Business Administration

Units: .25

Explores various business areas through group and individual projects. Projects could range from business simulations, solving business cases, working on a small research project, debating, etc. Project and topics will vary by semester. Open to participants in the Endeavor program.

Units: 1

Multidisciplinary course that exposes student to functional areas of business. Focus on acquiring understanding of language and structure of business through study of its functional components: accounting, economics, finance management, and marketing. (Open to first- and second-year students only.)

Units: 1

Theory, methodology, and applications of statistics to contemporary business and economics problems. Includes descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions, one- and two-population statistical inference, analysis of variance, correlation, and regression.

Units: .5

Laboratory course providing introduction to software packages with applications for business decision making. Emphasis on understanding spreadsheet applications, but includes sessions on word processing and graphics software and database searches.

Units: .5

Provides the student with a basic understanding of communication processes in the business environment. Practical experience is gained in written and oral communication as well as small group and interpersonal communication within the business perspective.

Units: 1

Instruction in analyzing financial statements to evaluate an organization's profitability, liquidity, capital structure, and cash flows. Examination of how management's discretionary accounting choices affect earnings quality.

ACCT 202, FIN 360 and Business School major.

Units: .5-1

Topics depend on mutual interests of instructor and students. Intended primarily as elective for business students.

Varies by topic and instructor.

Units: 0.25

Applied field experience for a minimum of 50 work hours. Following the field experience, a short paper is required that describes the organization's history, size, number of locations, ownership, products and services, major competitors, and major customers. Graded pass/fail. May be taken no more than once per academic year and may not be repeated more than twice without permission of the Dean. (Internship requirements do not apply to the summer internship program administered by the Office of International Education).

Departmental approval.

Units: .5-1

Specialized study or directed research in area of business or economics.

Permission of instructor.

Units: 1

Ethical and legal issues in business world are discussed and analyzed from a philosophical, historical, legal, and behavioral approach. Current ethical and legal cases serve to highlight changing value choices and resulting consequences, as well as legal problems experienced by business people.

Accounting 201, Business Administration 202, Economics 101-102. Business School major.

Units: .5

Introduces the U.S. legal system and the regulatory environment of business. Topics will include commercial law, employment law, product liability, digital law, corporate governance, environmental law, and property law.

ACCT 201, BUAD 202, ECON 101, ECON 102, Business School major.

Units: .5

Identify ethical issues encountered in business settings and examine specific moral questions that arise vis-à-vis a firm's relation to society and to its employees. Current cases to illustrate the practical importance of reflection on these questions, and enable explicit identification, critical evaluation, and application to various frameworks for attributing moral responsibility and making ethical decisions. Cases may be drawn from marketing (manipulation of desire in the market, deceptive advertising), management (sweatshops, discrimination in hiring, privacy), finance (insider trading, corruption), accounting (conflicts of interest, fraud), or economics (asymmetric information, moral hazard). The following courses may count as substituted courses: BUAD 392: Ethical, Social, and Legal Responsibilities of Business, ECON 233: Ethics and Economics, and LDST 450: Leadership Ethics.

Accounting 201, Business Administration 202, Economics 101-102. Business School major or pre-business major.

Units: .5

Principles of law relating to the Uniform Commercial Code with emphasis on sales, commercial paper, secured transactions, banking laws, bailments and documents of title. Other topics may include real and personal property laws, insurance law, trusts and estates, agency, partnerships, corporations, and bankruptcy.

BUAD 393 and a major in the business school.

Units: 1

Analysis of the external environment and internal resources of a firm leading to the development of strategies and plans for implementing them. The course also provides opportunities for students to integrate knowledge from each of the functional business disciplines through case studies and other learning tools.

Business Administration 202, Finance 360, Marketing 320, Management 330 and 340. Business School major. Senior standing.