This course provides a practical overview of basic principles of business management. The course covers topics in the areas of marketing, sales, finance, accounting, business law, organizational behavior, contracting, and procurement. It provides insight into key issues businesses face and how they are run.

This course provides students with a solid foundation in the theory and practice of modern management. Theories, concepts, and processes of both classical and modern management will be discussed. Other covered topics include: leadership, human resource management, conflict in line and staff relationships, delegation, accountability in organizations, role and types of organizational communication, ethics in business, diversity at the workplace, change and stress management, quality and innovation, operations control, international management, and technology in business.

This introductory marketing course provides students with a basic understanding of the concepts, forces, institutions, and methods involved in marketing of goods and services. Topics covered include: market research, consumer and business buyer behavior, market segmentation, target marketing, market positioning, new products development, product lifecycles, pricing, distribution, supply chain management, and ethics in marketing.

The course focuses on how the legal environment affects business operations and decision-making. The importance of critical legal thinking is emphasized throughput the course. Topics covered include: domestic and international legal environment of business, the legal and regulatory environment, ethical business management, and the Internet and e-commerce.

This course provides students with a framework in the basic principles of modern economics. Microeconomic topics covered include demand, production, costs, marginal analysis, and varying market structures. Macroeconomic topics include spending, inflation, unemployment, and international relations. The course focuses on the application of economic theories the pragmatic demands of business decision-making with applications to operations, marketing, and finance.

This course provides a practical overview of basic principles of financial and managerial accounting. Topics that are covered include the fundamentals and terminology of accounting, basic financial statements, financial ratios, financial reporting standards, cost accounting, cost-based pricing, marginal costing, budgetary controls, overhead allocation, transfer pricing, and cost of capital. This course provides insight into the key accounting methods used and issues faced by modern businesses.

This course focuses on the concepts and tools of statistics as applied to business. Topics covered include: sources and methods of data collection, descriptive and inferential statistics, basic probability concepts, properties of discrete and continuous random variables, normal and sampling distributions, confidence interval estimation, and fundamentals of hypothesis testing. The analysis of variance and regression are introduced, as well as tests of proportions.

This course introduces the student to key concepts, practices, and issues in finance. Topics covered include: capital and financial market systems, investment banking, interest rates, public offering, private placements, valuation of financial assets, investment in long-term assets, time value of money and capital budgeting techniques, break-even analysis, operating and financial leverage, capital structure, and earnings per share (EPS). This course introduces the student to key concepts, practices, and issues in finance. Topics covered include: capital and financial market systems, investment banking, interest rates, public offering, private placements, valuation of financial assets, investment in long-term assets, time value of money and capital budgeting techniques, break-even analysis, operating and financial leverage, capital structure, and earnings per share (EPS).

This advanced course presents the essentials of entrepreneurship and how to start and manage successful business ventures. Topics covered include: developing entrepreneurial ideas, forms of business ownership and franchising, marketing analysis and marketing planning, advertising and promotion, financial planning and financing, developing winning business plans, operational and service planning, global aspects of entrepreneurship, leading and growing a new venture, planning management succession.

This is a capstone course that involves the application of concepts and techniques of strategy formation, implementation and evaluation. Topics covered by the course include: globalization and global issues that impinge of strategic management decisions, environmental issues, e-business, vision and mission statements, developing business policies, generic strategies, external and internal strategic management audits, choosing among alternative strategies, implementing and evaluating business policy and strategy, and integrating culture and strategy.