Course Descriptions 2023-2024 School Year ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT FIN4403  Business Finance  3.0   B Addressing financial decision making, including an analysis of the sources and uses of funds. Emphasis will be placed on working capital management, capital budgeting techniques, short- and long-term financing, capital structure, and the value of the firm.... Full Description MAR3023  Principles of Marketing  3.0   B Principles of Marketing is a course designed to be an introduction to the process of planning market programs for goods and services. Techniques of analyzing the market and its environment are introduced as background for making decisions in product planning, promotion, distribution, and pricing.... Full Description MAN3025  Principles of Management and Supervision  3.0   B This course focuses on the foundations of management, including terminology, basic concepts, and different theories of management. The course also encompasses reflective readings and analyses for students to identify their particular strengths and weaknesses as managers and addresses real-world situations, asking for their responses to the same. Behavioral, decision-making, and communication styles are examined. The course includes extensive writing, wherein students demonstrate management principles in the design of their own academic and career plans. Professional writing standards are enforced; students deficient in writing ability are encouraged to take a writing course before enrolling in this course.... Full Description MAN4301  Human Resource Management  3.0   B This course is intended to provide an examination of the services provided by a manager of a human resources department. This course will provide an overview of human resources management (HRM). HRM is a fundamental component of the competitiveness, effectiveness, and sustainability of any organization, as it influences who is hired, how they are trained, evaluated, and compensated, and what steps are taken to retain them. Throughout the course we will focus on the role of managers and how they develop effective and efficient human resources practices that support the strategic goals of their organizations.... Full Description ACG3024  Accounting for Non-Financial Managers  3.0   B This course will address the use of accounting information by non-financial managers. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of accounting information and the language of financial accounting to effectively participate in activities such as planning, investment, control, and managerial decision making.... Full Description MAN4931  Management Seminar 2  1.0   B This is a course exploring current topics, issues, and trends pertinent to supervisors and managers. A series of lectures and discussion sessions will be conducted by experts addressing specific management and business topics, such as financial markets, international trade, human resources, cultural issues, and economics. Students will continue their capstone experience started during MAN3930, including working business managers, exploring additional business contacts, and planning the final project presentation. The capstone project will be completed and presented in MAN4900 Senior Capstone Project.... Full Description PAD3113  Executive Leadership and Management  3.0   B This is a course to provide a common foundation to students in understanding the role of the contemporary political executive, with an emphasis on leadership, organization, personality and power, ideology, relationships, decision making, and policy creation.... Full Description PAD3393  Emergency Management  3.0   B This is a course to provide a common foundation to students in understanding the role of national, state and local emergency management concepts and organization, including elements of the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS).... Full Description MAN4900  Senior Capstone Project  1.0   B This is a course exploring current topics, issues, and trends pertinent to supervisors and managers. Students will complete and present their final capstone project. The capstone project summarizes a real management problem that the student identified and addressed with the assistance of a business manager. Through a formal business presentation, students will detail the management problem, their proposed solution, and the outcome or expected outcome.... Full Description LBS4154  Workers and Diversity  3.0   B This course will explore the legal, social and economic aspects of diversity in the modern workplace. The context of diversity will be analyzed from the standpoint of how our legal system has evolved to create, embrace, and challenge the social quo of the non-majority workforce, through U.S. Supreme Court decisions and through legislation such as the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act, among others. This course will assess the historical position of women and minorities in the labor force; the social phenomena that contribute to discriminatory practices and the policies that attempt to address these issues are also studied. The course will also assess the Full Description PAD3821  Contemporary Issues in Public Safety  3.0   B This course focuses on current issues and trends in the field of public safety, administration, and homeland security. The course is structured to introduce management and administrative topics in public safety, examine the implications to the field, and formulate recommendations. This course will begin developing skills in project design and presentation, and the enhancement of critical thinking skills.... Full Description MAN4583  Applied Project Management  3.0   B This course is designed to prepare students to manage projects across multiple business functions; including marketing, human resources, logistics and information technology projects. Future managers will apply the most current project management methodologies and strategies to real-world business scenarios.... Full Description ISM4323  Information Security Policy Administration  3.0   B Information Security Policy Administration examines the managerial aspects of information security policy and risk mitigation. Policy development includes security management planning, risk management, disaster recovery, data security, virus management, and personnel