41 courses with the subject BUS, 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.
SPRING This course is a seminar designed to introduce the freshman student to contemporary problem analysis from a Christian perspective within a given discipline. Emphasis will be upon the integration of faith and discipline thinking/practice through the analysis of personal values.
FALL This foundational course offers an introduction to the core principles of business for students pursuing degrees within the School of Business. Anchored in a Biblical worldview, the course will examine the three foundational business pillars of leadership, management, and governance. The course will also provide an overview of the main interrelated disciplinary aspects of business, including strategy, operations, finance, accounting, marketing, sales, human resources, and technology that all businesses in any industry rely on for success. This course will help students see the big picture of business, its critical elements and key components, and how those components fit together and work in harmony to achieve organizational health and success with unwavering integrity and human dignity. The course explores Biblical principles and Gospel truths that pertain directly to business, such as servant leadership, stewardship, marketplace realities, and values-based decision-making, each with an emphasis on aligning managerial best practices and effective leadership strategies with Biblical teachings. The course underscores the significance of ethical leadership, accountability and governance by fostering a culture where faith-based principles inform contemporary business practices and become the filter through which to view and navigate adversity. Through a combination of new terminology, conceptual understanding, real-world case studies, and experiential learning, students will develop the language and foundational skills to practically address modern organizational and marketplace challenges. Students will also engage with popular strengths assessment tools to help them better understand their gifts, interests, and natural competencies from a business/career lens. With this perspective, students begin to understand the areas of business that most interest them to help inform their choice of business major and future career path. By leveraging Biblical principles with durable business frameworks, students will become better prepared to lead with purpose and integrity as they contribute significantly and sustainably to their organizations and communities.
A practical study of what Scripture says about financial stewardship, tithing, giving, investing, and the use of debt. Students will develop personal budgets and financial goals. Discussion will also include the use of various types of credit and insurance. This course cannot be taken in addition to
FALL Innovative social entrepreneurship and leadership training course connecting a student’s unique skills, talents and passions with the goal of creating a gospel centered project that will help make a difference in the lives of others. Students will strengthen communication, critical thinking and problem solving abilities, while developing 21st century team-building, and leadership skills. Students will relate major philosophical leadership principles with real world application as they create a realistic plan to execute their ideas in diverse local and global contexts.
This is an introductory course in the use of Information Technology to solve business problems and the design and use of spreadsheet software as a tool for problem solving.
In this course, students will take a tour of the entrepreneurial journey with special focus on creativity, inspiration, and innovation. Students are exposed to the essential business owner skills of planning, managing, marketing, and finance. Students also explore the ethical side of owning a business including corporate social responsibility.
FALL This course focuses on business data management techniques used in business decision-making. Students will learn to apply basic business analytics principles, communicate with analytics professionals, and effectively use and interpret analytic models to make better business decisions. Excel and other relevant software tools will be used to perform analysis.
SPRING An introductory course designed to help students develop and strengthen skills of effective business and professional communication in written, oral, and nonverbal modes. Students will apply specific reasoned, practical, and ethical business communication principles to composing and delivering typical business and professional messages. Students will further enhance their awareness of communication contexts and practices in other cultures. Students will explore the composition of visual aids using business presentation software.
SPRING This course will introduce students to the essential knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship, focusing on the planning, management, marketing, financing, and other entrepreneurial functions. The course will also focus on the role that the entrepreneur plays in contemporary society. Particular attention will be given to mission as it relates to continuous innovation, adaptation, sustainability and organizational learning.
FALL This course is the first of a two-part series that provides students with a practical introduction to the key principles and processes of business management. Special attention will be given to ethics in business. Not to be taken in addition to BUS 2415 .
SPRING This course is the second of a two-part series that provides students with a practical introduction to the key principles and processes of business management. Special attention will be given to ethics in business. Building on materials from the first course, this class introduces additional management and ethical principles. Not to be taken in addition to BUS 2415 .
FALL This course provides students with a practical introduction to the key principles and processes of business management. Special attention will be given to ethics in business.
SPRING This foundational course introduces students to the core principles of entrepreneurship, providing a comprehensive overview of the entrepreneurial process from idea conception to business launch. Students will explore essential business concepts such as opportunity recognition, business planning, and resource management alongside the ethical frameworks that guide successful and sustainable businesses. A significant component of the course will focus on self-assessment, where students will reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, values, and motivations as potential entrepreneurs. Through self-reflection tools and assessments, students will evaluate their readiness for entrepreneurship and understand what it takes to succeed in this dynamic field. Students will also be introduced to the entrepreneurial journey through real-world examples including the success stories of notable entrepreneurs. By analyzing these stories, students will gain insights into the challenges, strategies, and mindset that have led to entrepreneurial success, gaining valuable insights into the qualities and decision-making processes that drive effective business leadership. In addition, this course will highlight how entrepreneurship serves not only a tool for economic growth but also a platform for serving others, creating value, and fulfilling the biblical mandate of stewardship and integrity. By the end of this course, students will have a solid understanding of the entrepreneurial process and a clearer sense of their personal entrepreneurship potential, setting the foundation for future studies in innovation and the practical application of entrepreneurship.
