such as: production and inventory models; cost volume profit analysis; queuing theory and markov process; and resource allocation, scheduling, and simulation.
- This course is a survey treatment of human resources management attempting to acquaint students with the various aspects of Human Resources Management. It introduces the student to the realm of the Human Resources Manager.
Prerequisite: BUS 104 or BUS 200
Course Syllabus - This course is tailored towards developing students quantitative reasoning skills including data analysis, statistical thinking, and modeling business decisions using a wide range of case studies. The course will enable students explain the assumptions and interpret the model outcomes using analytical tools such as estimation, simple and multiple regression, forecasting, and optimization. They will learn to use Excel for data analysis.
Prerequisite: MAT 209 - This is a study abroad course in which students will understand the unique nature, challenges, resources, and opportunities that affect social ventures in developing economies. Students will earn first-hand the very different environmental conditions under which people live and work in a different part of the world, as well as experience the spirit of social entrepreneurs who find innovative ways to solve social problems within a market economy. Through class meetings, discussions with social entrepreneurs, and on-site visits to different social ventures in India, students will experience both the structural as well as the motivational factors that need to be considered to address these social problems. This class will encourage students to reflect on the social problems that exist in the United States and consider how the innovative organizational models that they have been exposed to in this study abroad program can be applied to the problems.
