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52 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 105Blueprint for Professional Success 2
Establish business skills determined by employers as critical for success. Engage in professional development exercises. Explore academic opportunities to create student's personal and professional blueprint.
The first step toward becoming a successful business professional is establishing a sense of self. Students engage in personal development to expand their self-awareness and identify opportunities for personal growth.
Students engage in personal development to expand their self-awareness and identify opportunities for personal growth, to begin building a professional portfolio, and develop employment related skills.
BUS 216Blueprint for Personal and Professional Development 2
Students will begin building a professional portfolio and engaging in topics designed to promote the development of skills determined by employers as critical for success.
This course facilitates team work, collaboration and cultural intelligence through a global team project. Students participate in activities to improve their professional skills and career readiness in a global environment.
BUS 325Introduction to Generative AI in Business 3
This course introduces students to Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models with a focus on practical applications for business. Students will learn the fundamentals and background of generative AI, possible applications, prompt engineering, and ethical considerations. They will also explore real-world applications in various business contexts.
The course examines the theories and models of leadership. Environmental pressures, organizational objectives, company culture, and individual ethical standards will be examined to incorporate the situational determinants of leadership effectiveness.
Leadership theories, skills, and practices necessary for effectiveness in varied entrepreneurial settings, including private businesses, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and social movements.
Students learn about the qualities of good leaders and demonstrate those qualities are exercised in a business environment with a specific focus on ethical and sustainable decision making.
This course provides students with an immersive opportunity to learn international collaboration and business consulting through hands-on practice. Students will participate in a semester-long experiential learning exercise, working in Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) with peers from around the world to complete an international business consulting project.
This course provides students with a unique opportunity to learn international and cross-cultural management through hands-on practice. Built around the X-Culture Project, students work in Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) with peers from around the world to complete a real-life international business consulting project.
Planned work experience approved in advance by instructor. This is a web-based course that requires regularly scheduled work in an organization that sponsors your internship. In addition, the course requires reading, writing, and skill practice assignments.
BUS 614Leadership in the International Environment 3
Understanding and analyses of leadership and followership in an international context. Application of theoretical frameworks and provision of practical advice for leading across cultural boundaries and addressing international challenges.
Examines how economic, social, political, and institutional factors affect the practices and processes of conducting business in the global environment, and how organizational factors affect the way businesses respond to these environmental factors.
Offers an opportunity to learn international collaboration through practice, an experiential exercise where the students complete an international business consulting project working in global virtual teams.
Offers theoretical training and the opportunity to further develop international collaboration skills through practice by participating in an experiential learning exercise as a coach and manager of global virtual teams.
Familiarize students with inductive and deductive research in international business. Selecting a data gathering method, designing a survey/questionnaire, and sampling methods. Analyzing data and interpreting results to make international business decisions.
Examines the effect of cultural differences on management in organizations. Provides students with an understanding of the challenges and opportunities in managing people from diverse cultural backgrounds at the workplace.
BUS 625Training and Development of Human Resources 3
Examines the role of training and development in business organizations. Explores training needs assessment techniques, determining training objectives, and choosing the appropriate training methods to successfully implement training programs that improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Provides an overview of the roles of human resource managers as organizational effectiveness champions, employee champions, change agents, and internal consultants from the perspective of achieving sustainable organizational success. Explores topics such as the importance of communication, leading change, employee engagement, managing teams, diversity and inclusion, and corporate social responsibility.
Focuses on examining the unique challenges and opportunities presented by the increasing internationalization and multiculturalism of the workplace and the development of competences needed to effectively manage human resources in global cross-cultural contexts.
Provides an overview of concepts in sustainability management, sustainability strategies, stakeholder perspectives on sustainability management, and functional perspectives of sustainability management from a global perspective. Equips students with tools to implement sustainability management in a company and improve its sustainability performance.
BUS 629AI and Digital Transformation of Global Business 3
Examines the transformative field of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), offering an in-depth analysis of its development, diffusion, and global impact on economies, industries, and business organizations. Students will also learn about governance, cybersecurity, and privacy issues, along with associated ethical, environmental, and labor-related challenges.
BUS 640Experiences in Sustainable Entrepreneurship 3
Interdisciplinary course in sustainable entrepreneurship. Exploration of models for designing and implementing entrepreneurial projects which respond to social, economic, environmental, and justice issues. Introduction to direct action and evaluation.
Academic and required work components allow students to gain organizational experience in an area related to international business. The course will be supervised by a designated graduate faculty member and an appropriate manager of the approved organization. Main assignments include objective setting and reflection papers.
BUS 701Doctoral Research Methods I (Quantitative Research Methods) 3
Examines multivariate statistical techniques including exploratory factor analysis and principal components analysis, confirmatory factor analysis; moderation and mediation analysis; structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear modeling.
BUS 702Doctoral Research Methods II (Qualitative Research Methods) 3
Discussion of the nature of qualitative research in organization studies. Discuss qualitative methodological approaches, and the design, implementation and publication of qualitative research.
BUS 705Seminar in Academic Writing and Publishing 3
Provides an in-depth review and understanding of academic and scholarly writing, explains the process of developing and publishing academic work, with the focus on publishing business research and scholarly work.
Examines the theory and research related to organizations, including theories that cross micro/macro boundaries and represent novel contributions from organizational perspectives; the history and development of research on organizations.
Classic and current theory in organizational behavior, including the role and effects of individual differences, perception, job design, groups, motivation, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and other aspect of organizational design.
Provides an in-depth review of classic and modern theories and application of leadership and followership models in organizations, including critical examination of leadership in cross-cultural settings.
Comprehensive overview of international business field, including theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of cross-border business, evolution of thought in international business, theory of the MNC, and contemporary perspectives.
An in-depth review of the theories, concepts, and practices of management across and in different cultures and investigates the impact of national cultures on management practice.
Theories and concepts in strategic management including the examination of behavioral and economic approaches to strategy research and the relationship of other areas of research to strategy formulation and implementation.
BUS 750Doctoral Research Methods IV (Regression Models) 3
Techniques of estimating multivariate relationships. Discusses multiple regression and problems associated with single equation modeling, moderation and mediation analysis, structural equation modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling.
Explores the research process, focusing on the design, data preparation, and analysis necessary for quantitative studies in Business and Economics. Topics include advanced quantitative methodologies, advanced methods in data management, and problems frequently encountered with the use of data.
This course focuses on current research topics such as corporate social responsibility, human resources management, international business, organizational behavior, strategic management, and sustainability.
Individual work on research topics that are related to student's primary area(s) of specialization and research interest. Research conducted with faculty guidance and direction.
Students will finish a quality dissertation under the instruction of an instructor. The topic will fall within the field of general management. The instructor will determine the pedagogy.