66 courses with the subject BU, 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.
A survey of the fundamental activities of business—analysis and decision-making, communication and responsible action—in the context of the United States economy.
A survey of software packages and analytical techniques commonly used in the business world. Offered every year.
REGIS OCICU
A study of spreadsheet and database concepts and applications using software packages and analytical techniques commonly used in the business world. Offered every semester. Cf. CS 265
A survey of management principles and practices related to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Offered every semester.
Accounting data is the primary source of information to find answers to these questions. In this class, students will learn what questions they are trying to answer when they begin the process of performing analytics, how to clean and sort the data using Excel. Once sorted have sorted the data, they will then learn how to analyze the data and identify patterns, trends, outliers, and red flags. Students will also learn how to identify the value of data and how improve the stragtegic decision making process. Students will then learn what data is necessary for that process, and what conclusions can be reached based on the analysis. Offered every year.
Offered upon sufficient demand. Cf. EC 307.
A continuation of BU/EC307.
A survey of concepts and practices related to managerial decisions about product planning, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Offered every semester.
A survey of topics dealing with the basic nature and application of financial concepts. Various techniques and their use in financial decision-making and problem-solving within an organization will be given emphasis. Offered every semester.
A study of the proper application of financial management concepts in business organizations. Topics include the analysis of financial data, in-depth project analysis, raising capital, managing debt, and short-term finance decisions related to inventory management, credit policy, and cash management. Offered upon sufficient demand.
Offered every semester.
Offered upon sufficient demand
As a centerpiece for the course, students apply the many tools available to today’s practitioner of public relations. Offered upon sufficient demand.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Special Topics in Finance. Topics change according to interest.
Topics include financial planning and budgets, taxes, insurance, investments, and retirement planning for individuals and families. Offered upon sufficient demand.
OCICU Consortium Course
Using case studies and examples from various media, this course focuses on developing a practical understanding of propaganda's historical and current uses in society and the various techniques employed. The primary aim of this course is to develop each student’s ability to recognize propaganda and critically analyze its content and intent.
This course will explore the complex environment facing marketers in domestic and international settings, identify internal and external influences on consumer behavior, and explore the process of consumers’ choice of a product over another. The course will also examine how culture, motivation, personality, emotions, and attitude effect consumer behavior.
This course provides an overview of the products, services, and experiences that are provided by different sectors of tourism and hospitality industries including lodging, restaurants, attractions, and destination management. This course is a requirement for the Hospitality Management minor.
To analyze contemporary theories and application in the field of project management. Concepts include planning, procurement, scheduling, communication and risk.
A study of risk assessment and management techniques, methods, and models used to minimize, control and communicate risks.
To analyze contemporary theories and application in the field of project management. Concepts include planning, procurement, scheduling, communication and risk.
A review of cost management principles and techniques in project management. Will include the study of estimation and budget development.
Sutherland and his classic research on corporate crime in the 1930s and 40s is used as a benchmark to discuss the subsequent issues and research that have emerged in recent years. The course documents the great breadth of white-collar and corporate offenses, ranging from restraint of trade, unfair labor practices, consumer fraud, and political corruption, to the areas of environmental, medical, and computer crime. Offered every year. Cf. CJ/SO 380.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Application of economic theory to wage determination across industries and occupations. Topics include training, experience, job search, productivity, underemployment, alternative pay structures, discrimination, workplace safety, union bargaining, and unemployment insurance.
Senior-level treatment of the management of information systems and their role in businesses and other kinds of organizations. An oral presentation will be required. Offered every year. Cf. CS 403.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Offered every semester.
Survey of federal and state statutes and case-law governing workplaces. Application for business managers to prevent and to manage internal legal issues affecting employer-employee relations.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Primary emphasis is on decision-making regarding the management of financial assets. Offered upon sufficient demand.
This course examines the substantive legal issues involved in American business, including contracts, torts, intellectual property, employment law, business entities, and real estate. The course also describes the processes by which business legal disputes are resolved, including litigation, mediation, and arbitration.
This course explains marketing strategy, its role, and contributions to strategic planning toward achieving the company’s goals and objectives and in effectively meeting customers’ needs and wants. The course will focus on applying concepts through current case studies and a product or service to research and apply marketing strategy concepts to build a comprehensive marketing plan for a company’s initial market entry.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
History and contemporary overview of disease, injury, medicine, rehabilitation, and structures of health-care delivery in the United States. Themes include insurance, sickness, medical institutions, treatment innovations, preventative and chronic care, and health-care policy reform.
Conceptual, analytical and empirical principles for daily managing of health care facilities with eye to improve quality and cost-efficiency. Topics include quality measurement, feedback and control, capital project budgeting, patient and personnel flows, and scheduling.
Application of economic principles to health insurance and the medical industry. Topics include medical-service pricing, optimzation techniques, asymmetric information, FDA approval, third-party payments, adverse selection, cost-control, medical training, medical asset-management, and government policy.
