Past Course Work

ACCOUNTING COURSES

ACCT 101 – Financial Accounting
Introduction to the theory of accounts and generally accepted accounting principles as applied to a corporation. Emphasis is placed on completing the accounting cycle, inventory and asset valuation, and stockholder’s equity.

ACCT 102 – Managerial Accounting
Emphasis is placed on the evaluation of financial statements and the development of decision-making techniques. Specialized topics include: statements of cash flows, analysis of financial statements, cost-volume analysis, time-value of money, capital budgeting and introduction to cost accounting.

 ACCT 2521 – Cost Accounting

The accumulation and analysis of cost accounting information for the valuation of products and services, internal decision making, and measurement of financial performance.

ACCT 3511 – Intermediate Accounting I

Accounting principles as they relate to financial reporting. Income determination, asset and liability valuation, and the form and content of financial statements are examined.

ACCT 3512 – Intermediate Accounting II

A continuation of material begun in Accounting 3511. Stockholders’ equity, earnings per share, and long-term investments will be covered along with complex revenue-recognition problems, pensions, leases, inter-period tax allocation, and cash flows. NOTE: This course meets an upper-level major or business-elective requirement.

ACCT 3526 – Accounting Information Systems

An introduction to the evaluation and design of accounting information systems and the documentation and analysis of a client’s hardware and software needs. Internal controls, networking options and security issues also are examined. Students receive hands-on experience with accounting software.

ACCT 3531 – Federal Taxes on Income

An introduction to the concepts and logic underlying federal income tax law. Emphasis is given to the determination of income and allowable deductions for both individual and business entity taxpayers. The course also integrates some financial accounting and finance theory with federal tax law.

 

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS COURSES

MIS 2101 – Information Systems in Organizations

Explain the role of information technology as a business enabler and identify and explain management information systems applications including customer relationship management systems, enterprise systems, e-commerce applications, transaction processing systems, business analytics, and emerging technologies. Evaluate the organizational fit and suitability of business applications and interpret the interaction between information technology, customers, processes, data, infrastructure, participants, and environment in an organization. Understand the ethical challenges of information technology and explain the evolving role of management information systems in the organization, and the role and careers of MIS professionals.

MIS 2501 – Enterprise IT Architecture

Specify the IT architecture for the enterprise. Explain and assess information technology such as computer hardware, software, systems, and networking. Identify management, usage, security, and consumer issues related to laptops, desktops, operating systems, servers, media, smartphones, gaming, cloud computing, and other new and evolving technologies. Learn about new computing platforms and how they create business value. Explore the technologies and business models of the ecosystems for new digital products and services.

MIS 2502 – Data Analytics

Analyze data and learn how to present insights from business data. Analyze, model, and design database centric solutions for organizations. Create data models and data warehouses based on business rules. Learn how to operate and manage a database system and structured query language (SQL). Source traditional and new data types and apply data mining and visualization to generate business intelligence.

MIS 3501 – Data-Centric Application Development

Develop web-based data-centric applications using high level programming language. Use debugging techniques to identify errors and make improvements. Interpret system requirement specifications and explain technical components including the use of systems development lifecycles in creating software applications. Create simple data driven applications that connect with a database.

MIS 3504 – Digital Design and Innovation

Learn business process analysis including requirements analysis, feasibility, and data and process modeling. Develop the skills required to create innovative, technology enabled, corporate and consumer products and services. Apply information gathering techniques to elicit requirements. Compose business and technical requirements. Work in teams to design and recommend information systems solutions to improve or transform business processes. Lead the “make vs. buy” decisions. Justify proposed process improvements and proposed information systems solutions. Learn how to implement and negotiate changes to requirements.

MIS 3580 – Special Topics – Designing Digital Urban Start-ups

In this class, students will learn and practice how to design, develop and implement a new digital urban start-up company. Drawing on the resources and opportunities provided by Urban Apps & Maps Studios, students will have first-hand experience of discovering unmet needs in urban environments using Design Inquiry and transforming those unmet needs into sustainable business opportunities leveraging contemporary digital technologies such as mobile phones and social media.

 

BUSINESS COURSES

BA 2101 – Professional Development Strategies

Prepare students to enter the internship and permanent job marketplace. Emphasis on career planning, interview preparation (including behavioral event interviewing), expected behaviors and legal issues. Presentation and writing skills will be included.

BA 3102 – Business Society and Ethics

This course challenges students to consider the ethical obligations of corporations and their employees to a wide variety of societal stakeholders. Students are exposed to a broad range of ethical dilemmas that can arise in the business world and are offered the tools and taught the skills to respond to such dilemmas. Most significantly, the course encourages students to critically examine a preeminent societal institution of which they are a part, with the possibility that they can ultimately be forces for positive change.

BA 3103 – Integrative Business Applications

This course integrates various functional business disciplines to help the student develop an understanding of business practices. Students will learn to view organizations as integrated systems based on the knowledge accumulated to date in the BBA Core and provide students with an opportunity to address problems faced by organizations from an integrated perspective. This course will bridge the gap between theoretical class work and business practice. NOTE: Students will use business simulation software to allow them to test alternative ways to operate a business in a competitive environment.

 ECON 112 – Statistics I
For students who have demonstrated their ability in mathematics. Theory, measurement and analysis of frequency distributions; measures of location, variation; probability theory, theoretical distributions, statistical inference; tests of hypotheses and chi square tests. Usefulness of statistical techniques and digital computers in modern decision-making.

ECON 114 – Statistics II
Continuation of ECON 112. Time series analysis, non-parametric techniques, analysis of variance, index numbers, bivariate and multiple regression and correlation analysis, and statistical decision theory. Students prepare research projects to demonstrate their proficiency in applying statistical techniques in the interpretation of resolution of problems using the modern digital computer.

 FIN 151 – Risk Management and Insurance
This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to risk and methods of insurance. The objective of this course is to enable the student to develop an understanding of the many types of exposure to loss, the alternative methods of treating such exposures, and the role of insurance in personal and business affairs. Consideration is given to the legal framework surrounding the insurance mechanism. In addition, the regulation of insurance is discussed.

MSOM 3101 – Operations Management

An examination of the activities necessary for the provision of the organization’s product or service. Planning and scheduling of operations, allocation of resources, including staffing requirements and equipment decisions, inventory control and production planning, waiting line problems, and quality.

FIN 3101 – Financial Management

This course provides a survey of the financial problems associated with the life cycle of a business firm. Topics include: financial analysis and planning, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and the sources and uses of business funds.

BA 2196 – Business Communications

Business Communications is a workplace-oriented course designed to help students develop and refine the written and oral skills necessary to communicate effectively in professional settings. Students will review the purpose and style of business writing and complete a variety of focused writing exercises based on actual work settings and scenarios. Students will also plan, compose and analyze letters, memoranda and electronic messages; prepare and present brief oral presentations, collaborate with others and revise business communication. Teaching methods used will include large group lecture, classroom discussion and a break-out session utilizing a workshop format that relies heavily on in-class discussion and exercise that require active participation.

 MNGT 121 – Introduction to Business
The course introduces students to business activity and its role in the free enterprise system. The course gives an overview of economic systems, e-commerce, forms of business ownership, issues of ethical and social responsibility, global business, small business ownership, principles of management, marketing, information technology and systems, accounting, finance and business law.

 MNGT 141 – Principles of Management
This course reviews the five functions of management (planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling) and the history of the development of management theory. It covers in detail the subset concepts and theories associated with the functions. The course explains the universality of management theory in its application within commercial, nonprofit, governmental and other organizational settings. It covers management in its global applications as well as its involvement with organizational ethics and organizational social responsibility.

 ECON 181 – Principles of Economics (Macroeconomics)
Provides an introduction to the discipline of Economics and an examination of the determinants of the level of income, employment and prices in the economy. Macroeconomics, often referred to as general equilibrium analysis, deals with the economy as a whole rather than with the individual or firm.

 ECON 182 – Principles of Economics (Microeconomics)
Topics include analysis of the economics of the firm and resource allocation, current domestic problems and international economics. Microeconomics deals with the significant aspects of the individual firm.

 

GENERAL COURSEWORK

CIS 103 – Applied Computer Technology
This course is an exploration of modern computer technology used for communication, collaboration, problem solving, decision making, and increasing personal productivity. Topics covered include word processing, electronic spreadsheet and presentation software; library information systems; collaboration and social networking software; data communications and networking; and ethical issues related to technology.

 CIS 106 – Introduction to Computer Programming
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming using the Visual Basic .Net programming language. The course covers the logical design of computer programs, simple input and output, data checking, formatting reports, sequential file access and simple mathematical processing, such as counting, summing and finding minima and maxima. This is the first programming course taken by CIS majors and is a good introductory course for anyone interested in exploring computer programming.

ENGR 102 – Engineering Design and Laboratory I
Engineering 102 provides for the development of analytical and communication skills by problem solving, teamwork and project presentation. The course gives instruction on how to use computers in engineering: how to utilize engineering software, problem solving, data acquisition and analysis. Included is how to use a computer algebra system to solve math and engineering problems. Students learn the elements of the engineering design process through execution of actual design projects. Other topics include an introduction to patents and patent law and the interaction between the engineer and physical environment.

