Courses
Undergraduate courses (Overview)
- HOSP150 Introduction to the Hospitality Industry
- HOSP199 Hospitality and Tourism Professional Seminar
- HOSP230 Hospitality Management
- HOSP250 Hospitality Management
- HOSP290 Hospitality Internship I
- HOSP300 Hospitality Law
- HOSP320 Hosptiality Internship
- HOSP355 Organizational Issues in Hospitality
- HOSP370 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in Hospitality
- 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 Programming & Database Fundamentals
- INFO282 Network & Systems Fundamentals
- 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 on the wide variety of career opportunities. Introduces students to the relationship between the tourism and hospitality industries. Emphasizes lodging and restaurant development and operations. In addition, explores career opportunities in these areas.
HOSP199 Hospitality and Tourism Professional Seminar (1.0 credit hours)
Description: To provide student with essential knowledge and survival skills needed for the effective study of hospitality and tourism. The seminar includes first-year student orientation, establishes hospitality and related areas identity among students, and explores the fields of hospitality and tourism management as a career. This course also promotes an awareness and understanding of diversity, values and perspectives as they relate to overall student success at MSU. Meets Gen Ed 2002 - New Student Seminar.
HOSP230 Hospitality Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to management history and functions such as planning, leading,organizing, and controlling. Provides basic understanding of management concept and its application in the hospitality industry.
HOSP250 Hospitality Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Provides students a basic understanding of the hospitality industry by tracing the industry's growth and development; reviewing the organization of hotels,resorts, casinos, timeshares, food and beverage, club management, managed food service and related operations; and by focusing on industry trends and career opportunities.
Prequisites: HOSP199 or GNED199
HOSP290 Hospitality Internship I (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Special fee. Provides students with industry experience. It enables students to apply their classroom learning to an actual professional work setting.
Prequisites: HOSP250, HOSP199, HOSP230, PERL123, PERL235
HOSP300 Hospitality Law (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The goal of this course is to introduce students to the laws and regulations applicable to the ownership and operation of hospitality businesses.
Prequisites: HOSP250 and MGMT231
HOSP320 Hosptiality Internship (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Provides students with a professional work experience before completing their degree. Enables students to apply their course work knowledge to a professional work setting.
Prequisites: HOSP250
HOSP355 Organizational Issues in Hospitality (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The hospitality industry offers unique challenges to the general business management student. This course explores those challenges. The course seeks to leverage general management topics by helping students apply their knowledge and skills to the unique aspects of the hospitality industry. The course covers applications in human resources, especially diversity,employment discrimination and union-management relations. Ethics, as it applies to the hospitality industry, is also covered.
Prequisites: HOSP250 , MGMT231
HOSP370 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in Hospitality (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Customer Relationship Management Technologies providing in-depth knowledge and skills in designing, developing, and maintaining computer-based systems for warehousing and mining customer information for such purposes as customer segmentation studies, targeted marketing, and frequency and loyalty programs.
Prequisites: HOSP250 and INFO290
HOSP380 Lodging System Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course providing in-depth knowledge and skills to manage all aspects of the lodging industry in different settings, such as full-service hotel, limited-service hotel/motel, bed and breakfast, extended stay-hotel, suite hotel, resort, casino hotel, cruise line, timeshare and assisted living facility.
HOSP390 Food and Beverage Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course providing mechanisms and techniques to manage food and beverage provisions in various sectors of the hospitality industry, such as restaurant, bar or beverage operation, club, contracted or institutional food service. In addition, food and beverage functions within various lodging settings (hotel, resort, casino hotel and cruise line) are discussed.
Prequisites: HOSP250 and MGMT231
HOSP405 Human Resource Management in Hospitality and Tourism (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Discusses the managerial competencies necessary to manage and motivate the human resources of hospitality and tourism organizations. Competencies include job analysis, description and evaluation, recruiting, training, and retention. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP230
HOSP415 Cost Management for Hospitality Managers (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This upper-level course builds on the principles and concepts of financial and managerial accounting. It discusses departmental costs and the relationships between revenues and various types of costs. In addition, it explores the relationship between cost, volume, and profit. Common control mechanisms and purchase practices noted in the hospitality industry will be explored. Class project required. Optional: The Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification Examination.
Prequisites: ACCT202
HOSP420 Advanced Hospitality Marketing (3.0 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 process will bring theory, concepts, and facts into the realm of application and implementation. An overview of the discipline as it pertains to the hospitality organizations will be presented to help students with their analyses. Class project required.
Prequisites: PERL235
HOSP425 Technology in the Hospitality Industry (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Explores the impact of technology on the hospitality industry. Exposes students to the different software used in the industry including the property management systems, point-of-sale system, reservation, and accounting systems. The use of E-Commerce as a marketing tool will also be explored. Class project required.
