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BUS 200 Introduction to Business Management | This course will help students become familiarize general business environment, including sub-disciplines of management, marketing, finance, and accounting. Management knowledge, skills and competencies necessary for long-term success in today's business environment are also examined. In addition, this course is designed to highlight a manager's functions and responsibilities in organizational and business settings. Four main management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling are used as a framework to explore the role of managers. Students will also examine ethical, social, and cross-cultural issues related to managing in contemporary business organizations. |
BUS 203 Business Statistics | This course will prepare business students to understand and apply statistical information and analysis to managerial decision making. Emphasis will be both on using descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics for making decisions in business environment. Business examples and situations are used to illustrate and highlight the relevance of business statistics to strategic and operational decision making. |
BUS 217 Business Law I | This course is an introduction of the principles of law that directly and regularly impact the conduct of business activities. The content of the class includes many subjects tested on the Regulation portion of the CPA examination. Topics include an examination of the substantive law of contracts, from formation requirements to remedies for breach of contract. Antitrust law, securities regulations, and employment and labor law illustrate the regulatory role on business and society. Legal aspects of international business are examined in this increasingly important area. |
BUS 303 Data Analytics | In a world of information technology, there is a growing need for skills and uses related to the vast accumulation of data in many different fields. Data Analytics helps us to sift through big data to determine what has happened, why is has happened, how to predict what may happen in the future and what possibly courses of action may be possible. Specifically, this course looks at the areas of data mining, data management or warehousing, statistical analysis and data visualization. |
BUS 304 Ethics Leadership and Management | This course starts by approaching ethics from a general perspective, and subsequently examining the application of ethical principles on management and leadership in today’s business environment. Ethical concepts relevant to decision-making in the workplace will be examined as well. In addition to examining ethics at the personal and interpersonal levels, students will explore ways to develop and promote an ethical culture at the departmental and organizational levels (Transformational Leadership). Leadership in today’s organizations and relationship between leadership and ethics will also be explored in the context of corporate scandals in recent years. |
BUS 310 Management Skills Development | This course combines theories, self-assessment, and application of behavioral skills that are essential to successful management in the contemporary workplace. Specifically, the course will focus on those skills that organizations have indicated are most critical for, and most lacking in, entry-level managers. Key topics include team building, organizational change, problem solving, and leadership, with an emphasis on strengthening communication/interpersonal skills throughout the course. |
BUS 315 Labor Law | This course will examine the fundamentals of U.S. and State Labor Law with an emphasis on the principles of employment and labor law applicable to private and public employers in New York State. Particular attention shall be paid to legal employment issues likely to be encountered by the business owner and/or manager. |
BUS 317 Business Law II | A continuation of the study of law begun in BUS 217, the content of this class includes many subjects tested on the Regulation portion of the CPA examination. Topics include in depth analysis of the various forms of business organizations including general and limited partnerships, corporations and LLCs; Uniform Commercial Code subjects such as commercial paper, secured transactions and sales; and other areas of law including bankruptcy, debtor/creditor relations, product liability, estate and trust law and real property. |
BUS 334 Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship | The course focuses on small business management and entrepreneurship in today's economy. Given the importance of small businesses to the U.S. economy and their significant contribution to overall employment, studying how small businesses develop and successfully operate in challenging economic environment is critical and relevant. Students will examine challenges and opportunities faced by entrepreneurs in developing, establishing, and operating a small business. Students will also develop a business plan to better understand how to establish a small business, and how to effectively address operational, financial, marketing, and human recourses issues related to managing a small business. |
BUS 335 Information Technology and Management | This course explores the important role information and communication technology (ICT) plays in enabling companies to increase market share, become more efficient, and innovate. Students examine various information systems firms use for planning, implementing, and control of their operations and activities, and the challenges and opportunities emerging from increased convergence of many technologies. |
BUS 344 Introduction to International Business | In this introductory international business course, general concepts and theories in legal, political, economic, and cultural aspects of international business will be discussed. Students will explore external global business environment, as well as strategies of multinational companies in dealing with international challenges and opportunities. Other important topics in international business, including international trade and investment, international culture and marketing, and international human resources will be explored. |
BUS 345 Marketing Management | Marketing Management presents students with a framework of pertinent strategic and tactical consumer marketing issues faced in today’s economy. It goes beyond the basics of marketing and focuses on important marketing functions and tasks coordinated by managers within the overall strategic framework of the organizations. Students explore market research and analysis, market and product development, pricing decisions, promotional strategies, and issues related to ethics, e-commerce, and global and cross-cultural marketing. |
BUS 346 Managerial Finance | Building on their knowledge from financial and managerial accounting concepts, students will study the financial decision making process utilized by management to maximize shareholders’ wealth. Short term as well as long term corporate finance and managerial decisions of firms will be examined. The economic model of financial risk and the time-value of money as well as capital structure and budgeting will be explored. Using case studies as framework, this course will attempt to explain corporate finance and financial decision making with a balance between theory and business application. |
BUS 361 Workplace Ethics | This course will approach ethics first from a general perspective and then examine the application of ethical principles through a broad range of contemporary case studies. Ethical concepts relevant to decision-making in the workplace will be examined. These concepts, including Egoism, Utilitarianism, and Categorical Imperative will be analyzed and then applied throughout the course. Students will also be introduced to philosophers (Locke, Emerson, Burke) in the context of characteristics identified by executives as essential to effective leadership. In addition to examining ethics at the personal and interpersonal levels, students will explore ways to develop and promote an ethical culture at the departmental and organizational levels (Transformational Leadership). Students will conduct an ethical audit of an organization and they may hear a presentation on organizational ethics. |
BUS 381 Business Continuity: Strategic Contingency Planning for Businesses and Organizations | Student will learn the development of business continuity management policies and planning. management process for a variety of business environments as well as management systems, tools and techniques needed to establish, monitor and maintain business continuity will be examined. Students will develop skills to create essential continuity plans for various businesses and organizations that identify critical processes, required personnel, and procedures to preserve and secure vital records to continue operating during and after man-made or natural disasters. |
BUS 404 Business Administration Internship | The internship will provide the student with a work experience in a business-related setting. This situation is designed to afford the student an exposure to business professionals and practices as well as expectations in the contemporary workplace. The student is required to work 120 hours during the semester at the assigned business and to attend a weekly seminar with fellow interns. Students may not use current or self-employment for internship credit. |
BUS 415 Organizational Behavior | An effective business leader knows ?how things work around here. This knowledge is based on the understanding how people self-assess and self-regulate, how people join with others to get things done, how work is set up and how these work systems and processes positively impact results. This course probes tested models, organizational techniques and workplace experience that add to this business knowledge. Ways of influencing relationships between behavior and environment will be focused on with strong emphasis on applying the subject matter to the workplace environment and from the managerial perspective. |
BUS 490 Strategic Planning and Management | This capstone course in the business program combines strategic theory and case-study analysis to develop planning and analysis skills. The focus is on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of business strategy for a wide range of business enterprises. |