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22 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 201Business Communication (4.5
/45 contact hrs) The course is designed to provide communication skills for business students. Success in today’s workplace depends upon how well individuals are trained in effective business communication. This course provides tools and techniques and prepares students with excellent, effective, and practical business communication skills. Students will be able to learn these skills by example as this course reviews realistic business communication models and tools used in the business world. including the use of virtual meeting software such as GoToMeeting and Zoom. Students will also learn how to create a professional LinkedIn profile. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course is designed to provide students with general business and management principles, the significant elements of business and management essentials that are required for changing trends and implementations of technologies in today's marketplace. In addition, the scope of small business and international business, the growth of the service sector, and the role of ethics and product quality will be discussed. The course also covers the essential and components of a business including marketing, accounting, finance, budgeting, labor relations, ecommerce, and other factors in the business and management world. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course undertakes a practical and introductory approach to using Artificial Intelligence and analytics in business. As artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning become part of everyday life, it becomes increasingly important for business managers and leaders to understand how these new forms of technologies can be integrated into achieving business success. This course will also focus on the uses of personal technologies including Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri and how they are impacting corporate functions like marketing
/45 contact hrs) This course is designed to provide students with general business and management principles, the significant elements of business and management essentials that are required for changing trends and implementations of technologies in today's marketplace. In addition, the scope of small business and international business, the growth of the service sector, and the role of ethics and product quality will be discussed. The course also covers the essential and components of a business including marketing, accounting, finance, budgeting, labor relations, ecommerce, and other factors in the business and management world. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This is an introductory course intended to develop an understanding of the environment, role, and basic principles of financial accounting, primarily from the standpoint of the user of financial information. This is an introduction to financial accounting concepts. A study of the accounting cycles of service organizations and merchandisers emphasizing the recording of business transactions, and the preparation of financial statements for such organizations. Emphasis is also placed on the accounting principles relating to the measurement, valuation and reporting of assets, liabilities and equity, and related internal control considerations. Prerequisite: None 91
/45 contact hrs) This course provides a foundation in the principles of marketing used to manage profitable customer relationships. In addition, the course explains the pivotal role of marketing within an organization’s strategic plan. It also examines the marketing process and determines marketing strategies and tactics. Topics include consumer behavior, competitive analysis, segmentation, target marketing, positioning, branding, new product development, pricing, value chains, and marketing communications. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) Modern economics is the study of how households, individuals, firms, governments, and other types of human society choose to allocate and manage resources in a world of scarcity. The central focus of this introductory course is how and why markets (one important mechanism for allocating scarce resources) work, why they may fail to work, and the implications for social policy of both their successes and failures. This course also covers thinking like an economist that involves identifying and evaluating trade-offs in the context of constraints, distinguishing positive from normative analysis, and tracing behavioral implications of change while abstracting from aspects of reality. It, moreover, involves describing redistributive implications of change, amassing data to evaluate economic events, and testing hypotheses about how consumers and producers make choices and how the economy works. Finally, thinking like an economist involves examining many problems through a filter of efficiency – coping with limited resources. Prerequisite: None
BUS 219Introduction to Human Resources Management (4.5
/45 contact hrs) Human Resource Management (HRM) plays an important role in today’s workplace. This course is designed to provide an overview of Human Resource Management, how it relates to the management process, and how it is adapting to ever-changing trends in the workplace. Management uses HRM tools and techniques in strategic planning to improve organizational performance and to create competency. Students will gain knowledge and skills with regard to how organizations use HRM concepts to meet challenges with their emerging global competition.
/45 contact hrs) This course introduces students to the concept of leadership. It is designed to facilitate learning using assessment of theories and practice of leadership in the context of exploring the qualities that make an effective leader. Different types of leader models will be examined to understand leader behaviors in different situational circumstances and how leaders adapt to an ever-changing marketplace. In addition, students will gain knowledge of many leadership tools and techniques used in today’s marketplace. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course analyzes the elements of organizational behavior and management. Topics include the behavior of work groups and supervisors; intergroup relations; current challenges to organizations; organizational culture; diversity; methods for dealing with personnel problems; motivation; formal and informal behavior; communications; ethics; stress management; conflict resolution, workforce diversity and managing change. This course also, will examine current research, theory and application on the forces underlying the behavior of members of an organization.