Prequisites: CMPT109
HOSP435 Managing Diversity in the Hospitality Industry (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This upper-level course is designed to assist students in understanding the issues related to American multicultural management in the hospitality industry through the utilization of a conceptual framework and the application of appropriate management techniques. A directed work project will be incorporated into this course. Class project required. Meets the World Languages and Cultures Requirement - World Cultures.
Prequisites: HOSP405
HOSP440 Service Management in the Hospitality Industry (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Teach students all aspects of delivering hospitality services. It is customer driven with emphases on Total Quality Management, customer problem-solving skills, and outcome assessment. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP230
HOSP445 Hospitality Operations Management II (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Deals with the daily operations of resorts and cruise management. Emphasis will be on the housing and food and beverage services that cater to the people away from home. It highlights the difference in managing a traditional hotel and explores features that are unique. It builds on the basic knowledge of hospitality operations. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP410
HOSP450 International Hospitality Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to the dimensions and nature of international hospitality operations. Create a sensitivity to and awareness of the differences in managing different cultures as well as present a global view of hospitality management. Topics covered include cultural dimensions of management,international marketing, and international human resource management. Class project required.
Prequisites: HOSP250, PERL124
HOSP455 Organizational Issues in Hospitaity (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The hospitality industry offers unique challenges to the general business management student. This course explores those challenges. The course seeks to leverage general management topics by helping students apply their knowledge and skills to the unique aspects of the hospitality industry. The course covers applications in human resources, especially diversity,employment discrimination and union-management relations. Ethics, as it applies to the hospitality industry, is also covered.
HOSP460 Hospitality InternshipPrerequisites:HOSP380 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Provides students with a professional work experience before completing their degree. Enables students to apply their course work knowledge to a professional work setting.
HOSP470 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Technologies in Hospitality (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Customer Relationship Management Technologies providing in-depth knowledge and skills in designing, developing, and maintaining computer-based systems for warehousing and mining customer information for such purposes as customer segmentation studies, targeted marketing, and frequency and loyalty programs.
Prequisites: HOSP150, MKTG240, INFO290
HOSP490 Entrepreneurship in Hospitality (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This capstone course guides students through the strategic business development process of lodging and food and beverage establishments. From concept to operations, students engage in a business planning project applying knowledge and skills acquired from foundation and major courses. Students who complete the course will have developed a complete business plan for the design, financing, opening, and on-going operations of a viable business. Meets the University Writing Requirement for BAHM majors.
INFO101 Contemporary Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The organization and operation of contemporary business are explored. Students study the operation of the free enterprise system, alternative economic systems, and the various functional areas of business: finance, management, production, and marketing. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to allow students to apply personal finance concepts using Quicken Software on the computer. Personal finance concepts and practices such as managing a checking account, credit account, cash account,maintaining home inventory, maintaining a personal balance sheet, income and expense record, tax records, estate planning, home mortgages, and using the Internet to facilitate processing of personal finance records are the major components of this course.
Prequisites: Satisfactory completion of the GER in Computer Science
INFO209 Personal Finance (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course introduces students to the principles of personal financial management. Using a life cycle view of the role(s) of money at various stages of life, students discover principles underlying decisions such as how to budget, managing consumer credit, managing taxes, selecting investments, planning for retirement, and estate planning. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) - Electives, Personal/Professional Issues.
INFO230 Introduction to Business Work Experience (3.0 to 6.0 credit hours)
Description: 25 minimum grade point average. Special fee. This is an introductory cooperative education course which integrates formal classroom study and assignments with a supervised full-time or part-time off-campus employment experience.
Prequisites: Sophomore level status (45+ semester hours completed) with a 2
INFO270 Statistics for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: May not be taken for graduation credit by College of Science and Mathematics majors. This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of modern statistical methods. Topics covered include: descriptive statistical methods of data analysis; an introduction to probability theory; an introduction to discrete and continuous probability distributions and mathematical expectation; classical statistical inference - sampling distributions,confidence interval estimation, and hypothesis testing for means and proportions; regression and correlation; and an introduction to time series analysis. Spreadsheet software is integrated in all topics. Cross listed with Mathematical Sciences, MATH 270.
Prequisites: MATH114
INFO271 Managerial Statistics (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Analytic statistics which focuses on tools and methods for improving quality. Topics include Demings's fourteen points, descriptive statistics, summary statistical measures, probability and probability distributions, control charts, regression and design of experiments.
Prequisites: Math 113 and 114
INFO273 Introduction to Computers in Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides an introduction to the use of computers within a broad global business environment through an introduction to the skills, concepts,and capabilities necessary to effectively use information technology in organizations. Strong emphasis of the course is on building competencies in industry-approved software programs, such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access.
