Credit Course Categories:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives:
Instruction: Major topics include: GAAP and the role of accounting in business; business transactions and accounting equation; financial statements; types of accounts and transactions; analyzing and summarizing transactions in accounts; trial balance; closing and reversing entries; the Accounting Cycle; accounting for merchandising businesses and accounting systems, Sarbanes-Oxley; internal controls and cash; receivables and inventories; fixed assets and current liabilities.
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives:
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: analyze communication techniques and their impact on specific business settings; implement effective communication systems and functions within an organization; apply effective communication skills in preparing and presenting ideas to an audience; and apply collaborative methods to facilitate teamwork and to motivate groups.
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives:
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: critique various legal documents germane to personal and business transactions; analyze problems objectively, legally, and logically; utilize legal terms found in business situations; and decide when legal counsel is warranted in certain work scenarios.
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: perform operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; apply equations in problem solving; calculate simple and compound interest; analyze taxes, mortgages, annuities, and credit; compute inventory and depreciation; and evaluate financial statements and ratios.
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: analyze complexities involved in managing a formal organization and the relationships of each functional specialty to the overall operation of the firm; assess the relationship between the internal operations of the firm and the external economic, political, socio-cultural, legal, regulatory, and technical environment; distinguish between basic causes of business problems and symptoms; formulate and implement strategic plans; apply analytical thinking and skills when analyzing data and reporting conclusions effectively in written and oral form; and evaluate practical realities of running various types of businesses.
Instruction:
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: describe a set of data; compute measures of central tendency and variation; apply probability concepts to hypothesis testing; draw conclusions about populations based on samples; and analyze relationships between two variables; and create predictions from data.
Instruction: Major topics include: presenting data in tables and charts; summarizing and describing numerical data; simple linear regression and correlation; probability; normal distribution and sampling distributions; correlation and regression; hypothesis testing.
Credit recommendation:
Length: 28 hours - 7 weeks (BUS 302) or 4 weeks (BUS 302R).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: assess the dynamics of the business writing environment; develop a concise, individual business writing style; apply the essential aspects of good business prose; evaluate strong and weak characteristics in business writing; and evaluate how these components function in a group writing project.
Instruction: Major topics include: composition, effective business writing, business prose, business memos, letters and proposals, and researching and writing business reports.
Credit recommendation:
Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: examine basic theories of finance; apply theories in relevant and meaningful situations; analyze the complex and dynamic nature of the financial market in the changing global economy; differentiate the rationales behind financial decisions; and examine financial problems objectively, factually, and logically.
Instruction: Major topics include: introduction to financial management; analysis of financial statements; risk and returns on time value of money; stocks and bonds valuation; capital budgeting; capital structure and leverage; dividend policy and forecasting; working capital management; cost of capital, financial markets and institutions.
Credit recommendation:
