Courses
Undergraduate courses (Overview)
- HOSP150 Introduction to the Hospitality Industry
- HOSP199 Hospitality and Tourism Professional Seminar
- HOSP230 Hospitality Management
- HOSP290 Hospitality Internship I
- HOSP300 Hospitality Law
- HOSP380 Lodging System Management
- HOSP390 Food and Beverage Management
- HOSP405 Human Resource Management in Hospitality and Tourism
- HOSP415 Cost Management for Hospitality Managers
- HOSP420 Advanced Hospitality Marketing
- HOSP425 Technology in the Hospitality Industry
- HOSP435 Managing Diversity in the Hospitality Industry
- HOSP440 Service Management in the Hospitality Industry
- HOSP445 Hospitality Operations Management II
- HOSP450 International Hospitality Management
- HOSP455 Organizational Issues in Hospitaity
- HOSP460 Hospitality InternshipPrerequisites:HOSP380
- HOSP470 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in Hospitality
- HOSP490 Entrepreneurship in Hospitality
- INFO101 Contemporary Business
- INFO200 Personal Finance: Computer Applications
- INFO209 Personal Finance
- INFO230 Introduction to Business Work Experience
- INFO270 Statistics for Business
- INFO271 Managerial Statistics
- INFO273 Introduction to Computers in Business
- INFO281 Fundamentals of Management Information Systems I
- INFO282 Fundamentals of Management Information Systems II
- INFO290 Management Information Systems
- INFO301 Business Decision Making
- INFO306 Introduction to Web Development
- INFO315 Production and Industrial Analysis
- INFO320 Administrative Business Communications
- INFO321 Information and Media Management
- INFO330 Office Systems Administration Professional Work Experience Program
- INFO335 Computer Applications in Business
- INFO350 Quality Improvement
- INFO357 Business Computer Programming
- INFO372 Management Science
- INFO374 Computer Management
- INFO375 Operations Analysis
- INFO380 Computer Networks in Business
- INFO386 Supply Chain Management
- INFO410 Database Development for Business
- INFO411 Managing Automated Office Systems
- INFO412 Management for Information Systems Continuity
- INFO430 Seminar in Office Systems Administration
- INFO463 Essential Research and Data Analysis Methods
- INFO470 Electronic Commerce: Creating Business Value Using Information Technology
- INFO473 Telecommunication and Database Issues in the Business Setting
- INFO474 Business Forecasting
- INFO475 Quantitative Decision Making for Business
- INFO476 Data Mining for Business
- INFO488 Business Application with Artificial Intelligent (AI) Systems
- INFO490 Decision Support Systems for Business
- INFO491 Independent Study in Information Systems
- INFO492 Special Topics in Information Systems
- INFO496 Advanced Systems Analysis and Design
- MGMT231 Management Processes
- MGMT315 Organizational Behavior
- MGMT316 Human Resource Management
- MGMT318 Motivation and Leadership
- MGMT327 Training, Development, and Career Planning
- MGMT331 Family Business
- MGMT332 Minorities in Business
- MGMT335 Small Business Management
- MGMT363 Business and Society
- MGMT392 Management Internship
- MGMT414 Management Theories: Behavioral Approaches
- MGMT415 Organizational Theory: Macro Approaches
- MGMT416 Problems in Human Resources Management
- MGMT417 Compensation Management
- MGMT431 Middle and First Line Management
- MGMT433 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- MGMT434 Comparative Management Systems
- MGMT435 Organizational Development and Change
- MGMT436 Project Management
- MGMT439 Strategic Management
- MGMT491 Small Business Institute
- MGMT492 Selected Topics in Management
- MGMT495 Contemporary Issues in Management
- MGMT499 Honors Seminar
Graduate courses (Overview)
- INFO501 Statistical Methods
- INFO502 Operations Research
- INFO503 Information Systems
- INFO504 Principles and Problems of Business Education
- INFO505 Production/Operations Management
- INFO506 Business Education Curriculum
- INFO510 Administration and Supervision of Business Education
- INFO511 Improvement of Instruction in Bookkeeping, Accounting and Business Arithmetic
- INFO512 Improvement of Instruction in General Business Subjects
- INFO513 Emerging Technologies in Management Information Systems
- INFO514 Information Management
- INFO515 Improvement of Instruction in Information Processing
- INFO521 Decision Support and Expert Systems for Business
- INFO522 Business Data Communications and Networks
- INFO523 Database Systems for Business
- INFO524 Business Systems Analysis and Design
- INFO525 Electronic Commerce:Managerial Perspective on New Business Models andInformation Infrastructure Support
- INFO528 Field Studies in Business Education
- INFO529 Principles of Cooperative Business Education
- INFO531 Business Models
- INFO532 Statistical Inference for Business
- INFO533 Stochastic Models
- INFO534 Multivariate Analysis
- INFO535 Advanced Information Systems
- INFO536 Introduction to Research in Business Education
- INFO540 Workshop in Business Education
- INFO550 Total Quality Methods
- INFO575 Independent Study in Information Systems for Business
- INFO577 Selected Topics in Information Systems for Business
- INFO636 Seminar in Business Education
- MGMT501 Fundamentals of Management
- MGMT502 Behavior in Organizations
- MGMT505 Management Process and Organizational Behavior
- MGMT510 Human Resource Management
- MGMT511 Global Business Endeavors
- MGMT512 Organizational Development
- MGMT513 Leadership and Behavior
- MGMT520 Managing The Global Workforce
- MGMT525 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
- MGMT530 Management of Technology in Organizations
- MGMT540 Executive Perspectives
- MGMT575 Independent Study in Management
- MGMT577 Selected Topics in Management
- MGMT580 Advanced Strategic Management
Undergraduate courses (Detail)
HOSP150 Introduction to the Hospitality Industry (3.0 credit hours)
Description: An overview of the dynamic world of the hospitality industry with emphasis onthe wide variety of career opportunities. Introduces students to therelationship between the tourism and hospitality industries. Emphasizeslodging and restaurant development and operations. In addition, explorescareer opportunities in these areas.
HOSP199 Hospitality and Tourism Professional Seminar (1.00 credit hours)
Description: To provide student with essential knowledge and survival skills needed for theeffective study of hospitality and tourism. The seminar includes first-yearstudent orientation, establishes hospitality and related areas identity amongstudents, and explores the fields of hospitality and tourism management as acareer. This course also promotes an awareness and understanding ofdiversity, values and perspectives as they relate to overall student successat MSU. Meets Gen Ed 2002 - New Student Seminar.
HOSP230 Hospitality Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to management history and functions such as planning, leading,organizing, and controlling. Provides basic understanding of managementconcept and its application in the hospitality industry.
HOSP290 Hospitality Internship I (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Special fee. Provides students with industry experience. It enables students to applytheir classroom learning to an actual professional work setting.
Prequisites: HOSP150, HOSP199, HOSP230, PERL123, PERL235
HOSP300 Hospitality Law (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The goal of this course is to introduce students to the laws and regulationsapplicable to the ownership and operation of hospitality businesses.
Prequisites: HOSP150 and MGMT231
HOSP380 Lodging System Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course providing in-depth knowledge and skills to manageall aspects of the lodging industry in different settings, such asfull-service hotel, limited-service hotel/motel, bed and breakfast, extendedstay-hotel, suite hotel, resort, casino hotel, cruise line, timeshare andassisted living facility.
Prequisites: HOSP150, INFO375, MGMT231
HOSP390 Food and Beverage Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course providing mechanisms and techniques to manage foodand beverage provisions in various sectors of the hospitality industry, suchas restaurant, bar or beverage operaton, club, contracted or institutionalfoodservice. In addition, food and beverage functions within various lodgingsettings (hotel, resort, casino hotel and cruise line) are discussed.
Prequisites: HOSP150, INFO375, MGMT231
HOSP405 Human Resource Management in Hospitality and Tourism (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Discusses the managerial competencies necessary to manage and motivate thehuman resources of hospitality and tourism organizations. Competenciesinclude job analysis, description and evaluation, recruiting, training, andretention. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP230
HOSP415 Cost Management for Hospitality Managers (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This upper-level course builds on the principles and concepts of financial andmanagerial accounting. It discusses departmental costs and the relationshipsbetween revenues and various types of costs. In addition, it explores therelationship between cost, volume, and profit. Common control mechanisms andpurchase practices noted in the hospitality industry will be explored. Classproject required. Optional: The Educational Institute of the American Hoteland Lodging Association Certification Examination.
Prequisites: ACCT202
HOSP420 Advanced Hospitality Marketing (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Provides an opportunity for students to analyze the marketing cases based on"real" world situations in the hospitality industry. The case study processwill bring theory, concepts, and facts into the realm of application andimplementation. An overview of the discipline as it pertains to thehospitality organizations will be presented to help students with theiranalyses. Class project required.
Prequisites: PERL235
HOSP425 Technology in the Hospitality Industry (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Explores the impact of technology on the hospitality industry. Exposesstudents to the different software used in the industry including the propertymanagement systems, point-of-sale system, reservation, and accounting systems. The use of E-Commerce as a marketing tool will also be explored. Classproject required.
Prequisites: CMPT109
HOSP435 Managing Diversity in the Hospitality Industry (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This upper-level course is designed to assist students in understanding theissues related to American multicultural management in the hospitalityindustry through the utilization of a conceptual framework and the applicationof appropriate management techniques. A directed work project will beincorporated into this course. Class project required. Meets the UniversityMulticultural Awareness Requirement (MAR).
Prequisites: HOSP405
HOSP440 Service Management in the Hospitality Industry (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Teach students all aspects of delivering hospitality services. It is customerdriven with emphases on Total Quality Management, customer problem-solvingskills, and outcome assessment. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP230
HOSP445 Hospitality Operations Management II (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Deals with the daily operations of resorts and cruise management. Emphasiswill be on the housing and food and beverage services that cater to the peopleaway from home. It highlights the difference in managing a traditional hoteland explores features that are unique. It builds on the basic knowledge ofhospitality operations. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP410
HOSP450 International Hospitality Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to the dimensions and nature of international hospitalityoperations. Create a sensitivity to and awareness of the differences inmanaging different cultures as well as present a global view of hospitalitymanagement. Topics covered include cultural dimensions of management,international marketing, and international human resource management. Classproject required.
Prequisites: HOSP150, PERL124
HOSP455 Organizational Issues in Hospitaity (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The hospitality industry offers unique challenges to the general businessmanagement student. This course explores those challenges. The course seeksto leverage general management topics by helping students apply theirknowledge and skills to the unique aspects of the hospitality industry. Thecourse covers applications in human resources, especially diversity,employment discrimination and union-management relations. Ethics, as itapplies to the hospitality industry, is also covered.
HOSP460 Hospitality InternshipPrerequisites:HOSP380 (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Provides students with a professional work experience before completing theirdegree. Enables students to apply their course work knowledge to aprofessional work setting.
HOSP470 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in Hospitality (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Customer Relationship Management Technologies providing in-depth knowledge andskills in designing, developing, and maintaining computer-based systems forwarehousing and mining customer information for such purposes as customersegmentation studies, targeted marketing, and frequency and loyalty programs.
Prequisites: HOSP150, MKTG240, INFO290
HOSP490 Entrepreneurship in Hospitality (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This capstone course guides students through the strategic businessdevelopment process of lodging and food and beverage establishments. Fromconcept to operations, students engage in a business planning project applyingknowledge and skills acquired from foundation and major courses. Students whocomplete the course will have developed a complete business plan for thedesign, financing, opening, and on-going operations of a viable business. Meets the University Writing Requirement for BAHM majors.
INFO101 Contemporary Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The organization and operation of contemporary business are explored. Students study the operation of the free enterprise system, alternativeeconomic systems, and the various functional areas of business: finance,management, production, and marketing. Meets the 1983 General EducationRequirement (GER) - Social Science, Topic Course.
Prequisites: Can not be used for degree credit by Business Administration majors with morethan 60 credits completed toward degree
INFO200 Personal Finance: Computer Applications (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to allow students to apply personal finance conceptsusing Quicken Software on the computer. Personal finance concepts andpractices such as managing a checking account, credit account, cash account,maintaining home inventory, maintaining a personal balance sheet, income andexpense record, tax records, estate planning, home mortgages, and using theInternet to facilitate processing of personal finance records are the majorcomponents of this course.
Prequisites: Satisfactory completion of the GER in Computer Science
INFO209 Personal Finance (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course introduces students to the principles of personal financialmanagement. Using a life cycle view of the role(s) of money at various stagesof life, students discover principles underlying decisions such as how tobudget, managing consumer credit, managing taxes, selecting investments,planning for retirement, and estate planning. Meets the 1983 GeneralEducation Requirement (GER) - Electives, Personal/Professional Issues.
INFO230 Introduction to Business Work Experience (3.00 to 6.00 credit hours)
Description: 25 minimumgrade point average. Special fee. This is an introductory cooperative education course which integrates formalclassroom study and assignments with a supervised full-time or part-timeoff-campus employment experience.
Prequisites: Sophomore level status (45+ semester hours completed) with a 2
INFO270 Statistics for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: May not be taken for graduation credit by College of Science andMathematics majors. This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of modernstatistical methods. Topics covered include: descriptive statistical methodsof data analysis; an introduction to probability theory; an introduction todiscrete and continuous probability distributions and mathematicalexpectation; classical statistical inference - sampling distributions,confidence interval estimation, and hypothesis testing for means andproportions; regression and correlation; and an introduction to time seriesanalysis. Spreadsheet software is integrated in all topics. Cross listedwith Mathematical Sciences, MATH 270.
Prequisites: MATH114
INFO271 Managerial Statistics (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Analytic statistics which focuses on tools and methods for improving quality. Topics include Demings's fourteen points, descriptive statistics, summarystatistical measures, probability and probability distributions, controlcharts, regression and design of experiments.
Prequisites: Math 113 and 114
INFO273 Introduction to Computers in Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides an introduction to the use of computers within a broadglobal business environment through an introduction to the skills, concepts,and capabilities necessary to effectively use information technology inorganizations. Strong emphasis of the course is on building competencies inindustry-approved software programs, such as Microsoft Windows, MicrosoftOffice Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access.
INFO281 Fundamentals of Management Information Systems I (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental conceptsof management information systems. This course focuses on developingfoundation knowledge and skills in programming logic and database development.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency exam
INFO282 Fundamentals of Management Information Systems II (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental conceptsof management information systems. This course is aimed at teaching studentsthe fundamentals of computer networks and systems analysis.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency Exam
INFO290 Management Information Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is an inquiry into business information systems and informationtechnology management in digital firms. Analysis of information from themanagement point of view with respect to information needs in organizations,strategic roles of information systems, information technology infrastructure,information systems supporting organizations and management, and businessvalue of information systems will be covered. This course is skill buildingin the definition and analysis of systems problems and the provision ofsolutions to them. The computer as a tool for supporting business functions,management, decision-making and policy-setting is emphasized.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency Exam
INFO301 Business Decision Making (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Cannot be used for degree credit by BusinessAdministration majors with more than 60 credits completed toward degree. The underlying theme of the course is business problem solving. This courseengages students in employing tools from operations management and managementinformation systems in the solution of business problems. Analysis ofquantitative decision-making and information systems from the management pointof view will be covered.
Prequisites: INFO273 or CMPT109; and MATH106 or 109 or 114 or 116 or 122 or 221; ordepartmental approval
INFO306 Introduction to Web Development (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to increase awareness and understanding of themovement to Web-based applications and enterprise-level management informationsystems as well as electronic commerce. This is a hands-on, lab-based Webpage design course with significant exposure to the tools and requirements forthe production of such systems. Students will learn to use a variety ofdevelopment tools such as MS-Front Page, scripting languages such asJavaScript, VBScript and Perl and programming styles to develop bothindividually and in teams applications that simulate the realities of today'sinformation systems and environment.
Prequisites: INFO281; Business Administration major
INFO315 Production and Industrial Analysis (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is mainly designed to expose students to production aspects ofindustries. It will develop theories and applications in the areas oflocation of facilities, capacity planning, facilities design and layout,designing assembly line production systems, facilities maintenance andmaterials handling, purchasing, inventory control systems, forecasting demandfor products, master scheduling and MRP, scheduling and control systems, andquality and statistical quality control.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271 and MGMT231; Business Administration majors
INFO320 Administrative Business Communications (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The study of communication processes using special problem applications with atheoretical and practical base. Writing proposals, business correspondence,business plans, and handling electronic messaging are covered. Emphasis isalso on using presentation materials to complement interpersonal andorganizational communication. This course counts as an elective within thebusiness major for all concentrations in Business Administration. Meets theUniversity Writing Requirement for BAMI, BAOM and BAQM majors.
Prequisites: Business Administration majors only; and MKTG240
INFO321 Information and Media Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Includes study of the criteria and methods by which records are created,stored, retrieved, retained and disposed, as well as attention to study of themanagerial considerations necessary for effective selection and utlization ofequipment, procedures, and personnel. This course counts as an electivewithin the business major for all concentrations in Business Administration.
Prequisites: Business Administration majors only; and INFO290
INFO330 Office Systems Administration Professional Work Experience Program (3.00 to 6.00 credit hours)
Description: 45 grade point average; satisfactory completionof INFO 230 or the equivalent of 6 months of verified full-time workexperience; office systems administration concentration declaration for oneprior semester plus the completion of 6 semester hours from the office systemsadministration core courses. Special fee. This is a cooperative education course specifically for office systemsadministration majors. Course is designed to integrate formal classroom studyand assignments with supervised full-time off-campus employment.
Prequisites: Junior or senior status; a 2
INFO335 Computer Applications in Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A course designed to prepare students to make decisions in the selection andutilization of microcomputer systems and appropriate software for a businessenvironment based on identified needs; the factors to consider in theimplementation of microcomputers at different levels of an organization; andthe characteristics of specific software applications used in the businessenvironment. The course also provides students with hands-on experience withcommercial software packages. This course counts as an elective within thebusiness major for all concentrations in Business Administration.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency Exam; Business Administrationmajor
INFO350 Quality Improvement (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A comprehensive approach to quality in organizations is essential tomaintaining competitive position. This course explores current thinking aswell as the tools and techniques necessary to implement quality programs.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO357 Business Computer Programming (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course enhances students' ability to use computer programming to solvebusiness problems. Students are introduced to the concepts of object-orientedprogramming in business applications.
Prequisites: INFO281, INFO282; Business Administration major with concentration inManagement Information Systems or permission of department
INFO372 Management Science (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Applied mathematical techniques used to solve a wide variety of problems withspecial attention to issues, management, and production control. Topicsinclude linear programming, transportation, and assignment algorithms, otheroptimization techniques, decision theory, simulation, and queuing theory.
Prequisites: INFO270, INFO375 and MGMT231; Business Administration majors
INFO374 Computer Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Optimum selection of computer hardware, software and operating systems amongvarious alternatives, from a cost effectiveness point of view.
Prequisites: INFO371; Business Administration majors
INFO375 Operations Analysis (3.00 credit hours)
Description: An introduction to managerial concepts and quantitative tools required in thedesign, operation, and control of business systems. This course incorporatesmathematical and statistical methods in the analysis of specific businesssystems and industrial production activities, inventory control, productionplanning and scheduling, and capital management. Computers are used to solveproblems involving complex systems.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO380 Computer Networks in Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course enhances students' knowledge of data communications, networkdesign, administrations, and distributed information systems. The conceptsessential to the design and application of both communication hardware andsoftware are examined. Emphasis is on the analysis and design of networkingapplications in business. Management of networks, networking security,cost-benefit analysis, introduction of major emerging networking technologies,and evaluation of connectivity options are also covered.
Prequisites: INFO281 and INFO282, Business Administration major
INFO386 Supply Chain Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course involves the flow of materials and information among all of thefirms that contribute value to a product from the source of raw materials toend customers. Relationships among supply chain components and the interfaceof supply chain activities and other functional areas of business areexamined.
Prequisites: INFO375; Business Administration majors
INFO410 Database Development for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students an opportunity to examine various issues in allphases of database development, including requirement analysis and datamodeling, logical design and physical design, data integrity control, SQLqueries, internet applications and database administration.
Prequisites: INFO281 and INFO282, Business Administration major
INFO411 Managing Automated Office Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Needed competencies for organizing and administering an automated officesystem will be emphasized. A systematic approach to designing, implementing,controlling, and integrating electronic office systems will be stressed. Various configurations, available technology, and evaluating methods forassessing present and future systems will be investigated.
Prequisites: INFO306 and INFO321 and INFO335; Business Administration majors only
INFO412 Management for Information Systems Continuity (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills required to complete an in-depthanalysis of an organization's information systems and infrastructure needsfrom planning, control, and strategy to the role of security protection,disaster recovery, and business continuity with reliability engineering,performance management, storage-networking and facility design. In additionto the technical and logistical aspects, the course provides an importantframework of the management perspective necessary to plan for and successfullyreact to operational vulnerability and disruptions in public and privateorganizations.
Prequisites: INFO290
INFO430 Seminar in Office Systems Administration (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Current developments in office systems administration will be investigated bystudent research teams in contemporary administrative office environments. Emphasis will be on helping students develop investigative and analyticalskills.
Prequisites: INFO306 and INFO321 and INFO335; Business Administration majors only
INFO463 Essential Research and Data Analysis Methods (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Provides a working knowledge of research methodology and includes thefundamentals of both exploratory and confirmatory data analysis useful inbusiness research settings, enabling a focus on understanding and interpretingresults and being aware of related ethical issues. Develops the concepts ofexperimental designs and model building and uses SPSS, a menu-drivenstatistical software package, throughout. Enhances development ofinterpersonal skills through the use of projects and assignments emphazing theimportance of teamwork in achieving success in an organizational setting andenhances development of communication skills by emphasizing term team projectreports and brief oral presentations.
Prequisites: INFO270 and INFO273 or permission of department; Business Administrationmajors
INFO470 Electronic Commerce: Creating Business Value Using Information Technology (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to provide the student an understanding of theconsequences of the introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web in theway business is conducted. The electronic commerce world is viewed primarilyfrom the point-of-view of MIS. That is, the managerial issues related to theinformation infrastructure requirements are mainly attended to. Bothindividuals and organizations have been profoundly affected by related networktechnologies that have since permutated in form ever since the convergence ofadvanced communications and information infrastructure and the cable,telephone, television, and telecommunications industries. The student willlearn about new forms of business practices in business-to-business,consumer-to-business, and intraorganizational transactions. Specifically,activities in the areas of electronic shopping, publishing, distribution, andcollaboration will be explored. The following issues that have arisen as aresult of electronic commerce (EC) will be explored: security, authentication,privacy, data encryption, intellectual property rights, freedom of expressionusing electronic media, fair use policies, legal liabilities, etc. Studentswill also learn about new organizational forms such as the "virtual" firm thatare emerging as a result of EC.
Prequisites: INFO290
INFO473 Telecommunication and Database Issues in the Business Setting (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The course will cover the following topics: the practice and theory oftelecommunications; telecommunication standards; communication channels; localarea/wide area networks; protocols; database concepts; relational data basetheory and practice; requirements definition process; data structures.
