Business

This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts of financial and managerial accounting. Emphasis is placed on learning and applying the basic accounting framework through the full accounting cycle with common business transactions, preparing financial statements, understanding fixed and variable...

A study of how accounting information is used and communicated by managers to plan, control and evaluate decisions. Primary topics include costing systems, profitability analysis, cost-allocation issues, budgeting, and pricing decisions. Case studies are used extensively in this course. Prerequisites:...

Introduces students to foundational concepts in business, tools for effective group projects, and skills for communicating in a business context. This course is intended for accounting, business, marketing, and information technology majors.

Designed to provide students with an initial framework and context for understanding how businesses operate and compete in their respective industries. This course is an overview of business, how it is organized, and how the various components of an organization...

This course provides students with the basic and intermediate spreadsheet skills expected by employers. Students will learn basic functions, chart creation, data analysis and visualization and tools commonly used by organizations.

This course explores consumer behavior, from determining consumer needs and wants, the process by which they are satisfied, and the environment in which the behavior occurs. Concepts and theories developed in psychology, economics, and sociology will be applied to the...

In this course students will develop the skills necessary to transform data into information that is effectively communicated and drives decision-making in organizations. This course will combine a student’s knowledge of business with data and statistics, learning to use a...

The course will provide a framework within which to appraise career options, set goals and implement a plan to reach goals. Topics include self-appraisal, resumes, developing a job-search strategy, interviewing for jobs, choosing the first job and graduate-school opportunities. This...

This course is a combination of an employment experience during the semester with content learned in academic courses. The integration of content knowledge with a concurrent employment experience acknowledges that students are developing knowledge and skills in a workplace that...

This course focuses on the role of the supply chain in creating customer value and competitive advantage. It examines the core operations that make up the supply chain and explores some of the strategies and challenges in managing today’s global...

People and Culture Management is a central function of any organization. Managers and employees play an integral role in carrying out human resource policies and practices in their organization. In this course students will think systematically and strategically about aspects...

The nature of marketing in our society; how organizations develop marketing strategies that enable them to meet their objectives and the needs of their customers through adequate marketing mixes; the relationship of marketing to other management functions; marketing activities at...

Introduces students to the primary elements of corporate finance such as time value of money, stock and bond valuation, financial analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting and dividend policy. Prerequisite: ACC 200 and BUS 220.

Decision-making and analysis of production and service delivery challenges in areas of plant location, facilities design, process strategy, production planning and control, supply chain, inventory management, performance measurement, and quality control. Special attention is also given to the study of...

Students will examine how businesses develop a competitive advantage through the integration of sustainability and strategy, insulating themselves from risks in an ever changing global environment. Prerequisite: SUST201 or BUS318.

Gives students the opportunity to operate and manage a real business. Java Junction, a coffee shop located in the KMY Connector, is completely student-run and student-managed. Students, under the supervision of a business faculty member, have full responsibility for all...

Utilizing an experiential case study method, this course surveys the evolution of theory, practice, and research in the areas of organizational behavior. Learning topics include motivation theory, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, conflict transformation, change theory, organization structure, emotional intelligence and...

In this course students will learn about core processes, support processes, and management processes. With each of these processes students will also learn where humans add value and where technology adds value for the customer. The majority of class time...

This experience allows a student to apply theoretical learning with business practice through employment with a business organization. Students must complete their employment arrangement in the summer. Completion of the academic requirements of this course takes place in Session 1...

A study and evaluation of management strategies to achieve organizational goals and objectives and create value for all stakeholders. This course utilizes management principles, financial analysis and control, personnel decisions and marketing strategies with an emphasis on case studies and...

Introduces students to information systems and information technology in the context of a business organization. Equal focus is given to learning the concepts and understanding how businesses apply those concepts. Topics include: ethics and privacy, information security, data management, networking,...

This course provides fundamental programming expertise in a higher-level computational language, focusing on such constructs as user defined functions, recursion versus iteration and files usage. The student also will engage in computational thinking and techniques of general problem solving, with...

This course provides an overview of small and large business enterprises and the environments in which they operate. It introduces basic concepts of project management in an organization and explores both technical and human aspects of projects. The roles and...

This course covers database design and the use of database management systems for applications. Students will create a database instance using MS-SQL and will learn foundationally some of the basic SQL statements. Prerequisite: COSC 106.

Structure and components of computer networks, packet switching, layered architectures, and congestion management. Also covers principles of computer and network security. By the end of this course, a student will have either passed or be prepared to take an industry...

This course explores the fundamentals of information security attacks and defense mechanisms. Security issues related to people, data, networks, and devices are surveyed to provide insight into designing security solutions and policies. Technologies and practices that support the security principles...

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of micro and macro economics, including economic relationships and processes, analysis of markets and price behavior, economic activities of governments, aggregate income determination, banking, and trade.

Living Ethically will focus on ethical decision-making as well as ethical being, drawing on historical and contemporary forms and structures in ethics as well as contemporary applications of ethical frameworks. Students will be encouraged to identify the bases for their...

Focuses on the third party role of the mediator. Explores the theoretical basis for mediation, its various applications in North America, and critiques of the appropriateness of mediation for certain types of conflicts. Emphasis will be on experiential learning to...

A study of developmental processes across the life span. Physical, social and cognitive changes provide the basic organization for this course. A variety of developmental theories will be examined including Piaget, Vygotsky, Erickson, social learning and psychodynamic. Current research and...

This course provides an overview of the field of Public Health and emphasizes basic principles, practices and policies. Related to this, students will learn the infrastructure and organization of public health in the U.S. at the local, state and federal...

This course provides an overview of the Public Health policy-making process in the U.S. and the issues related to the provision of health-related services. It examines the political and institutional settings and constraints on the formulation of policy, including the...

In this virtual course, students are introduced to current and emerging issues in global health, and to the critical links between public health and social and economic development. Key concerns are the disparities in the global burden of communicable and...

An introduction to the principles and methods used in the study of human society. Includes a survey of topics in social problems, social inequalities, social identity, human ecology and social change.

This course is a study of the individual through the life cycle within the social environment. Foci include physical, psychological, social, cultural and religious factors in the development of the self. Dimensions of diversity (including but not limited to gender,...