/45 contact hrs) This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of project management, aligned with the latest edition of the PMI-PMBOK® Guide. It is designed to equip learners with essential Project Management leadership skills: both technical and theoretically necessary for effective project execution. Covering key knowledge areas, the course offers a balanced blend of theoretical concepts and practical techniques. Learners will gain the tools and foundational understanding needed to navigate the project lifecycle and lead projects successfully. Also, learners will earn a strong foundation in the discipline by covering all key knowledge areas, including scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, procurement, stakeholder, and integration management.
/45 contact hrs) This course provides the appropriate tools, knowledge and skills for those students who wish to launch a new venture and become successful entrepreneurs. This course has adopted a hands-on approach to entrepreneurship by providing business information, statistics, and real-world examples as well as case studies. In addition, this course will build a pathway for a successful business by examining all required segments of managing a business such as business strategy, finance, and marketing. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course provides an overview of the domestic modern market economy. During this course, students will gain an understanding of the operation and decision-making for economic units, supply and demand, resource allocation, the problem of scarcity and various other types of analysis for market and industry structures. 92
/45 contact hrs) This course will provide students a thorough understanding of macroeconomic theories and systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on the study of national income and price determination, unemployment, inflation, cyclical business fluctuations, economic growth, the role of money, theories of interest rates, stabilization policies, foreign exchange rates, and balance of payments difficulties. And comparative economic advantages among nations as well as familiarizing the student with economic performance measures and growth.
/45 contact hrs) Changing economic conditions often affect a manager’s decision-making. This course applies basic economic philosophy to decision-making methods in contemporary business. Students will learn how to bridge theory with business practices. This course will also help students understand how to assess the changes in revenues and costs for better business decisions. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will gain a managerial perspective through which they will be able to make better decisions that increase revenues while decreasing costs for maximum profit. Prerequisite: BUS 301 or BUS 302
/45 contact hrs) This course provides a general outlook for the modern global market economy as a system. Students will understand and analyze the relationships among variables such as national income, employment, inflation and the quantity of money. Additionally, students will understand the roles of government expenditure, international finance, economic development, taxation and monetary policy in economic structure. Prerequisite: BUS 302
/45 contact hrs) In this course, students will learn about the concept of team management which is a series of steps and coordinated activities performed by leaders or managers along with a group of individuals referred to as team members to perform given tasks in a specific period of time. Team management is an important concept in every organization where individuals with different skills work together to achieve a common goal. In business, team management is the collective and orchestrated effort of all employees to achieve organizational objectives.
/45 contact hrs) This course studies the role of money in the economy; examines monetary policy and tools by investigating the relationships between money supply and interest rates, inflation and business cycles; and explains how financial institutions and markets work, as these institutions involve huge flows of funds throughout the economy, affecting thus production of goods and services, employment and profit. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course is designed to help students learn about new trends in business. The course highlights the misconception that eBusiness refers only to self-side eCommerce. Topics to cover include digital marketing, business or consumer models, eBusiness opportunities, etc. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course is designed to introduce students to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This course covers an overview of information systems and defines the ERP system from various perspectives such as infrastructure and the implementation process. In addition, this course will explore and have comprehensive discussions about business processes such as Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Purchasing, and Manufacturing and how they integrate to enhance an organization’s efficiency and productivity. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of supply chain, customer relationships and management. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course is focused on a practical approach to an organized means of leading and managing change within organizations. The course presents an eight-stage process of change with useful examples that show how to go about getting buy-in from employees, managers, and stakeholders; how to create a vision for change; and how to build motivation to make change happen. The course will also explore why organizations fail to make the change process successful. Prerequisite: None
/45 contact hrs) This course is designed to explore international business with regard to the sourcing of goods and services from locations around the globe in order to take advantage of national differences with respect to cost and quality. Students will gain skills and understand the national differences in the context of political economy, culture, international trade theory, foreign direct investment, foreign exchange market and other elements that could impact global business. Students will learn how to develop international business strategy, how to enter into new markets and the components of exploring in exporting, importing and countertrade business. In addition, the concepts of financial management in international business and global human resources management in terms of outsourcing and marketing will be discussed. Prerequisite: None 93