Prequisites: INFO373; Business Administration major
INFO474 Business Forecasting (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Mathematical and econometric models for short- and long-range businessforecasting. Models are evaluated for accuracy and relevance. The computeris used as a tool in developing an automated system.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO475 Quantitative Decision Making for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is a capstone course for the Quantitative Methods concentrationsand is aimed at applying the quantitative methods learned in the prerequisitecourses to solve some real world business problems. It will be aproject-oriented course. The class time will be used to discuss the problemsand their solution strategies rather than learning more techniques. Computerized tools will be used to solve the problems.
Prequisites: INFO372 and INFO463; Business Administration majors
INFO476 Data Mining for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is concerned with data mining concepts and techniques and isdesigned as a practical introduction to the growing field of Data Mining. This powerful set of analytic techniques is becoming increasingly popular asan information management tool designed to guide decisions under conditions oflimited certainty across such diverse fields as marketing, finance, economics,education, epidemiology, psychology, sociology, as well as many others.
Prequisites: INFO270 or departmental approval
INFO488 Business Application with Artificial Intelligent (AI) Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The course will cover the following topics: knowledge acquisition techniques,knowledge representation, inferencing, case-based reasoning, industrialapplication, uncertainty issues.
Prequisites: INFO290; Business Administration major
INFO490 Decision Support Systems for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The course will cover the following topics: decision types and models,heuristics in decision making, the role of data and its collection, groupdecision making, design of DSS and GDSS, neural computing/learning,uncertainty issues.
Prequisites: INFO290; Business Administration major
INFO491 Independent Study in Information Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A student, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, will conduct an in-depthstudy on a current topic in information systems. A project report or aresearch paper will be produced after this study. May be repeated once for amaximum of 6.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and INFO290
INFO492 Special Topics in Information Systems (1.00 to 3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course covers the topics in the design, implementation, and applicationsof information systems. The topics also include various informationtechnologies and their applications. The course may be repeated for credit aslong as the "special topic" in each course differs from topics previouslytaken. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.
Prequisites: INFO290 and departmental approval
INFO496 Advanced Systems Analysis and Design (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is an advanced (capstone) project-oriented exposition of the MISknowledge to application system development process. Emphasis is placed oninformation analysis and the logical specification of the system and projectmanagement. SDLC, systems development process and systems development tools,etc. , are covered. The student is guided to develop a formal design documentas a project.
Prequisites: Two of the following: INFO357, INFO380, INFO410, and departmental approval
MGMT231 Management Processes (3.00 credit hours)
Description: To provide undergraduate students a review of classical and modern approachesto the managerial process as it relates to the manager's functions ofplanning, organizing, communication, motivation, leading, controlling, andmanaging change. Emphasizing new forces in the managerial environment such asworkplace diversity and economic globalization, these reviews will be tied tothe open-system model and the contingency approach as overall frameworks forunderstanding organizations and management.
MGMT315 Organizational Behavior (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Major approaches to the study of organizations. Organizational systems andstructure, systems of communication, power and influence, organizationalconflict, coordination and control, leadership, motivation, interpersonaldynamics and change and renewal.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT316 Human Resource Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Motivating managerial and non-managerial employees; effective use of humanresources in the organization. The personnel function, techniques of jobanalysis, description and evaluation, and overall organizational developmentparticularly with minority group members and female employees. Meets theUniversity Writing Requirement for BAMG majors.
Prequisites: MGMT231; junior standing; Business Administration, Allied Health, RecreationProfession, Fashion Studies or Nutrition and Food Science with concentrationin Food Management majors only
MGMT318 Motivation and Leadership (3.00 credit hours)
Description: In-depth analysis of the human element; analytical models to assist in thesolution of leadership problems in an organizational context. Techniques ofanalysis and the psychology of self-esteem. Motivational problems facingfirst-line, middle, and top level managers in professional and nonprofessional work activities. The development of skills for practicalapplication case studies.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT327 Training, Development, and Career Planning (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Theory and design of training, development and career planning programs. Assessment of training needs, training and development methods and proceduresfor evaluating training are considered. Some emphasis is placed on thedevelopment of managerial skills through student workshops.
Prequisites: MGMT316
MGMT331 Family Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Family businesses are an important force in the US economy, contributingover 50% of the country's gross domestic product. This course explores uniquechallenges and opportunities involved in managing a family business. Some keyissues to be covered are dynamics of family interactions with family businessculture, market strengths and weaknesses of family-owned firms, and leadershipsuccession. May be repeated once for a total of six credits.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT332 Minorities in Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Methods and techniques for solving problems minority group members mayencounter in business. New or existing personnel in managerial andnon-managerial positions in established firms; minority group members asentrepreneurs; relationships with other members of an organization. Meets theMulticultural Awareness Requirement (MAR). Meets the Human and InterculturalRelations Requirement (HIRR).
MGMT335 Small Business Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The problems and opportunities of starting and operating a small business. Capital accumulation, adapting technologies to specialized needs, assessinglocal market opportunities, governmental aids, establishing workingrelationships with large organizations and problems of growth.
Prequisites: ACCT202 and ECON101 and ECON102 and MGMT231 and MKTG240
MGMT363 Business and Society (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Business as an institution in our pluralistic society; its relationship withother societal elements such as government, academia, labor and the consumer. American business past, present and future; strengths, weaknesses and overallcontribution to society; ecology, minority groups and the quantity and qualityof economic growth. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) -Contemporary Issues.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT392 Management Internship (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The Management Internship posts the student to a real business to performactual management tasks in a going business concern. The student focuses onthe practical needs of the business while maintaining liaison with a coursecoordinator in the Department of Management. Compensation for the assignmentis at the discretion of the firm. The firm will assign and monitor meaningfulintern tasks and achievements. The primary evaluator of student achievementis the host business supervisor.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MGMT316, senior standing, Business Administration major withconcentration in Management only, and departmental approval
MGMT414 Management Theories: Behavioral Approaches (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Advanced analysis of the most recent developments in the behavioral sciencesas a basis for practical applications in the management of organizations. Special emphasis on techniques drawn from several behavioral models includingapproaches such as transactional analysis and behavior modification.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT415 Organizational Theory: Macro Approaches (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A detailed analysis using the most up-to-date theories in the field oforganizational analysis as it pertains to the management of organizations. Emphasis is placed on the application and understanding of macro models ofhuman behavior in organizations to include such approaches as natural,rational and open systems models.