INFO281 Programming & Database Fundamentals (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of management information systems. This course focuses on developing foundation knowledge and skills in programming logic and database development. May be taken prior to or concurrently with INFO 282.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency exam
INFO282 Network & Systems Fundamentals (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental concepts of management information systems. This course focuses on developing foundation knowledge and skills in computer networks and systems analysis.
Prequisites: INFO273
INFO290 Management Information Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is an inquiry into business information systems and information technology management in digital firms. Analysis of information from the management 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 business value of information systems will be covered. This course is skill building in the definition and analysis of systems problems and the provision of solutions 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Cannot be used for degree credit by Business Administration majors with more than 60 credits completed toward degree. The underlying theme of the course is business problem solving. This course engages students in employing tools from operations management and management information systems in the solution of business problems. Analysis of quantitative decision-making and information systems from the management point of 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the movement to Web-based applications and enterprise-level management information systems as well as electronic commerce. This is a hands-on, lab-based Webpage design course with significant exposure to the tools and requirements for the production of such systems. Students will learn to use a variety of development tools such as MS-Front Page, scripting languages such as avaScript, VBScript and Perl and programming styles to develop both individually and in teams applications that simulate the realities of today's information systems and environment.
Prequisites: INFO281; Business Administration major
INFO315 Production and Industrial Analysis (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is mainly designed to expose students to production aspects of industries. It will develop theories and applications in the areas of location of facilities, capacity planning, facilities design and layout,designing assembly line production systems, facilities maintenance and materials handling, purchasing, inventory control systems, forecasting demand for products, master scheduling and MRP, scheduling and control systems, and quality and statistical quality control.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271 and MGMT231; Business Administration majors
INFO320 Administrative Business Communications (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The study of communication processes using special problem applications with a theoretical and practical base. Writing proposals, business correspondence,business plans, and handling electronic messaging are covered. Emphasis is also on using presentation materials to complement interpersonal and organizational communication. This course counts as an elective within the business major for all concentrations in Business Administration. Meets the University Writing Requirement for BAMI, BAOM and BAQM majors.
Prequisites: Business Administration majors only; and MKTG240
INFO321 Information and Media Management (3.0 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 the managerial considerations necessary for effective selection and utilization of equipment, procedures, and personnel. This course counts as an elective within the business major for all concentrations in Business Administration.
Prequisites: Business Administration majors only; and INFO290
INFO330 Office Systems Administration Professional Work Experience Program (3.0 to 6.0 credit hours)
Description: 45 grade point average; satisfactory completion of INFO 230 or the equivalent of 6 months of verified full-time work experience; office systems administration concentration declaration for one prior semester plus the completion of 6 semester hours from the office systems administration core courses. Special fee. This is a cooperative education course specifically for office systems administration majors. Course is designed to integrate formal classroom study and assignments with supervised full-time off-campus employment.
Prequisites: Junior or senior status; a 2
INFO335 Computer Applications in Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A course designed to prepare students to make decisions in the selection and utilization of microcomputer systems and appropriate software for a business environment based on identified needs; the factors to consider in the implementation of microcomputers at different levels of an organization; and the characteristics of specific software applications used in the business environment. The course also provides students with hands-on experience with commercial software packages. This course counts as an elective within the business major for all concentrations in Business Administration.
Prequisites: INFO273 or passing SBUSComputer Proficiency Exam; Business Administrationmajor
INFO350 Quality Improvement (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A comprehensive approach to quality in organizations is essential to maintaining competitive position. This course explores current thinking as well as the tools and techniques necessary to implement quality programs.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO357 Business Computer Programming (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course enhances students' ability to use computer programming to solve business problems. Students are introduced to the concepts of object-oriented programming in business applications.
Prequisites: INFO281 or departmental approval
INFO372 Management Science (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Applied mathematical techniques used to solve a wide variety of problems with special attention to issues, management, and production control. Topics include linear programming, transportation, and assignment algorithms, other optimization techniques, decision theory, simulation, and queuing theory.
Prequisites: INFO270, INFO375 and MGMT231; Business Administration majors
INFO374 Computer Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Optimum selection of computer hardware, software and operating systems among various alternatives, from a cost effectiveness point of view.
Prequisites: INFO371; Business Administration majors
INFO375 Operations Analysis (3.0 credit hours)
Description: An introduction to managerial concepts and quantitative tools required in the design, operation, and control of business systems. This course incorporates mathematical and statistical methods in the analysis of specific business systems and industrial production activities, inventory control, production planning and scheduling, and capital management. Computers are used to solve problems involving complex systems.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO380 Computer Networks in Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course enhances students' knowledge of data communications, network design, administrations, and distributed information systems. The concepts essential to the design and application of both communication hardware and software are examined. Emphasis is on the analysis and design of networking applications 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: INFO282 or departmental approval
INFO386 Supply Chain Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course involves the flow of materials and information among all of the firms that contribute value to a product from the source of raw materials to end customers. Relationships among supply chain components and the interface of supply chain activities and other functional areas of business are examined.
