Business Management

This course is an examination of financial management, forecasting, and analysis. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, time value of money, and capital budgeting. Students will apply these concepts to real world situations to develop managerial skills.
Prerequisite: ACC1010.

This course introduces students to laws and regulations that impact directly on employers and managers, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, workers' compensation and other employment related laws and regulations. As part of their course work, students examine workplace issues such as affirmative action, sexual harassment and various discrimination topics. Critical analysis of employment issues will be conducted to assist students in understanding the legal framework in which management decisions are made.
Prerequisites: LEG1010 or LEG2100, MGT3400.

This course exposes the student to both sides of past and present ethical dilemmas facing the world. Course content includes an overview of individual ethical development, ethical issues in business today, the opportunity and conflict of ethical issues, an ethical decision-making framework, and the development of an effective ethics program in a corporation.
Prerequisite: MGT2000.

This course focuses on the meaning and role of information technology within a business setting and offers a broad perspective of the relationship between organizational goals, information technology and strategic advantage.
Prerequisites: CPU1000 or ITS1000, MGT2000.

This course investigates the behavior of people within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organizations' effectiveness. Three levels of behavior are studied: individual, individuals within a group, and inter-group behavior within organizations.
Prerequisites: COM1050, MGT2000.

This course investigates the behavior of people within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organizations' effectiveness. Three levels of behavior are studied: individual, individuals within a group, and inter-group behavior within organizations.
Prerequisites: COM1050, MGT2000.

This course covers the scope of international business and the dimensions of multinational enterprises. The student studies exporting and marketing in foreign business environments.
Prerequisite: MGT2000.

This course provides practical training for the senior-level business student to develop an understanding and knowledge of strategic management as a tool for long term business success. The course will develop skills in analyzing the various functions and contributions of the organization’s component parts, and how they may be used in making strategic decisions. Students will create strategy by means of written case analyses.
Prerequisite: To be taken during the final quarter of instruction.

This course explores marketing concepts as they relate to the marketing manager's decision making process. Topics discussed include the strategic planning process, marketing research procedures, market segmentation, defining the marketing mix, consumer behavior, organizational buying, advertising and promotion, distribution, pricing and the globalization of marketing.
Prerequisites: COM3150, MKG1200.

This is a writing course designed to engage the student in a more advanced exploration of the writing process. Students will continue to develop their writing skills through the reading of a variety of rhetoric selections and the writing of more complex essays. Emphasis is placed on expanding the knowledge of the research process and improving the ability to evaluate and integrate various kinds of research in the writing of an APA Style research paper.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

This interdisciplinary course examines the many ways that human creativity manifests itself in the areas of the visual arts, literature, philosophy, history, music, architecture and technology. In this course, students will gain a broad understanding of Western cultural history.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
Prerequisite: MAT1050 or MAT1100.

This course is an in-depth study of the traditional topics of college algebra. These topics include solving linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, graphs of equations and inequalities, operations involving polynomials and rational expressions, exponents, radicals, and an introduction to exponential and logarithmic functions.
Prerequisite: Passing score on placement assessment or MAT2950.

This course will provide the student with an understanding of terms, definitions, and formulae used in computing statistics. Topics studied include: presentation and interpretation of numerical data, measures of central tendency, dispersion, probability, continuous and discrete probability distribution, regression and chi-square distribution.
Prerequisite: MAT3010.

This course is an introduction to the structure of the American government at the national level. It emphasizes the institutions of American government and the actions of politicians as they try to control public policies that affect our lives.

This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
Prerequisites: COM1000, COM1050 or ENG1040.

This course is an introduction to environmental science that includes energy principles, relationships of organisms in ecosystems, and human impacts.

This course presents basic concepts related to nutrients in foods and their metabolic functions; methods for assessment of nutritional status and of dietary adequacy; and applications to phases of the human life cycle.

This course takes a scientific look at how we understand the world. Sociology explores social, political, and economics in terms of social structures, social forces, and group relations. Emphasis will be placed on theories presented by Durkheim, Tönnies, Webber, and Marx.

Entrepreneurship is the driving force behind economic growth all across the globe. This course teaches the essentials of starting and managing a new business venture with an emphasis on hands-on learning.
Prerequisite: MGT2000.