Prequisites: MGMT231 or 315
MGMT416 Problems in Human Resources Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A review of the principal personnel functions with respect to current researchfrom the behavioral sciences that impact human resources management practices. Emphasis is on the solution of typical problems and the making of soundpersonnel decisions based on legal cases, scientific results relative toselection, tracking, performance appraisal, manpower plannings andcompensation. Management concentrations only.
Prequisites: MGMT316
MGMT417 Compensation Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Theory and practice in employee wage and salary administration in bothbusiness and non-business organization. Traditional job evaluation methodsand survey techniques are presented with emphasis on both the economic andbehavioral effects of compensation practices.
Prequisites: MGMT316; Business Administration major
MGMT431 Middle and First Line Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The specific functions which middle and first line managers must perform in aproduction operation, designed so that the student upon graduation can movedirectly into a management position. The effects of change in managementphilosophies and the need to acquaint the student with these changes.
MGMT433 Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Attitudes and perspectives for effecting meaningful and profitable change. Concepts of creativity, optimum use of resources, and the impact oftechnological change. Anticipating needs and wants of all groups influencedby the enterprise; examples of successful entrepreneurship, role-playing andsituational exercises.
Prequisites: MGMT231, FINC321, MKTG240
MGMT434 Comparative Management Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Multi-national corporations expanding into areas with new sociological andcultural constraints. Problems of management in the public sector ascontrasted with the private sector. Management in newly-developed economiesand in highly-industrialized economies; public corporations, non-profitorganizations, mixed enterprise.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT435 Organizational Development and Change (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of and some skill in theprocess of planning, introducing, and managing change in organizations. Considerable time will be devoted to the role of the manager as a changeagent. Cases and experiential exercises will be used to illustrate thevarious phases of the change process as well as the different changetechniques available.
Prequisites: MGMT231, majors only, instructor's permission
MGMT436 Project Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course prepares students to develop a project management plan, developschedules, estimate personnel requirements and estimate costs and delays fortypical project management problems in business. This course may be repeatedonce for a total of six credits.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MGMT316 and INFO375
MGMT439 Strategic Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This is the capstone course in the Business curriculum which requires studentsto integrate and build on the knowledge and skills acquired in the businesscore courses. The course emphasizes the use of business skills in theformulation and implementation of strategy through processes such as stakeholder audits, industry analysis, value chain analysis, identification ofcapabilities and competence, and business and corporate strategy selection inboth the domestic and international context. To accomplish this,the casestudy instructional method is used as the primary format.
Prequisites: ACCT202, FINC321, MGMT231, MKTG240; senior standing; School of Businessmajors only
MGMT491 Small Business Institute (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A field studies course providing management assistance to small businesses inthe local community. Students work individually or in small groups underfaculty supervision directly with a small business person who has requestedtheir counseling services. Students gain experience in problem solving and inapplying marketing, accounting, finance and/or management concepts to actualbusiness situations.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MKTG240, FINC321
MGMT492 Selected Topics in Management (1.00 to 3.00 credit hours)
Description: The content of this course varies with each offering. Its purpose is toprovide for the comprehensive development and study of an advanced topic ofcurrent interest not covered in-depth in the regular curriculum.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and MGMT315 or MGMT316 or MGMT318
MGMT495 Contemporary Issues in Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The capstone course in management that addresses issues at the forefront ofmanagement practice and scholarship. Delivered in a seminar and experientialformat, this course will cover topics such as Teams and Teamwork, LearningOrganizations and Creativity, and New Forms of Organizing such astelecommuting.
Prequisites: Senior standing; MGMT231, MKTG346, and INFO371
MGMT499 Honors Seminar (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Opportunity for a select number of students to study management issues in asmall, intimate classroom environment. Students will be given a broad rangeof opportunities for exploration of the literature as well as of investigationof the problems selected out for detailed study.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and MGMT315 or MGMT316 or MGMT318
Graduate courses (Detail)
INFO501 Statistical Methods (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to statistical techniques with applications in business decisionmaking and problem solving. Topics include methods of descriptive dataanalysis, probability and probability distributions, methods of inferentialdata analysis including estimation and hypothesis testing and an introductionto experimental design principles, correlation, regression model building andan introduction to time series forecasting.
Prequisites: Course in undergraduate calculus; MBA degree students only
INFO502 Operations Research (3.00 credit hours)
Description: A presentation of many of the applied mathematical techniques used to helpmake business decisions. Topics include the theory of decisions, linearprogramming, network analysis, queuing, Markov processes, and simulation.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO503 Information Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Examines the information requirements of an organization. The differences inthe kinds of information needed at the various organizational levels(operational, administrative and strategic) are emphasized. How to plan andimplement a comprehensive information system is discussed as well as methodsto measure its effectiveness.
Prequisites: MBA degree students only
INFO504 Principles and Problems of Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Survey of principles and practices. History of business education,objectives, relationship of business education to general education, trendsand problems in the field. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBAdirector.
INFO505 Production/Operations Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Emphasizes human and mechanical productivity in planning a comprehensive andeffective production or operations system. Employs a case approach to thestudy, formulation, and solution of business problems through the applicationof managerial, quantitative and information systems methodology.