Prequisites: INFO375; Business Administration majors
INFO410 Database Development for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides students an opportunity to examine various issues in all phases of database development, including requirement analysis and data modeling, logical design and physical design, data integrity control, SQL queries, internet applications and database administration.
Prequisites: INFO281 and INFO290 or departmental approval
INFO411 Managing Automated Office Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Needed competencies for organizing and administering an automated office system 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 for assessing present and future systems will be investigated.
Prequisites: INFO306 and INFO321 and INFO335; Business Administration majors only
INFO412 Management for Information Systems Continuity (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills required to complete an in-depth analysis of an organization's information systems and infrastructure needs from 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 addition to the technical and logistical aspects, the course provides an important framework of the management perspective necessary to plan for and successfully react to operational vulnerability and disruptions in public and private organizations.
Prequisites: INFO290
INFO430 Seminar in Office Systems Administration (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Current developments in office systems administration will be investigated by student research teams in contemporary administrative office environments. Emphasis will be on helping students develop investigative and analytical skills.
Prequisites: INFO306 and INFO321 and INFO335; Business Administration majors only
INFO463 Essential Research and Data Analysis Methods (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Provides a working knowledge of research methodology and includes the fundamentals of both exploratory and confirmatory data analysis useful in business research settings, enabling a focus on understanding and interpreting results and being aware of related ethical issues. Develops the concepts of experimental designs and model building and uses SPSS, a menu-driven statistical software package, throughout. Enhances development of interpersonal skills through the use of projects and assignments emphasizing the importance of teamwork in achieving success in an organizational setting and enhances development of communication skills by emphasizing term team project reports and brief oral presentations.
Prequisites: INFO270 and INFO273 or permission of department; Business Administrationmajors
INFO470 Electronic Commerce: Creating Business Value Using Information Technology (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to provide the student an understanding of the consequences of the introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the way business is conducted. The electronic commerce world is viewed primarily from the point-of-view of MIS. That is, the managerial issues related to the information infrastructure requirements are mainly attended to. Both individuals and organizations have been profoundly affected by related network technologies that have since permutated in form ever since the convergence of advanced communications and information infrastructure and the cable,telephone, television, and telecommunications industries. The student will learn 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, and collaboration will be explored. The following issues that have arisen as a result of electronic commerce (EC) will be explored: security, authentication,privacy, data encryption, intellectual property rights, freedom of expression using electronic media, fair use policies, legal liabilities, etc. Students will also learn about new organizational forms such as the "virtual" firm that are emerging as a result of EC.
Prequisites: INFO290
INFO473 Telecommunication and Database Issues in the Business Setting (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The course will cover the following topics: the practice and theory of telecommunications; telecommunication standards; communication channels; local area/wide area networks; protocols; database concepts; relational data base theory and practice; requirements definition process; data structures.
Prequisites: INFO373; Business Administration major
INFO474 Business Forecasting (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Mathematical and econometric models for short- and long-range business forecasting. Models are evaluated for accuracy and relevance. The computer is used as a tool in developing an automated system.
Prequisites: INFO270 or INFO271; Business Administration majors
INFO475 Quantitative Decision Making for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is a capstone course for the Quantitative Methods concentrations and is aimed at applying the quantitative methods learned in the prerequisite courses to solve some real world business problems. It will be a project-oriented course. The class time will be used to discuss the problems and 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is concerned with data mining concepts and techniques and is designed as a practical introduction to the growing field of Data Mining. This powerful set of analytic techniques is becoming increasingly popular as an information management tool designed to guide decisions under conditions of limited 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The course will cover the following topics: knowledge acquisition techniques,knowledge representation, inferencing, case-based reasoning, industrial application, uncertainty issues.
Prequisites: INFO290; Business Administration major
INFO490 Decision Support Systems for Business (3.0 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, group decision making, design of DSS and GDSS, neural computing/learning,uncertainty issues.
Prequisites: INFO290; Business Administration major
INFO491 Independent Study in Information Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A student, under the guidance of a faculty advisor, will conduct an in-depth study on a current topic in information systems. A project report or are search paper will be produced after this study. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and INFO290
INFO492 Special Topics in Information Systems (1.0 to 3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course covers the topics in the design, implementation, and applications of information systems. The topics also include various information technologies and their applications. The course may be repeated for credit as long as the "special topic" in each course differs from topics previously taken. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.
