29 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.
BUS 101Introduction to Business3
Introduction to Business: This course introduces business terminology, functional business concepts, and the application of current business practices. Students will develop foundational business skills through activities based on the dynamics of current workplaces. Emphasis will be placed on the introduction and use of digital literacy skills and applications, including Microsoft Excel, to tackle real-world organizational challenges.
Business Reporting Foundations: This course is an experiential learning course that provides students with the tools to create and build out the financial and accounting portions of a business plan. The course design focuses on the accounting concepts that allow entrepreneurs to make business decisions without a mastery of accounting. Students will identify the variable and financial factors affecting a business model and use them to create a financial model and/or cash flow model representing the value proposition of their business idea/plan. Deliverables include a financial/cash flow model presentation identifying how their business generates a return to the firm, operations, and/or investors. The course is designed for students majoring outside of the McColl School majors. It is recommended that students complete BUS 110 either before or at the same time as this course.
Business Communication: This course focuses on the development and transmission of information within a business environment. It will include writing business reports, memos, and other professional documents and strategies for their effective transmission. The course stresses appropriate approaches, styles, tones, and designs. Use of illustrations and strategies for corporate interactions and meetings, development, and presentation of group-authored documents will be included. This course fulfills the writing intensive requirement.
Managing Information and Databases: This course is an investigation of information systems for decision-making within organizations. The course studies information systems from technical and behavioral perspectives and the changes information systems bring to organizations and management. The focus is on solving business problems using productivity tools such as Excel, spreadsheets, and databases. and Spring terms.) Credit: 3.
Personal Financial Planning: This course focuses on the key concepts, tools, and techniques of contemporary personal finance and will provide an overview of the investment process for personal wealth management. Students will assess the importance of the time value of money and analyze personal financial goals on topics including investments, loans and credit, cash management, insurance, taxes, and retirement planning. Prerequisites: None. (Offered fall and spring.) Credit:
Business Law and Ethics This course is an introduction to law emphasizing the legal and ethical rights and duties of the individual engaged in business. Topics discussed will include the role of the law on aspects of business ownership and management and examine decision-making frameworks within the ethical complexity of the legal environment.
Capitalism: This course in business and history investigates the origins, dynamics, structures, and trajectories of American capitalism from its birth during the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s to the present. While this course focuses on American capitalism as an economic and social system, it also studies how American capitalism shapes and is shaped by the wider American experience. Cross-listed with ECO 355.
Business Law: Current Issues This course is a study of business law cases and current controversial legal issues in society that impact organizations. Students will engage in critical analysis and debate on the legal, ethical, economic, social, political, and constitutional impacts of the issues presented by each scenario. Topics may include the following issues: environmental, social, governance (ESG) and sustainability factors; human rights; healthcare; employment; international law; diversity, equity, and inclusion; sports and entertainment; political actions and policies: or social media and emerging technology.
International Business: The course presents foundational materials for understanding the evolving global business environment including causes for changing patterns of international trade and investment, the institutional environment and impact of trade practices, international monetary arrangements and exchange rates. The course also explores strategic options for international expansion, and uses case analysis to examine the varied challenges to firms operating in a global business environment. Prerequisites:
Databases-Data Analytics/Visualization: The purpose of this course is to introduce relational database concepts and to apply foundational knowledge of the SQL language. Students will learn to perform SQL queries in a data analytics environment including: creating and accessing a database instance, writing basic SQL statements, and filtering , sorting, and grouping results from multiple tables. In addition, students
Topics: International Preparation: This course examines international aspects of a selected subject matter in preparation for international experience around the same topic. Open only to students enrolled in the corresponding international experience course. Students must earn a grade of C- or better (an average of 70) in order to participate in BUS 399. The total number of hours for BUS 398 and BUS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
Junior standing and a 2.0 or better cumulative GPA.
BUS 399International Experience1-4
International Experience: The international component of BUS 398. Students have the opportunity to experience firsthand many of the topics studied in the prerequisite course. The total number of hours for BUS 398 and BUS 399 cannot exceed four total hours.
completion of BUS 398 with a grade of C- or better (an average of 70).
BUS 415Business Ethics3
Business Ethics: Business ethics is "dilemma management," focusing on frameworks for decision-making. Using cases, the course explores individual, group, and corporate decision- making, government regulation, special interest groups, and other constituencies, and the complexity of the ethical environment of business.
International Trade: This course presents and applies the main economic theories of why and what nations trade to understand the benefits and costs of international trade and the impact of commercial policies that restrict or promote trade. Cross-listed with ECO 458.
International Economics: This course extends microeconomic and macroeconomic theories to address fundamental questions regarding the nature and impact of international exchange. Topics include in-depth treatment of theories of international trade and trade policy in perfect and imperfectly competitive markets, economics integration, balance of payments and currency markets, and the conduct and efficacy of monetary and fiscal policies in an open economy. Cross- listed with ECO 454.
ECO 205, BUS 365, and junior or senior standing. (Offered as needed.)
BUS 461Practicum in Leadership3
Practicum in Leadership: An introduction to group theory, research, and process. Students will examine the dynamics of human interaction in a group setting. Different aspects affecting behavior within groups will be studied including group norms, cohesion, competition and cooperation.
Junior standing and permission of faculty. (Offered as needed.) 185
BUS 465Business Case Writing3
Business Case Writing: This course allows students a unique opportunity to apply classroom lessons to a real-world situation. Students, with close faculty supervision, will research, develop, and write a business case. The ultimate goal is the presentation of the finished case at an academic meeting.
Junior or senior business major with a 3.5 G.P.A. or above and approval of faculty. (Offered as needed.)
BUS 485Strategic Management3
Strategic Management: This is the capstone course for the major requiring basic knowledge of accounting, finance, economics, marketing management, legal environment, and international business. It is designed to develop analytical skills in strategy formulation and implementation and an integrated view of business operations. It also provides a basic grasp of policy problems in a variety of business and governmental settings through the use of case studies. standing. (Offered fall and spring terms.)
BA Capstone Experience. This course provides students with a culminating experience to integrate knowledge, insights, theory, and skills gained throughout their degree program and courses on an applied project. The course focuses on providing a strategic framework for assessing the opportunities and challenges for change aligned with real-world applications. Students will apply decision-making and creativity in working with others to demonstrate leadership competencies. (Offered fall and spring terms.)
The purpose of this course is to use economic analysis to understand the labor market and to encourage the development of independent research interests. It involves applying supply and demand analysis to the market for labor services, which in turn enables us to understand a variety of labor market phenomena and policy issues. We will cover 4 particularly topical subjects for special emphasis this semester. These are: minimum wage, welfare, Social Security, and Human capital (schooling). Other topics that we will cover include the influence of school earnings, workplace safety, discrimination, and unemployment. There is a particular emphasis on the interaction between theoretical and empirical modeling. Prerequisites ECO 205 and BUS 310 must be completed.
Independent Research/Study: This course provides an opportunity for an individually designed program of directed readings or a research project. Each study or project requires the approval of the supervising professor and the undergraduate program chair.
