36 courses with the subject BUS-FPX, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BUS-FPX1011Management Fundamentals
Students gain an understanding of the basic ideas of management and how they apply to organizations. Students examine how planning, organizing, controlling, and leading are important for managers. They also compare current management methods and future trends. Students gain an understanding of how to use management skills in all types of careers. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3011 may not take BUS-FPX1011.
Students gain an understanding of the optimizing behavior of individual consumers and firms. They explain the relationship between individual decisions in terms of the efficiency and fairness of markets and market outcomes. Additionally, students identify microeconomic principles found in real-world situations.
Students build and strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to succeed in their program and the workplace. Students engage in interactive activities that help them develop and demonstrate a business perspective and expand their organizational, research, and critical-thinking skills. Other topics include ethics, team relationships, project creation, and writing effectively for business. For BS in Business students only. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3007 may not take BUS-FPX2007. Students may only earn credit for BUS2003 or BUS-FPX2007. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer or credit for prior learning.
Students examine the principles of leadership behavior and their application in business and community settings. Students develop and demonstrate awareness of the characteristics, styles, and practices necessary for effective leadership. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3012 may not take BUS-FPX2012.
Students explore and articulate the influences on businesses of statutory, contract, and legal entity law. Students evaluate the historical underpinnings and origins of the court system's ability to adjudicate commercial disputes. Students also develop and demonstrate their legal vocabulary, an understanding of core legal concepts, and basic legal research skills. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3021 may not take BUS-FPX2021.
Students investigate the fundamentals of marketing and sales, including market research and planning, product differentiation and positioning, marketing communications, differences between consumer and business markets, and relational marketing and sales strategy. Students demonstrate course competencies by preparing and presenting a marketing and sales plan and a corresponding marketing and sales strategy for a simple product offering. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3030 may not take BUS-FPX2030.
Students gain an introduction to the accounting function in modern business organizations. Students define accounting terminology and explore its application to accounting principles. Students also apply accounting cycle strategies to business financial events and prepare financial statements from accounting system data. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3061 may not take BUS-FPX2061.
Students gain and apply finance basics including the time value of money concepts, stock and bond valuation techniques, and capital budgeting processes. Students also demonstrate ways the relationship of domestic and global financial environments affect financial markets. Students who have received credit for BUS-FPX3062 may not take BUS-FPX2062.
BUS-FPX3022Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
This course is an introduction to modern concepts and practices of efficient supply chain management. Students build their knowledge of and demonstrate the relevance of supply chain design in support of organizational strategy and explore ways to manage an effective supply chain. Through the use of case studies, students also analyze existing supply chain systems and recommend improvements.
BUS-FPX3040Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
This course is a survey of the human resources management (HRM) field and its function and role in the organization. Students develop their knowledge of fundamental HRM principles and demonstrate competencies in areas such as compensation and benefits, legal requirements, and training and development.
BUS-FPX3050Fundamentals of Organizational Communication
This course helps students develop and demonstrate competence in their understanding and application of the fundamentals of organizational communication; the interrelationship of organizational communication, symbols, culture, and performance; effective communication practices in relationships internal and external to the enterprise; and ways these factors contribute to successful organizational performance. Students also analyze ways organizational communication factors are interrelated and function in an enterprise.
Students explore how healthcare management is influenced by ethical theories, personal values, market forces, and community and organizational factors. Students create a final project that includes applying case studies, interviewing a healthcare professional, and reflecting on key takeaways and how this learning experience can impact and influence their career. Students showcase their understanding of ethical practices in healthcare management through this hands-on project.
Students gain knowledge of and examine practical communication and collaboration skills necessary for effective participation in and leadership of teams in a virtual networked context. Students also analyze various forms of collaborative leadership and participate in collaborative leadership experiences within a virtual networked organizational setting.
Students create effective theories of leadership in the networked enterprise at different organizational levels and from different perspectives. Students develop and demonstrate their knowledge of the skills that support personal characteristics of effective leaders, such as coaching strategies, personal integrity, trustworthiness, courage and generosity, and an ability to encourage others to participate in leadership.
BUS-FPX4013Organizational Structure, Learning, and Performance
Students analyze organizational structures and their influence on organizational intelligence, learning ability, and the practical performance of an enterprise. The course includes an emphasis on the adaptive and responsive organization and its relationship to enterprise stakeholders and environment. Students evaluate a case study that illustrates the interrelatedness of organizational structure, learning, and performance in order to create a model of a high-performance organization.
BUS-FPX4014Operations Management for Competitive Advantage
Students gain an understanding of operations management. Students analyze strategic product and service design, major capacity and location decision-making processes, and process and control system operations. Students use case studies to build a working knowledge of the important concepts and decision-making tools.
Students develop their understanding of strategic planning and implementation using case studies and simulations of various business planning processes and by exploring the unpredictable dimension of strategic business planning. Students show how integrating unplanned developments into existing strategy is an important part of real-world strategic planning.