SPRING A course designed to provide students with a practical introduction to management. Emphasis is placed on managerial concepts and practices relevant to business.
Social entrepreneurs are motivated to engage in business for the greater good. This course explores the social side of entrepreneurship; creation of ventures with dual missions of social benefit and return on investment; evaluating market opportunities; acquiring and managing scarce resources; sustainability, and fundraising.
This course provides students with an overview of the essential communication skills for the business environment. Topics include writing professional documents, audience analysis, influencing others, communicating across cultures, and presentation skills. Not to be taken in addition to BUS 221X .
SPRING Data-centric businesses require business leaders to be conversant with data architecture, application development, and project management. The aim of this course is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and practical skills needed to appreciate the challenges and opportunities related to developing robust and scalable systems at the core of digital solutions by emphasizing mastery of high-level concepts and design decisions. This course empowers students to make technology-related decisions, even if not in a technology role. Topics include business architecture, product management, project management, data architecture, cloud computing, cybersecurity, business applications, and web and mobile technologies. Students will learn the basics of coding with SQL and data science languages, utilize no/low-code tools (e.g. Zapier) to build data pipelines and applications, and gain exposure to integrated applications (e.g. Hubspot, Odoo.com, or similar platforms).
FALL This course introduces the concepts, principles, methods, implementation techniques, and applications of analytics to help business leaders communicate what has happened, influence what is happening, and anticipate what will happen in their business, utilizing primarily Microsoft Power BI. Offered alternate years (even)
FALL This course builds upon the foundational principles of entrepreneurship and explores the dynamic fields of entrepreneurship and innovation focusing on how entrepreneurs can identify and capitalize on innovative opportunities, manage creative processes, and lead new ventures with purpose. Students will explore both traditional and emerging theories of innovation, with a focus on business model development, opportunity recognition, and scalable growth strategies. Key topics include the role of innovation in entrepreneurship, the design of sustainable business models, and the ethical frameworks that influence innovative practices. Students will also examine methods for fostering an entrepreneurial culture, managing effective teams, forging and formalizing strategic partnerships, forecasting financial projects and proforma, and securing financing for innovation and growth. Throughout the course, Biblical perspectives of creativity, stewardship, leadership, sustainability and social responsibility will be integrated, guiding students to innovate with purpose and intentionality. This course aims to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset necessary for leading innovative ventures, emphasizing ethical decision-making and the confluence of Biblical values such as service, integrity, and stewardship. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to develop business models that generate both economic and societal value, grounded in ethical leadership, intelligent networking, and faith-based principles.
FALL A course that introduces the study of the effective use of human resources. Emphasis is on the training, evaluation, and management of the organization’s personnel especially within business.
FALL The course is designed to give the student an understanding of the methods and tools used to manage business operations. The class will cover supply chain management, allocation of resources, inventory control, cost control, quality management, operations layout, scheduling theory and standards development.
SPRING This course examines the international dimensions of business such as industry globalization, development and implementation of international strategy, cross-cultural human resource management and ethical considerations unique to international business. Other areas impacting international business will also be examined including government action, finance, and marketing. Business as Mission and the Kingdom impact it is having will also be explored.
SPRING This course is an introduction to financial policies regarding the allocation, acquisition and flow of funds of an organization in an international setting. This course integrates economics, accounting and finance together to examine the financial risks a company faces while operating in an overseas environment. It addresses such areas as exchange rates, international financial systems, and risk exposure. (Cross-listed as FIN 344X ) Offered alternate years (odd)
SPRING This course is focused on the strategic and operational aspects of managing brands and product lines throughout their life cycles. Students explore key concepts in building brand equity, positioning products effectively in the market, and making strategic decisions about product launches, extensions, and portfolio management. The course often covers methods for analyzing consumer perceptions, adapting to changing market trends, and aligning brand strategies with company goals. By the end, students gain practical skills in managing both established and new brands. This course may not be taken in addition to
Analysis of the five components of management: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling as applied in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
FALL A course addressing the need of sound financial management within business. Areas of study include: time value of money, cash flow analysis, financial planning, risk, and capital budgeting.
Arranged by Department Work in an additional area of interest supervised by a business faculty member.