issues. Risk mitigation includes the ability to analyze risk, evaluate costs, and determine appropriate action. Examples for information security management issues, practices and applications are presented.... Full Description PAD4232  Grant Administration and Resource Development  3.0   B Grant Administration and Resource Development will introduce students to the grant proposal-writing process and its role in resource development. Students will explore grant writing, alternative funding opportunities, implementing and managing grants, developing community partnerships and collaborations, and become knowledgeable in funding policies and procedures.... Full Description MAR4403  Sales and Sales Force Management  3.0   B Sales and Sales Force Management is a course addressing the management of an organization's personal selling function. Specific topics in will include the personal selling function, the strategic role of the sales function, designing sales organizations, recruiting, selecting, developing, motivating, and evaluating the sales force.... Full Description MAN4330  Compensation Administration  3.0   B This course will be addressing the methods and implications of making wage and salary decisions for recruiting and retaining employees, including the evolution of innovative compensation policies aimed at aligning individual and organizational performance with competitive business strategies in domestic and global markets.... Full Description MAN4350  Training and Development  3.0   B This course is intended to provide an examination of employee training and development models, performance management context, effective workshop techniques, designing and implementing organization-wide training and development programs, assessment of training needs, and setting development goals. The course will discuss the training process within an overall framework of talent management that shows how training activities meet organizational needs that are both strategic and tactical in nature. With training and development as one of the key functions of Human Resource Management, this course is required for the completion of the HRM concentration in the BAS OM program and will teach students to design and implement effective organizati Full Description MAN3503  Managerial Risk Analysis and Decision Making  3.0   B Managerial Risk Analysis and Decision Making covers the framework for making decisions, as well as understanding how these decisions can be utilized to manage risk. Managers must understand how they personally value risk, in order to recognize the potential impact their behavior may have on organizations and stakeholders. This course will allow students to develop and apply decision making tools and risk analysis techniques to solve problems in different operating environments.... Full Description BUL3130  Business Law and Ethics  3.0   B This course explores the nature of legal, ethical and societal environments of business. Emphasis is placed on business's social, legal, political and ethical responsibilities to both external and internal groups in business. Topics include corporate social responsibility, legal, political and ethical aspects of business, state and federal laws, contracts, intellectual property, employment law, product liability, safety issues, and environmental regulation.... Full Description ISM4480  Principles of Electronic Commerce  3.0   B This course is designed to familiarize students with management approaches to effectively define and implement e-commerce systems. The course addresses the digital economy, e-commerce strategy, marketing, e-commerce models, and management and regulatory issues.... Full Description ECP3704  Managerial Economics in a Global Economy  3.0   B This course examining strategies firms can employ to improve their ability to compete in the global economy. Students will apply microeconomic concepts to resource allocation and the managerial decision-making process of business firms, including optimal decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.... Full Description GEB3213  Professional Writing in Business  3.0   B This course is intended to provide students with written communication skills essential for success in Bachelor of Applied Sciences Business-related courses, as well as in professional settings after graduation. The course will stress techniques to improve writing skills and will especially focus on teaching students how to apply the American Psychological Association (APA) style in writing and on avoiding plagiarism. Emphasis will be placed on report-writing and other forms of business correspondence.... Full Description MAN3802  Principles of Entrepreneurship  3.0   B This course is addressing the nature of entrepreneurship from the prospective of a start-up or newly established small business. Emphasis will be placed on conducting a pre-business feasibility study, start-up of a business, successful management of the firm, and options for succession or termination. Students will consider marketing, management, operations, and financial implications in the development of a business plan. The course is intended to provide the student with on opportunity to analyze the mind of the small business manager, brainstorm potential business options, and consider various contemporary issues facing the small business manager.... Full Description MAN4320  Human Resource Recruitment and Selection  3.0   B This course is addressing the design and operation of systems for employee recruitment and selection, including current practice and issues. Major topics include theoretical issues in staffing, federal law relating to staffing, design and operation of recruitment and selection systems and current practice.... Full Description MAN4720  Strategic Management and Policy  3.0   B This is a course which integrates the curriculum of the BAS/OM degree into a multi-dimensional analysis and development of the strategic planning concepts and processes common to every organization (for profit, non-profit, governmental). From vision/mission formulation to strategic and business plans, students will use the case method to assess business/organizational performance and construct policies and plans to guide the organization into the future, whatever its goals.... Full Description MAN4952  Senior Capstone Project  3.0   B This