Within an international business research framework, students use selected case studies and complementary theory to build and demonstrate a broad understanding of international business. Students analyze multiple dimensions of international business including cultural; business structure; finance and trade; technology and communications; and political, economic, and legal perspectives to determine patterns and hierarchies in international business cultures.
Students demonstrate their knowledge of ways customers acquire, use, and dispose of goods and services. Students analyze the buyer behavior of individual consumers and evaluate the influence demographics and culture have on buyer behavior. Students also assess the managerial application of consumer behavior concepts, including current issues associated with ethics, regulation, and the role of technology.
Students investigate theories related to compensation and reward systems in organizations and the practices used to create and maintain these systems. Students create a base benefit plan, evaluating incentive programs, and analyzing the effects of laws and regulatory agencies on compensation and benefits strategies. Students also demonstrate a working knowledge of social and legal issues pertaining to compensation and of the skills organizations need to maintain competitive HR functions.
BUS-FPX4044Legal Issues in Human Resource Management
In this course, students identify the scope and purpose of the legal framework of an enterprise. Students analyze the effects of legal issues on an organization's human resource management function. Students also create strategies for managing legal issues and identify ways to implement them.
Students investigate strategies for recruiting, selecting, and retaining top talent in support of the strategic needs of an organization. Students analyze talent and acquisition strategies within the context of laws and regulations and explore current recruitment and selection techniques.
Students investigate the dynamics of creating a mutually beneficial relationship between employer and employee, including maintaining legal compliance and cultivating positive employee morale. Students analyze and explain factors that affect the relationships between employees and organizations and how workplace policies can influence ethically and legally sound human resource management practices. Students also evaluate the impact of labor unions on the organization.
In this course, students assess and apply strategies of building effective training solutions that support an organization's human resource management goals. Students identify business strategies that lead to measurable and meaningful performance results, and gain and practice a deeper understanding of learning organizations.
This course is an introduction to human resource management (HRM) in multinational corporations. Students analyze global issues that affect HRM practices and investigate the role of culture and its influence in these organizations.
Students identify financial accounting principles and ways accounting information is used to assess an organization's financial performance. Students evaluate the relationship between business events and accounting systems and analyze an organization's financial structure.
In this course, students identify the role of accounting as it relates to managing an organization, then analyze accounting systems and financial statements. Students also apply sound budgeting and time value of money principles from a managerial perspective.
BUS-FPX4062Intermediate Financial Accounting Topics and Trends
Students in this course develop and exercise a working knowledge of financial accounting theory and practice using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements. Students acquire financial reporting skills and apply financial statement conceptual frameworks to prepare financial statements.
BUS-FPX4063Advanced Financial Accounting Topics and Trends
In this course, students analyze and apply advanced financial accounting concepts and consolidated financial statement information. Students also evaluate the influence of global money markets and demonstrate knowledge of partnership and corporate accounting issues and governmental entities.
BUS-FPX4064Cost Accounting for Planning and Control
This course emphasizes the role of cost and managerial accounting in the planning, control, and performance evaluation of business organizations. Students examine the theory and practice of business control and identify strategic aspects within business decision cycles.
In this course, students build and strengthen their knowledge of fundamental concepts of individual, partnership, and corporate income taxation and tax-related transactions. Students examine events that affect tax decisions, apply tax guidelines, and analyze tax forms.
BUS-FPX4068Contemporary Auditing Using Investigative Accounting Practices
In this course, students analyze the various types of financial and forensic audits, and the environment surrounding financial and forensic auditing. Students also assess the background, practice and methods of conducting an audit, and ancillary services offered during an examination. Finally, students use previously acquired accounting knowledge and investigative skills to render opinions and answer financial questions.
Students analyze principles of financial decision making and ways global economic conditions affect financial theory and decision-making processes. Students also evaluate and apply finance principles using financial tools.
The focus of this course is on the economic, social, and environmental effects of business decisions and policies. Students identify significant ethical issues affecting today's international business environment and evaluate how businesses have responded to them through policy development. Through case studies and examples of current business practices, students analyze successful and unsuccessful strategies for establishing ethical standards and corporate social responsibility.
In this course, students acquire and demonstrate change management competencies by exploring change dynamics and identifying ways to facilitate change. In addition, students identify knowledge and skills required to lead, facilitate, and support change management. Case studies help students gain an understanding of the unfolding dynamics of planned and unplanned change in organizations from the multiple perspectives of various stakeholders. Trust building, fear containment, and broad participation in the change process receive special attention.
The capstone project is the culmination of the BS in Business degree program. Students demonstrate their technical and applied business knowledge and competencies along with critical-thinking and communication skills. Students also formulate ideas for a new business product or service, create a vision, and develop a strategic plan that describes how to implement their concept. For BS in Business FlexPath option students only. Must be taken during the student's final quarter. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer or credit for prior learning.
