| In this course, students will explore the fundamental financial concepts and skills of a successful financial manager. The course will focus on long-term investment decisions, cost of capital leverage, as well as long and short-term financing decisions. |
| This course will focus on leadership, management, and organizational concepts in use in business today. It will expand the management principles of the last century, taking into consideration knowledge, behavioral, and technological changes that have recently occurred. The student will learn why and how quality improvements, visionary leadership, and customer-driven enterprises have caused change in business. This course also describes a new way to operate without control or compliance and thus improve service to the business organization, while maximizing corporation profit. |
| This course focuses on management and leadership of organizations and people in organizations. The course emphasizes the need to promote a shared vision, developing a collaborative work environment, fostering a learning organization, effective management/employee relationships, effective communications, interpersonal communications, win/win management, intrinsic motivation, effective work teams, and self- directed work teams. |
| This course covers ethical awareness, ethical analysis and decision making, contemporary ethical issues, and ethical management in organizations. It describes the skills required as leaders encounter ethical dilemmas, process reasoned responses, confront daily and long-term ethical challenges, and make a positive and progressive difference at work by relying on an ethical foundation. Students will explore emotional influences on behavior and decisions, and how to learn from successes and failures. |
| Strategic Management & Business Policy examines strategy formulation and implementation issues from a general manager’s viewpoint, providing an integrative framework for, and building upon, the functional business areas. Those interested in general management, entrepreneurship, or functional specialties will find this course valuable in understanding what makes organizations successful or not. |
| Macroeconomics examines the economy as a whole and offers a perspective on how government economic policies affect daily life. The course focuses on inflation, unemployment, the business cycle, the market system, fiscal policy, supply and demand, the balance of trade, comparative advantage, and money and banking. It also compares Keynesian and Classical economic theories as they relate to macroeconomic policy. (satisfies general education credit in the Social and Behavioral Science area) |
| Microeconomics introduces the part of economics which studies how individuals make decisions and choices under conditions of scarcity. The course focuses on the concepts of individual market behavior, rational self-interest, cost benefit analysis, the role of supply and demand in determination of value resource allocation, and comparative advantage. Microeconomics also examines the issues of economic growth, population growth, and the environment. (satisfies general education credit in the Social and Behavioral Science area) |
The remaining courses in the major constitute elective courses for students who choose a generalized program or core courses for each of the four concentrations. Students who choose a generalized program are encouraged to select their elective courses from across the four concentrations.
| This course addresses principles and techniques of staffing the workplace. It includes strategies and practices utilized in staffing, planning, recruiting, and selection. Topics covered include job analysis, recruitment, and selection. |
| In this course, students will examine the functions of recruitment, selection, development, training, supervision, and compensation of human resources in today’s organizations. The course focuses on the development of knowledge and application of personnel/human resources management processes and development of understanding of the key functions, role, and value of human resources management within organizations. |
| This course is designed to give students a comprehensive view of communication in business. It covers the scope and importance in business today and the role of communication in establishing a favorable image outside the firm environment, as well as an effective internal communications program. The various types of business communication media are covered. This course also develops an awareness of the importance of succinct written expression to modern business communication. |
| This course provides students with an understanding of the issues surrounding the development and commercialization of new technologies. The student will focus on the concepts and frameworks for analyzing how organizations can create, commercialize, and capture value from technology-based products and services. Topics covered include technological change and how it affects competition between new and existing firms, strategies for firms competing in high-technology industries, and how to create and manage an innovative organization. |
| This course provides systematic methodologies for developing and analyzing information systems in organizations. Students will explore the value of working in teams on systems analysis and design tasks, and learn how to prepare systems analysis reports. |
| This course provides an introduction to concepts and principles of database management from a management perspective. This course will give future managers an understanding of physical and logical representations, data modeling, implementation, and data management. |
| This course combines the basic concepts of data communications, telecommunications, and networking with managerial aspects and practical applications. Students will cover a broad base of knowledge which includes legal, managerial, marketing, financial, and ethical dimensions to make appropriate business decisions. |
| This course covers technical and business aspects of information security. Students will study managerial aspects of securing computer networks and will understand IT controls in a business environment. |
| This course examines the basic framework required to establish and operate an eCommerce business. Topics include the process and responsibilities of incorporation; developing a business plan and defining marketing services; the process of responding to requests for proposals; proposal writing and tendering; drafting and interpreting contracts and the principles of contract law; costing and financial management issues; and professional development. Also, within this framework, students will examine the process of selecting and using business planning and operations software. |
| In this course, students will examine the managing of projects within an organizational context, including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing a project. Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, and risk management, as well as managing the changes in organizations resulting from introducing or revising information systems are studied. Identifying project champions, working with user teams, training, and documentation, and the change management role of the information systems specialist are considered. |
| This course explores managerial and technical issues facing IS professionals. Students will explore how organizations respond to the challenges of information systems management, and cover issues such as selection and management of human and technical resources, ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and knowledge management. |
NOTE: To earn an MIS concentration, students must take a minimum of 4 MIS core courses.
| This course emphasizes development and use of financial statements and provides an overview and understanding of the need for budgets and budgeting. This course also emphasizes the development and use of standards and calculations of actual costs used for budgeting and financial management of the various cost centers located within a hospitality operation. |
| The course provides a background as to why managing the legal environment in the hospitality industry is important. This course will describe why managers in hospitality institutions such as hotels and food and beverage service operators need to understand their rights and responsibilities. These include but are not limited to compliance issues, safety procedures, and laws and codes that are established to protect customers. Topics include contracts, business entities, ethics, and employment discrimination. |
| The course uses the case study method to provide students with insight to address contemporary management issues affecting hospitality managers such as diversity, leadership, and empowerment programs. |
Additional elective learning may be accepted when appropriate to the major. Acceptable elective learning may include: prior learning that meets program criteria for acceptance; general education courses (beyond those required by the program) and courses offered through other majors, following published syllabi; and/or individual designed courses developed by the student in consultation with a faculty advisor and submitted using the learning agreement form. All additional electives must be endorsed by the faculty advisor and the dean and documented in the approved degree plan prior to registration.
As part of course work in the business management major, every student will complete a culminating graduation requirement (CGR). The CGR requirement may be met by satisfactory completion of one of the following:
