Coursework
Current business courses:
Macroeconomic Principles: As I am beginning to understand the functioning modern economic system, some topics that I am learning include: business cycles, inflation, unemployment, banking, monetary and fiscal policy, international economics, and economic growth.
Leadership and Organizational Management: Throughout the Human Resource Management course, I am learning the importance of challenges in leading high performing organizations, enablers of principled organizational leadership, company culture, social responsibility, and sustainability.
Financial Accounting: Accounting being the language of business, is a great medium that will allow me to understand how to control and use resources in an effective manner using financial information. Topics that I am being taught include the use of financial statements, transactional analysis, income determination, and asset and liability valuation.
Statistical Business Analytics: As I am currently enrolled in this course, I am being taught the fundamentals of data description, data analysis, and graphical methods with applications to business problems. This class shares similarities to the Discrete Math (Math Concepts) I took last spring.
Management Information Systems: Being an MIS major, this is the first course to be taken for the MIS track. I am very interested in the topics being taught such as the use of customer relationship management systems, enterprise systems, e-commerce applications, transaction processing systems, business analytics, and emerging technologies.
Completed relevant courses:
Introduction to Academics in Computer Science: This introductory class informed me about the field of computing, the potential career opportunities, as well as allowed me to hear from guest speakers by the CIS faculty, students and alumni.
Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming in Python: This first programming course introduced me to using Python, a computer language that is widely used in the industry of scientific research, game programming, and web applications. I learned how to design programs that utilized procedural programming constructs such as loops, branching structures, and functions.
Mathematical Concepts in Computing: Tying together the functions of computing with math, this class introduced me to predicate and propositional calculus; sets and set operations; functions and mapping; algorithms, integers, and matrices; discrete probability, expected value, and variance. Additionally, I learned formal methods for writing mathematical proofs.