Prequisites: INFO501, 503, MGMT505; MBA degree students only
INFO506 Business Education Curriculum (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Study of business education for various levels and types of schools. Evaluation of specific programs for development of improved curricula. Notfor MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO510 Administration and Supervision of Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Study of problems of organizing, directing and supervising business educationprograms at the secondary school and collegiate levels. Not for MBA studentsexcept by permission of MBA Director.
INFO511 Improvement of Instruction in Bookkeeping, Accounting and Business Arithmetic (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Study of objectives, content, methods, teaching aids, and evaluationprocedures. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO512 Improvement of Instruction in General Business Subjects (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of this course is to upgrade the teaching of the general businesssubjects. Resource units and lessons are developed. These units includeperformance objectives, pretesting, learning activities, and post-testing. This course also includes a simulation/gaming component which helps to fosterstrategies for planning and decision making. Not for MBA students except bypermission of MBA Director.
INFO513 Emerging Technologies in Management Information Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides an overview of the information technologies and theirstrategic roles in business. It helps students to build an in-depthunderstanding of the value and use of emerging information technology forbusiness operations, management decision-making and strategic advantage.
Prequisites: INFO503; MBA degree students only
INFO514 Information Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Study of computers and their use as management tools in information systems,research, control procedures, production, finance, modeling, and decisionmaking. Topics include description of and application of different hardwareand software components and programming concepts. Computer cost benefitanalysis in all of the above and in systems applications.
Prequisites: INFO503
INFO515 Improvement of Instruction in Information Processing (3.00 credit hours)
Description: To provide students with an overview of the emerging field of InformationProcessing. This includes investigating trends, teaching strategies and newdevelopments in the fields of telecommunication, multimedia and the Internet.
Prequisites: Undergraduate methods in keyboarding/information processing and/or teachingexperience
INFO521 Decision Support and Expert Systems for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to the fundamental principles, techniques and businessapplications of decision support systems (DSS) and expert systems (ES) from amanagerial perspective. Provides practical knowledge of the ways to utilizedecision support systems and expert systems to solve business problemsinvolving complex decision-making processes.
Prequisites: INFO503; MBA degree students only
INFO522 Business Data Communications and Networks (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course provides a broad introduction to data communications andnetworking concepts, addressing both technical and business aspects of datacommunications and computer networks in modern organizations. Studentsdevelop a conceptual understanding in conjunction with the appreciation ofpractical networking applications in business.
Prequisites: INFO503; some background in technology, networking, and project management isrequired
INFO523 Database Systems for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Increases an understanding of how databases are developed and managed toeffectively support business information systems in organizations. Havingacquired conceptual knowledge as well as practical techniques, students alsogain insights into other options in database management by reviewing thelatest offerings in the field.
Prequisites: INFO503; some background in technology, programming, and project managementis required
INFO524 Business Systems Analysis and Design (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Emphasis is on the application of tools and techniques of systems analysis anddesign, change management concepts, processes, and techniques are presented inthe context of systems development projects. Pointers to managerial andorganizational aspects of information technology projects are providedthroughout the course. This course is for individuals aspiring to be analystsor better informed end users of information systems in business.
Prequisites: INFO503; MBA degree students only
INFO525 Electronic Commerce:Managerial Perspective on New Business Models andInformation Infrastructure Support (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to provide the student an understanding of theconsequences of the introduction of the Internet in the way business isconducted. The electronic commerce world is viewed primarily from thepoint-of-view of MIS. The E-Commerce course will emphasize strategicplanning, appreciating relevant information technology support issues, andsensitivity to analyzing and evaluating new business models evolving in themarketplace rapidly. Organizations have been profoundly affected by relatednetwork technologies. The student will learn about new forms of businesspractices in "virtual" organization business-to-business,consumer-to-business, person-to-person, and intraorganizational transactions. Specifically, activities in the areas of electronic shopping, publishing,distribution, and collaboration will be explored.
Prequisites: INFO503
INFO528 Field Studies in Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Opportunity for the classroom teacher to evaluate some of the practices ofbusiness offices, industries and retailing organizations in the metropolitanarea. Experience in planning, conducting and follow-up of field trips.
INFO529 Principles of Cooperative Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Survey of principles and practices of cooperative business education. Objectives, organization, related class, placement, and supervision areinvestigated. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO531 Business Models (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course in quantitative approaches to managerial decisionmaking. The emphasis will be on simulation models and techniques withapplications in finance, production, inventory, and queuing analysis. Computer-based simulation systems will be discussed and tested on thecomputer.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO532 Statistical Inference for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: An exploration of intermediate statistical methodologies used for decisionmaking. The theoretical bases for various techniques are presented to createa framework for understanding the assumptions and limitations of inferencesmade from data. Topics covered will include multivariate probabilityfunctions, moment generating functions, sampling distributions; estimation,Neyman-Pearson Lemma, parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests, andanalysis of variance.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO533 Stochastic Models (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Stochastic models are descriptions of systems which change in accordance withprobabilistic laws. The course focuses on construction rather than solutionof models. Simulation solutions and statistical analysis of data fromstochastic processes. Applications to business problems are stressed.
Prequisites: INFO502
INFO534 Multivariate Analysis (3.00 credit hours)
Description: An introduction to multivariate analysis with an emphasis on the practicalapplication of these techniques. After introducing the multivariatedistribution, the following statistical procedures are explored: multipleregression, discriminant analysis, multivariate tests of significance,canonical analysis, factor analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Use ofthese procedures as managerial tools is fully explored.
Prequisites: INFO502, 532
INFO535 Advanced Information Systems (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Conceptual foundations of information systems including the nature ofinformation, the impact of information systems of the organization andmanaging the information services function. Explores most current technologyin the area of operating systems software, including multiprocessing,multiprogramming, virtual storage and other operating systems, as well asapplications software systems.
Prequisites: INFO503
INFO536 Introduction to Research in Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Literature and research of business education. Topics covered include:evaluation of current literature in business education research and tools usedfor interpreting statistical data. Student develops outline of research studyto be completed in INFO 636, Seminar in Business Education. Not for MBAstudents except by permission of MBA Director.