Prequisites: INFO290 and departmental approval
INFO496 Advanced Systems Analysis and Design (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is an advanced (capstone) project-oriented exposition of the MIS knowledge to application system development process. Emphasis is placed on information analysis and the logical specification of the system and project management. SDLC, systems development process and systems development tools,etc. , are covered. The student is guided to develop a formal design document as a project.
Prequisites: INFO357 and INFO380 and INFO410 or departmental approval
MGMT231 Management Processes (3.0 credit hours)
Description: To provide undergraduate students a review of classical and modern approaches to the managerial process as it relates to the manager's functions of planning, organizing, communication, motivation, leading, controlling, and managing change. Emphasizing new forces in the managerial environment such as workplace diversity and economic globalization, these reviews will be tied to the open-system model and the contingency approach as overall frameworks for understanding organizations and management.
Prequisites: SPCM101
MGMT315 Organizational Behavior (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Major approaches to the study of organizations. Organizational systems and structure, systems of communication, power and influence, organizational conflict, coordination and control, leadership, motivation, interpersonal dynamics and change and renewal.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT316 Human Resource Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Motivating managerial and non-managerial employees; effective use of human resources in the organization. The personnel function, techniques of job analysis, description and evaluation, and overall organizational development particularly with minority group members and female employees. Meets the University 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: In-depth analysis of personality and the development of practical models to assist in the solution of leadership problems. Special attention to techniques of analysis and the interpretation of research findings. Examination of different leadership problems facing managers today in various organizations and industries. Focus of the course is on using theory for the development of skills for practical application. Case studies are discussed in class to support this theme.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT327 Training, Development, and Career Planning (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Theory and design of training, development and career planning programs. Assessment of training needs, training and development methods and procedures for evaluating training are considered. Some emphasis is placed on the development of managerial skills through student workshops.
Prequisites: MGMT316
MGMT331 Family Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Family businesses are an important force in the US economy, contributing over 50% of the country's gross domestic product. This course explores unique challenges and opportunities involved in managing a family business. Some key issues to be covered are dynamics of family interactions with family business culture, market strengths and weaknesses of family-owned firms, and leadership succession. May be repeated once for a total of six credits.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT332 Minorities in Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Methods and techniques for solving problems minority group members may encounter in business. New or existing personnel in managerial and non-managerial positions in established firms; minority group members as entrepreneurs; relationships with other members of an organization. Meets the Human and Intercultural Relations Requirement (HIRR). Meets the World Languages and Cultures Requirement - World Cultures.
MGMT335 Small Business Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The problems and opportunities of starting and operating a small business. Capital accumulation, adapting technologies to specialized needs, assessing local market opportunities, governmental aids, establishing working relationships with large organizations and problems of growth.
Prequisites: ACCT202 and ECON101 and ECON102 and MGMT231 and MKTG240
MGMT363 Business and Society (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Business as an institution in our pluralistic society; its relationship with other societal elements such as government, academia, labor and the consumer. American business past, present and future; strengths, weaknesses and overall contribution to society; ecology, minority groups and the quantity and quality of economic growth. Meets the 1983 General Education Requirement (GER) -Contemporary Issues.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT392 Management Internship (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The Management Internship posts the student to a real business to perform actual management tasks in a going business concern. The student focuses on the practical needs of the business while maintaining liaison with a course coordinator in the Department of Management. Compensation for the assignment is at the discretion of the firm. The firm will assign and monitor meaningful intern tasks and achievements. The primary evaluator of student achievement is the host business supervisor.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MGMT316, senior standing, Business Administration major withconcentration in Management only, and departmental approval
MGMT414 Management Theories: Behavioral Approaches (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Advanced analysis of the most recent developments in the behavioral sciences as a basis for practical applications in the management of organizations. Special emphasis on techniques drawn from several behavioral models including approaches such as transactional analysis and behavior modification.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT415 Organizational Theory: Macro Approaches (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A detailed analysis using the most up-to-date theories in the field of organizational analysis as it pertains to the management of organizations. Emphasis is placed on the application and understanding of macro models of human behavior in organizations to include such approaches as natural,rational and open systems models.
Prequisites: MGMT231 or 315
MGMT416 Problems in Human Resources Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A review of the principal personnel functions with respect to current research from the behavioral sciences that impact human resources management practices. Emphasis is on the solution of typical problems and the making of sound personnel decisions based on legal cases, scientific results relative to selection, tracking, performance appraisal, manpower plannings and compensation. Management concentrations only.
Prequisites: MGMT316
MGMT417 Compensation Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Theory and practice in employee wage and salary administration in both business and non-business organization. Traditional job evaluation methods and survey techniques are presented with emphasis on both the economic and behavioral effects of compensation practices.
Prequisites: MGMT316; Business Administration major
MGMT431 Middle and First Line Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The specific functions which middle and first line managers must perform in a production operation, designed so that the student upon graduation can move directly into a management position. The effects of change in management philosophies and the need to acquaint the student with these changes.