is a course exploring current management topics, issues, and trends pertinent to business owners and managers. Topics to be addressed include specific management and business strategies for efficient business processes, workflow improvement, and environmental sustainability. Students will begin their capstone experience with the study of core topics, literature review, and identifying potential business sponsors for their Senior Capstone Project. A project plan will be prepared by the student for sponsor and faculty approval. Students will execute their approved project plan which will conclude with a formal project report and oral presentation.... Full Description ISM3011  Introduction to Information Management Systems  3.0   B An introduction to the foundations, technology and applications of systems used to accumulate, classify, and organize information to facilitate managerial decision making. The course emphasizes the conceptualization of Information Systems as structured configurations of elements behaving collectively to serve the information needs of an organization.... Full Description CTS4457  Data Visualization and Communication  3.0   B During the first half of the course, you will learn how to make more effective visualizations of data. Not only will you gain deeper insight into the data, but you will also learn how to better communicate that insight to others. You will learn new ways to display data, applying some fundamental principles of design and human cognition to choose the most effective way to display different kinds of data. In the second half of the course, we'll shift our focus to storytelling. You will learn how to turn complex data into a visual story.... Full Description QMB4302  Concepts in Business Analytics  3.0   B Analytics has been defined as the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions. Analytics is more than just analytical methodologies or techniques used in logical analysis. It is a process of transforming data into information through analysis and insights in the context of organizational decision making and problem solving. Analytics includes a range of activities, including business intelligence, which is comprised of standard and ad hoc reports, queries and alerts; and quantitative methods, including statistical analysis, forecasting/ extrapolation, predictive modeling (such as data mining), optimization and simulation. Note: This Full Description QMB3250  Introduction to Business Statistics  3.0   B This is a course in the basic statistical concepts and methods common in business applications. The emphasis is on parametric techniques used to describe and compare samples and populations. The goal is to introduce students to a new way of thinking about data, and to help you gain an understanding of how to use, communicate, and interpret statistics. It is a foundation course required of all business majors because statistics is an integral part of the structure and functions of business. The knowledge and skills you acquire will help students throughout their career. Additionally, students will be using Excel extensively in this course. Excel is an excellent tool for managing data and information in general and should be in every manager' Full Description MAN4953  HR Certification Review  3.0   B This course is a review of the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge (SHRM BASK) to prepare students for the SHRM-CP exam offered by the Society for Human Resource Management. This course is a 3 credit-hour course. The value of 3 credit hours results from work (investment of time and energy) expected of students both inside and outside of the classroom. It will require that students average approximately 2 ½ hours of outside work for every hour of scheduled class time. In this course, the additional outside of class expectations includes studying for quizzes and tests and weekly reading. The HR certification is a career-long commitment that proves to HR professionals and organizations that one is driven to be successful in HR Managemen Full Description PAZ4535  Animal Behavior  3.0   B A discussion of the variety of different behaviors of animals including instincts, learning, communication, social interactions, migrations, and predator-prey relationships. Lectures will investigate the causes and motivations of animal behaviors both in the wild and in captivity.... Full Description PAZ3234  Zoo and Aquarium Management  3.0   B This course covers the conservation, propagation, and exhibition of wild animals in captivity. The course focuses on the applied aspects of biology/zoology and what is involved in managing wild animals in a captive environment. It also covers the role of zoos and aquariums in conservation, education, and research. The course is taught in a zoological/aquarium setting and lectures are provided by professional zoo and aquarium staff the specialize in various areas of animal care.... Full Description ZOO3080  Animal Diversity  3.0   B This is a one semester course intended for Zoo and Aquarium Management majors. It is a survey of the Animal Kingdom (sponges through mammals), including the evolutionary relationships, form, function, natural history, and ecology of members of the various phyla. Students must successfully complete an inquiry-based assignment to receive GELO (General Education Learning Outcome) credit. Understanding of the natural history of animals and the ability to use scientific reasoning in order to make decisions is crucial for a Zoo and Aquarium Manager.... Full Description MAR3700  Digital Marketing  3.0   B This is an introductory course in electronic marketing that explores how the internet has revolutionized the buying and selling of goods and services in the marketplace and explores the various components of this channel including social, mobile, email, and search engine marketing to understand how to implement an effective digital marketing strategy. topics cover b2b and b2c electronic commerce, internet user characteristics, net product, and distribution, relationship marketing through online strategies, and the legal and ethical challenges of e-marketing. also, students will learn how to develop advertising and communications strategies that blend traditional marketing concepts with marketing in a digital age to maximize brand awareness. Full Description