Prequisites: INFO504 and 511 or 512 or 515
INFO540 Workshop in Business Education (1.00 to 3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course will give the business educator the opportunity to do an intensivestudy of a selected current issue, concern, and/or problem in BusinessEducation.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO550 Total Quality Methods (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The philosophy, tools and techniques necessary to properly manage for thecontrol of quality production are of ever increasing importance to businessand industry. Quality control, long thought of as only a tool for acceptancesampling, is now expanded and used as a means for improving all phases of anybusiness system. For several decades, Japanese business has successfullyutilized these methods to gain new inroads into international markets. Thiscourse presents the newest approaches to quality control adapting many of thetraditional tools and methods to current problems.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO575 Independent Study in Information Systems for Business (1.00 to 3.00 credit hours)
Description: Under faculty guidance and supervision, this tutorial course is open tostudents who wish to pursue individual study and research in a particulardiscipline. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO577 Selected Topics in Information Systems for Business (3.00 credit hours)
Description: An in-depth study of a selected topic, issue, problem or trend in informationsytems for business. The specific subject matter is not offered as anexisting regular course or deserves more time-emphasis than is possible in aregular course. When offered, topics and prerequisites are announced in thecourse schedule book.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO636 Seminar in Business Education (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Matriculated graduate students in business complete research projects inbusiness. Prepares students for comprehensive examinations. Not for MBAstudents except by permission of MBA Director.
Prequisites: INFO536
MGMT501 Fundamentals of Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: To provide graduate students with a review of classical approaches to themanagerial functions and of current literature from the behavioral sciencesthat are directly applicable to the managerial process of planning,organizing, motivating, and controlling. These reviews will be tied with theopen-system model or the contingency approach as an overall framework forunderstanding organizations and their management. Skills are developed whichfacilitate situational diagnosis leading to managerial action that isappropriate in specific circumstances.
MGMT502 Behavior in Organizations (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Major behavioral concepts as they relate to complex organizations are reviewedwith emphasis on current theory and research. Topics include employeemotivation, learning, group behavior, job design, and leadership.
MGMT505 Management Process and Organizational Behavior (3.00 credit hours)
Description: Env. M. students, MAFine Arts majors with concentration inMuseum Management, MATheatre majors with concentration in Arts Management,or MATheatre majors with concentration in Arts Management. Review of classical and modern approaches to the managerial process as itrelates to the manager's functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading,and controlling. These reviews will be tied to the open-system model and thecontingency approach as an overall framework for understanding the managementof organizations.
Prequisites: Only MBAand D
MGMT510 Human Resource Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course examines how managers can utilize modern Human Resource practicesin order to improve company performance and efficiencies. Topics includestaffing for quality, outsourcing, use of core and contingent workforce,managing workforce commitment and performance, legal issues, managing careers,and reward systems. A case study approach is used.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT511 Global Business Endeavors (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course offers an in-depth analysis of critical components of globalbusiness management. It examines the challenges of the changing internationalcompetitive environment, as well as the political, economic, and legalinfluences on global corporate leadership. This course will help studentsoutline multinational business strategies, understand internationalizationprocess, and develop analytical skills necessary to succeed in dynamic globalbusiness activities. Cross listed with INBS 511.
Prequisites: INBS501
MGMT512 Organizational Development (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of the course is to enhance the student's understanding and skillin the process of change in organizations. Students will be introduced tointervention techniques which will allow them to recognize the need fororganizational change as well as develop skill in implementing a programchange.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT513 Leadership and Behavior (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of the course is to help students understand leadership behavior. The course reviews current theoretical and empirical literature from thebehavioral sciences as it relates to leadership. Topics covered includeleadership styles, power and leadership, leader-follower interactions, and themanager as leader.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT520 Managing The Global Workforce (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The objective of the course is to increase knowledge about managing a globalworkforce. The course provides a framework for understanding how individual,group and organization factors impact global businesses and how organizationsrespond to them. Some focus will be placed on understanding cross-culturalissues within this context. Practical application, case analysis, andeffective management practices of international companies are emphasized. Cross listed with International Business, INBS 520.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT525 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course is for students who want to start their own businesses or initiatenew ventures in existing corporations. Topics include the importance ofentrepreneurship in the US, identifying business opportunities andformulating business plans.
Prequisites: MGMT505, MKTG501, ACCT501
MGMT530 Management of Technology in Organizations (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course focuses on the management of technology and the technologicalfunction in the modern corporation. Topics include the management of scienceand technology professionals, integration of the R&D function into theorganization, the impact of national and global forces on innovationintroduction and adoption, and technological change. Descriptions of newtechnologies in biotechnology, manufacturing, aerospace, and other fields areincluded. Delivered in a lecture format, the course includes case studies,guest speakers, and team-based pedagogical techniques.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT540 Executive Perspectives (3.00 credit hours)
Description: This course complements the theorectical components by providing practicalexposure to current management issues. This is accomplished by bringing toclass business executives and leaders who discuss their most immediate andlonger term management challenges.
MGMT575 Independent Study in Management (1.00 to 3.00 credit hours)
Description: .
Prequisites: Departmental Approval
MGMT577 Selected Topics in Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: An in-depth study of a selected topic, issue, problem or trend in management. The specific subject matter is not offered as an existing regular course ordeserves more time-emphasis than is possible in a regular course. Whenoffered, topics and prerequisites are announced in the course schedule book. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6. 0 credits as long as the topic isdifferent.
MGMT580 Advanced Strategic Management (3.00 credit hours)
Description: The focus of this course is on actual business situations and their impact onthe total organization including the role of top management in dealing withthese problems. The structure of the course is based on the strategicmanagement process which includes identification, evaluation, andimplementation of policy and strategy.
Prequisites: Completion of the business core and a minimum of 12 semester hours of advancedcourses; MBA students only
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