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Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
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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.
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Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
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Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
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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.
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Length: 28 hours - 7 weeks (BUS 302) or 4 weeks (BUS 302R).
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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.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: assess the eating patterns and dietary needs for people of different ages and for differing groups within society; identify nutrition and health problems associated with diet; identify the socio-economic factors related to diet; critically assess current nutrition fads and controversies; analyze various nutrient requirements and how these are translated to daily intake recommendations of nutrients and foods; and effectively manage family members' diets in relation to their needs and lifestyles.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:demonstrate the power of the written word; demonstrate that writing successfully is a process that starts with thinking and ends with revising; apply the components of rhetoric and uphold the writer's challenge to control them; equate the connection between logical thinking and effective persuasive writing; analyze logical fallacies in their own thinking and the thinking of others; and identify the use, misuse and abuse of secondary source material.
Instruction: Major topics include: expository writing, the writing process, components of rhetoric, and critiquing student and published papers.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: develop an individual style of writing, identify a researchable topic, use a library and the Internet to gather material, evaluate the material, and synthesize findings in a well-written, well-argued paper; apply the APA guidelines for proper documentation of source materials; and define plagiarism and develop strategies on how to avoid plagiarism.
Instruction: Major topics include: conducting research; using the writing process; writing in all disciplines; using evidence; making an argument; developing an individual style of writing; reading, interpreting, and writing about literature.
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Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: examine labor union laws that impact the terms and conditions of employment; distinguish differences among private sector, public sector, and multinational labor union relations; promote positive employee relationships and mutual respect in labor union relations and a mutual gains approach to problem solving; evaluate contemporary administrative, economic, and institutional issues that impact contract negotiations; and prepare costing out options for negotiations by applying each side's issues and concerns and identifying key negotiating points.
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Length: 32 hours (8 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: examine basic theories of macroeconomics; apply the theories in relevant and meaningful situations; analyze the complex and dynamic nature of the economic market in the changing global economy and discuss how economic decisions are made; and inspect macroeconomic problems in an objective, factual, and logical manner.
Instruction: Major topics include: the market system and the private sector; national income accounting; macroeconomic equilibrium; aggregate supply and demand; macroeconomic policy; tradeoffs, expectations, credibility and business cycles; economic growth and development; international trade and finance.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: examine theories of microeconomics and apply them in relevant and meaningful situations; analyze the complex and dynamic nature of the economic market in a changing global economy; examine how economic decisions are made; and define and study microeconomics problems in an objective, factual, and logical manner.
Instruction: Major topics include: the price system, product market basics; factors of production; profit maximization; market structure; current issues in the market economy and international trade and finance.
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