 MA 101 – Mathematical Analysis I

Review of fundamental concepts of algebra. Study of mathematical functions including polynomials, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions. Analysis of graphs, domain and range, composition, and inverse function are covered. Functions are used for modeling data and solving multidisciplinary application problems. Appropriate technology is used extensively throughout the course.

MA 102 – Mathematical Analysis II

Covers limits, continuity, rates of change, derivative and techniques of differentiation, analysis of functions using derivatives, relative and absolute extrema, concavity, optimizing functions, implicit differentiation, related rates, linear approximations, definite and indefinite integrals, integration techniques, and areas. Calculus techniques are used for modeling data and solving multidisciplinary application problems. Appropriate technology is used extensively throughout the course.

MH 201H – Honors Calculus I

This Honors level course covers the same topics as MH 201 but in more depth and with additional applications. A research project and class presentation is also required. The course covers differential and integral calculus of functions in one variable. Specifi c topics covered are: graphs of functions, limits, differentiation and differentiation techniques, extrema on an interval, the Mean Value Theorem, limits at infi nity, area under a curve, antiderivatives, integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Every topic is presented geometrically, numerically and algebraically. Work in the computer lab is included in this course.

 MNGT 261 – Introduction to the Law and the Legal System
A study of the economic, legal and social forces shaping the development of law in the United States and within a global environment, including an analysis of the need for law in our complex civilization. The historical sources, forms and types of law will be discussed tracing the evolution of the legal system within the U.S. The course will focus on how the law and the legal system have an effect upon and must be considered when making most business and personal decisions. The impact and integral part federal, state and local laws have on most front-page current events will be discussed.

WR 101 – Writing and Rhetoric I

This course focuses on increasing students’ ability to develop and express ideas effectively and to engage students in various academic and professional discourses. It gives special attention to research-based informational writing. Critical reading of articles, speeches, and other nonliterary texts helps students to understand the rhetorical process, to analyze audience and its cultural contexts, and to foresee the audience’s response. A substantial amount of writing is required. Students learn to write abstracts, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, and informational documents.

WR 102 – Writing and Rhetoric II

This course is designed to build on skills gained from WR 101 and to help students develop sophisticated, contextualized writing and research strategies. Students make arguments in formal and informal settings on interdisciplinary topics. Special attention is given to evidence discovery, claim support, argument response, and their applications to academic debate, public decision making, and written argument. A substantial amount of writing is required.

BS 103 – General Biology I

Basic principles of biology with emphasis on the scientific method, cellular structure and function, cellular respiration, cellular division, protein synthesis, metabolism, and genetics.

BS 104 – General Biology II

A continuation of basic principles of biology with emphasis on evolution, morphology, and diversity of organisms within the three domains in life, ecology, animal behavior, and environmental biology.

CH 101 – General Chemistry I

A general course covering basic chemical principles, including atomic structure, periodicity, stoichiometry, chemical bonding, and states of matter.

CH 103 – General Chemistry Laboratory I

A laboratory course designed to illustrate fundamental principles of chemistry and to introduce basic chemical laboratory techniques.

CH 102 – General Chemistry II

Continuation of CH 101, covering solutions, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, complex ions, elementary kinetics and thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry.

CH 104 – General Chemistry Laboratory II

Continuation of CH 103, with emphasis on titrations and qualitative analysis of cations and anions.

JST 802 – Race & Identity in Judaism

Investigate the relationship between race and Judaism from Judaism’s early period through today, looking both at how Jews have understood their own racial identity and how others have understood Jews’ racial identity. You will explore the idea of racial identity in Judaism in order to examine the complex network of connections between racism and anti-Semitism, as you read primary and secondary texts in Jewish philosophy and history and in the study of race and racism. We hope to illuminate these complex issues as well as to engage with them on a personal and political level, examining the relationship between issues of race, religion, identity, and social justice and injustice, and inquiring into how we, as informed citizens in a global society, can affect change for the better.

PS 101 – Introduction to Psychology

Introduction to basic concepts in psychology and an overview of how they are applied to modern human behavior.

 HIST 121 – World Civilization: The Medieval/Renaissance World
Analysis of selected civilizations of the Western and non-Western worlds. Major historic institutions and the religious, intellectual, political, economic and social foundations that have molded civilization.

 SOC 101 – Introduction to Sociology
Understanding the social nature of humans and the social world in which they live. Analysis of such topics as culture, socialization, social groups and social institutions, stratification, the family, gender relations, race and ethnicity, minorities, social deviance, social change and technology, the urban community, population and the environment. Both Western and non-Western cross-cultural comparisons are provided throughout the course.