OCICU Course.
Pre-requisites: EC 202 Governments seek to improve society with expenditures financed through taxation. This course in classic public finance introduces students to traditional cost-benefit analysis used to design government budgets for maximizing social welfare. Political-economic themes include regulation of public utilities, the environment, and workplace safety; anti-poverty programs, education finance, public-choice voting theory, Social Security and health care entitlements, optimum taxation, tax incidence, government debt finance, inter-governmental grants, transportation infrastructure, and local development incentives.
OCICU
In today’s modern economy, something as simple as a razor might be manufactured in multiple countries with each part coming from a different supplier. This course will teach you how businesses manage this increasing complexity behind the scenes through efficient sourcing of suppliers and operations. You will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge by conducting a real-world case study of a product of your choosing. This online class has optional live sessions and is taught through the RIZE consortium and should not be dropped without informing the Registrar's Office in writing.
This course covers the major relevant supply chain technologies and systems. In this course, you'll survey the systems that enable the supply chain in best-in-class supply chain organizations. Understanding how information flows throughout the supply chain is critical to managing a supply chain and this will be the main focus of this course. By the end of this course, you will have gained a basic understanding of how supply chain systems work and how they make the supply chain more efficient and effective. This online class is taught through RIZE and has optional live sessions. RIZE classes must be dropped by notifying the Registrar's Office in writing.
This course examines the supply chain management process, and provides strategic tools for this key business function. Topics explored are purchasing, the procurement cycle, relationships with suppliers, negotiations, and supply chain forecasting. Students will also conduct cost, price and value analyses related to alternative supply chain levels.
In this course, students will receive a broad introduction to supply chain management, including the basics of logistics and purchasing. Students will come to appreciate the complexity of supply chain management as a strategic competitive tool that is essential to the success of an organization. Throughout this course, students will explore how different areas of supply chain management add value to the economy, to organizations, and to everyday life. We will consider the role of supply chain management in global trade and development and show how companies have applied supply chain concepts to win out over rivals in the marketplace. The basic concepts and contemporary trends taught in this course are a prelude to prepare students for further study of business and participation in a global workforce.
This course examines the complex issues of total quality management. As a hallmark of successful businesses, the implementation and use of TQM is a critical element of all successful businesses, especially in manufacturing and also increasingly in service industries. Students will gain relevant experience in various TQM processes included Six Sigma, TQM modeling, and other tools necessary for the operational application of TQM.
Successful businesses rely on established supply chains to operate. Disruptions in supply chains can be catastrophic for businesses and the end consumer. In this course, students will gain a solid understanding of supply chain risk management principles, including effective ways to identify, mitigate, and measure the impact of potential supply chain disruptions. Case studies and current events related to Supply Chain Risk Management will be a course cornerstone.
This course examines issues of economic trade and finance, public policy and globalization, with specific emphasis on the economies of developed and developing nations.
This course - built in collaboration with corporate advisors - is the culmination of your work as a student of supply chain management. In this course, you'll be tasked with creating a series of solutions to actual problems faced by a real-world company in delivering their product to consumers. By the end of this course, you will have built experience in solving real-world supply chain problems and seeing how your solutions compare to the professionals. This online class is taught through RIZE and has optional live sessions. RIZE classes should not be dropped online, students must notify the Registrar's Office in writing to drop a RIZE class.
Internship
Please see the Director of Career Services and Internships. Offered on demand.
Please see the Director of Career Services and Internships. Offered on demand.
Please see the Director of Career Services and Internships. Offered on demand.
Please see the Director of Career Services and Internships. Offered on demand.
Please see the Director of Career Services and Internships. Offered on demand.
Individual study, contracted projects, or tutorials approved by the Business Department and the chief academic officer. Not intended as a substitute for required courses. Offered on demand.
Individual study, contracted projects, or tutorials approved by the Business Department and the chief academic officer. Not intended as a substitute for required courses. Offered on demand.
Individual study, contracted projects, or tutorials approved by the Business Department and the chief academic officer. Not intended as a substitute for required courses. Offered on demand.
This course provides a foundation of statistics and management concepts. Students will be immersed in statistics areas of probability, reliability, regression, chi square, and statistical output analysis and application. Management skills reviewed are motivation, human resources, management theory, and application.
This survey course provides a review of micro- and macro- economics along with a grounding in accounting principles. Macro-Economics course review topics include economic growth factors, pricing, stability, and employment. Micro-Economics topics include competition, price controls, price determination, and supply and demand. The Accounting portion reviews accounting principles as well as study of accounting theory.
In this course, students examine theory and application of marketing and finance. Marketing topics include the 4-P’s of marketing as well as advertising and promotion. Finance topics include financial concepts and theory to be used in business decision-making and problem solving within an organization. A financial calculator is required for this course.
Source: Belmont Abbey College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