MGMT433 Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Attitudes and perspectives for effecting meaningful and profitable change. Concepts of creativity, optimum use of resources, and the impact of technological change. Anticipating needs and wants of all groups influenced by the enterprise; examples of successful entrepreneurship, role-playing and situational exercises.
Prequisites: MGMT231, FINC321, MKTG240
MGMT434 Comparative Management Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Multi-national corporations expanding into areas with new sociological and cultural constraints. Problems of management in the public sector as contrasted with the private sector. Management in newly-developed economies and in highly-industrialized economies; public corporations, non-profit organizations, mixed enterprise.
Prequisites: MGMT231
MGMT435 Organizational Development and Change (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of and some skill in the process of planning, introducing, and managing change in organizations. Considerable time will be devoted to the role of the manager as a change agent. Cases and experiential exercises will be used to illustrate the various phases of the change process as well as the different change techniques available.
Prequisites: MGMT231, majors only, instructor's permission
MGMT436 Project Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course prepares students to develop a project management plan, develop schedules, estimate personnel requirements and estimate costs and delays for typical project management problems in business. This course may be repeated once for a total of six credits.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MGMT316 and INFO375
MGMT439 Strategic Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This is the capstone course in the business curriculum which requires students to integrate and build on the knowledge and skills acquired in the business core courses. The course emphasizes the use of business skills in the formulation and implementation of strategy through processes such as industry analysis, value chain analysis, SWOT, analysis, and analysis of strategic success including financial performance. To accomplish this, a semester-long computer simulation is used in all classes.
Prequisites: ACCT202, FINC321, MGMT231, MKTG240 ; INBS346; senior standing; School ofBusiness majors only
MGMT491 Small Business Institute (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A field studies course providing management assistance to small businesses in the local community. Students work individually or in small groups under faculty supervision directly with a small business person who has requested their counseling services. Students gain experience in problem solving and in applying marketing, accounting, finance and/or management concepts to actual business situations.
Prequisites: MGMT231, MKTG240, FINC321
MGMT492 Selected Topics in Management (1.0 to 3.0 credit hours)
Description: The content of this course varies with each offering. Its purpose is to provide for the comprehensive development and study of an advanced topic of current interest not covered in-depth in the regular curriculum.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and MGMT315 or MGMT316 or MGMT318
MGMT495 Contemporary Issues in Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The capstone course in management that addresses issues at the forefront of management practice and scholarship. Delivered in a seminar and experiential format, this course will cover topics such as Teams and Teamwork, Learning Organizations and Creativity, and New Forms of Organizing such as telecommuting.
Prequisites: Senior standing; MGMT231, MKTG346, and INFO371
MGMT499 Honors Seminar (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Opportunity for a select number of students to study management issues in a small, intimate classroom environment. Students will be given a broad range of opportunities for exploration of the literature as well as of investigation of the problems selected out for detailed study.
Prequisites: Departmental approval; and MGMT315 or MGMT316 or MGMT318
Graduate courses (Detail)
INFO501 Statistical Methods (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to statistical techniques with applications in business decision making and problem solving. Topics include methods of descriptive data analysis, probability and probability distributions, methods of inferential data analysis including estimation and hypothesis testing and an introduction to experimental design principles, correlation, regression model building and an introduction to time series forecasting.
Prequisites: Course in undergraduate calculus; MBA degree students only
INFO502 Operations Research (3.0 credit hours)
Description: A presentation of many of the applied mathematical techniques used to help make business decisions. Topics include the theory of decisions, linear programming, network analysis, queuing, Markov processes, and simulation.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO503 Information Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Examines the information requirements of an organization. The differences in the kinds of information needed at the various organizational levels(operational, administrative and strategic) are emphasized. How to plan and implement a comprehensive information system is discussed as well as methods to measure its effectiveness.
Prequisites: MBA degree students only
INFO504 Principles and Problems of Business Education (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Survey of principles and practices. History of business education,objectives, relationship of business education to general education, trends and problems in the field. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA director.
INFO505 Production/Operations Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Emphasizes human and mechanical productivity in planning a comprehensive and effective production or operations system. Employs a case approach to the study, formulation, and solution of business problems through the application of managerial, quantitative and information systems methodology.
Prequisites: INFO501, 503, MGMT505; MBA degree students only
INFO506 Business Education Curriculum (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Study of business education for various levels and types of schools. Evaluation of specific programs for development of improved curricula. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO510 Administration and Supervision of Business Education (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Study of problems of organizing, directing and supervising business education programs at the secondary school and collegiate levels. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO511 Improvement of Instruction in Bookkeeping, Accounting and Business Arithmetic (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Study of objectives, content, methods, teaching aids, and evaluation procedures. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO512 Improvement of Instruction in General Business Subjects (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of this course is to upgrade the teaching of the general business subjects. Resource units and lessons are developed. These units include performance objectives, pretesting, learning activities, and post-testing. This course also includes a simulation/gaming component which helps to foster strategies for planning and decision making. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO513 Emerging Technologies in Management Information Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides an overview of the information technologies and their strategic roles in business. It helps students to build an in-depth understanding of the value and use of emerging information technology for business operations, management decision-making and strategic advantage.
