Business Administration and Accounting

ACG 2001 – Financial Accounting

Credit 3

Gives fundamental drill in the principles of accounting through the medium of questions, exercises, and problems, reducing routine and detail work to minimum. Includes a study of the accounting statement, its forms and construction, analysis of business transactions, recording of the same in journals, posting the ledgers, adjusting entries, closing entries, reversing entries, work sheets. Also includes study of inventory valuating depreciation, accruals and deferrals, payroll and other related topics.

ACG 2011 – Managerial Accounting	Credit 3
Prerequisite: ACG 2001
Continuation of ACG 2001. Includes instruction in the study of partnerships and corporation accounting along with study in generally accepted accounting principles. Also includes introductory study of cost accounting in connection with the study of manufacturing accounts.

BUL 3320 – Law and Business I	Credit 3
Prerequisites: Junior standing and GEB 1011; or instructor approval
This course examines the history of law and the role of legal institutions in American society. It covers the legal process, the role of contract law in personal and business life, the principal-agent relationship, employment law, formation of business organizations and government regulations. It also has a heavy emphasis on ethics and business.

ECO 2013 – Principles of Economics: Macro	Credit 3
Introductory course dealing with the importance of economic issues at the national and international level. Includes the economic role of government banking, national income accounting, the business cycle inflation, unemployment and fiscal and monetary policies of the federal government. Gordon Rule – 3000 words.

ECO 2023 – Principles of Economics: Micro	Credit 3
Prerequisite: ECO 2013
A practical as well as theoretical application of economic laws and principles to the present-day business organization. Topics include price and output determination, marginal productivity analysis, the theories of consumption, market conditions, as well as a study of wages, rents, and interests. International economics is also considered along with current economic problems such as resource economics. Gordon Rule – 3000 words.

FIN 2100 – Personal Finance	Credit 3
Prerequisite: GEB 1011
Topics designed to assist the consumer in management of personal financial affairs. Includes insurance, savings instruments, credit, inflation, recession, banking, personal expenditures and budgeting, personal taxes, social insurance programs, house buying, introduction to investments, and estate planning.

GEB 1011 – Introduction to Business Administration	Credit 3
Course will examine major activities of a business such as marketing, management, finance, and accounting. Different forms of business ownership will be discussed, emphasizing free enterprise.

GEB 3213 – Communication in Business	Credit 3
Prerequisites: Junior standing, GEB 1011, and MAN 3025; or instructor approval
This course is designed to teach business students fundamental written and oral communication skills to allow them to express ideas in a clear, convincing, effective and efficient manner. The course will focus on preparation of business presentations, e-mails, memos, letters and professional resumes and cover letters. Assignments will include both individual documents and team-written reports.

GEB 4905 – Independent Directed Study in General Business	Credit 1–3
Prerequisite: Admission to the Liberal Studies Program
Course is subject to the availability of faculty. Students wishing to take an independent directed study must fill out the Directed Studies Application Form and have it completed by the faculty member most relevant to the nature of the topic. The course can be taken twice for variable credit for no more than five credit hours total. The faculty director will work with the student to select a reading list, projects, and evaluations appropriate to the topic and the credit level chosen.

INP 4004 – Industrial/Organizational Psychology	Credit 3
Prerequisite: PSY 1012
This course is a survey of the methods, data, theories, and applications of Industrial/Organizational psychology: psychology as applied to the world of work. The course will be organized into two major sections: personnel psychology and organizational psychology. The section on personnel psychology will cover measuring performance and predicting performance. The section on organizational psychology will progress from an individual to a group to an organizational perspective including topics such as job satisfaction, motivation and communication. Each class will be a mixture of lecture, discussion (including the case study at the end of the chapter) and activities.

MAN 3025 – Principles of Management	Credit 3
Prerequisites: Junior standing and GEB 1011; or instructor approval
This course explores the history of management with a focus on communication and decision making. It includes the role of each of the four functions of management as they relate to staffing, organizational structure, leadership and motivation, and conflict resolution. It also covers the development and implementation of a business plan.

MAN 3301 – Human Resource Management	Credit 3
Prerequisites: GEB 1011 and MAN 3025
This course introduces students to the many facets of managing an organization’s human resources. Students should learn the importance of human resource management in most levels of large or small, profit or not-for-profit businesses. Areas covered include the selection process, training and development, compensation, collective bargaining, human resources in a global environment, and performance management.

MAN 4701 – Business Ethics and Society	Credit 3
Prerequisite: Junior standing and GEB 1011; or instructor approval
This course examines traditional ethics from a business perspective by analyzing the interests all of the individuals (stakeholders) in any dilemma or decision. It will consider the moral, ethical and legal bases of corporate decision-making as well as social responsibility.

MAN 4129 – Organizational Leadership	Credit 3
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, GEB 1011, and MAN 3025
This course will give learners the opportunity to enhance their understanding of leadership theories, concepts, contexts, and competencies, as well as to move them to put their understanding into practice, through engagement with a reflection upon principle-centered leadership approaches. Moreover, through such engagement and reflection students should gain further understanding of the moral and ethical responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared to exercise leadership in service to organizations and society particularly since several of the course materials focus specifically upon moral responsibility and upon service to others.

MAR 3023 – Principles to Marketing	Credit 3
Prerequisites: Junior standing and GEB 1011; or instructor approval
This course begins with the history and development of marketing. It also includes an understanding of consumer behavior as it relates to strategic marketing decision making. It covers the use of marketing segmentation, target marketing and position marketing as well as product planning and development, distribution and promotion. There is a strong emphasis on effective written and oral communication skills.

QMB 2150 – Business and Economic Statistics	Credit 3
Prerequisites: MAC 1105/1114 or MAC 2233 and CGS 2100, CGS 1510; or instructor approval
Designed to provide the student with a strong base in the use of elementary statistical tools for decision-making in business and economics. Topics include: data organization and interpretation; measures of central tendency; frequency distributions; calculation of probabilities; binomial and normal distributions; sampling theory and estimation; tests of hypotheses; analysis of variance; and elements of Bayesian decision theory.