SPRING This course offers a hands-on, application-focused approach to entrepreneurship, guiding students through turning innovative ideas into actionable business ventures. Building on the foundational and innovation principles, students will focus on the practical steps in fully launching and managing a new venture. The course covers key aspects of business development, including market research, value targeting, financial modeling, business model validation, customer acquisition, and operational execution. A key feature of the course is a business launch project, where students will form teams to develop, test, and prepare to launch a new product or service. The course incorporates prototyping, strategic planning, fund raising, cash flow management, and scaling for growth. By the end of the course, students will have develop a comprehensive business plan for launching their venture into the market, and then developing and delivering a formal pitch to an external panel of entrepreneurs or venture capitalists. Students will gain real world experience applying entrepreneurial principles in a team setting to manage profitable growth and drive innovation, while integrating faith-based ethics into ventures that create lasting value and positive societal impact. Offered alternate years (odd)
During this course, business students prepare a professional portfolio that showcases their strengths and Christian values. Students explore strategies for success including how to formulate career development goals, nurture professional connections, and craft a contemporary resume. Students also receive individual coaching by a leadership coach. Course fee applies.
Arranged by Department This course covers the interactions of business organizations within the framework of applied social science. Communications, culture, motivation, perception formation, leadership, change processes, and learning theory will be included in the course of study.
FALL A study course designed specifically to acquaint students with sales, contract, and business organization law.
SPRING Artificial Intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics are revolutionizing the way today’s businesses compete and operate. By putting data and AI at the center of their business capabilities, companies are redefining how they create, capture, and share value. This course will explore how to apply AI to business models and operations, within the context of corporate responsibility, transformational change, fairness in algorithms, and data privacy, to equip students with a range of capabilities required by today’s data-driven business environments. Anchored in data, this course will equip students to think critically through the lens of AI to diagnose individual, team, and organizational performance, identify effective interventions and actions, and simultaneously gain deeper insight into the business issue in question. The course will provide practical examples of how to converse and perform data analytics with AI platforms and AI capabilities embedded in other tools. This course will incorporate a student-identified project to utilize real-world data and AI to solve a real-world business need. Offered alternate years (odd)
Arranged by Department This course reviews public relations principles and practices in the modern world of marketing and management. It covers how government, employee, investor, community, marketing, non-profit and corporate public relations practices differ yet communicate a consistent positioning of the organization. This course emphasizes a case history approach that focuses on public relations programming, emphasizing how research, planning, communication, and measurements fit together to give a practical overview of the public relations process.
Arranged by Department This course will build the student’s understanding of development issues in the nonprofit world including volunteers, sources of income, motivations and expectations of donors, and the techniques and tools that comprise fundraising. The primary emphasis for the course is on understanding how to match funding and volunteer opportunities and fundraising techniques to donors’ values, interests, capability, and inclination to give, and creating and implementing fundraising programs that are a fit for a nonprofit organization’s current level of growth. After completing this course, students should be able to create a mixed revenue strategy for a nonprofit and have an understanding of the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges involved in the resource development process.
SPRING The purpose of this course is to integrate organizational strategy with functional policy and operation design through analysis of management structure. The intent is to analyze the process of transforming planning “strategy” into managerial action through theory and case analysis.
Arranged by Department The primary intention of this project is to integrate the extent of the student’s educational experience with a practical issue worthy of examination. Thus, the student is to research matters relating to his or her own business or employment experience. This course can be used to fulfill an internship requirement with departmental approval.
Arranged by Department A seminar study of advanced business or economics topics such as entrepreneurship, sports and special events marketing, international marketing, international finance, economics of government and business, managerial development, public and non-profit finance, and comparative economic systems. (Cross-listed as ECO 453X )
SPRING This course is the final class students will take in the business program and has been designed to prepare them for completing research assignments in the marketplace or in graduate school. The material presented will assist students in developing knowledge of business research methods, suitable for workplace application, to enable solutions and recommendations founded on legitimate and efficient data and information.
1 to 3 Credits This course is an intensive, supervised investigation of a topic in business by an individual student. Enrollment and topic selection are by permission of the instructor and department chair.
Arranged by Department The Business Internship allows students to gain practical, hands-on experience in various business sectors. This course requires 120 hours, where students will apply theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom to real-world business challenges. Under the supervision of a faculty advisor/coordinator and an on-site mentor, students will work in various areas such as management, marketing, finance, human resources, and operations, depending on their interests and career goals. Students will develop critical problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. Regular reflections, progress reports, and evaluations will ensure that the internship experience aligns with academic and professional learning objectives. This course is designed to enhance students’ readiness for a successful career in business management by encouraging professional growth and offering valuable networking opportunities. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only.
Arranged by Department This is an elective course that provides students an additional opportunity to gain hands-on, practical experience in their chosen field. This second internship allows students to deepen further the knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom while exploring advanced career interests.
Source: Crown College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