Prequisites: INFO503; MBA degree students only
INFO514 Information Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Study of computers and their use as management tools in information systems,research, control procedures, production, finance, modeling, and decision making. Topics include description of and application of different hardware and software components and programming concepts. Computer cost benefit analysis in all of the above and in systems applications.
Prequisites: INFO503
INFO515 Improvement of Instruction in Information Processing (3.0 credit hours)
Description: To provide students with an overview of the emerging field of Information Processing. This includes investigating trends, teaching strategies and new developments 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Introduction to the fundamental principles, techniques and business applications of decision support systems (DSS) and expert systems (ES) from a managerial perspective. Provides practical knowledge of the ways to utilize decision support systems and expert systems to solve business problems involving complex decision-making processes.
Prequisites: INFO503; MBA degree students only
INFO522 Business Data Communications and Networks (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course provides a broad introduction to data communications and networking concepts, addressing both technical and business aspects of data communications and computer networks in modern organizations. Students develop a conceptual understanding in conjunction with the appreciation of practical networking applications in business.
Prequisites: INFO503; some background in technology, networking, and project management isrequired
INFO523 Database Systems for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Increases an understanding of how databases are developed and managed to effectively support business information systems in organizations. Having acquired conceptual knowledge as well as practical techniques, students also gain insights into other options in database management by reviewing the latest offerings in the field.
Prequisites: INFO503; some background in technology, programming, and project managementis required
INFO524 Business Systems Analysis and Design (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Emphasis is on the application of tools and techniques of systems analysis and design, change management concepts, processes, and techniques are presented in the context of systems development projects. Pointers to managerial and organizational aspects of information technology projects are provided throughout the course. This course is for individuals aspiring to be analysts or 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is designed to provide the student an understanding of the consequences of the introduction of the Internet in the way business is conducted. The electronic commerce world is viewed primarily from thepoint-of-view of MIS. The E-Commerce course will emphasize strategic planning, appreciating relevant information technology support issues, and sensitivity to analyzing and evaluating new business models evolving in the marketplace rapidly. Organizations have been profoundly affected by related network technologies. The student will learn about new forms of business practices 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Opportunity for the classroom teacher to evaluate some of the practices of business offices, industries and retailing organizations in the metropolitan area. Experience in planning, conducting and follow-up of field trips.
INFO529 Principles of Cooperative Business Education (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Survey of principles and practices of cooperative business education. Objectives, organization, related class, placement, and supervision are investigated. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
INFO531 Business Models (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This is an advanced course in quantitative approaches to managerial decision making. The emphasis will be on simulation models and techniques with applications in finance, production, inventory, and queuing analysis. Computer-based simulation systems will be discussed and tested on the computer.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO532 Statistical Inference for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: An exploration of intermediate statistical methodologies used for decision making. The theoretical bases for various techniques are presented to create a framework for understanding the assumptions and limitations of inferences made from data. Topics covered will include multivariate probability functions, moment generating functions, sampling distributions; estimation, Neyman-Pearson Lemma, parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests, and analysis of variance.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO533 Stochastic Models (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Stochastic models are descriptions of systems which change in accordance with probabilistic laws. The course focuses on construction rather than solution of models. Simulation solutions and statistical analysis of data from stochastic processes. Applications to business problems are stressed.
Prequisites: INFO502
INFO534 Multivariate Analysis (3.0 credit hours)
Description: An introduction to multivariate analysis with an emphasis on the practical application of these techniques. After introducing the multivariate distribution, the following statistical procedures are explored: multiple regression, discriminant analysis, multivariate tests of significance,canonical analysis, factor analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Use of these procedures as managerial tools is fully explored.
Prequisites: INFO502, 532
INFO535 Advanced Information Systems (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Conceptual foundations of information systems including the nature of information, the impact of information systems of the organization and managing the information services function. Explores most current technology in the area of operating systems software, including multiprocessing,multiprogramming, virtual storage and other operating systems, as well as applications software systems.
Prequisites: INFO503
INFO536 Introduction to Research in Business Education (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Literature and research of business education. Topics covered include:evaluation of current literature in business education research and tools used for interpreting statistical data. Student develops outline of research study to be completed in INFO 636, Seminar in Business Education. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
Prequisites: INFO504 and 511 or 512 or 515
INFO540 Workshop in Business Education (1.0 to 3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course will give the business educator the opportunity to do an intensive study of a selected current issue, concern, and/or problem in Business Education.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO550 Total Quality Methods (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The philosophy, tools and techniques necessary to properly manage for the control of quality production are of ever increasing importance to business and industry. Quality control, long thought of as only a tool for acceptance sampling, is now expanded and used as a means for improving all phases of any business system. For several decades, Japanese business has successfully utilized these methods to gain new inroads into international markets. This course presents the newest approaches to quality control adapting many of the traditional tools and methods to current problems.
Prequisites: INFO501
INFO575 Independent Study in Information Systems for Business (1.0 to 3.0 credit hours)
Description: Under faculty guidance and supervision, this tutorial course is open to students who wish to pursue individual study and research in a particular discipline. May be repeated once for a maximum of 6.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO577 Selected Topics in Information Systems for Business (3.0 credit hours)
Description: An in-depth study of a selected topic, issue, problem or trend in information systems for business. The specific subject matter is not offered as an existing regular course or deserves more time-emphasis than is possible in a regular course. When offered, topics and prerequisites are announced in the course schedule book.
Prequisites: Departmental approval
INFO636 Seminar in Business Education (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Matriculated graduate students in business complete research projects in business. Prepares students for comprehensive examinations. Not for MBA students except by permission of MBA Director.
Prequisites: INFO536
MGMT501 Fundamentals of Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: To provide graduate students with a review of classical approaches to the managerial functions and of current literature from the behavioral sciences that are directly applicable to the managerial process of planning,organizing, motivating, and controlling. These reviews will be tied with the open-system model or the contingency approach as an overall framework for understanding organizations and their management. Skills are developed which facilitate situational diagnosis leading to managerial action that is appropriate in specific circumstances.
MGMT502 Behavior in Organizations (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Major behavioral concepts as they relate to complex organizations are reviewed with emphasis on current theory and research. Topics include employee motivation, learning, group behavior, job design, and leadership.
MGMT505 Management Process and Organizational Behavior (3.0 credit hours)
Description: Env. M. students, MA Fine Arts majors with concentration in Museum Management, MA Theatre majors with concentration in Arts Management,or MA Theatre majors with concentration in Arts Management. Review of classical and modern approaches to the managerial process as it relates to the manager's functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading,and controlling. These reviews will be tied to the open-system model and the contingency approach as an overall framework for understanding the management of organizations.
Prequisites: Only MBAand D
MGMT510 Human Resource Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course examines how managers can utilize modern Human Resource practices in order to improve company performance and efficiencies. Topics include staffing 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 (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course offers an in-depth analysis of critical components of global business management. It examines the challenges of the changing international competitive environment, as well as the political, economic, and legal influences on global corporate leadership. This course will help students outline multinational business strategies, understand internationalization process, and develop analytical skills necessary to succeed in dynamic global business activities. Cross listed with INBS 511.
Prequisites: INBS501
MGMT512 Organizational Development (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of the course is to enhance the student's understanding and skill in the process of change in organizations. Students will be introduced to intervention techniques which will allow them to recognize the need for organizational change as well as develop skill in implementing a program change.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT513 Leadership and Behavior (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The purpose of the course is to help students understand leadership behavior. The course reviews current theoretical and empirical literature from the behavioral sciences as it relates to leadership. Topics covered include leadership styles, power and leadership, leader-follower interactions, and the manager as leader.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT520 Managing The Global Workforce (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The objective of the course is to increase knowledge about managing a global workforce. The course provides a framework for understanding how individual,group and organization factors impact global businesses and how organizations respond to them. Some focus will be placed on understanding cross-cultural issues within this context. Practical application, case analysis, and effective management practices of international companies are emphasized. Cross listed with International Business, INBS 520.
Prequisites: MGMT505
MGMT525 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course is for students who want to start their own businesses or initiate new ventures in existing corporations. Topics include the importance of entrepreneurship in the US, identifying business opportunities and formulating business plans.
Prequisites: MGMT505, MKTG501, ACCT501
MGMT530 Management of Technology in Organizations (3.0 credit hours)
Description: This course focuses on the management of technology and the technological function in the modern corporation. Topics include the management of science and technology professionals, integration of the R&D function into the organization, the impact of national and global forces on innovation introduction and adoption, and technological change. Descriptions of new technologies in biotechnology, manufacturing, aerospace, and other fields are included. 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 (3.0 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 or deserves more time-emphasis than is possible in a regular course. When offered, 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 is different.
MGMT580 Advanced Strategic Management (3.0 credit hours)
Description: The focus of this course is on actual business situations and their impact on the total organization including the role of top management in dealing with these problems. The structure of the course is based on the strategic management process which includes identification, evaluation, and implementation 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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